Grinch: What is this?
Dec. 24th, 2013 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
doggiedynastyA combination of being angry and over-thinking.
So I didn't buy a Christmas gift for my mother or my aunt who often gives me things. So I'm berated. It'll just have to be a little late, that's all.
I was dead broke, and it is just discourages me even more when I see comments about how "lazy people are" when they work approx min. wage. Or how it's a "handout" to increase min. wage, or its not "worth it", or "a worker thinks he/she is being punished". Education/repaying loan costs money, so does insurance, food, and rent, so what is it to be expected?
"Get an education, get a new higher paying job, etc," or so I hear/see. Yes, I know that. A typical answer, a protocol that I believed for a very long time. It has the same rhythm as "kids need to grow up and leave the house".or the previous mentioned "you need to have kids at 25 and under"
Apparently, "higher paying", according to a comment, means "better contributing to society".
Who are these people? Some of them need to just speak for themselves. I don't think I'm "owned" anything.
Something is wrong. Is this all inevitable?
Stings me since I don't like to have greedy inclinations. Now, I find myself being worried over the next steps. Or rather, it annoys me because I'm such a determined and easily motivated person (and can exercise patience), and I'm told that I can/will succeed. I like being free to do things and fight on my own -- and I get money put in my way.
Furthermore, I like my job.
An Interesting Link: Min Wage workers: 2011
So I didn't buy a Christmas gift for my mother or my aunt who often gives me things. So I'm berated. It'll just have to be a little late, that's all.
I was dead broke, and it is just discourages me even more when I see comments about how "lazy people are" when they work approx min. wage. Or how it's a "handout" to increase min. wage, or its not "worth it", or "a worker thinks he/she is being punished". Education/repaying loan costs money, so does insurance, food, and rent, so what is it to be expected?
"Get an education, get a new higher paying job, etc," or so I hear/see. Yes, I know that. A typical answer, a protocol that I believed for a very long time. It has the same rhythm as "kids need to grow up and leave the house".
Apparently, "higher paying", according to a comment, means "better contributing to society".
Who are these people? Some of them need to just speak for themselves. I don't think I'm "owned" anything.
Something is wrong. Is this all inevitable?
Stings me since I don't like to have greedy inclinations. Now, I find myself being worried over the next steps. Or rather, it annoys me because I'm such a determined and easily motivated person (and can exercise patience), and I'm told that I can/will succeed. I like being free to do things and fight on my own -- and I get money put in my way.
Furthermore, I like my job.
An Interesting Link: Min Wage workers: 2011
