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Because my family is kind of poor, and my dad has been unemployed for over 10 years

I can't even buy lunch for $10 in this country :despair: Australian pricing is suffering

Doing as many odd jobs as he can, which is not enough

And my mom carrying the brunt of the expenses

This is starting to sound eerily familiar

I empathise

yeah tbh

And me offering to help with the bills and all and she always answers me with "no, you save that shit son"

I suppose I'm basically in the same situation as you except:
> And me offering to help with the bills and all and she always answers me with "no, you save that shit son" but then I end up parting with most of my money anyway

Money is such a disease

I hate money

I mean, I did buy a $900 PC in January of last year

nice

Split it half in half with my mom with the condition that she would use it whenever she needed

But after that I learned to exercise surreal levels of wallet control

my mum is the same btw, I offer to help and she declines and tells me to save or buy myself food

Since then I only bought KH3 for $60, some Sonic games on Steam for $5 and all Cities Skylines DLCs for $50

Thanks for coming to my tax returns Ted Talk

I'm ngl, this probably makes me sound horrible but I've been putting off going back to work for almost six months now just because I'm tired of having to help out with bills and driving and groceries, Ahhh oh well

I understand

But I actually don't mind working in that sense, I just wish I could have a job that didn't instill a sense of dread in me on the daily

That's a mood