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Smile, you're beautiful <3.
Don't ever forget that.
Smile, you're beautiful <3.
Don't ever forget that.
I don’t understand.
I started saving money when I was 7, and have been working consistently since I was 16. I paid my way through college (as much as I possibly could, at least) given my scholarships and my willingness to work 7 days a week in the sun, without lunch, whenever I was at home “on break.”
It’s been nearly a year since I have graduated, I have a job that I love that requires me to budget at least $ 160 of every pay check I receive for gas, am currently saving to send my future mother-in-law to Ireland before she loses her eyesight, and am paying for my own personal expenditures, including all health insurance. The one exception being rent. If I eat lunch at work it’s generally something cheap and brought from home.
I wake up sometime between 5-5:45 am (depending on the day of the week/traffic), leave by 7 to get to work by 9 am, and am in the office sometimes until 8: 15 pm. Normally,I’m back at home by about 9:30 pm .. leaving an hour for dinner, showering, and getting ready for bed (otherwise I’m a complete waste of life the next day at the office).
I am struggling.
I am struggling to pay off my student loans. I am driving myself crazy trying to afford all this. I don’t understand how anyone else my age is able to go live on their own and afford fancy trips to Cancun or Europe or even Las Vegas. How? HOW are you doing it?
…I just feel like I’ll never get out of this. Never.
I’ve sacrificed so much of my own personal life in the past.. I don’t want to get a second or third job. I can’t do the 24 hour schedule any more. I’ve missed too many birthdays and holidays .. and just.. every day moments to be okay with it. I need help.