Motherfucker listen up!

You have a job that I would seriously consider killing someone for. I'm in my late thirties, ok, I've spent my entire life working on what I could find with a high school education, and it hasn't been pretty. I've never, ever, made above 30,000 dollars a year (gross, not net), and have spent the last TWENTY years working any job I could find that had hours that would let me attend school too. This meant 7p-7a shifts at a factory doing shit work breathing in toxic fumes, it meant 10 plus years as a waiter, cleaning up other peoples dirty napkins, their fucking silverware with all their nasty hand germs all over them, burning my fucking hands so many times on hot plates that the nerves on my palms and fingers are fucking useless, acting nice to the patrons when I wanted to scream at the top of my lungs when they would drop more on one dinner than I'd spend on groceries in a month, then stiffed me because the special request they had made wasn't to their taste. I fucking worked so many shit jobs to get myself to a place where I could earn a decent living, and now I read some story about some bitch who can't deal with a number. Fuck you. I have a record. You know what that means? It means that I spent the last twenty fucking years of my life getting my shit together just so I can hear employers tell me no thanks. I fucking graduated college last week as a practically middle aged man. Yeah, huge hiring potential, they love the forty year olds with exactly zero days of professional experience!

You fucking listen to me. You spent a couple hundred grand on school. Good for you! The reason that shit costs so much is because it's fucking professional currency. You need to remember that you have that in your arsenal now. Go out and find a better job if 56k isn't enough, but for fuck's sake, quit using the word hopeless. There're no fucking limits to the money you can make. Use your brain. You are so far ahead of where I'll ever be, and I'm fucking offended that you aren't aware of how good You have it. If you are hopeless, what fucking chance do I ever have at happiness. You have something so valuable, it's hard to quantify just how valuable it is. You have innocence. My record is out there for anyone with an internet connection to see. I'm a Fucking outcast, a pariah.
I have debt too, yo. Loads of it. Fuck debt.

Debt is a number. It does not define you. It does not own you. It does not control you.

Now, saddle up.