<prompt> Human: Hi all,A few years back I joined a new company going from bar work to engineering as a junior. Doing this dropped me from approx 32k a year to about 15.. I had some planned debt as I knew that I wouldnt be able to afford my bills etc.. fuel cost went from 30 a month to 250 etc.. so things actually got more expensive whilst I was making half the amount.Fast forward a few years and the planned debt has spun out of control. I have 8.5k on a loan trying to consolidate, 7.1k on a credit card my life line as it paid for my food and fuel every week!! and maybe 1k on a cataloguestore card.Along with that I pay monthly for my car on Pcp. I pay monthly for my insurance and I pay monthly for my car tax. This alltogether costs me around 400ish! I have no idea what to do, my wage is now only 17k py.. I have no way of making more money anywhere unless I just sell my self lol! My outgoings as following:Car: 400 approx insurance too expensive..Fuel: 200Rent: 200Loan: 250Credit card: 165Catalogue: 70.Phone: 40Phone insurance:6Gym:20Other financed items:130This totals just way more then I could ever dream of earning. Im stuck as Ive spent 3 years trying to pay debt off by getting into more debt. I thought engineering would be quite lucrative but in reality its a sham and has quite literally ruined my life to the point I want to commit suicide.Is there anything I can do other than just not pay stuff or quitting my job?!Assistant: What kind of engineering are you doing where you have such low pay? Can you be a bit more specific about your job?Human: Im currently in control systems. I was doing project management there but got demoted due to lack of experience in other areas of engineering fair enough, it was mutually agreedSo currently I wore, test, install and help setup control systems around the country and sometimes in the states and Canada.My wage is low because all the companies pay pretty poor apart from the automotive engineering sector really.in my experience.Im just very stuck and I no longer have money to even buy food or fuel to get tofrom work 25 mile commute one way  <response>: I may be off base for your specific role, but take a look at salaries for your role in other countries. Ive looked at engineering jobs in the UK before and was always stunned at how low the pay is relative to other places. 