Do You Know How Painful It Was?
For more than 17 years I worked like there was no tomorrow. I was 18 when I entered the workforce and a month into my first job, I was working at least 12 hours everyday. By the time I was 20, I was working 16 hours a day.
It was the only way I could make enough money to pay for the house I bought and eat TWICE a day. I couldn't afford to eat three times. I had to settle for Pancit Canton or egg because I didn't have money to buy other dish. I was eating so unhealthily that I ended up 20 pounds overweight and sick by the time I was 21.
I couldn't buy my own clothes that I had to borrow from my mom. My boss actually scolded me for wearing worn out clothes. How could I have told him I had no money to buy new ones?
I had to do it because I lived my whole life in the basement of my grandmother's house who hated me and my mother with passion. I had to move my family out of the house because I wanted to give my parents some dignity and pride.
I had to work long hours because it was the only way I could earn enough money to live and retain what every is left of my self respect.
My salary was Php16,000. Php3,000 went to TAX. I was bringing home Php13,000 and my monthly amortization was Php10,000.
There were days when I just had to walk from my office to my house just as so I will have enough money to for fare from my house to my office.
I couldn't buy healthy food nor could I afford to ride the jeepney. All that I had to go through just as so Napoles and more than half of our senators could earn millions for their luxury cars, vacations and mistresses.
Shit right?
It was the only way I could make enough money to pay for the house I bought and eat TWICE a day. I couldn't afford to eat three times. I had to settle for Pancit Canton or egg because I didn't have money to buy other dish. I was eating so unhealthily that I ended up 20 pounds overweight and sick by the time I was 21.
I couldn't buy my own clothes that I had to borrow from my mom. My boss actually scolded me for wearing worn out clothes. How could I have told him I had no money to buy new ones?
I had to do it because I lived my whole life in the basement of my grandmother's house who hated me and my mother with passion. I had to move my family out of the house because I wanted to give my parents some dignity and pride.
I had to work long hours because it was the only way I could earn enough money to live and retain what every is left of my self respect.
My salary was Php16,000. Php3,000 went to TAX. I was bringing home Php13,000 and my monthly amortization was Php10,000.
There were days when I just had to walk from my office to my house just as so I will have enough money to for fare from my house to my office.
I couldn't buy healthy food nor could I afford to ride the jeepney. All that I had to go through just as so Napoles and more than half of our senators could earn millions for their luxury cars, vacations and mistresses.
Shit right?
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