I'd like to consider myself a decently put together individual. I have a lot of friends, I love my family, I can kind of cook (thanks Pinterest), I have a car that I pay monthly for, I have never missed a student loan payment, I have a credit card which I applied to by myself, and I have a job.
Sounds great right? I'm sure a lot of you can relate to me when I slightly panic to myself wondering how people save, buy houses, have a 401K, and manage to land jobs that require 15 master's degrees and 12 years of experience for an entry level position. I feel the same way thinking about this stuff the same way I feel when I think of Outer space: overwhelmed and exhausted.
I still live at home with my Mom, because adding rent payment to my $580 paycheck on top of all of my other dues would literally leave me with nothing (side note: I do have $60 taken out each week for my 401K BUT my company doesn't match it so that's great....). HOW IN THE HECK DO PEOPLE AFFORD THINGS. Here I am shopping at TJMaxx, coupon-ing, and determining where I have date night based on Bank of Americas deals on my debit card (10% back at Olive Garden people!), while I see on social media that people I graduated with are wearing Michael Kors, getting married, and buying houses. HOW HOW HOW?!
My company that I have been with since college graduation has been on a pay freeze and my pay rate has been the same since I started here. While I understand that times are tough and I am at the bottom of the corporate food chain, a girl has got to live (and buy a place to do that in). But every time I apply for a job there is always someone OUT THERE with more experience, more internships, and more education than me.
Does everyone feel this way? Is 25 the new mid-life crisis? How am I supposed to afford the pricey anti-aging cream I need from all of these wrinkles I am getting?
S.O.S.
rant over....
xo
Kels
Sounds great right? I'm sure a lot of you can relate to me when I slightly panic to myself wondering how people save, buy houses, have a 401K, and manage to land jobs that require 15 master's degrees and 12 years of experience for an entry level position. I feel the same way thinking about this stuff the same way I feel when I think of Outer space: overwhelmed and exhausted.
I still live at home with my Mom, because adding rent payment to my $580 paycheck on top of all of my other dues would literally leave me with nothing (side note: I do have $60 taken out each week for my 401K BUT my company doesn't match it so that's great....). HOW IN THE HECK DO PEOPLE AFFORD THINGS. Here I am shopping at TJMaxx, coupon-ing, and determining where I have date night based on Bank of Americas deals on my debit card (10% back at Olive Garden people!), while I see on social media that people I graduated with are wearing Michael Kors, getting married, and buying houses. HOW HOW HOW?!
My company that I have been with since college graduation has been on a pay freeze and my pay rate has been the same since I started here. While I understand that times are tough and I am at the bottom of the corporate food chain, a girl has got to live (and buy a place to do that in). But every time I apply for a job there is always someone OUT THERE with more experience, more internships, and more education than me.
Does everyone feel this way? Is 25 the new mid-life crisis? How am I supposed to afford the pricey anti-aging cream I need from all of these wrinkles I am getting?
S.O.S.
rant over....
xo
Kels