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Corporations can make or break family

      I'm sure we all fantasize about having enough financials to work for ourselves or to be able to retire and live comfortably. But therein lies part of the problem, we get caught up in the monotonous activities of life. People don't often get to actually "live", they just go by day after day and wither away.
   
     On some levels, I agree that as a simple florist or bookkeeper you can make ends meet. But what happens when there is, say, a woman and 2 children involved? Yes they could have a meaningful job that gives them satisfaction, but that doesn't always cut it. Sometimes you literally need to make better money to provide. Unless the florist or bookkeeper happens to be in a management role of a successful shop, they most likely will not make enough money to support them.
   
     Lets say the woman works too at some other mid level position, now we have two working bodies in the equation. Throw in some rent, utilities, 1 car payment, car insurance, gas, health insurance for 4, tuition for kids school, activities for the kids, food for 4, clothes for the seasons for 4, some small gifts for birthdays and holidays and maybe some random movies to relax...all of the sudden the ends are not meeting by any means. One or both of them needs better position jobs. Remember, that was all of the monotonous things in life, there was nothing in there to include actually "living", which would be another incurred expense. Those are no fallacies, they are life.

     This brings me to the main focus of my article, corporations. If the two adults in the scenario had a piece of paper with the word "degree" written on it, they could probably both get in better positions, Corporations are so stingy and full of greed that they have forgotten that they once were struggling to make means work until another corporation saw their degrees and certifications and picked them up.

     So society might now suggest that one of them at a time goes to college in pursuit of a degree. Alright, lets look at that. pick a degree plan and look up tuition, books and fees, and other assorted costs that go along with it. Can you honestly see any room in the 2 adults budget of time or money that would allow either of them to pursue a degree?

     Say they hypothetically can afford it, barely. So one of them takes night classes, it's a sacrifice they are trying to make to better their family. Are you familiar with the stress of a family on a really tight budget? They are both over stressed and over worked, arguments arise, bills are piling up, some to collections but they have each other at the end of the day to remain sane. But now they don't have that because one of them is in night classes cause they cannot afford to quit working, so they pretty much don't see each other and the kids only see them on the weekend. That is very similar to a best case scenario divorce, which is what they most likely will be headed for before anyone can attain a degree and land a better paying job for the family.

     Does that sound like either of them want that? No, they probably don't but sometimes life happens and the family will fall apart in the process of trying to make itself better. Now that they are divorced, the scenario has just doubled the rent, utilities and maybe the another set of vehicle expenses. So it actually gets worse, and that's if the parent that doesn't have the children is actually trying to help out still by paying child support and splitting other costs. Now how often does one of them actually buckle down and continue with their parental duties? Not as often as we would like to think. It usually dumps all of the responsibilities onto one person, look it up and you will see. Does this scenario and all of the information provided always play out this way? Not always, sometimes one of them can actually catch a break and get a good connection with a great job. But then again, how often does THAT happen?