it just seems like it never gets any better. All I want is a job that pays me enough to live with a straight seven in the morning until 4:00 or 5:00 in the evening Monday through Friday schedule.
I just want an honest days pay for an honest day's work. I mean there are jobs out there like that, but when they advertise, my application is getting drowned out in the stack of like 200 other people who are competing for the same damn role. when the hell is the economy going to get better so I could finally get my damn foot in the door? how the hell am I supposed to buy a house when most jobs don't even pay enough to cover rent for a one bedroom apartment? when are we going to get those manufacturing jobs back and transition out of this stupid fucking low-wage service economy? I just keep seeing things getting more and more expensive and I really don't give a shit about all this political fucking theater when at the end of the day I'm still getting squeezed just as hard as I was under Joe Biden.
I've been there and it feels, in a way, hopeless, but it's not. You're a U.S. citizen, it's easy to move, and if you have no usually worthless degree ... multiple gig jobs are always available, as are trade schools which now accept Pell Grants and US education loans thanks to Trump (just as long as the trade schools are Title IV eligible and formally accredited). You have choices, albeit some may be hard depending on if you have a spouse, children, home, land, etc. At 55 and being a world traveler for 30 years, I know of no other country that has the same.