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Just work a little harder (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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[–] 6 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

I wish my ADHD and other issues would let me work 85 hours a MONTH with my toddler around all day every day. I'd be able to pay myself a very decent salary for the part of my country that I live in right now. If I could consistently work a reasonable 150 a month, I'd have the deep into 5 figures amounts of debt my ex put me into, paid off in 2 years. Worst part is, I used to be able to work over 200 a month easily, but I wore myself out like that and now that I'm an exhausted single parent, it's so, so hard to get anything done.

Best of luck to you and your kitty. It sucks that you need to work so much to be able to afford necessities.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Oof, I don't know how I'd function if I had a toddler. Single parents amaze me, I can barely function as a single person. I have pretty bad ADHD and work is an absolute white knuckle struggle, but I have absolutely no one since my last relationship failed and I don't want to be homeless so I cry a lot at home and then slap a smile on and grind through my shift.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Oof, I don’t know how I’d function if I had a toddler

    I literally don't. I'm making do on about a fifth of the income I had when I was still together with my ex and she at least spent SOME time taking care of the child.

    I live in the old family home my grandparents built, but it's a big-ass house and I live in a cold-ass country so like a third to a half of my income goes on heating it in the winter. I could of course move somewhere, but then I'd have to pay rent, and that's a year-round expense. Place is not in the best shape or a great location either, so I can't even sell it and buy an apartment in one of the cities where there's actually shit to do lol

    Luckily once my toddler is willing to spend full days in kindergarten instead of the current 2-3 hours before the nap time, my finances will get better and I can replace the expensive and labor-intensive wood furnace central heating system with an air-to-water heat pump, saving me a bunch of money and some time. Right now if it gets super cold I get to sleep 3-4 hours at most at night because I have to go put in more briquettes or wood lol

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