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I went to the library today, intent on finding website-ish books. I found a couple (which weren't checked in), and stumbled across some working from home books. Then there was "Save Karyn".
This book hurts. It's not a sob story, or anything like that. It's about a woman who tries to find a better life and ends up horribly in debt. The details of her internal dialog as she does so tear at me. The situation she found herself in and the one we're in are eerily similar. It HURTS, dammit, because I'm living it. Again. Jay feels trapped by his job, rather than enriched by it. I feel trapped by my own fears and unable to enjoy anything because of feeling guilty.
I'm halfway through it. I'm at the point now where she's starting to turn herself around and get a handle on her situation. I already know that she made it through - now I'm just wondering how. And whether we can do the same thing.
EDIT: Ok, I said that wrong. Now that I've finished the book, I know that what she did will not work for us. Why? I'm not funny. Plus, the novelty has worn off - many other people have copied what she's done. So we have to do it the old-fashioned way - scrounging, scrimping and paying through the nose.
*shrugs* Everyone else in America is doing the same thing.
This book hurts. It's not a sob story, or anything like that. It's about a woman who tries to find a better life and ends up horribly in debt. The details of her internal dialog as she does so tear at me. The situation she found herself in and the one we're in are eerily similar. It HURTS, dammit, because I'm living it. Again. Jay feels trapped by his job, rather than enriched by it. I feel trapped by my own fears and unable to enjoy anything because of feeling guilty.
I'm halfway through it. I'm at the point now where she's starting to turn herself around and get a handle on her situation. I already know that she made it through - now I'm just wondering how. And whether we can do the same thing.
EDIT: Ok, I said that wrong. Now that I've finished the book, I know that what she did will not work for us. Why? I'm not funny. Plus, the novelty has worn off - many other people have copied what she's done. So we have to do it the old-fashioned way - scrounging, scrimping and paying through the nose.
*shrugs* Everyone else in America is doing the same thing.