I’m sure some of you here can relate to this.
My entire career I made at most $24 an hour. In 2017 I became disabled and have been getting $1850 a month since. I married in 2015 and my wife started work in 2016, so we had one year of dual income. Then she was forced to quit her job to care for me in 2017. She went back to work part time in 2020, and full time august of this year.
I include all of this to show that I should be by all rights nearly homeless. But I have always been very responsible with my money, so I have a house, and a fairly good car, and prior to my disability I travelled a few times a year.
Everyone in my family thinks I am rich. They all expect me to be able to pay for everything. Every last one of them make $30+ an hour, and 2 of them are dual income homes with both spouses making $20+. Literally twice as much as I have ever made in my life. None of them have a home, they all drive cars that are about as nice as mine but cost $700 a month because of poor trade ins and negotiating. They shop constantly for unnecessary things and have expensive habits. Then still come to me expecting help and hand outs. It’s insane.
There’s no point here, I just wanted to rant.
November 21, 2021 at 12:02PM
