The cost of living is out of control, my wife and I never go on vacation and haven't since before the pandemic, work like dogs, and we wanted to upgrade our home to get a little more space for the kids and stop paying condo fees, but due to interest rates and high prices we could barely even buy the house we currently live in.
Cost of living is absolutely out of control and wages seem to have stagnated. How are others handling this? Everywhere I look there are fast cars, full restaurants, people just getting back from Mexico. What the fuck are all these people doing for work?!
PS: I'm in Canada. Things here I feel are much worse than the USA.
I work a few per diem gigs, wire up a building here or there for a few months whenever I need money. Some only need help for a couple months, some I get sick of... agency electrician essentially.
Old school journeyman!
More like a nomad that acquired a trade, I was bouncing around state to state before I became a skilled tradesman.
Wow, I'm sure you've got a book of stories, hope you get to write/record them for posterity! Don't discount building a nest egg if you can? Sweet water, sunshine and an easy wind at your back.
You aren't the first person to tell me that, may have to publish it as fiction or under a pen name since I'm not certain about the statute of limitations of certain parts of my adventures kek!
I once bought a sailboat in the Key Penninsula and sailed it through the Tacoma Narrows out to the San Juan Islands on a whim. Me and my buddy should've died lol. Found out we should've taken sailing lessons instead of watching a few YouTube videos and learning as we went...
I'll try and remember you if I ever write a book, there's some of my own stories I don't even believe and I was there.