Hello, I will try to make this short.
I have been applying and searching for better employment going on originally about 2 years, getting closer to 4 years, while trying to upskill with learning electronics systems, operating systems, Linux, many other things.
I couldn't afford college without debt, so I taught myself a lot of different things and stayed very proactive and I try to remain positive.
Nothing has worked out in terms of a good job, like an actually good job, that sustains me and my family. There is nothing around here at all that is decent, I'm surrounded by low wage jobs, and the remote market is all fake and all I get is auto rejections despite my knowledge and skills.
I have tried incredibly hard to have a financially stable and good life. The upside is I own my home. I own my car. And I make a measly income, at least it's something.
I can't afford the costs of existence that just stack up endlessly with no end, car repairs, home repairs, everything is so expensive and out of control that I am ready to end my life most days from the stress, I have health issues and I can't just work 80 hours a week to afford endless things that are thrown on my plate on salaries that cap way too low for most of the labor market.
I scrape by with just my willpower alone, and somehow, I make it work for now by being very careful, but it is incredibly stressful on me.
Everything in regards to actually taking care of myself, gets put on the back burner because I'm only one person, and what is on my plate is just too much.
I have a wife with health issues, children with autism that have special needs and all these appointments, and my wife has seizures and can't drive, and most of my family is unavailable, I have next to no one around if something were to happen. I can't just commute two hours away and be on a job site, and then have to do a school pickup or an appointment. Let alone if I am working a regular job and have to try to fit this all in.
I have no health insurance from my current employer that is affordable, my heart and chest were hurting for a week, couldn't afford the deductible or the bill in the mail, so I just didn't go, not like I could afford an ambulance either.
Dental work? Needs done, but out of the question.
I don't know what life expects of me. I don't understand anything lately.
It's not hopeless, I'm sure there is a solution or some sort of answer somewhere. But what is it? I don't know.
The key thing here I want to stress is I'm really trying to be positive. I really am trying to pull this all together. I just feel like I'm being crushed.
I do a lot of research, I apply to jobs endlessly. I try to stay on top of the things I "can" afford. My wife and kids are fine, and things for them are good, but I'm breaking and cracking at the seams lately.
All while busting out health and wealth workings in a constant rotation and keeping the effort consistent materially.
Surely, it will all work out somehow. I'm sure it will.
