<prompt> Human: Were struggling to pay our bills right now. Ive been driving for UberLyft but there are never any red zones in our area. Im a literacy paraprofessional at an elementary school. Next week we are out for Thanksgiving break so I plan on trying to drive a lot for Uber. Hopefully that will make up for the lack of red zones. Im also a decent writer so Ive looked into freelance writing. But that just takes so much mental energy and Im always exhausted after work and on the weekends. Even though my title is paraprofessional, I teach and have my own classroom. I write lesson plans. I do everything a regular specials teacher does but I dont get paid the same. Suffice it to say, Im dealing with some bitter feelings there. But Im doing this now in the hopes of getting hired as a classroom teacher soon. Then our financial problems should be solved. But until then...I applied for a part-time cashier position at a local grocery store but didnt hear anything back. I signed up to do Uber Eats, Postmates, etc but they havent expanded to my area yet. Im hard of hearing so restaurant work is out. I looked into tutoring but honestly, I am looking to get away from kids. Im feeling burned out and just want to work with fairly reasonable adults at my side job. Ive already trimmed my budget as much as we can except for groceries and eating out. That has been such a ridiculous struggle for us. My husband and I both work demanding jobs. He hates to cook. I dont mind cooking but I can only do it once or twice a week. We are both so bad about stopping at the store to just get a few things on our fend for ourselves night nights where we dont cook or go out to eat. It adds up. Im a lot better than my husband but still. Weve already had multiple come to Jesus talks about it. Our credit cards are almost maxed out. I dont know what to do. I need a second income. My husband goes to school as well so he doesnt really have time for a second job. He does try to pick up overtime at his job though, when its offered. I need ideas, Reddit. I hate our financial life. I hate never really having money to do fun stuff or buy nice things for ourselves. Any ideas on what I can do? I posted a similar post about two weeks ago in the jobs subreddit but only got four responses. Two of which said check processing. I looked and there are no check processing jobs near me. The other two suggested tutoring or restaurant work which is not ideal for me. Thanks in advance. Ive followed this sub for a while now and I love it. I hope one day soon, I can be one of the success stories. Edit: Here is our budget. On paper, anyway. We can never seem to stick to our groceryeating out budget. I get paid once a month and he gets paid every two weeks. I have looked at our last three paychecks and added it up. Here is what we make in a month, thereabouts. Health insurance and retirement are already taken out. Pay3,219.65Rent884.87 includes water, sewer and trashElectric98 last months bill. This should go down significantly for November. We are hot natured people. Natural gas50.33Internet64.99Cell phones192.17 Upgraded early on our phones, wont be paid off until August of next year. We cant afford to break the contracts and I have already tried to reduce our plan.My car loan272.38 this will be gone by SeptemberHusbands car loan288.06Car insurance152.32Renters insurance26.59Student loans203.94Hulu7.99Netflix9.99Sling TV29.99HBO Now14.99LA Fitness29.99Chase Freedom66Chase Slate88His Capital One92My Capital One194Havertys50Sams Club38Discover29Bank of America25Groceries300, ideallyGas150, ideally Eating out50 again, ideally!Thats about it. Looking at this, I know we have problems. Im ready for the harsh criticism. Thanks, everyone.  <response>: 1: Through whatever choices you made, you picked a profession or have performed in a profession with a low income level.2: Searching out other low income level jobs will only improve your life to a little degree.3: As far as you or your husband hating to cook, sorry Charlie, you got champagne tastes and African river water budgets. Same with your lifestyle desires and fear of missing out. You do not deserve nice things yet because you have not put in the work to achieve them. Get the hell off Instagram.You say tutoring isnt for you. You dont get the luxury of that choice. You show up with a coke and a smile and shut the fuck up for 15 an hour while you teach Timmy Timmerson how to do algebra or the proper use of commas.You need to make 20-30 an hour, both of you. And you need to look around at the jobs offered around you and parley yourselves into them.You looked at one job subreddit and threw up your hands. There is craigslist, there is indeed, there is doorknocking. Hell, you could mow lawns and weed gardens for 15 an hour. You could do manual labor. Youre aiming for the cush spot and looking past all others. 