....Anyone who "comprehends" being broke, this thread is for us. It's important to remember to appreciate how good our jobs as dancers can make our lives at times, and never forget the olden days...
---I worked 15 hours a day in the same shopping center
---I moved in with a man I didn't love (p.s. this was after 3 years of being %100 on my own)
--Worked overnight shift at Kinko's even tho I was too young to have a legal DL during those hours
---I drove a 1986 Plymouth reliant that took me forever to buy, then I couldn't afford the insurance
---I took 2 buses and walked 20 minutes, in all weather, to a supermarket job for $6.15/hr.
---I dealt with bitch after bitch after BITCH trying to get me fired, ruin my reputation
---Panhandled for laundry money
--Got hired a law firm downtown. (Already sold my car for rent money at this point) and COULD NOT FIND 55 CENTS to take the bus to make it to my first day. (Wound up walking.)
---Sold a BRAND NEW computer that was an xmas prez from bf, for $120 because I was too embarrassed to tell the landlord I didn't have enuf money for rent.
--Sold an antique prized Minotla for $50, stereo, guitar, everything.
--Once had a nice clothing collection and name brand shoes from government money (I was locked up you could say) and had to throw hundreds of dollars of great clothing into the salvation army bin because it would not fit in my car which I was living in.
--Once tried to rearrange my car, and then disaster struck when a box just WOULD NOT FIT. A good samaritan came out of the real estate office in the shopping plaza I was doing this in and offered to put it in her garage for me. (Of course I'm lying my ass off to her about the real story.) This was amazing--I already had everything narrowed down to bare essentials.
--Was forced out of the house by an insane mother having childhood flashbacks, and had to live with an alcoholic aunt 3 hours away. I drove said Plymouth, took her to work bc she had no license. The car had bucket seats and she was 6'0 and I'm 5"4'. She stole all of my money I had saved, over 2 grand, and it was in a bank.
Yea more details to come.

