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The lengths I must go through to get money now are actually insane
Life really is a b*tch, sometimes
Since being laid off from my sweet tech gig, I’ve had to bare the brunt of a terrible job market and now I live the life of an underemployed worker transitioning into new lines of work, wherever they find me. And the lengths that I have to go through, just to get the money I need to spend, to survive, are absolutely insane. I’ve realized that we really shouldn’t have to go through such a complicated and overly exhausting process, just to get the money that we need to spend. It has to be one of the most frustrating things I’ve ever witnessed in my (now, dead) professional life.
Why make money a requirement for survival if you’re also going to make it near impossible for me to acquire it?
The greatest mystery of our time is American capitalism. It is a system that requires payment of money to function. And yet, this very same system requires that we pay until we get paid enough to pay for our survival.
Did you know that on average, it takes a job two to three weeks just to start paying you, once you get hired? That means even when you receive the job offer, you still have to wait. There is no money for you — you have to continue…
