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>Forced move back home due to lack of work
>Find work
>Live in country, work in city (hour's drive one way)
>Doesn't pay as much as it should for what it is, but living with family = no rent, savings start building up
>My car craps out
>Repairs cost more than car
>Because of course it does
>Start driving grandmother's car w/ her permission
>Start looking for own car, decide on $9-11K budget
>Things start not going so well at work; not a total fuck-up but positive vibes from management decline almost daily despite best of efforts
>3 month "keep or fire" period almost up, confidence almost zero
>2 days ago
>Grandma really pushes hard for me to stop driving her car
>Feel shit about leaving her housebound all day every day anyway

I haven't been this stressed out in a long time. Despite multiple talks with my bosses, I still honestly have no idea if they're going to can me or not mainly because they continue to be frustratingly vague about it even when asked at point blank if they're going to fire me.

And the car thing, fuck. I grew up extremely poor and am deathly afraid of falling into debt. My worst nightmare is finding one within the budget I mentioned, going for it, and then not longer having a way to pay for it. Any suggestions?

>> No.1641323

Buy a cheaper car, holy shit.

>> No.1641326

By a 2000 car

>> No.1641339

Stop asking if they're gonna fire you. They won't tell you anyway. Just do your job and start looking for a fallback.

As said above just get a cheaper car.

What are your plans to improve your situation?

>> No.1641348

>>1641339

Well, the head IT guy used to work in design (web, graphic, media), architecture/interior design, 3D modeling and animation; all things I'm good at and have displayed in one way or another while at my current phone-calls-and-paperwork desk jockeying gig. He noticed this and was (bragging?) to my boss that I'd be better suited in one of those fields and she agreed. She told me this and I asked for his contact info to see if he's still got any connections in any of those fields.

I really do want to work in one or more of them, but found no success in trying to break into them thus far. I did the thing so many have done and went for the safe/boring job and I evidently suck at it.

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1641359

>>1641299
buy a cheap beater you fucking retard. save up, a down payment, buy a new car, sell the old beater

Its really not that fucking hard OP

>> No.1641371

>>1641359

Doesn't solve the job problem or lack of way to pay for it hombre

>> No.1641388

>>1641371
you are living rent free and you don't have some money saved up? have you tried selling the car that crapped out on you and then add that to your savings?

Come on man, life is only as hard as what you make it.

>> No.1641476

>>1641299

You just need a better job. They are out there.

Where you live?