Poverty really does slow your life down, goals become much further away. Now I'm in a single income household (there are 2 of us, not even earning that much according to many people) and we are no longer poverty living, we can actually go out to events, we can invest in our interests and have life experiences.

Like before we lived off of less than 38k a year (combined total of unemployment government payments) and even then we were getting by better than some people who worked and didn't have a family or dependents.

When you are raised in poverty getting work becomes difficult, finishing your education becomes near impossible and every step has small payments required to get by (which is really hard when your spending money within any 2 weeks was less than $100). It turns out you can get more spending money if you make sacrifices such as; having no social life and don't travel anywhere even avoid taking public transit unless needed (thank god for 50c fares here).

Anyway all of this rambling was to lead to the fact that I'm finally starting the part of my life I really would have liked to have 10+ years ago but now I get to have it, which is still amazing.

Though now I am older and have early 20 somethings calling me auntie and I'm not even 30 yet :(

On one hand it is nice seeing people getting into the local scene so young, on the other hand the local scene is oversaturated with so many middle-upper middle class people who's biggest complaint about what they do is "But I don't have the life experience to write about things" and the life experiences they want to write about is something everyone is better off not having.

Anyway this was about a networking event, loved to meet everyone there and hopefully I can start living off of my creative endeavors (or at least make something from them) sometime soon.