From the article: " When I was 20 years old — and weeks away from finishing university — my home life came to a screeching halt. My disabled mother and teenage brother, who had been financially supported by my stepfather since my mother quit working in 2009, were now on their own. Long story short, he left to pursue a better life and stuck me with the pieces. I was a journalism major and a “starving writer” who had every intention of living below the poverty line for a few years while I built up my portfolio. But this was not what I had in mind.
"I worked multiple jobs in between classes to put myself through school, so I knew how to manage my time and finances. But I could barely support myself. There were times I had to choose between food or a book for school — if I couldn’t borrow one from a friend or the library’s reserve section. This isn’t meant to be a conjure up your pity for yet another broke college student, but this is the situation I was in when I was called to take responsibility of two additional people and another household."
Submitted March 19, 2019 at 08:01PM by pahurricane https://ift.tt/2U1xyBO
