Being poor sucks

Yeppers, being poor sucks. Moreover, being only relativistically poor in an affluent society makes you feel like crap. i know things could be a ton worse, and I appreciate the fact that I'm not homeless, or bankrupt, but I have no health or dental insurance, we get the government cheese on a bridge card, and we still can't always keep up with things. Oh yeah, and my teeth hurt some days so much I can't sleep at night. RAWR.

I have a degree from a major university, and I still can't find a job. Between J and I we have 80k in student loans, and another 15k in credit cards all so that we could get the degrees that are not helping in the slightest to find reasonable work. When I was in school I used to tell this joke, "What did the philosopher say on her first day at work? Would you like paper or plastic?" It turns out to not be a joke.

SO in a few day a good friend is letting me work as a boat mechanic at his shop, even though my skills with a wrench are pretty bad. I mean if your not going to be a professor or what DO you do with a degree in philosophy? Seriously. I thought I did want to go on and be Dr. Mason, teach new students how to think instead of just buy into all the bullshit that passes for information in the world today. But my last year and the foreign language requirement dropped my GPA until no one wanted me in their grad program. I STILL CAN'T SPEAK FRENCH! Yar this is like on of those angsty teenagers writing about how their boyfriend dumped them so he could bone the cheerleader. Bone the cheerleader save the world.
So on that note, I'm out. Next time I type my hands might be covered in oil, but my mine will still trudge on.
Alex