Public Speaking class is getting cut short today. Usually goes to 7:10 but is ending at 6:30 cause of the substitutes commitments. Now I can get dinner

Just found out my rehab is going to cost no less than $450 ($25 per visit x 18 visits) and possibly $3,000 (my annual deductible). $3K is two months of take home pay!

Wait. You make only $1500 a month?

Take home, yes. $1,534.60 to be exact. Four years ago I was making $53 per hour. Now I make $10.50. I work from home and in a busy week maybe work 8-10 hours max.
My health insurance and cell phone are covered by the company which is nice. All three of us have had to take massive pay cuts to keep the company going. My boss and his wife went from a 4,500 sq. ft. three story amazing home to a small single floor apartment.

I'm basically semi-retired at this point without having to dip into savings or my SS. It works.

Damn.

I get just under $800 a month from my disability payments. Sometimes I do some side work for friends or family and get about a thousand a month, but I have to balance that carefully with my health. It sucks being seen as "lazy" when people can't see the havoc a "regular job" wreaks on my brain and body.

Today I did some work for a friend, changing prices and products at a dollar store. I've spent the summer going back and forth to my dad's place as well, to take care of his house while he's been away. A few days here, a few days there, sometimes a week or two, all for $20 a day.

Today is the second day I've been sick, mostly because of stress. Last night a friend picked me up, and drove us across town for a social event at another friend's house. We arrived, and I immediately had to use the facilities because my sickness came so abruptly. I then had to leave, because all the supplies for my disability that makes dealing with being sick even barely manageable were at my apartment.

The worst part was being sick and embarrassed and frustrated in front of the woman I have a crush on, though I recognize she probably doesn't think anything of it. Even so, I am really tired of this constant war between my spirit, mind, and body. Something has got to give, and I'll be damned if I'm going to roll over and play dead just because my body and my brain want to **** with me.

^That's gotta be rough, Waddles.

I get paid in existential emptiness from being a Meme Lord.

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I bring home about $2200/mo on my nanny wage but have zero benefits (not even sick time). Cost of living is so ****ed up here I still qualify for food stamps

wtf $2200/mo in Fort Wayne could get you a decent house and plenty leftover for extra activities

It blows my mind how different life can be in different areas of the same country