I make just over 10k a year, am being gutted at my normal full time job for hours for the last three months, and I still make only $8 an hour even though I currently have three degree's. I've already went into debt by 1.2k for those three months, on top of the 2k I owe for surgery - not including the student loans which are exorbitant. I drive a little over 100 miles a day, as I work, live, and go to school in three different cities. Even when I do not have to drive to work, I still have to drive the 100 miles because my car, which is slowly dying on me, cannot make it up the steep incline of the freeway as it heads north, and the only alternate route (streets) don't go through until I get into the city I work. What's also awesome is it is now costing me half a tank of gas just to get through one trip a day now, so I am spending $60 every two days on gas (I go to school 5 days a week, and work weekends - you can do the math)... I make about $350/$400 a month now.
I lost my apartment and moved into a room in my parents house that is baby purple and 1/10 the size of my apartment for the same amount of rent. With the money I do make, I pay for gas - currently I bum food off of people or ::shhhhhhh:: steal it. My schoolwork is starting to really get bad because of this situation, and it doesn't help that I average about 16 units per quarter. Speaking of school, half of my electives plus my languages did not transfer over, so now I have to redo them - thus effectively adding 1.5 years onto my education once again... after I was denied FAFSA for two years straight. I should already be focusing on my fucking doctorate.
I also tore the MCL ligament in my knee 5 weeks ago; it has yet to heal. Can't go to the doctor since I have no insurance and medicaid is being gay.
There are more personal things that I won't share, but the above is just some of the shit I've been going through.
