LIFE SUCKS : Money

Hard Work Hardly Works

I really don’t know what to think anymore. I’m 21 years old and I used to make an effort to be thankful for what I had, since hell, being poor in the U.S. is far better than being poor in a 3rd world country. Then my roommate’s parents suddenly decided to sell their house, at the beginning of the college quarter, and I was immediately forced to move out, even though I had paid rent on time each month (“No hard feelings, and all”). I was able to find a new apartment in time, but the deposit ate up the remainder of my savings, causing me to go through two months, during which I had no idea where I was going to get my next meal or how I was going to pay the rent. This was how I spent my Christmas.

Things are a lot better now, but it still annoys me to see people working a fraction as hard as I do seemingly getting all of the breaks in life. That sounds arrogant, but I have always been told by people that I am the hardest worker they know. I used to walk one hour to my part time job, work for five hours, and then walk another hour to get home, at 1 AM in the morning, while also balancing school. Meanwhile, I see students at prestigious universities drinking themselves into a stupor off of their parents’ beer money, and barely making it to class.

I go to a community college, despite graduating in the top 12% of my high school class, which makes me wonder why I didn’t simply drop out during my Freshman year to work at McDonald’s. During the times that I didn’...

i feel soooo worthless

Hi I am 26 and have a daughter I am married... and I could really be the happiest person in the whole world. BUT no!!!! I feel Horrible, i really hate my life! I wouldn't be a life right now, IF I wouldn't of had my baby girl who keeps me from going on... No matter how depressed I feel. How worthless, how miserable I feel.
I see her and I still think there is a light... But for how long!

My husband is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much older than, when I married him I thought cool, I will be pampered! WRONG!!! he has been breaking every part of my being EVERY part of my soul, and his "Friends" just keep making my LIFE SOOO F*CKING miserable!! God! I hate them more than i hate myself! If I go to do groceries.. BEACAUSE SHOCKINGLY people do eat! and drink, and if I spend more than 150, they all ready called my Husband, and made this huge thing bout me spending money in the groceries..

Ok, if I go to the doctor! the same: why do u have to go to the DR??? I mean sorry I got sick, need medication?? Oh no U didn't!!!! well I need medication for the baby, need to call my husband assistant! and he of course decides if i can have extra money for the medication...

ok, i need underware cause mine are broken! oh no! u can't... Ok, let me think... i stay at home, then don't do anything... why are u at home all day do something at of ur life! OMG! ok I go out... guess what No gas on the car..... Now I'm stuck in the middle of the road with no gas a screaming baby, and no reception...

Ok, I am at home, fridge empty, no gas, no money baby screaming for food!!
I sold all my jewellery so i could do my thing, and now I am stuck in the same old same old!

And the only thing i can think of at least I shud be happy? well The only happiness I get is to tell my husband goodbye! but i can't my baby girl love him...

so I am in the same gold cage for the F*cking rest of this time!
NO WAY!
Need a way out!!

Unemployed and Depressed

27 yr old male College Graduate from a good university. Had a good paying job after graduating. Lost job because I got cancer at 24. Went to Jail for a harmless DUI a year and a half later but managed to keep my job. Lost job because of economy. Drivers License revoked (even to this day) and suffered through a harsh probation period. Been looking for work for a year now. Been on several interviews, applied to over 500 jobs. Dont wanna work with illegal immigrants in a sweaty kitchen. Side note: at the time i got cancer I didnt have health insurance, and i still dont have health insurance. So that fact along with all my student loan debt puts me at a total of about $200,000 that is ruining my credit and making it harder to find a job. Ill never have any control over my life.

I understand perfectly how everyone on this sight feels. I'm so frustrated. My husband andare both earn a modest income. We are fine but sometimes it's hard to make ends meet. I could deal with that but his family comes from money and our life is not good enough for them. They His family always blames me for everything that goes wrong. It's like they are embarrassed of me. Truth be told I'm slightly more responsible than he is bc I have had to work a lot harder through out lifr. so It burns deep everytime they give lame suggestions on how to better our situation. Trust me I'm trying my best. Of course our one vehicle breaks down when I have no money to pay for it. Instead of trying to help me fix the car they just ramble in about how I need to be a better wife and practically wipe my husband's ass. If they ever do try to offer help it's a total waste. They end up buying us expensive crap we don't need and they think I'm being ungrateful when I try to point that out. If they want to help us why don't they just ask what we need? I don't expect money but Jesus what good is it to have expensive furniture or other crap when I can't fix my car or pay my bills? All I want is them to let us live our lives and leave me alone.

Quit school in 12th grade, got married, divorced and grew out of the usual young and stupid crap everyone does when they're young. Married a good man 19 years ago, and he sacrificed his ass off to help me go back to school to pursue my dream-to teach school. I taught one year, then I was told in February of 2008 that my contract wasn't being renewed. Went on to finish my Master of Education, only to find there are NO teaching jobs because of the economy. Actually, there are no jobs period. Meanwhile, I have a $20,000 student loan I cannot default on or the state will take my teaching certification. I've been unemployed since 2008. My poor husband has worked himself almost to death to pay the bills and keep our house. I recently borrowed $1500 to get a class B CDL, and I have only been given one dispatch and the note is almost due. My son is about to graduate high school and got into college, but I don't think we will find the money to pay for it. I tried to set a good example to my kids by going back to school, but now they think I'm stupid for wasting so much of my time for nothing. My son tells me that my teaching job was just a job, and it wasn't important-but I have mourned that job like it was the loss of a person. I still cry about it. It was my fucking dream. My husband and I have no life. He is gone all the time trying to drive and make money, and I just sit here, listening to my son tell me how stupid and pointless I am, and I don't go anywhere except the grocery store because we never have any money. I don't have friends, can't afford hobbies, and this all probably doesn't seem too bad to everyone else, but I feel as if my life IS pointless, and I'm a waste, no good for anything or anyone, and my dreams in life were taken from me and smashed before my eyes.

I believe most of these posts are from the u.s I'm in the UK don't take this the wrong way i love the u.s I'm half American I'm now 20 years old and life overall seems completely pointless I'm constantly paranoid of other people I'm horrified of talking to any one as I can't trust myself not to lie the hid my miserable life when spoken to, my throat chokes up and I never or barely manage to force a stutered answer. I feel like I'm on drugs all the time when I've never even seen or use any drugs. I've tried suicide 3 times now and I can't bring myself to try again. I have no job and never had one before I've been offered one before but my parents stopped me before my first work day I have no self esteem, confidence, people skills, social life, physical strength, I suffer from depression, asthma and mental breakdown I have no finances though I'm told by my parents when they have a go at me I have around £3000 or more yet I've seen no proof of this. I've no one to talk to I'm mental outstarted and disrespect by my siblings and at one point I snapped under pressure nearly beating my 14 yearly sister who have a bitchy attitude towards me. when I was a child I was retarded and ignorant of every thing around me and I fully aggre that ignorance is bliss i would gladly go back to my childhood at least I was happy then now this seems like a dream from long ago god I so badly wish I was making this shit up but in a nut shell my life is FUCKED UP what can I do? I've tried reading countless books on confidence and improving life and it doesn't help the only thing I ever seem to nowadays is compare my life to everyone else.

I'm 55. So called own a home, have a husband, 2 grown children and 1 grandchild, 3 dogs, 1 cat. Always paid my bills on time until 2 years ago when economy hit home. Always paid my house note, just gave up paying the credit cards. Everybody lives with me now. Bankruptcy. Thought I could do a chapter 7 and keep my home, but no, too much equity they say, well, my house is run down, but that's not the figure they get from comparables. So, chapter 13 -- Pay the damn creditors and what happens if my old heating unit/air goes out? Then what? I have no money to fix it. Should I just give up my house that I we all live in? Make everybody homeless. Where is the justice? I tried to do the right things in life, always paid my bills but things have gone to shit, the house for sure, but how do I prove that? We are finally getting on our feet, and now just pull the rug out from under us if we file bankruptcy. The future is certainly not CERTAIN. I hired a lawyer after carefully searching for prices and looks like I'm getting screwed by the one I picked! Don't ask my opinion on anything because I'm definitely going to be wrong. I had lawyers tell me "yeah, you can keep you house". Duh...not with the equity they say I have.... oh well, my husband just keeps saying "they can't take your birthday away." Who really wants to have a birthday when you're my age?

this is serious..

okay so i guess i'm just gonna list all my problems instead of telling a story:

ocd
epilepsy (can't get a drivers license, i have to buy medicine for the rest of my life, can't even go to see a 3d movie because it will trigger a seizure, etc)
social anxiety/low confidence
lonelyness
i'm the black sheep of the family, even though i'm goodhearted
my stepdad beat me up as a kid, nobody cared
my real so called "dad" is a mean drunk. i don't bash drunks, but he is a jerk who
always doubted me. i haven't seen him in two years i think.

i've been beat up by thugs.. 2 against one.
broke my nose and shit. that's how i get epilepsy.
i'm being harrassed everyday and laughed at because of the side effects of the medicine i take. which is it's sometimes hard to walk straight.

my best friend i haven't seen in two years because he got a girlfriend.
the guy has no idea on how to act. i mean it's cool you're with someone now, but two years..? idiot..

and i could keep going on.
i'm broke.
i live off rice cakes and water, because i don't have the money or motivation to make real food.

etc, etc, etc..

everything

Hi, im Brian n im 19...my life in a nut shell is a rollar coaster...with no coasting ever, just ups n downs n loops n so on. i could tell the internet my life story but that would take to much time and i dont want to dwell on the past...but right now im goin through a lot. its not the biggest opstical in my life ive had to over come but its up there. well about 2 yrs ago my older brother bought our dad(66) a house to retier in (rent free my bro would pay the morgage n we pay utilities n up keep the house for resale when our dad dies) and i just graduated highschool...so he bought dad the house 3months after i graduated...then 6months later i get a great job at a very great company and my brother dies and my sister inlaw said she would pay the morgage for bout a year.

8months go by and now she has to sell the house cuz she cant pay her own morgage let alone ours cuz my bor made ALOT more money than her. n bout less than a week ago we got an eviction for 30days to move out...now all the stuff we bought to fill a 2story house needs to all be sold so my dad n we can move into a small apartment, and not only that but im at the age where im goin to move out so we have to find a place where my dad can aford it when i leave the "nest"...ALL IN 30DAYS! we have 28 days now n we still need to find a place that my dad can aford by himself and is retired, sell bout 3/4 of a house worth of stuff, move into an apartment, make the house look pretty for resale and i work 40hrs a week on top of that...so in other works a 66 yr old retired man has all this stress and all this stuff that needs to get done and i cant do much about it.

Life Sucks Big Time...just doesnt cut it

i crash.... again

had a kid, we seperated, she's on wellfare, got my child back because she was gona put him up for adoption, wellfare didnt stop monthly pmts againts me. now they took it on my paycheck. didnt have enough money left to pay: my truck payment, insurance AND rent. now im hungry, havent eaten in days because i dont have 2 pennys to rub together. lost my job cuz im in so much physical pain that i coudlnt go in last week. now i sit here and watch my little world crumble again, and i cant do a damn thing about it. my kids at my moms because i cant take care of him.. coule days from now my truck is gona get taken away, i had a knee on the ground and a foot.. ALMOST back on my feet and the savages took soo much money that i cant do it. id love to kill myself, but i have kids, there the only reason im still alive... mind u im starving so im prob be dead soon anyway

Haha

I keep reminding myself that others have It worse than me.. But we have been told that my family maybe kicked out of the country whenever coz of issues and therfore have to afford our citizenship which is 20g per Person even though we have lived here for over 10 years.. On top of that we have debts over 200g credits issues banks try snd call us over 40 times a day.... Our family business has been losing money for the past 3 years and we cant seem to sell it... We live in a shop.. We also have our renter threateneing to kick us out coz of overdue rents.. My mum is having an affair and our whole family knows it and she confessed that 30 years of marriage she never loved my dad... However my dad wont take any action and Just complains.. He keeps talking about suicide... Mum said as soon as my final exams for school are over shes going leave our family... My adult sister is mentally ill and have a brain of a 12 year old.. I have also failed my assesment tasks for school.. Its only time before we lose everything... our family.. Home... citizenship..and even our lives which have been in the country my entire life...

When your out doors nobody understands

I was once upon a time I was a Billionaier.But I believe in everbody, to be on my side.But never beleive in myself,only in my so call friends to se me thought.But family was there when I had money,and when I did'nt have money my family was there .I gave millions to family and friends.So let my tell my story.Everybody expect so much from me.I got into realestate and made a fortune.I had over a million homes in my possion.But made bad business with the wrong people ,that I though that was my friends.They took my business from me .They fame me saying that the business was not mine.So I loss everything. My 40 million dollar home.My bentlys and my mercedezs and my rollsroyces .So I live on the street as a bum,but once I had it all.So what ever it takes to be the best ,I must not stop,but pick myslf up and start all over again.If I have a nother chance, I would choose a better choice of friends.

need major regroup

Two and a half years ago i got devorced from a very controlling woman who put out once.evrfy two.months or less. Within 6 months I found a wonderful, fun, attractive woman that i started dating. I wont even get started about my job, ive fucking hated every minute of it for 16 years. Now, with the economy its cut into my hours. I still owe my ex money that i cant afford to pay. I boughg a beater so icould sell my car to.give my.ex.the money to try to get rid of the payment so i can make it on reduced wages. With all the stress i started getting a.case of performance anxietg. At first my grilfriend didnt understand a was too upset to do anything supportive. Then she reqlly figured it out and was trying to help me get thru it and get confident again. Then she 180'd again and is only putting pressure on me thats making it worse. I feel like she's gonna snap anytime now. So my ex is getting the last laugh, I have to sell my car and cruise around in a rusted out 1986 pickup till i get outta debt. And my girlfriend that i love very much that is just the kind of person i dreamdd of findi g when i got devorced could be gone tomorrow. I need the world.to stop spinning for about a month so i can get it together! I hate my life!

I'm a 28 years old man,and I'm a university student. My place is crap, my learning is crap i barely make not enough money to get by.I really hate my life at this moment. I need a grant for a few time almost for 2years.
At the moment life is difficult for me.

Fuck my life sucks big time.

Can never win.

What's up? I am a 31 year old male. It seems no matter how hard I try I can never have any kind of luck. I committed a minor offense of attempted forgery when I was barley 18. But I guess in the eyes of texas it was serious enough to be a felony and follow me for the rest of my life with no chance of ever getting it expunged. So thanks to a foolish teenage mistake my chances of gainful employment are ruined forever. Then also in the stat of texas they frown on driving with no insurance which I did in 99 and 2000 and of course with my luck there is no stature of limitations on traffic tickets in texas either so I do not have a drivers licenced and have not had one since 2004. In 02 and 03 my wife of 6 years decided to have a couple of little ones without my help. We divorced in 06. So in o6 and 08 I have a couple of little ones and.surprise surprise I get hit with child support. So on toolbox having to work shit jobs now I can take home about 125 a week but am currently unemployed because I got fired from pizza hit for giving the birch that stuck me for child support a 50percent discount. And to top that all off my only means of transportation broke down last week 4 hour away from the house while I was job hunting.

Devastation

I am in my 30's...I lost my wife and my infant son in a car accident a few years ago. My wife was my college sweetheart and my son's smile lit up a room. They were my entire life.

Shortly afterwards, I lost most of my wealth (over $150k) b/c of the economic collapse.

Because of this and a job loss (basically fired b/c I no longer cared), I foreclosed on my home. I now have an income but it is barely enough to live on, and I live with a relative and his wife, but I NEVER leave my room or the house as I do not have a car any longer. I think about suicide EVERY day.

I am missing most of my front teeth because of a childhood accident and failed dental work, and I have no insurance of any kind. Even if I did have the money I am not sure I would care enough to fix them any longer.

I have no friends at all anymore, no human interaction except a short conversation I may have with my relative and his wife maybe once per week.. They are so nice to let me live here b/c I know I am a burden and depressing to be around.

I am alone in the world and miss my family so much. I wish all of you the best, life should not be this hard.

My birthday

Today Im 23. So I have been really excited for this job that I would actually like, but doesn't even pay well. Went it today for my 2nd interview and of course I was competing against another person, I wasnt picked. Happy birthday to me? I fucking hate LA its fucking hard to find a job its been almost 3 months and after countless interviews, still nothing. Everything here is fucking expensive and isnt as nice as everybody thinks. Fuck this place. Cheapest place to rent is 900 a month for a fucking nasty ass studio? How Am I going to afford that with a 400/month car payment? Ive been diagnosed with my first episode of Major depression disorder. Im the last person who cares about health so I dont take that diagnosis seriously. But maybe I do now. Ive been down ever since I graduated high school. I used to cut, its been awhile now, now im thinking about it. Nothing is going my way. I live with relatives, my parents decide to retire. Im broke, my college is screwing me over, I have this pressure from my parents to make something of myself. I hate seeing happy people.. I want to fucking shoot them in the face. Ive been in this room all day for my birthday, I havent eaten, Im thinking of buying some liquor to celebrate.

Stuck

I'm a 28 year old man that lives in a house with 5 roommates. My place is crap, my job is crap i barely make enough money to get by. My girlfriend resents me because she buys most stuff. I really hate my life at this moment. I need a new job. I need something because this daily grind is getting old.

I wake up every morning contemplating quitting my job and quitting life in general. Fuck my life sucks big time.

self inflected wounds

Well to begin I’m in the army, have been for 10 years. I understand that life in the army is usually not too bad they provide for everything, rent, food, utilities and pay u to go to college. But I dug myself in a huge hole that it isn’t even funny. Now I realize that my story isn’t the worse and it is recoverable but at the very least it feels better to complain about the situation I’m in. Well first off let’s start with the job, like I said I’m in the army but a recruiter, now if u know about recruiting its very political. They don’t look out for anyone in the unit, they try and screw u over at every chance they get, and if u were ever to get on the hit list, good luck trying to get off of it, I should know from firsthand experience. And on top of that I am being investigated cause I admit I messed up on the paperwork, but it was unknowing to myself until it was actually pointed out on a piss test I had to conduct, so now I’m stressing about not only the investigation outcome which could end my career of 10 years, but I’m trying to balance getting people in the army cause if I don’t then I have about 3 to 5 people yelling at u asking y u haven’t put anyone in the army, so that how much fun I’m having at work and there’s more about work but I’ll get to that. Now let’s go with the ex-wife, I was married to her for 5 years I deployed to Iraq and she cheated on me we got divorced, we had a son together which even though we have joint custody she thinks that she has a...

not the worst that could happen but pretty close

I’m 19. Started life like most people do, in a hospital, from the moment I came home my parents were finding ways to get rid of me. They tried everything from starvation to drug overdose. I have been an alcoholic since the age of 6 months when my parents started putting wine in my bottles to make me sleep. At the age of 4 I was put into foster care where everything was supposed to get better. It didn’t.
Everything from sexual abuse, physical abuse, drug related issues, you name it. Also my older sister was taken from the foster home that I was in because she was deemed “dangerous to herself and others” by a woman with Munchausen’s. My younger brother and sister were also sexually abused by the foster father in the home we were in at the time.
In 2001 my younger brother, sister, and I were adopted. To this day we don’t know where our older sister is.
I am a United States Marine stationed in San Diego, CA. I will be Deploying to Afghanistan this year to serve in the Global War on Terror. I am on duty 24/7 and can be called to work at any time, Day or night. As it stands right now, I get paid 24 cents an hour after taxes. If it weren’t for medical benefits Marines would be the lowest paid workers in the USA.