Reply #3: Look at it this way: at least you HAVE a job. I don't! [View All]

[NightTrain]

Be that as it may, I fully understand what you mean about working your butt off and still not being able to make ends meet. When my job ended earlier this month, I was making $10.50 an hour as a delivery driver--which isn't bad money for a college drop-out. But even with no one to support but myself, I couldn't make ends meet on my wages. And because my hours varied from day to day, I couldn't get a second job to help augment my income. Besides, after a typical workday, I was fucking exhausted!

As of July 2nd, I no longer had that job. The owner sold the drugstore's prescription accounts to Stop & Shop, which doesn't make deliveries. So I was out the door, albeit with five weeks of severance and vacation pay.

My second severance check came in the mail on Thursday. I have three more weeks of pay left before I have to think about applying for Unemployment benefits--and, incidentally, before my medical insurance expires and the price of my anti-depressants goes through the roof. I don't know how much my weekly Unemployment checks will be, but I guarantee you there won't be enough money for me to buy those pills--which I really, really need!

So Tucker, for whatever it's worth, at least you're not alone in your status as one of America's working poor. We're all in this together, right? :pals: