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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've made it work

False consensus says what?

Now let's add chaos:

  • car troubles
  • car accident
  • non-car accident
  • recurring injury like a back strain
  • COVID and 10 day quarantine

That's a thousand- to a million-dollar hit. What's the plan for absorbing that?

Teachers in Canada make less, but don't have the spectre of financial ruin from injury or illness hanging over them.

[–] jordanlund 1 points 2 months ago

I was making $50,000 a year when my spine tried to kill me and I ended up taking 10 vicodin a day just to survive. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch, 2 when I got home, and 2 to be able to sleep. I didn't miss work. I made my rent payments.

I was miserable, but I figured it out.