It really sucks.

[Jerbear_1974]

It really sucks to work your ass off six days a fucking week and still can't afford a damn thing you want or need. It sucks to have your feet ache like hell with a bone spur and you can't afford the damn surgery. It sucks to look at things in stores that you can't buy for yourself and your kids. It really sucks that I do this day after day, and my body aches all over, but I don't have shit to show for it. Why the hell do I keep working like this? What for? I'm not getting ahead. Why the hell bother? Somebody please answer, because I don't know. I'm really discouraged right now.

[sherriet]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 12:39 AM

Hugs.  Thinks will get better.  I know that sounds like a line, but they will.  It might take a while, but you will get something in return.

[pr0udm0m_0f_3]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM

I gotta agree with Sherrie hun. Believe me, there are times that we DO get ahead. But then, a bill may come the next month that is more than the previous, then we are set back once again.

It happens to the best of us. Hell, I had to use our bill money to pay for some groceries this week. So I know what it means to feel the "pinch" and having to decide which way to go.

[sweetheart1985]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM

I'm with ya, Jer.

[v_clar]

Sep. 19, 2009 at 6:36 PM

A story that I hope will encourage you a bit...

Thursday my gas tank was on E, I had $1.50 to my name, my printer crashed (and I have a paper due on Monday.), and my phones where about to be turned off because the bill was overdue. I had no idea how this would change.

On Friday morning, UPS knocked on my door with a big box. The box was from an organization I had contacted to get info about childhood cancer and maybe get my son some support. Instead, inside the box was a personalized blanket, a journal, a stuffed armadillo, a book and some goodies for a cancer kids sibling, a camera and some other little goodies.

When I opended the folder that had the information and stuff in it, there was also an envelope inside that said Jeff & Vicky C. (check enclosed). My hands started to shake and tears came, inside was a check for enough to pay the phone bills AND put enough gas in my car to last til we get paid again on the first.

I was at the end of my rope and the knot was coming untied, yet, I didn't fall and you won't either. It may take awhile to get ahead, but it will happen and until then, well, you have us! (Scared yet ;-p )

(((((Hugs)))))