get out of poverty

But it would only take one small misfortune to put me back. So work is still needed to be somewhat secure.

Life is better when you can pay your bills and still afford a few nice luxuries.

Our business is really starting to take off. It’s looking like we’re going to reach some state of “normal” in the next few months. If we can climb up to lower-middle class, that’s good enough for me. Then I’ll get myself back into school and we can inch our way up the socio-economic ladder.

My husband lost a really good job a few years ago, and we’ve been struggling from one crappy job to another since then. Even with both of us working, we still qualified for food stamps. :/ We moved a few months ago to get out from under a mortgage that was 75% of our monthly income. The new place is cheaper, but the move has meant finding new jobs. Yeah. That’s not going so well.

I am just tired of being poor. It’s humiliating.

I am almost 36.
I have a master’s degree and I work ALL THE TIME. Days, nights, weekends…
I make less money than I did when I dropped out of college and worked in retail for minimum wage when I was 19.
I don’t earn enough to pay my bills. I am in debt.
I don’t have a car. I can’t support myself.

I can’t go on this way.
I don’t mean to whine, I am just trying to force myself to acknowledge the reality of my situation. I have to change something. A lot of somethings maybe.