I am 26 years old. I have a dual master's degree in economics and management and I have a technical background, and I have started a new work last December so it has been 7 months. I, now, have two years of full-time job experience, including my previous work experience in another country.
SO, in Hungary (I won't say the exact amount but in approximate), I earn around just 790USD as monthly net salary and imagine all my rent and bills cost me around 550USD and I even pay the normal the national average rent amount here living alone. I work for a multinational oil and gas corporation which has a branch in Europe. I feel like honestly shit, how the remaining amount of around 250USD is basically barely enough to meet the bare minimum. With increasing inflation and local currency getting weaker, I now ask extra financial support from my family to cover for the rest of the month until I get my next pay check.
The whole circumstance has been taking a serious toll on my mental health and stress level. It indeed hurts my pride to ask my mother as a grown-up for few hundred bucks once in a little while. I have a lot of vacation days left for the year but If I could just barely meet the very living basics without almost any wants like purchases of clothes or items, then there is no way I could afford to travel either. I have no savings yet as I have just recently finished grad school.
No wonder, we are called 'cheap labour' folks from Europe. I have to tell you folks here are just as very educated and skilled as the folks in the main offices in the western part of the world just FYI :/