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What were your reasons to live before they got eliminated?
Accidentally replied to main thread:
During Obama, i was making $97.5K per year in web development. Bought a house, car, solar panels, (my) American dream.
Three months into the first trump fuckup, 10% of the staff was laid off, myself included.
Spent about 6 months burning through savings, before landing $7.stupid per hour job at Michael's. Still burning through savings to pay the mortgage, mental health declining because fucking retail.
Pandemic happened, lost job, another 5 ish months doing low paid contract work, savings are gone and I have to go to my parents for help. My parents raised me that asking for help meant you've failed. You're a failure.
Spent a year and three days unemployed. Now working at Target picking online orders. Nothing i do has a purpose, and it's especially heartbreaking when you see items that you've picked getting cancelled and returned to the shelf.
My parents pay my full mortgage and car insurance. I work 40 hours a week, and target is strict on overtime, and i can still only afford to eat 2 out of every 3 days.
There's more, but it's a trauma dump with no solutions, unless i can get about $1500 more a month for the next 5 years to get my year long unemployment debt taken care of...
That's just financial problems. My upbringing turned me into a shy anxiety ridden recluse, i can't look a cute dude in the eyes, let alone ask anyone out. Last "date" (Grindr hookup) i had, there was a black guy in the white house ..