#and i'm just honestly a lost cause i started a phd bc i didn't know what to do with life and now can't even pay for tuition | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

homiro · 3 months ago

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[First picture ID: A waterboarded screenshot of text that reads, Not to doom post on main but yeah my boyfriend and I bring in approximately two hundred and forty thousand united states dollars, live in an apartment that is extremely reasonably priced, with minimal living expenses, and still have to buy cereal on sale and all my clothes second hand. Things are hard even for the successful (with the word successful between inverted commas) young adults (ellipsis). End ID]

[Second picture ID: A screenshot of a sarcastic post from twenty thirteen made by user @/dril, wint on twitter that reads, in a list, Food is two hundred united states dollars, Data is one hundred and fifty united states dollars, Rent is eight hundred united states dollars, Candles are three thousand and six hundred united states dollars, Utility is one hundred and fifty united states dollars. Someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. My family is dying. End ID]

observing the responses to serialunaliver's parental income poll and finding that a lot of tumblr users are struggling to reconcile with the fact that they are middle class and above

#described #that first post is just insane even if you take into account the costs of living in the US #how can you say you're struggling with that income lol that's a cushy life and honestly i don't believe the second hand clothes part #even i get new clothes and stuff sometimes and i have been wearing hand me downs and second hand stuff my whole life #my househould's gross income per year is around 20k euros #that would be 121 160 ish in reais #and that's because two members are disabled and get a pension #my mum works at a factory five days a week from 8am-5pm and makes 1k-ish a month #my brother and i can't find a job because there are no jobs #and in my case i'm overqualified and mentally disabled and they won't offer accommodations lel #and we get the end of the month with little more than 200 euros to make it to the 8th of the following month #which is when the money comes in #we don't pay rent because we came to live at my grandma's house so we just pay the annual fee since the house was made in the late 60s #but the cost of living is too high welp #groceries are expensive petrol is expensive as fuck the car is old (1995 old) and always breaking down #my mum and sperm donor had to declare bankruptcy because of schemes he was up to so now she can't have anything in her name #and i'm just honestly a lost cause i started a phd bc i didn't know what to do with life and now can't even pay for tuition #and not to mention that it's not just the utilities we also spend a ton of money with medication and appointments and shit so like yeah #we need to take into account the costs of living in places but in my case i really am broke and my family is and always has been poor #it's not dissonance believe me #im also the joker welp but lately i've just been feeling like im a lazy freeloader who should have been left to die #when i wasn't born breathing and then turned out to come all broken lel but it is what it is #negative #money things #homiro said some shit #long tags

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