Tomorrow I re-enter the grind that is work.
I’m not one of those manufacturing workers in states like Ohio or Michigan that got their asses whupped by trade deals (mainly) and other factors (maybe some burdensome regulations), on edge of losing her job and her health care, but I can see the horizon of that sort of thing.
No, I’m not on the verge of losing my job, the last time I checked. I’m in the popular credit card industry, but I’m getting paid a shitty wage of $8.50 an hour at full-time, which is somewhere below the federal poverty level of $20,800 if I were to go the whole year and collect $17,680 gross per year. (I know I’m living with my grandparents, but a job shouldn’t keep you in poverty.)
It’s just the credit card crunch, which I believe is part-personal responsibility, part-credit card companies gouging working people and their paychecks (but not as badly as the federal income tax, even though it’s progressive and I’m in the lower brackets). Moving on, some people are using credit cards for their or their spouse’s health care, when they should be paying premiums for health insurance (or signing up for things like Medicare, whichever applies), even though health insurance companies are not that generous in my opinion.
(Just to let you know, my congressional district is a “red” one and the incumbent’s been there for more than a decade now, but my state’s “blue”. I’m independent who is on the verge of siding with the Democrats, but they’ve been wimps recently — too many factors to determine how they got there.)
I’d change jobs, but it took me about 8-9 months to find my current job. Plus, just about everything’s in retail and just about everything’s made in China.
However, it’s nearing tax season, and I just read an ad for Tax Preparer classes (e.g., the ones at H&R Block). I’d have to change my schedule around to fit in 40 hours of work (and however many hours of class time so I can become a Tax Preparer); plus it’s snowing and road conditions are always shit until spring time comes to melt away some of the snow and ice. (Oh, and I got a few sheets of that ice storm, but not as badly as Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.)
Tags: anxiety, Bitching, credit card, grumbling, i hate my job, ice storm, job change, minimum wage, pay, politics, poverty level, Work
