People Trapped in Poverty's Cycle

$100k? A day? On average?

“I have basically been either poor or living paycheck to paycheck (which is the same thing for the average person). I am 66 now and at some point I had the realization that other people's opinions of me simply didn't matter. I still am envious of people with nice homes and nice things but realize life is about surviving. Just learn to be comfortable in your own skin.”

“This happened to me this one man loved my mind and thoughts and then once he found out I was at a call center for my job it was over. I provide for myself and my dog and have a retirement fund. I’m not stupid I’m just poor. It has made me shrink . I’m going back to school and trying hard to improve. I’m thinking I’ll be alone forever. If I ever get to a more than livable wage I’ll assume it’s just for my money. I hate it so much.”

“That is true, when you have money you can walk away from so many bad experiences, nd now because you broke you have to live with it, because can't walk away”

Drugs. It’s called drugs

“As a psychologist who listens people's problems and issues, I can confirm, half of it could be solved with money. Maybe not solved entirely, but it would help immensely.”

“This was me. Chronically ill and balding. Still met my husband. I can no longer work and he's basically my caregiver. I'm even balder now and he tries to get me to shave it, but I'm not there yet.”

“What if you’re late 20s, bald as a woman due to autoimmune and chronically ill? Is it over? Feels over”

“I know this probably isn't the best subreddit to bring this up on, but there's an emotional impact to being this broke. I feel like I don't deserve to be loved, or even liked, because of it. When people mistreat me, I keep on thinking if I just had more money it would stop. submitted by /u/Opposite-Mousse2515 [link] [comments]”

“I'm from a developing country where opportunities and resources for aspiring entrepreneurs can be quite limited. I currently don't have a job, and realistically, I don't have anywhere near enough money to even begin thinking about manufacturing or developing the inventions I come up with. The frustrating part is that the ideas keep coming. Whenever I think of something, I write it down. I go back to it, improve it, research whether something similar already exists, and try to figure”

“Having no food and being homeless is something I wouldn’t wish on anyone. I am tired and exhausted from having to try and find food every single day. It is draining having to constantly worry about where my next meal is going to come from and where I’m going to sleep. I’m unable to work because of an injury, which makes everything even harder. I want to be able to work and support myself, but right now I’m struggling just to get through each day. People don’t always see what someone going throug”

“Me too. It's so hard to live and see others living so well while I drown in misery and self hatred everyday”

“How do you deal with the amount of dismissal and outright hate you receive from people? I’m in my 20s. I was active, happy, and about to graduate college when my life changed overnight. Everything I had planned for myself was stripped away. Since then, I’ve been told countless times that it’s “all in my head” or that I’m basically just a psych patient. I’m incredibly grateful that I have doctors who acknowledge exactly what’s wrong with me, even if they don’t have a treatment…. I know many peopl”

“I’m unemployed right now and living alone. mentally, I’m having a really hard time. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on antipsychotics(Latuda aka Lurasidone and Quetiapine), but I now seriously question whether the diagnosis was correct. Ever since being on these meds, I feel like I’ve gotten so much worse. I’m currently trying to sort all of this out with my psychiatrist. The hardest part is that I have absolutely no idea what to do with myself all day. I wake up and basically just”

“Same here I went from having a full-time well-paid job and a personal business on the side and it's actually blew me up to my highest weight. At this point I don't even trust myself to have a good material situation because I'm afraid I will become overweight again. I'm currently broke, have been since the beginning of this year. I work a few shifts a week just to cover my rent and have a bit of extra money that I prefer to spend on tobacco and drinks at the bar. I've lost 45”

“Spent 10 years unemployed between 27-37. Also graduated in 2008 so didn't work much 18-28 either, severe isolation and depression, no family. 40 now, I'm a therapist and pro video editor, own a house, getting married next year. Used all that time to get my life as good as a broke person can, self-therapy, exercise, learn to cook good food, meditation, school after I safed enough. Realised I had to find another way to make money, I could never do the grind. I work 10am-4pm 4 days a week.”

“I’m exactly in your place, I used to be driven moved countries for a better education etc and right before graduation I got really depressed. Ever since I kept postponing my thesis, sometimes I worked low paying jobs sometimes I was too depressed to apply, I had a final round interview 2 days ago and a lot of crazy stuff happened on the way there so I couldn’t even make it to the interview. I wish I could give you any advice right now but I’m at one of my lowest points as well and starting to lo”

“Hey guys, so my life is completely messed up right now. I've always been a really gifted, artsy person - I'm naturally very talented at writing and painting - but these are truly useless skills in our world, especially if you want to make decent money. I always knew I wanted to study something unrelated to art, because that path leads to a broke life, and I wouldn't have been happy working in an artsy job either. So I wanted to study marketing, biomedical engineering, or political sc”

“Hey guys, so my life is completely messed up right now. I've always been a really gifted, artsy person - I'm naturally very talented at writing and painting - but these are truly useless skills in our world, especially if you want to make decent money. I always knew I wanted to study something unrelated to art, because that path leads to a broke life, and I wouldn't have been happy working in an artsy job either. So I wanted to study marketing, biomedical engineering, or political sc”

“The people who “have” rely on the “have-nots” to be able to fund their lifestyle. If we had enough money to meet our needs, then they wouldn’t be able to live so lavishly. submitted by /u/needmorexanax [link] [comments]”

“Unfortunately I made some bad decisions when I was younger and life exacerbated that for me. After high school I lost several family members and the depression was bad enough for me to drop out of college and spend about ten years just kind of floating by. By the time I was in my 30s I got myself together enough to hold a job long term but the only thing I could find with a high school diploma was a customer service job, and while I've changed companies plenty I'm still in the same dead”

“I feel like I matter to family but the rest of the world doesn’t care about me. So what do I do since my status has changed and being poor is terrible and foul. I feel like a nobody when I’m a somebody but the world doesn’t care for my existence. My emotions don’t matter to anyone or my pain doesn’t matter to anyone and people keep saying I need a professional but they don’t care either. I’m kinda out of options if the world is not going to love me respect me and treat me right and not wrong. I”

“Unfortunately just about the entirety of global society is organized under capital and therefore the imposition of work in order to generate a wage for both base subsistence needs in addition to luxury wants subjugates the vast majority of humanity. In short, you need a job or income.”

“You don't have income, it is good to avoid spending money on things that arent survival.”

“it's a made up story, so doesn't really matter - I'm studying the psychology of low income folks as part of my uni project”

“I miss not having to worry about saving change to get a few miles of gas. I miss not feeling so stuck because I can’t go forward. I wish my child’s father helped. He brags about going all these places, doing these things, when he is thousands behind in child support. I can’t even afford the drive to daycare and he talks about spending thousands on a new car for himself. . I’m trying to do everything right. I work, go to school, take care of my kid, and I still can’t make it. It’s just so hard so”

“For the other single moms on here, do you guys get envious of the two-income households? I can't help but get jealous when I see moms here with a partner and their household incomes are so high, higher than what I could make without working ridiculous hours, going back to school or selling my soul. My ex is already married off (and he just got a new job making more money) whereas my field, raises are hard to come by. I always get this sense that I will never be able to provide as much for my”

hey thank you for this comment.

“Hi all. Just wanted to sort of rant about my current situation. I live with my parents and brother/they live with me in a house. The past few years I've found im the only one who really cleans the home. My mom might clean one spot here and there once in a while and my brother will clean his own room and vacuum the floors only when i ask, but when it comes to actually cleaning, as in keeping things from getting gross/build up of grime/dust/mold, it only gets noticed by me. I try my best to ke”

They 100% do it to feel superior.

Exactly!

I’m literally seeing it for the first time

“You know that advice people give about buying things in bulk because it's cheaper? Oh Yeah. That's great advice until you don't actually have enough money to buy the bulk option. I've been thinking about how many things are technically cheaper when you have more money. Better quality clothes. Bigger packs of food. Buying something once instead of replacing the cheap version three times. Even transportation sometimes. It's weird because people give generic advice "make be”

“Yeah I live out in the country here. I don’t really have much. Nearest major city is 4-5 hours away and the nearest city of any kind is about a hour 45 minutes?”

“I come from a rural locality in a developing country. My youth revolved around livestock, poultry, harvesting potatoes, moving manure with wheelbarrow, activities like this. At the same time, my family wasn't living in a hole like hobbits or in a hut like a tribe. We had all the amenities of modern life. For example, I got my first computer back in 1999, and saw the Internet two years before that. I received an education from a technical university where I studied semiconductors and physics”

“Hi all, I know this type of post appears pretty often but I’m feeling very stuck and would genuinely appreciate any ideas, words of support, or general guidance you could offer. A bit about me: I attended uni studying law and communications and got decent grades. During uni I had a bit of a mental breakdown 🫠 due to mental health issues and isolation during the pandemic. I graduated a few years ago and have since worked minimum wage jobs in retail. Recently I’ve felt an itch to move to better p”

“LA born and raised here. Grew up with hand-me-downs and Payless shoes, so I had to be quick to shut down the bullies. One of my most used comebacks was, "At least my parents don't buy me shit just to shut me up and get me out of their face! They actually like spending time with me." Their parents probably make them work saying they have to work to keep their allowance. They may admit that they live with their parents, but I'm sure they're quick to call the car or boat their”

“I barely graduated high school, dropped out of college due to mental health. Im 25 now. That was 7 years ago. In 7 years of graduating i have gotten no where. Financially or mentally. I am pretty stupid and have horrible mental genetics. I don’t take drugs and im a very law abiding citizen. I’ve been homeless multiple times. Right now I have stable housing but everyday i go to work is a struggle. My psychiatrist diagnosed me with PTSD and OCD but I don’t think that tells the entire story. I have”

“I was homeless for a year in 2008-2009. I have managed to get out of it and keep a roof over my head for a while now, but I still remember the stress and loneliness of that. Don’t be ashamed to reach out for help to hope line or hospitals or local community centers. Wishing you the best.”

“Thank you. We’re both in denial school and get paid very little and we are both going to have to pay off an insane amount of debt after school I’m worried if this keeps going she’ll be in more debt”

“Something strange and confusing that I’ve experienced as a young adult is the feeling that other people - people older than me - judge my 21yr old self for being poor. It doesn’t really make sense. My roommate/landlord (who I don’t think is actually a nice person) yelled at me once on a day wherein she was already acting/getting kind of agitated about things like my shower leaking (though my shower, in spite of the fact that I pay over $1000/mo to live here, doesn’t actually work properly anymor”

“This is not a brag post. I have lived in poverty my entire life. My dad, who was a single father on disability raised me. I worked hard to move up at my job, and was recently promoted. This was very unexpected. I was up against more than a dozen people with far more experience. I don't know what to do with myself now. I went from making about $22k a year to $80k working less 40 hours a week. I don't even have to kill myself working a million hours of OT. As someone without a degree, this”

“Hello I'm M23 and I live in navi mumbai i completed my 12th in commerce in 2020 after that there was covid during that my parents had only limited funds just to survive and his business of add agency was also closed due to lack of funds so now I decided to do a degree in Computer science were I'm gonna do masters in abroad in cybersecurity. So suggest me is my way wrong will I get a job after my masters?, while pursuing my degree I'm gonna learn skills and do at least 2 internships p”

The poverty gatekeeping is kinda gross.

“This isn't AI translated, this is AI Generated , there's a massive difference.”

“I’m dead broke, no car, and practically homeless(living with family member) I have always wanted to get into trucking but always procrastinated and I feel this is like a hail mary to make something out of my life as far as making a solid living. I have one at fault accident on my driving record from almost 2 years ago. Is there anyway I can get into trucking under my conditions? I can’t pay for schooling or housing costs. I’m basically down and out. submitted by /u/Sure-Negotiation-8”

“I don't know whether I'm writing this because I want advice, sympathy, or simply because I need somewhere to put this into words. I'm 47 years old. There are days when I genuinely struggle to find ₹100 for food. Not ₹10,000. Not ₹1 lakh. ₹100. And at the same time I open the internet and see people spending lakhs and crores on watches, cars, houses, holidays and things that I can't even mentally relate to anymore. Someone can spend ₹25 crore on a watch. For me, ₹100”

“Hiya, I'm (28m) am broke and my health insurance leaves me even more broke AND doesn't cover jack shit. I'm pretty numb, angry, and emotionally unavailable at this point in my life. It's effected/ing all my relationships, has potentially cost me jobs/careers, and I'm basically just a hermit who doesn't even want to be around people anymore. I need to start fixing this before I piss my life away, are there any support groups for younger adults in NYC or the surrounding are”

“I just hate apartment living and in my country (not USA) only affluent people can afford houses. I hate the feeling that I am never alone. I'm tired of sleeping with earplugs, and two sources of brown noise, only to be woken up again. This time I got the most relentless and disgusting neighbours and I am looking for another rental, terrified, not even hopeful. I don't want to share walls, floors, or anything. A house would be a dream. Honestly. What about you? submitted by /u”

“This. Life is definitely more tolerable in blue-voting areas, but the reality's still one where poverty's broadly treated as a moral failure and socioeconomic mobility is borderline impossible.”

“have you talked to your doctor about the insomnia, or is the money stress keeping you awake every night?”

“bro let me tell a story , from my own experience in life. When i was young my family is poor, I have working to earn and support myself since i was 17 years old not yet finish high school, i work during vacation from school before new semester , full time 12 hours/ mon-sat . Yeah when i got some work and young soul i also feeling angry as you do when they just do somethings and not responsible for what they tell us . because i though i got a job and have more hopeful and then the dream is destro”

“Everywhere else on this site, people in their early 20s have massive salaries, thousands saved up and endless money for travel and hobbies. I don't have any debt, but I also don't have any savings. Sorting this subreddit by newest makes me feel a lot better because a lot of people are in a worse situation than me. submitted by /u/ParticularGoal3079 [link] [comments]”

“Even if you don't ever plan on working a white collar job, not having a GED will massively limit your options. Nobody can count on doing physically demanding jobs forever, and kitchen work definitely counts as physically demanding. It also more or less guarantees that no matter how well you do at or take to a job, you won't be eligible for promotion beyond entry level at most jobs because you don't have proof of a high school education equivalent. As somebody with ADHD, I get it- it”

“I fortunately don’t live alone but they’re not the most reliable person. I’m also very horrible at asking for help, like I’m not really even sure where to begin or ask really. I keep myself hidden everyday because of how ashamed I am of myself to the point where I can’t even look at myself in the mirror anymore. I also don’t have a family doctor, would this be an emergency situation or just a check up at the clinic?”

“I am not getting any younger. I am quickly approaching 30, and I have never had stable employment. I always believed that I was doing everything right to just try to establish a stable life at some point in the future. Here is a summary of the advice I have followed, which has brought me to this point today. Do well at school Go to university Do STEM Go to career fairs Get work experience, don't wait until graduation Get a PhD and any R&D position in industry will be yours for the taking”

“I'm 19, i dropped out of high school (senior year) because of mental issues "what's the point of even going to school, I'm not going to live long anyway." It was this mentality to cut every string to a life where i was independent and not stuck to the same people who caused my issues, my peace was death and any other way was futile, i was still tied to those people by dna, if i lived a life where i worked two states away, got my ged, studied to become a animal shelter manag”

“They don’t have to be desperately poor. Again, you know that. I have no issues saying there are parenting aspects for many at play to but that often is due to what? Socioeconomic status. What are the three factors that go into a successful student? Socioeconomic status of caregivers, education level of caregivers (both usually tied together), and education being valued in the household. We see how half the country feels about education with what they voted for many being in education like you. E”

“Of am tired of wealthy people playing with my mind, does really my life matter? Because it seems like people don't really care and I am a human too​​​ submitted by /u/Longjumping_Mine6403 [link] [comments]”