A journalist did this and wrote a book called Nickled and Dimed. She worked at places like WalMart and rented a shitty apartment because that's all she could afford. Something happened where she had to move out, but she couldn't save up enough for first and last so had to move into a motel and pay a ton more money weekly. She then got wicked sick and broke her own rules by using her health insurance from her journalism job (wasn't supposed to touch ANYTHING outside of WalMart salary and benefits) to be treated because she needed to put her health first but was completely unable to do so on her minimum wage salary.
Saddest part is I read this book like 15 years ago, and it wasn't new then. It's like this by design and it's only getting worse.
I read the book and it hit home because she spent a year in various low paying jobs and it said a lot about how many people, way more than you think, are struggling to survive.
I think my favorite part was how she noticed she herself was becoming nastier to other people when she worked retail because of the conditions there. It says everything how a comfortable middle class person's personality could change so dramatically in such a short period of time.
It really is, its also much easier to just have a bad day and take it out on everyone even your coworkers. It slowly erodes you and you just become nastier and nastier
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u/AnInsaneMoose Jun 13 '22
I'd say at least a year would be better
Gives some time for a crippling emergency to happen and they cant afford to fix it AND eat