Turns out what you wanted was financial stability and to not feel like you’d end up on the street. That doesn’t cancel out what should be a very basic expectation of baseline respect from employers and fair pay, though, so here we all are rightly pissed-off.

I am right now sitting in the foyer of my new job waiting for first day orientation to start and I am already cursing the fact that I had to get up so early and go across the entire city just to not die.

Yeah because even doing what you love is hell when you don’t make enough money to thrive or don’t have enough time to enjoy the fruits of your labor.

Hey, at least yer not part of the reserve army of labor!

been there.just have to find something outside of work to make it worth the effort

Try contracting to get some variety