I Am Poor
I am 21, I'm a university student. So typically you would expect that I would have no money, but things just seem to be getting worse and worse. I have a part time job at a bakery, which used to keep me and my fiance afloat, tyically I would do 16 hours a week, and this would be just enough, but my hours have been reduced to 6. I suppose the most frustrating thing is the boredom. My fiance used to have a full-time job, after being made redundant he decided to take a place on a photography course, seeing his career as a dead end. He has applied for literally hundreds of part-time jobs, cleaning, bar jobs, admin... but they just look at his application and think...over qualified. The summer is four months long, counting down the days until I get my student loan, applying for jobs, hearing nothing and cancelling yet another bill means that this summer is the most frustrating and miserable one I've ever had. Me and my fiance send almost every day together, but I feel so lonely, the few friends I had made their decisions to stay away when they realised I couldn't afford to do anything. I have nobody to help me, unlike my friends I can't turn to my parents for help, my mum is on benefits and my Dad left when I was a baby. I'm scared that this is what the rest of my life is going to be like, that there is nothing left to look forward to :(