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Solution for me was to say fuck it, stopped working and decided to be a dick and get welfare in order to get my electrical engineer degree.
took me a few very hard years of below min standard living to get me where i am today

I spent 15 years in the military, 4 years in Iraq, bronze star, jmsm, and can’t find a job anywhere

did you eat ramen?

@tritrium oh I've been there. Worked in factories for a while but the fact is that most of them now are all classified as temporary jobs and are owned by venture capitalist firms that are barely more then vultures waiting to pick the corpse of the place clean

That sucks fireonmountain

it's so weird how in situations like that, what's meant to be a financial safety net is the only way to succeed.

Yea its a calculation

But i wouldnt advise anyone doing it

It literally means eating max twice a day and preferably not every day

specially in winter

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you can choose

Either face the cold or eat twice

well i stress eat so i would be really bad at being poor 😂

I went the work 80+ hours route....

I learned very well how to do with very little

it actually was valuable to me in the long run

I do not advise that btw

Yeah, I was a lifer, never planned on getting out, I forage, hunt for extra food, eat a lot of oats, beans

as i can easily save money these days

Yea 80 hours is ridiculous

Hard to find anything full time anymore

what is "jmsm", fire?

Joint meritorious service medal

pog

Lol

lol

also went nightshift for the extra 2/hour to make ends meet, and as a result had no life outside paying bills or doing clothes

I was a 19/d,

19/k my first 7 years, when Iraqi freedom started I was made a cav scout

I didnt do that many hours misomania, mostly because its pointless to do so here.
The more you work the more you get taxed.
Thats why most people who work more hours ask the company to compensate that with more free time instead

by yalls experiences, i'm privileged

lol

Which i ask for as well btw

i dont want that taxbill to reach absurd levels

its already absurd to begin with

Taxes are ridiculous, I got spoiled with the tax free

19k a year isnt that very low?

im not from the US so i got no idea what that means

@tritrium paygrade not amount