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Yesterday I had some sort of panic attack triggered by thinking about my future.

Rant sequence initiated.

As it stands right now, I will be 27 by the time I graduate University, I’ve switched career paths and am starting university again in the fall for an entirely different field. That is fine, I accept that the 4 year set back in my career is my fault, though I could blame the Government for sending us out of highschool at 17 and expecting everyone to actually have a formed idea of who they are and what the right path for them is. 

Getting back on track though, at 27 I will graduate with a BSW. I want more than anything to be a Social Worker, and specifically deal with abused children, addiction, or maybe both. However there is a small problem with this plan of mine. I live in Toronto. In Toronto social workers without a masters degree make between $30,000-$40,000. Now the problem is, in a normal city that amount of income when combined with the income from a partner would be enough to live comfortably off of (well, my idea of comfort anyway :P). However, this is Toronto… Housing prices are ridiculous. If you don’t believe me check out THIS blog about some of the most outrageous listings in the city, but really, they’re all like that.

So now you see my problem. I will never be able to have the kind of house I want, unless I put myself further into debt by getting my masters, which I will do, but that is not the point, I shouldn’t HAVE to do that in order to make the kind of salary we all get told University graduates will get. With my masters I’ll be able to make $72,000 a year as a social worker (providing I get hired somewhere which is an entirely different rant all together), don’t get me wrong that is not bad money, it’s just… do I really want to buy a house at $600,000 that is only realistically worth $300,000? Not really. Even the cheapest condos are $120,000(+taxes and condo fees and everything else I’m not thinking about because at 22 I’m nowhere near ready to buy a house), but that is more like living in a broom closet than a home.

My other option is to move to Yellowknife and work there. It would be an adventure to say the least, but can I really handle that kind of isolation when I’m so used to being surrounded by 5.5 million people? (Yellowknife has a population of18,510 for comparison) Not to mention the −27 °C (−17 °F) in the winter and only 21 °C (64 °F) in the summer. Not to mention bears. Every kind of bear. And not JUST bears everything in Canada that can/wants to kill you lives in the North, right where I’m considering moving just so one day I can have the life I’ve always been told I’ll get if I go to university and get a “real” job. (Note: bears are not actually IN the city as far as i know, but close enough to make me nervous. Also, yes, I realize there are bears close to Toronto too).

4784 km is a long way to move for a job, people do it all the time, but it’s a long way. (farther than moving from London, UK to Cairo, Egypt)

But, I will end it there, I’m sure that didn’t make much sense at all but I needed to get it out of my system.

TL;DR 
I got 99 problems and they all reality. 

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Should I stay or Should I go?

I need new skates but I have no money :( My current skates are so big on me that I can pull them off without untying the laces, they’re not even a year old yet, I don’t know how they stretched out so much.

I need to find a sugar daddy. Preferably someone who will pay for everything I need for derby in exchange for watching me skate :D 

Any takers??

nobody? :(

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