Today, I had to listen to fellow classmates whine about selling one of their many houses, while I can barely afford to pay for a $100 textbook. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I went to the local used books store to sell all my college textbooks. I spent several hundred dollars on them in total. I ended up walking out of the shop a pathetic $3.50 richer. FML
Today, I bought my very first college textbook. I received a stack of hole-punched papers. My $195 "book" isn’t even bound together. FML
Today, I had to spend all of my money on textbooks even though my refrigerator is empty. Starving and frustrated, I called home to ask for money for groceries. My mom told me I could afford to skip a few meals. FML
Today, I bought a textbook for my college class. Not only is the £150 book only sold by our teacher, it turned out to be a piece of shit that he obviously wrote, printed, and stapled together at home. When I went to the faculty about it, I was told it's all perfectly legal, and to drop it. FML
Today, I can’t even find a place to rent. Every place has dozens of applications, with several offering well over asking price. I just graduated from college. FML
Today, I started at a new college. I bought my textbooks and went to my first class only to find out that they changed my schedule without telling me. I'd already opened the book. I could not get $200 back. FML
Today, I'm in a US college. I could've gone into a trade or internship, but no one listened. Now, while my parents brag to their friends that their child has a degree, I'll probably be spending the rest of life in crippling debt, sleeping on the side of the road, and begging strangers for table scraps. FML
Today, at my job as a fourth grade teacher, I realized that most of my students have far nicer and more expensive phones than I can afford. FML
Today, after I just bought a house that is pretty good and suits all our needs for space, my in-laws moved in because they ran into financial troubles. Guess who is stuck with all the extra expenditures? FML
Today, I told my roommates they have to go get jobs, because I can't afford to support them or their bad habits any more. They responded by pawning all my DVDs for cash to buy cigarettes. FML
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JMichael 26
Stay in college OP, and someday you could be one of those many people.
EternalTime 7
Those books will one day earn you a house
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yellowzinnias 20
I'm sorry, that must be tough. I do hope, however, you aren't implying that your classmate is not entitled to their own property because you have not yet had the opportunity to reap the rewards of your hard work in the forms of money and property, as well? I realize that people are confused about this lately, but free citizens have every right to be successful, earn a lot of money, buy property, and generally lead an accomplished life. Regardless of what our President thinks, the fact that Joe Crack Addict decided to drop out of high school, get hooked on drugs and not follow the path that you and I did (student loans, working hard, a degree) does not mean that Joe is suddenly entitled to have the government take away half the money that I worked for, money that is compensation for the investment of time, energy and money I made to be qualified for that work, and give it to him. I always find it fascinating that Steve Jobs is hailed as a hero and Trump is booed as a villain, and both because they were/are successful. In actuality, it unfortunately comes down to their politics and how some people sadly believe that certain rights should only be granted to others who agree with their viewpoints. And this is coming from a socially liberal Democrat. It sounds like you are on the right track, OP. Keep it up!
fantasyworld 39
Stupid rich people.
moot_chan 18
There's always someone better off, and there's always someone worse off.