When I was a kid, my mom spent $200 at the grocery store to feed our 7 person family for the week. 25 years later, I am spending more than that just to buy food for myself. I honestly don’t know how most people make it. I’m lucky and have a good career. Can’t imagine what it would be like without it.

Applying to the hardship fund at university and have to share screenshots of crypto transactions just trying to stay afloat and make a bit extra. It’s a hard reality when you don’t have safety of a career and have to go back and study in your mid thirties to restart