Get off Facebook and Get a J-O-B!

There is a time and place to share personal information on social media. I’m beyond sick and tired of people who put their DIRTY laundry on Facebook for absolutely everyone to see. Frankly, it’s super trashy. No one cares that your baby daddy is a dead beat, that your significant other and you are constantly fighting, or that you are constantly standing up for yourself because people judge your parenting.

First off, if someone is willing to tell you what’s up then you should definitely listen. For whatever reason there is this idea that telling everyone about your personal love life/struggles is supposes to be cute. It’s not. You are opening up for people to judge you.

I can’t stand when people post saying “Someone should bring me this” or “It would be really cool if someone could help me out once in awhile.” You are an ADULT. You have made poor choices that have landed you in this position; there is no one to blame but yourself.

I had really hard times in my life too, but I don’t go around spitting shade on Facebook for everyone and their mother to read. I went to college, got an education, and now I earned a job in my field… I can thank myself for that; meanwhile you can thank yourself for not holding a steady job, having too many kids you can’t feed, and being judged by heaps of people because you give them a first row seat to your diary of bad choices.

Take a break from your full time job of posting status’ on Facebook and get yourself a job that can support your kids and provide a home, food, and clothing. Quit relying on others to help you out. Don’t brag about taking classes for your GED.. You’re an adult, and high school is literally the easiest thing you could have ever done. Now you’re really paying for it in your mid 20s without an education to even gain a job most freshmen in high school are doing.

People constantly need pats on the back for doing normal things like holding a minimum wage job for more than a month, paying their bills on time, and paying for their own gas. If you are seriously struggling so much then don’t waste your time on Facebook and instead take your butt to work.

I realize that there are people who are genuinely down on their luck, but if you are able to post about it/ repost stuff for hours on end each day, then you have time to get a job and at least pay whatever your welfare does not cover.

I’m a child of divorce, and my parents were both always in the picture and my dad was NOT a dead beat. Regardless, my mother worked three jobs at one point to keep me in a good school system and allow us to live in a nice part of town. I never went without and she never received government help. My dad paid child support but that barely made a dent in what she paid for school supplies, food, and rent. I never received free lunches at school, and she always allowed me some luxury items like computer games and new markers to color every once in awhile.  My mom worked a day job in an office and two serving jobs to make sure we were never struggling financially. Yeah I didn’t see her much, but she gave me more than an education and a place to live. She passed down a great work ethic, and standards that I still live by to this day.

 

I don’t have kids; I have two cats. I work two jobs because I like to have nice things. I work a job that my College education prepared me for. I get health insurance and I still work three or so shifts a week as a server so I can have nice things like a Mac book pro, the newest iPhone, and still pay for my wedding and college loans.

College may have put me in debt but it was for a good reason. I will never regret going to get an education. Besides that, I promised my mom after she went blind that I would at least do two years of college. I did one better; I went four years to a university and got my Bachelors in Psychology. I’m proud of that. I’m proud I have good credit, live in Carmel Indiana, and work a job that requires a degree. I don’t have children I cannot afford; I don’t waste my money on drugs or alcohol. I spend my extra money going out with my fiancé and paying for the wedding I want, not just settling for the bare minimum.

I realize there are people out there who get everything handed to them, and that sucks for some of us but that is life. In the meantime if you are not so fortunate to have everything handed to you try working for it. Bill Gates didn’t land in a pool of cash, he worked for it, you can’t sit around and think opportunities will just drop in your lap.

PPPS: If you are offended by this post then that means you should probably get off your butt and find a job outside of reposting meaningless links on Facebook all day…. Take this as your sign to “get it together.“