I was born and raised in eastern Kentucky and into a family that has made under $15K a year from the day I was born to when I was 18 and moved out. I was only able to get a minimum wage job when I moved out for the first time, because this area has basically no jobs that pay above minimum wage, the nearest place that pays above $7.50 an hour is over 40 miles away and I dont even drive a car because I have a phobia of cars and driving scares the shit out of me(Please dont laugh, Its a real phobia that I'll never get rid of). So you can already guess I dont own a car, I dont have any savings or anything to live off of except money I make on a site called Mturk. Ive applied to other work from home jobs, but 98% of them require a GED or HS diploma. I dont have neither
When I was 16 I got pulled out of high school due to me getting bullied so bad it made me suicidal and I was getting mentally ill from it, and my mom home schooled me for only one year after I got pulled out and then mom got really sick and I was never able to get my GED. I was stuck at a 10th grade education. I'm 29 now and I feel like my life is basically going nowhere, I cant get out of the poverty hole that I was born into, What am I supposed to do, magically move to another county off of my family inherited land that already has a house on it? Its not as if I can just move to another county because I dont have the money to do so.
I currently do surveys online on this site called Mturk AKA Amazon Mechanical Turk. Its not great, but its the only thing keeping me afloat right now, I make on average $500-$600 a month off of it. And yes you read that right I am somehow (barely) able to live off that each month, I keep my bills low as hell. and I am extremely frugal. I basically recycle everything and I am energy conscious.
I want to get out of this horrible state that I am in, I live in an area where every business is run down, moldy and its sad as fuck. Where do I go from here, I'm almost 30 and I only have a 10th grade education, stuck with a piss poor online job doing surveys. The lack of a car is literally killing me. Even if I did get my license, how the fuck would I even afford a car and afford to maintain it?
I have no assets except my tiny house, PC and bed. I live a simple life when it comes to possessions, I just want to make enough to where I dont have to sit in my bed and bury my face crying, having to worry about what bill I have to let slide in order to somehow come up with more money so the lights will stay on. What can I realistically do? Like what sort of jobs would I even get with only a 10th grade education? I'm a loser and Ill probably just be poor my entire life.
Its true what they say, people who are born into low income families almost never get out of poverty themselves. I want to change this, I want to be the first one in the long line of Waugh's to be very wealthy and so the future of my family generations can look back on me and remember me for being the guy who made the family wealthy again and started something special. I'm shaking just writing this, IDK what else to do.
A little background about me, I am autistic and have ADHD. I also suffer from anxiety disorders. So I'm not the smartest guy in the world but I definitely dont think I'm stupid by any means. I lived on my own since 2011. And Ive been doing a so-so job at it. My bitch aunt kicked me out of my fathers house after my dad died and claimed that my dad gave her ownership of the house even though I was still at the time living in in when he passed. So I was forced to move out of that home that is BTW destroyed now because she ripped the aluminum siding off of it to recycle it for money.
Anyways I am at my end here, I am barely passing it when it comes to bills. I dont know how to move out and up on the income scale.
Submitted April 22, 2019 at 10:21PM by masterx1234 http://bit.ly/2vhaH7g
