Tl;dr: Get kicked out, work minimum wage 40 hours a week for 300$ after taxes, spend 200$ on hotel and food per week, what else should I/do I have to do to survive? Help, please
I live with my parents and my sister, but my family is really dysfunctional. My parents are multi-millionaires and have paid for everything of mine my whole life, I own nothing. I have about 1900$, 300$ in cash, 1600$ of mine my parents are holding and I'm not sure if they'd give it to me. So for all intents and purposes, I have 300$ to my name right now and 0 material possessions.
I'm trying to figure out if I'll be able to survive the next 7 months until my 18th birthday in August and go to college, and if I'm just going to have to go super into debt to pay for it.
I figure if I work 40 hours a week (which afaik is the maximum for a 17 year old) at minimum wage of $8.05/hr I'll have about 300$ a week after taxes. I don't think I'll be able to get a 6 month lease at 17, so if I can't find anyone to stay with I'm considering finding a really shitty hotel (a quick Google search brought a variety up at 17$/night so assuming that's 20$ with tax or unforeseen cost, that's 140$/week) and hitching a ride to my high school. I'm assuming I can live off of about 50$ a week for food from my limited experience with grocery shopping, cooking, etc (I'd love your input on this).
I'd have about 100$ left over. What unforeseen costs am I going to have to deal with? What advice do you guys have? I'd likely just save that 100$ if I could.
I may be able to stick through the next 7 months at home and not have to deal with this, then go to college, however with the state of my family I can't count on that and need to prepare.
I've also already filled out all my FAFSA applications for college under my parents' income and likely won't be getting any financial aid due to their income. Would I just have to take out a shitload of student loans and deal with it? Is there anyway I could communicate my situation to the government or school or anyone? It's also past application deadlines and everywhere I applied was out of state so I won't be getting instate tuition, tuition will likely cost 50k plus per year. Would it be smarter to just apply for the spring semester at an in-state school and deal with that tuition instead? Or get a jump on college and out of here?
Keep in mind I've been spoiled all my life, never had to want for anything, never had a job, never struggled. I don't know how well I'd do on my own. It's a really scary possibility and I'm really scared. All advice is appreciated.
Submitted January 30, 2017 at 11:30AM by DefenestratedBrownie http://ift.tt/2kjOS3r
