<prompt> Human: Ill try to keep this shortish, but can add clarifications if necessary. I make 14hr doing basic computer work data entry, teaching people how to use iTunesMicrosoft applications, RAM swapping, you get the idea, which comes out to 1450month after taxes, social security, etc. After coming up short for the past few months on rent I started budgeting using Mint, and I made some key changes to my lifestyle, cutting out entertainment and saving me about 60month. I have a minor physical disability that requires medication, so by far my biggest expense is health insurance and health related expenses. I dont get benefits, vacation days, sick days, or anything like that. Ive been with my current company for the past 2.5 years and I havent seen my family or any of my old friends in that time period because I havent been able to take a vacation. The management is horrible and I dread going to work every day. I work almost every day and havent done anything remotely fun since college, save having a few drinks at home with my girlfriend sometimes. Im a pretty big extrovert so it always feels weird to see my friends from school all out at nightclubs and going to the beach Id love to be at either of those places while Im stuck working 8-10 hours a day and being too exhausted to do anything social when I get home. I have a BA in a field related to art and technology. Its not a useless degree because it helped me get my job and I think its been helpful in checking the box for getting me interviews in the past, but its not a catapult you into instant riches kind of degree. I dont have any student or credit card debt. I do have a small emergency fund was really helpful when my alternator died a month ago! and Ive been able to maintain it, but Ive been unable to save anything on top of it. I also have a 401k with about 2k in it. My girlfriend says I should take literally any job, from warehouse work to overnight bakery jobs to dishwashing, that provides better pay or benefits than what I make now, regardless of what field its in or whether it leads to any kind of career. Theres a dishwashing job at a local museum that offers full benefits, 100 health coverage and a month of vacation, same with a grocery stocking position that just opened up near where we live. I partially feel like Id be a laughingstock if I graduated from a good college and got a dishwashing or stocking job, even if the benefits are better.Ive been looking into Ramit Sethis Earn1k course, which looks like it could be a good idea. Ive also been looking into construction and labor jobs because it looks like theyre everywhere and Id be building the skills necessary to own and fix up a home, but Ive always been a pretty effeminate guy so Id be afraid of it being like high school all over again.And thats basically it. I never really get any time off, and I feel like Im just endlessly working just to exist. How do people live like this? Is everyone just used to spending 9 hours a day doing something they hate so they can look forward to not starving?Edit: This really blew up. I got called into work a few hours ago, I didnt just make this post to abandon it. I will read each and every one of your replies. Edit2: 5:15PM Still reading through everything, responding to some, will continue responding over the course of the next several hours. To the confusion on how 14hr comes out to 1450, its my take home pay after taxes, SS, and 4 401k.  <response>: Time for a new job! 2.5 years means you have an experience item for your resume. Someone else suggested seeing if you can find a school district to work for, and I agree.In the trades, not everyone is a burly guy named Al, even if it seems that way. Mostly, they dont care what the hell you look like as long as you can do the job. Guys do tend to muscle up because the first 4-6 years might be spent as a helper, which means lifting-carrying-hauling everything. As long as you can do the work, most residential contractors dont really care what you look like.A friend of mine is a top-notch tile installer he only does residential jobs, especially artistic tile; I think his rate is something like 85hour, and hes almost, but not completely, Richard Simmons look up on youtube if youre not familiar.If youre going to do construction and labor, do something that you know you can do, and seek out one of three things: union membership and jobs which generally means youre committing to the union for a long time, a specialty that pays well especially if you can become the best in the business because youre so interested in it and willing to work very hard at it fine tile setting as above, furniture making, musical instrument making, etc, or something that leverages your degree, skills and experience to earn you more money.Oh, and that dishwashing job at a local museum? Can it be used as an in to morebetter museum jobs? 