I get it Mike. Totally right. You gotta do what you gotta do to survive. It's not a perfect world.

With my own thing:

I work at a gas station pumping gas. I make a couple of bucks over minimum wage and routinely work 12 to 13 + hr workdays. It's not the easiest life here in Maine but it's a good one. Most of the people i know work pretty hard to make a living. Cost of living is high here on the island and the wages generally aren't all that good.

Lol ... no perfect world here but we manage.



It's kind of a juggling act if you know what i mean ? You gain on one thing but lose ground on another. More time spent working means less time with your family. You get home from work at the end of the day and the wife is all pissed off and the kids are raising hell. Neglect her emotional needs long enough and you end up divorced with monthly child support payments of 800.00$ per kid.

The side jobs do impact your regular job as well. A lot of employers here don't like you doing jobs on the side because they feel it impacts your job performance & availability to come in for extra shifts when needed. Seeing as your regular job is your bread & butter .... it's not a good idea to mess with it. It can earn you a downgrade in your value to the company and maybe even a layoff when things get slow.

As you can see, there's no gain in this ... just suffering.

Point being: Scrapping is all good and well but you have to be careful about the size of the jobs you take on when you're doing it part time.