[Nimitri]

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.

[Yzen]

I think stress about making enough money is about the unknown. You don't know if you will have enough even if you work hard. I think you have to take some of the unknown out of it by learning how to track and manage the money you make. Budgeting and saving even a small amount can give you some control.

[winter4me]

too close to home.

[winter4me]

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but, in my 60's still surviving...today, i can hear birds singing, feel the wind, see the dappled sunlight, and plant some more seeds...i'm going for a walk later. will not think further than that, today. ...i will wake up in a cold sweat in the wee hours in a work nightmare....

[winter4me]

i question my ability to keep doing...but remind myself that has been true formyever when i actually think of it....
at least now i know it cannot last forever, whatever it is.

What middle class?

There is no longer a middle class ...

Only top feeders and bottom feeders.

A cold, sad reality!

I've become quite creative surviving down here, but not sure how long that will last.

[Nimitri]

May.. May I inquire Pfrog what you do? I'm sorry, I'm crying a little and okay. Well, whatever you pass I truly hope and pray it doesn't last. That it gets better. That you are not suffering.

[Nimitri]

Originally Posted by winter4me

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but, in my 60's still surviving...today, i can hear birds singing, feel the wind, see the dappled sunlight, and plant some more seeds...i'm going for a walk later. will not think further than that, today. ...i will wake up in a cold sweat in the wee hours in a work nightmare....

I I are you alright? Mmm, is work very horrible? You have almost the same age as my mother. Hope your nightmare wasn't so bad.