Again, do for yourself and quit looking to others pockets.
Now learn reality
When I graduated college in 1996 I had $18 in my checking account and $25 in savings. I rented a U-Haul with my Visa card and moved from Buffalo NY to Raleigh NC.
I had spent my spring break in Raleigh securing a place to live and a job. I worked for TGIFridays throughout college as a line cook and was able to obtain employment at a Fridays in Raleigh for when I moved. Making a whopping $8.50 an hour. I worked my 40 hours and would put in OT when it was available. My girlfriend (now wife) came with me and brought $2,000 she had saved over the past YEAR since she graduated a year before me, and $30,000 in student loan debt, along with a beater station wagon that died 2 weeks after our arrival in Raleigh. The one thing she didn't bring with her was a job! Needing money and fast she took a low paying clerical type job at a prison!
2 months after moving Hurrican Fran ripped through, knocking out electricity for a week, spoiling everything in the fridge and freezer leaving us with no food and no money to replace it. Luckily, the same thing was happening to everyone else in the apartment complex so there was a constant BBQ (Hey southerners, it is both a noun and a verb!) going on to at least use what food could be salvaged. Everyone grilled what they could and we all shared. Other than that, we might not have eaten much of anything that week.
Lucky for us, the month previous a tornado in Hurricane Bertha only took out a tree 10 feet infront of our door and the roof off the building next to us and not the other way around.
We were dirt poor, and for no short period of time. But we have continued to improve our situation over the years through hard work, dedication, networking, saving, and avoiding the frivilous.
My wife has steadily moved up the ladder in her company, and I after 6 years in the mortgage business am on my own and doing pretty well. And my love of magic is paying dividends with my starting a career in magic instead of just doing it for fun with family and friends.
I was honored to be choosen by Jim Passe to be the warm up act for his upcoming Show and Gala Dinner in Raleigh NC to kick off his Million Dollar BlindFolded Drive
Don't think for a minute that I have had it easy and am a trust fund brat who sits upon high telling others to pull themselves up while never having done it myself.
And what you arent paying attention to, or havent gotten to the post yet, is that I HAVE BEEN TURNED DOWN FOR THE LOW PAYING JOBS, TOO!!
Go back and read what I posted after your reply, You had 2 incomes to help you make ends meet, I have only one, and most of it is unemployment in the last 3 years, 1 full calendar year off, and on it again, the second time this year.
And I not only have a degree but TONS of experience, which you did NOT have when you landed a job.
in fact, it is people liek you they are hiring, they arent hiring old farts like me for even engineering aide positions, I aint kidding!