Many Middle-Class Americans Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck - The Atlantic

This is the article I just recently saw.

And I feel that my whole life had been upturned.

What motivated me to pass my career, what motivated me through my depression and anxiety, what motivates me now with my intern and my weekend first job has always been the same:

If you work hard, you will get results. If you work hard, you will get your dream, a nice life, a safe life.

If you work hard, you can overcome the adversity.

After reading this I feel like pucking and I just don't know what to do. I'm such a child and I'm just starting, but when I see how brutal people like him work, things that I believed were the absolute true is just a fantasy and millions are working so hard for so little, I entered in panic.

Thankfully I didn't reacted at work but here I had cried twice and I'm in so much terror that I nearly destroyed my credit cards and deeply regretted leaving that online course of basic finances to study for my exams.

Gods, even right know that I'm studying for my exam as a federal teacher I feel sick that it cost so damn much to go the new city and pay to take a low paying job or that I want to use my very low income to pay for my therapist and I can only see payments and even the bus seem horrible.

I'm fine but I can't stop thinking that this is my future. To imagine working 7 to 7 everyday to barely survive and... okay, I know I'm whining and many, many of you live like that everyday and I must be almost offensive but I don't know who to ask: my mother is in traveling and I will see my therapist in 15 days and I just feel lost.

I, I just want to know: how do you deal that working hard can't overcome reality? That you can bust your back and have everything barely affordable and stressed out? How?

I just... sorry, I just don't know what to think. Gods I'm so happy that I become aware of it after finishing my career.