Introduction

This is my new blog. Could be interesting. Could not be. We’ll have to see. I’m gonna give it a go and I have enlisted the help of my beautiful wife in order to keep posts coming and in order to increase the volume and variety of posts. We hope to post at least semi-weekly. I might get around to posting daily, but the rest of my life might get in the way.

The purpose
The purpose of this blog is to help. Help me express myself. Help me memorialize my thoughts. Help me have an outlet for anger, frustration and creativity. Help my wife do the same. Help us both work together to create something that might help others. And help mechronicle the journal of a “poor” family, so that i can inspire, assist, amuse and otherwise entertain anyone who might stumble across my humble blog in search of some solution to a comparable problem.

The title of this blog comes from the term “the Working Poor.” These are a band of people in America that are steadily and gainfully employed, busting their humps 5, 6, 7 days a week at sometimes thankless jobs and can barely make ends meet. They are below the poverty level and have probably been there for quite some time, depending on their age. I’m sure wikipedia has an article about “the Working Poor.” These are the people that comprise a stark amount of the population in America. They have huge debt, live paycheck to paycheck and have little to show for it.

This is where my “kinda” comes into effect. I have a college degree. I make money. More than minimum wage. More than the median income in my state. Not by much, but i do. I work 5 days a week on an entry level accoutant’s salary. I put in 45-55 hours a week. I am not technically poor. I am not below the poverty level. I don’t think, at least. But i do work hard. I bust my ass all day long from the time i wake up until the time i pass out, i am working and scheming for ways to make it through, ways to get on easy street, ways to get on the gravy train. I make due with what i can afford, for now, and hopefully, proper planning and the right opportunity allow for this. But in the meantime, i work, struggle and toil for the lifestyle that i have. It is meager, but hopefully it is temporary. This blog is to help those in similar situations.

I will detail examples and hopefully not piss anybody off in the process. I realize some would consider me rich, in life as well as in love. But to them, i hope a connect can be found, wherein they can find some piece that they can relate to, some piece of my story they can own, some piece of my “blog” that they can attach their own story and try to build upon it, make it their own and, eventually, exact some positive results. I know this is a lofty goal for a blog that very few (if any) people will read, but it is the noblest of intentions with which i start my journey of chronicling life as one of The Working “Kinda” Poor.