I worked 12h shifts for 7 days a week, as a european. Hoping to gather enough money to buy a house…guess what, my 40h job barely covers the cost of living nowadays and i’m not fit to work more hours. Plus i ended up running short with every passing year, when i needed a 200€ wage increase to afford a mortgage by the time i got that i needed another €150 wage increase.
A single family home used to be 150k, now those go for 500k and my wage ended up in the exact same spot where i started at the age of 21. (Before that it was a youth wage and surprise surprise i could rent a bigger house back then than i currently am on my adult wage)
Somedays i just want to stop showing up for work and stop paying rent, weaponize myself and keep the house by force.
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I worked 12h shifts for 7 days a week, as a european. Hoping to gather enough money to buy a house…guess what, my 40h job barely covers the cost of living nowadays and i’m not fit to work more hours. Plus i ended up running short with every passing year, when i needed a 200€ wage increase to afford a mortgage by the time i got that i needed another €150 wage increase.
A single family home used to be 150k, now those go for 500k and my wage ended up in the exact same spot where i started at the age of 21. (Before that it was a youth wage and surprise surprise i could rent a bigger house back then than i currently am on my adult wage)
Somedays i just want to stop showing up for work and stop paying rent, weaponize myself and keep the house by force.
Fuck this shitshow we are in.
What does your union think of that?
The fact that my wage has no value or that i want to go nuts?