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Can we start a petition for Libra to change the odd spot facts on their pads... I'm getting bored of reading the same ones.

What keeps you going? Everything is so bleak.
Too sick to work, the world is a mess, can’t afford ever increasing expenses… and that’s not even half of it.

Push through for however many more years to die anyway?

Why?

27M, I have a “full time” job but it barely covers the cost of living most weeks after rent,food,insurance,fuel I literally have between $40-$60 spare each week.

I know there are people out there in worse situations but I am really struggling mentally and I’m exhausted.

I work 6 days a week at a supermarket that treats us like crap, I’m constantly covering for mangers who just don’t care and nobody else will pick up the slack so it’s forced upon me.

I’ve applied for over 400 jobs in the last 5 months and not a single interview and now my landlord has sold the rental property I’m at I have no idea how I’m supposed to afford a new place and I’m just done. I can’t afford to save, I can’t afford to do anything and the few friends I have all bailed overseas over the past 2 years.

I don’t have family or anyone to reach out to for support and no matter how hard I try or how much I work nothing changes. I’m just so tired and I don’t see any light at the end of this tunnel.

I studied got two degrees and it really just feels like I’ve wasted my life sorry for the depressing rant but I just don’t know what to do or why I should keep doing this every day is the same.

Edit: Cheers to the people who have reached out just finished a 10 hour shift so a little burnt out to reply atm,

As for my degrees they are for aviation management and logistics and a business management degree
I either get told I’m overqualified or don’t have enough experience.

I moved to US prior to Covid and had an amazing job I loved within that industry then made the choice to come back as lockdowns happened I guess I just never really bounced back.

I had a situation when I was picking up my child from daycare and one of their friends mums was picking up their daughter and she was being a bit aggro with the teacher, and then she left, when we left she was having a go at the receptionist and then she screamed at her daughter and said she was really pissing her off already at the moment, and it felt scary.

This mother has always been a bit snappy at her child - I recall her telling her to shut up for talking too much when she was 18 months old, but this is the first time I've wondered if i needed to say anything. So I called them

I'm not sure if it really justified contacting them or not.

I'm really not a snitchy person,

But I just keep thinking how she'll be home for days with this and my child was alarmed by how angry this parent was and I wouldn't be able to sleep without saying something.

Based on the conversation i over heard, I knew this child was going to be kept home for a few days due to illness, and I just felt overwhelming worried for the child.

I've told the daycare administrator about the incident. I haven’t told them I told OT though.

I'm a bit worried about blow back since I'm pretty sure I was the only parent to witness it. But. Child's welfare comes first.

There's so much doom and gloom in the air at the moment. It doesn't help that it feels like winter and the bugs have dragged on for ages.

What's your ray of sunshine? What's a good thing that happened to you or that you've seen? Your silver lining?

Picked up a $1? Got a free coffee? Someone made space for you in traffic? You got the job? Got a new pet? Baby born?

Happy news only. Share the love.