Let’s face it unless your parents set you a house up for your future you’re kind of fucked unless you get a high paying job. You’ll be paying rent then you won’t be able to save for a mortgage it’s just a cycle. 40 hours worth of pay is not enough even a bit above minimum wage isn’t. If I could go back to give advice to my 17 year old self it’d be to save everything for a deposit on a house because once you’re paying rent it’s over because all of that including other expenses you’ll have less than 100 left for the rest of the month. I see so many people on TikTok crying because they just got paid and after their bills went out they had nothing left, it’s sad because you could be working 7 days and it still wouldn’t be enough, this system is designed to fail you and it shouldn’t even be called minimum wage because it goes below the minimum, paying rent and having to pick between using the rest of your money for food or for fuel is not minimum