Burnout. Or, "Everything Sucks!"

I'm still at the job I've been working at since October. And instead of hiring me on, I got to switch to their main temp agency when the one I worked for was being phased out after Peak. I don't know how they expect me to put up with this place for the next six months without vacation time or health insurance(!). Between my situation and other stories I've heard of people getting screwed over at their jobs, it's like companies are just setting up Unions to become popular again.

I've been meaning to write about everything that's been bugging me, but I seem to have lost interest in just about everything, and my thoughts are scattered. The health insurance I had at Steel Johnson sucked, and the insurance I had most of last year was pathetic. It's like, I survived 2018, and all I got were these ungodly medical bills. My insurance was canceled because I forgot to pay it in January and February. I opted not to have it automatically withdrawn because it was due the same day as my rent, which I have a hard enough time paying as it is.

I only work eight hours a day, sometimes less, but I'm often falling asleep before 8:00 p.m., and need every bit of bedtime I can get before 6:00 a.m.. I don't really have many people to talk to at work. I have no social life outside of work anymore.

If I took home about $500+ a week like I did during Peak, I'd probably be doing okay. Everything is so fucking expensive now, and I'm making close to the same amount of money as I did when I got laid off in 2008. People act like the price of everything is going to skyrocket if the Federal minimum wage is raised to $15 an hour, but the minimum wage hasn't gone up in ten years, and the cost of living has skyrocketed anyway. Capitalism doesn't work unless people are paid enough to participate in it. I almost feel like I'm being punished anymore if I want to do something fun that costs more than going to the coffee shop and falling down the internet rabbit hole.

I don't see anything in the U.S. getting better until Trickle Down Economics and the for-profit healthcare industry are utterly annihilated.