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Are you going to share the knowledge with the class or keep it to yourself?
Anon needs to find full time employment and get a roommate.
And vote blue
i know people making 150K a year, who complain they are broke.
and they often actively refuse any suggestion of cutting their spending, getting a roommate, etc. if you suggest maybe their trade in their 50K car they are spending $1000/mo that that they never drive... they tell you to f yourself.
it's hilarious. and they go on and go on just like OP about how it's the government's fault. Nothing, including their own personal choices, is their own responsibility. They are just a hapless victim and the world is a big mean place oppressing them for choosing to waste $100 a day on uber eats rather than cook and spend $10 a day for food.
I don't see what stops them from having a second shitty job? At 25 hours a week they've definitely got free time.
Dont quote me on this but having a 2nd job would disqualify them from Medicare, which appears to be their only form of health insurance.
That makes sense - for a given value of sense. American health care is just evil.
I'll second stray's opinion, but also add on that you're typically fighting for a job in those shitty areas. Anon is likely incredibly lucky to have gotten the above average wage job, and will still be in a big competition with others for the average wage jobs.
I get that. I do feel that with 15 extra hours per week, I could figure out some kind of side hustle. Even if all I did was sell random crappy art for cheap, it'd keep me saner than if I spent that time on 4chan
Working two jobs can be difficult to impossible. The schedules usually aren't fixed and cause frequent conflicts. A lot of places aren't even willing to hire you if already work elsewhere because they don't want the hassle.
The problem with saying obvious things to people with doomer attitudes is that they dismiss them out of hand as soon as they hear them. Literally any suggestion that is made is "dumb" or "impossible" or ends up being more evidence that the system is out to hurt and oppress them specifically.
And of course, whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right - or at least the latter part is true.
Overcoming any doomer mindset and beginning to work on your problems starts with admitting that maybe things aren't quite as bleak as you think they are, and allowing yourself to believe that a better life is possible. Without that, no advice -regardless of content - will help
You still have not disclosed the quote "serious financial options", and as an autistic person who is not able to deduce conclusions based on breadcrumbs all you're doing to me is withholding information. So, congratulations I guess. You made your point while filtering the disabled.
Don't be too hard on yourself, I'm not autistic and I also don't get the point he's trying to make. Probably something like "get a better job", "leave to somewhere where things are better", "go live with your friends/parents/whatever".
Usually these people take it as an article of faith that there's something you could do to unfuck your situation, without necessarily having any idea what that something is. I think he's just fundamentally speaking abstractly.
They are literally in the other response saying they dont really have any real suggestiins but are sure that if they were in that situation that they woukd come up with something cause they are soooo clever. Like it purposely lacks empathetic insight or any awareness of luck and situational start points.
Its really just fluff to boost their ego and keep a negative view on others. It just isnt conversational, its the same as chest pumping but with fancy sounds.
I, of course, have my own ideas about what I would do in OP's shoes. But I don't claim that these are the "right" answers, and I don't think these are the answers you "should" give. Literally all I'm saying is that OOP has options, and his biggest problem is that he refuses to believe they exist. So if you are in a similar situation to OOP, or empathize with him and want to know what advice would improve his situation, what I am saying is that you should start by opening up to the possibility that OP improving his life is under his control, and then just start thinking of ways that he could. And sure, some of these ideas you come up with will be dumb, or wrong. Some will seem like great ideas but will fall apart during implementation. And that's all fine. There are no bad ideas, even if they don't work, because the process of creating these ideas in the first place is the most important part of the process.