sc94597 on 10 October 2015
| spurgeonryan said: I would not want to be poor anywhere else! As a kid we lived in a small house, but had 10 acres of property and I had a blast on that property with the dog , my neighbor friends and step brothers. My mom was never on food stamps soour food was never super interesting, but She was a good cook so it was more interesting than it should have been I think. Now my dad only gave 100 dollars in child support a month but he paid for everything else. Clothes, vacations with him to our family in California and on the Washington beach where we had property. Weekends with him were a break from my step siblings and being poor and he paid for me to go to private school until 11 grade when he too fell on hard times with drugs. Being poor as an adult forced me to join the army where I quickly put my wife's pushy on a pedestal and put myself into huge debt to keep her entertained. We were complete opposites though and after my second deployment got divorced and she vanished and I am now poor again with three kids that I wanted to take custody of. Moved with my current gf, who has a nice job but I now have a crap job at Wal-Mart with no child support and Very little food atamps. life isn't horrible though, I live paycheck to paycheck. Never enough to save and just enough to enjoy life a bit. But with jar work I hopefully will be a salaried manager soon and maybe life will improve dramatically. Maybe my 30 years of being poor and making some poor decisions will finally be behind me. My life as a Poor has not been horrible, I have actually done a lot. But pay check to pay check sucks and now that I have learned some life lessons hopefully my second chance at being middle class will go better than the first. The beginning. |
Very interesting story. :) Best of luck to you and good luck on the salaried position and whatever else life brings.
