Spending the 4th of July with my boyfriend

Work Week: Monday--Friday, aka the time we spend alone without each other or working with each other if we are fortunate. Harsh: people who don't pay us enough for our work, people who don't pay us on time, people who are nasty about us needing both of those two things, people who expect us to work around their schedule when we don't have endless time, energy, and gas for them to mess with us. Threatening: bills and expenses. The phone bill, the car insurance, the storage unit bills my boyfriend has to pay, the credit card bill I have to pay. And before you ask, both of us are U.S. citizens who can't get jobs. We take whatever work we can get at whatever we can get it for. We helped someone move their storage unit last month for $10 an hour. The state minimum wage is $16 an hour. We did landscaping for an elderly couple for free soup and a free hoodie for me. We are not freeloaders. We deserve to be paid more, and people will not pay us what we are worth. It honestly angers me to work hard all month, both online and off, and then have to go to a charity in order to get my car registration paid for, and then find out that I've been lied to and I have to wait another week to get that thing paid, risking that the DMV won't mail me my stickers on time. And this, after I went to said charity in May asking them to pay for it then, but no, I have to wait until the exact month when it is due. I said, can I come in on July 1st? They said YES. I come back on the first, they won't do it because they have a bunch of rental assistance appointments. I hate being lied to and postponed when I need things to happen. I honestly like working. I know that gardening and building is hard work in the hot sun, but I enjoy it. I enjoy writing forum posts and poems and articles. But I'm getting tired of people who can't be honest and walk their talk. I don't want my future to be contingent on whether other people like me. I would rather deal with plants. At least they are reliable if you feed them properly. Sorry for the rant, but Trump passed the Big Beautiful Bill recently and it's pretty clear that freeloader shaming is on the rise. I just wanted to make it clear that we're not part of that class of video game players. The last time I played a game, it was because I got paid $48 for it by Swagbucks, and if I wasn't getting paid, I wouldn't have played it at all. The whole economic situation of my generation doesn't leave me resigned as much as angry and frustrated. I'm still trying to beat it using creativity.

@laser_vision Many thanks