Hello, I’d like to start this by saying I’ve never wanted to spend more on my credit than I needed. However I was manipulating the due dates to stretch money here and there. I’ve been on my own since 17 and just now have opened credit so that I could qualify for an apartment. I used to get approved easily with no credit because places were willing to take the bigger deposit. Now that’s not the case. I was couch surfing for a couple months, so grateful for the people that helped in those times. And I made sure to do right by them. At the time i was working as a miner so the money was good but my mental not so much. My schedule would switch for 6 day weeks and 7 days weekly. 12 hour shifts. I honestly felt it was nice job. I liked being physical, I like being able to buy groceries and gas for those I was staying with while also doing the same for myself. But I could not continue to work there when the work is made for a 6 man crew and I was the only one there for 4 months. Training people just to leave. With all that I’d still say I liked that job over any other I had. I felt like it was more fulfilling. I do not support consumerism. It’s truly disheartening seeing how we in America are looked at as just people to squeeze money out of. I’ve felt this way from a very young age coming from a poor family. I lived in; not a full tool shed. Half of a tool shed up until I was 7 and in that time I almost lost my life. Sleeping on the floor in my sleeping bag at the age of 5. I was stung by a scorpion on the neck. Foaming at the mouth and convulsing I just remember my mom screaming carrying me out trying to find a phone to call the ambulance and then waking up realizing I missed a couple days of my life as opposed to all of them. It really made me conscious. So never having money and seeing distressed clothing going for hundreds of dollars while 2 thousand pieces of clothing are thrown out per second in the u.s. I say this to further cement the dread of my next job. Amazon. This is the birth of fast everything. Which leads to the normalization of buying things. But it doesn’t stop there. This company has built itself to the point where it can buy the manufacturing or licensing of the product their supposed to only deliver. Why? Many reasons but let’s say they see a product doing well. Well they do the research as to why. And in that research they find out they’re only doing good on Amazon. Nobody is making the effort to buy them in person. Well that must mean they’re losing money on being able to hold their stock at Walmart. So let’s employ people to but it off the shelf when it goes on discount then sell it for more. I really could go on but I’m here begin for money so please allow to go back. I reluctantly became an Amazon delivery driver with it being the highest paying intro job at the time and then promising 40 hour work weeks and overtime possible which I’ve become accustomed to. Well after 2 peak seasons I had only gotten 10 hours of overtime. Then barely got 36 hours regularly if I even got to work my full week. At a restaurant there are a set number of employees so on a given shift if someone calls out it can be a struggle finding someone to cover. A unfortunate issue but Amazon has a solution. Have 16 extra people show up to work as if they would be working and if someone doesn’t show up then they can work. Other than that they don’t have a route and we knew this before you left your house. Wasting time and gas to not work is horrible. No compensation and no assurance that it won’t happen again. But this is a normal practice for Amazon. But now I do not have the honor to even be put as an “extra” because I was let go in response to even less routes. Why is there less routes? Because our warehouse doesn’t have enough employees to fulfill orders in time. Sometimes having to pick up packages at other warehouses. But before being let go I was asked by a friend for some financial help. And thinking I was going to still be getting paid this month I have him 1200 dollars making sure he gave me his word I would get it back from him within 2 weeks because he assured he would. He did not. My friend is recently have had cancerous growths being found in his foot and have had cancer battles in his past and successful surgeries on his back. Well with being out 1200 I wasn’t able to continue my credit stretching and had to even ask for my money myself from an ex to pay for my rent. And I wasn’t aware it was also her credit so I’m fine with the interest on my credit but definitely not hers. I could not do that to her. So I’m selling things trying to scrounge up enough. I need 700 more for her credit and now a lot more on mine. I’ve been trying to get myself to a point where I can be my own boss and it looked close but not it’s starting to feel so far. I want to make healthy food for my community who stuggles on a nationally recognized level of diabetes. I want to upscale thirties clothes for the children in my community whos parents can’t afford new clothes like how mine couldn’t. For the kids who want to dress how they want I wanted. I want to educate my community of practices of the companies they probably wouldn’t support if they knew. I do not want this to grow into something I can’t handle. I knew I should have stayed away from this credit stuff. I’m totally fine and used to being broke. Completely broke and starving that is nothing new to me. But I do not want to owe and stay in debt. 5k would be amazing to squash my expenses and have enough to pay for ingredients or supplies I can use to sell and make more until I get another job but to me thinking people would give such an amount is unbelievable. So I beg if you’re that person, please help me.
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