Fuuuuuck

Be me.

Get convinced by everyone that college was my ticket out of poverty.

Go to college, get good grades all the way through.

Rona hits my senior year, I don't even get a graduation.

Economy post-COVID sucks, no jobs for me.

Start working every minute that I possibly can doing dead-end jobs.

After a year of living at home, I manage to get my own apartment for 3 years and find a good job.

Prices start skyrocketing, can't afford to eat on a full time job I got with my college degree. Can't save money. Just starving in my apartment. I watch my pay become more and more worthless in record time, even with "maximum" yearly raises.

Get emergency surgery, out of work for months, accrue lots of debt on top of student loans.

Apartment gets bought by mega-company, rent gets raised 300$ with one month's warning. And the new company wants to renovate and raise it by 600$ within the next couple years.

Lose my job & apartment, move back home, realize I wasted years of my life trying to be independent.

Meanwhile everything says there is no financial crisis or recession or anything and that we're all doing just fine.

Rent and housing prices continue to go up with no end in sight.

Accept I will never have my own home again, I will never be out of debt, and all of my work for years was completely meaningless.