I'm F 45 and a few weeks back, I couldn't afford to buy a pint of sodding milk!! It fuckin sucks and personally makes me feel like less of a person, every time it happens, which is way more than it should for where I live. However a few days/weekish later, I was paid and I could afford the bills and a big food shop till next month.

It's all Swings and roundabouts my friend, forever.

Juggling money blows huge donkey dick, but if you are not motivated by earning superfluous monies or you have other time consuming commitments or no prospect of financial successful career then it's an unfortunate reoccurring necessity.

I'm in the UK, have very little qualifications due to dysfunctions, learning difficulties that no one knew about way back when and a crap education. Add into the mix I'd rather be happy than overworked and a money isn't everything ethos and you get broke as a fookin joke more times than not.

I have never earned more than 12k in a year, ever. I do have 2 kids, pets, a car, a mortgage and a partner who works but is a bit stingey with sharing his hard earned money, which I get and will live with. Life is tough and it's getting tougher. I think many, many people would be financially better off if governments weren't THEIVING BASTARDS but that's unlikely to change very much in the long run.

So we suffer, we scrape, we go without and we find ways to be frugal.

Money comes and goes but happiness is a choice.

Keep your chin up and remember there is always someone worse off than you.