I really wish you didn't have to live with your mother. Seems like your life might be greatly improved if you could get away from her. I mean you could live nearby, so you could still see her if you wanted to, but just not share a house with her. But I know you said that the two of you own the house together, correct?
You need a college degree to work in fast Food now?!
Yeah, co-own a 178K house. Considering rent is like 1200+/month (50% of my pay in this area), and soon I couldn't afford that... well. It honestly won't matter anyway. The rent in this town is horrible... there are numerous homeless shelters (one visible from my place even--looks like a hotel actually, another at the end of the street), mainly as there's like places called ABC, DEF, XYZ, QYX, TYV, and DRS... but they're all owned by Acme, Inc. The same rental place owns probably all of the rental property/apartments/etc in the area--giving the impression of choice, but they 'compete' with themselves for prices. Get blacklisted from one? You're blacklisted from all. People have complained that most of the jobs here are min-wage->$15/hr. But all the rental places are Main-city-price prices.
And yeah, jobs area annoying in the town. Back when I was looking, most wanted a Bachelor's for positions. Almost all are part-time (20hrs/week if lucky). Only good then when I was hired at walmart years ago, me having a master's was I had 2 salary bumps at the start, putting me as the highest paid non-10 year employee there in my department. A lot of jobs though were like 'please submit high school transcripts, and college transcripts' and they wanted a bachelor's! I said screw it because it was not worth that for like $8.25/hr.
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I think I"m just in a bad mood... every little thing is getting to me.