Who here is fed up with working jobs period? Why can't we just live and relax?
@handsomeitaliano (1050)
United States
February 3, 2009 12:37am CST
I don't know about you but I certainly am. So is my fiance. She's 31, a CNA, making $17/hour for 3 years now. She just hates having to get up and go to a job, she cried about it today in my arms. Sometimes I try to be optimistic about it that we'll both get out of this rat race, but what she said got me thinking too, about how God makes the worst people on Earth the rich ones while the broke have to suffer and go to work for others. I'm willing to bet that there's plenty of you on here who feel the same way.
I'm 24, an EMT, making $11.50 an hour and I'm beginning to feel it too. I just wanna get out of this rat race where you have to constantly keep your head above your bills, I'm so sick of it. Then if thats not bad enough you've got places like Rantblogger promising to pay $5 per rant and Bluemountains promising to pay $300 per poem but when you submit your best work to them they're STILL too picky about what they want. It seems like there's no hope not even on the internet, its all just pizza money.
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@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
3 Feb 09
you both should be proud to have a job the way things are w/the economy the way is, people getting laid off every day & she's crying because she has a job. y'll better face the real world & get your heads out of the clouds. you are both blessed to have a job & are able to work. talk to somebody who doesn't have a job anymore or a person who is disabled & can't.
@handsomeitaliano (1050)
• United States
3 Feb 09
She's not crying cuz she has a job, she's crying cuz she's being forced into this way of slavery that all of us were raised in - Go to work, get paid, pay your bills, go back to work, get paid, pay your bills, etc. Over and over, the same rat race. You must be so used to it that you don't even realize it.
Let me tell you the real world - There are evil people out there with lots and lots of money, my fiance's nurse manager being one of them, who can take off from work for as long as they want and not get into trouble. Even if they are sick, they can stay out as long as they want until they are 110% better, but not for her, not for the CNAs, they have to come back to work when they are 30% better otherwise they'll receive a caution letter or suspension or some other type of nonsense.
The real world is the evil higher-ups with lots of money stepping all over us. This was happening before the economy went down the toilet, mind you. They're the ones who can afford the nice clean apartment in Manhattan while we have to live it out in crummy ghetto or less than decent Bronx.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
3 Feb 09
i still say u should be proud to have jobs, if u are unhappy w/them ,look for another but good luck. if u don't like where u live find u another place,i worked for 47 years as a hairdresser & i worked hard, raised two boys by myself, bought me a home & it's paid for. i did what i had to do. i diodn't set around & feel sorry for myself.it's up to you what you become.
@Savvynlady (3684)
• United States
7 Feb 09
You know to be honest, the very day I lost my job, I got up, sat on the bed and debated on going, seriously. I was truly tired of it, and though I lost the job and didn't get no unemployment, I have few regrets. That I can understand. We all want to do things that we can run out of the bed and enjoy to do it even if we were getting paid zilch to do so. But that is not the real world ALL the time. especially NOW with folks losing jobs and most states don't have enough unemployment to give. I thought about doing something for myself on my own now that I don't have anything, and I might just do it too. Why not? And you know, I may hit Rantblogger(didn't know it existed and put in a rant of my own); thanks for the hook up!!
@underdogtoo (9579)
• Philippines
3 Feb 09
I am fed up with being poor and I intend to become rich myself and maybe become the envy of the many poor people around. Maybe they will say, hey that's a poor guy and now he's rich. Who did he mug? Cheers!!
@goldeneagle (6743)
• United States
6 Feb 09
I know how you feel, but I gotta say this...
You make $11.50/hour...she makes $17/hour...and you guys are b!tching about it??? Dude try working in a restaurant six-nights per week making $8/hour and still not being able to provide for your family. I am 31, and I have a wife and family that I am trying to provide for. I went to school and got an Associate's degree in Business. I lost the job I had when I was the victim of what I thought was a work-from-home deal that turned out to be a scam. I am now looking for a second job just to try to pay what I have to pay every month. I am in such a bad financial position right now that it is going to take at least a couple of years for me to recover, and that is only if I can find a second job pretty quickly. Otherwise, things are getting worse for me with every month that passes.
There are people here that are here because we are literally desperate. Some of us don't even have gas or grocery money...let alone pizza money. I would love to have a job making the money you guys make, but I don't have the option of returning to school. I also have a physical handicap that limits the types of work I can do. I can barely walk most of the time, and bending over to pick something up off the floor is usually all but impossible for me. However, I have been turned down for disability THREE times because they say that my wife and I make too much money to get assistance, even though our COMBINED income last year was LESS than $42,000. We both work 40-50 hours per week, and I am looking for a second job now, even though I know I am not physically able to do it. I don't have a choice, so I am going to have to deal with it even if it gets worse...
