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The only thing I got out of this was that the author needs to learn personal finance skills.

If she just got a roommate and sold her car, she could easily afford to eat and more. I can't imagine how one person who claims to spend a lot of time at work manages to rack up a $120 PG&E bill.

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They claim they make $8.15/hr after taxes. That's around $16k/yr. I don't know how well they are budgeting, but I wouldn't want to try to live in the bay area on that salary. This letter might not have been a good idea, but I don't see how she had a decent job.

On the other hand, she only had to lose an $8.15/hr job, or $16k/yr to speak her mind. It's different if you were going to lose a $150k/yr job.

Yeah, I know. I wouldn't think of living without roommates in the bay area at her age.

It sounds like she moved to the bay area with a fantasy about what her life would be like, and some optimistic ideas about work, and she never stopped to do the math.

Hopefully she'll learn from this experience. Everyone has to learn the value of planning and thinking strategically at some point in time - for some it's 14, for others it's 40.

She totally needs roommates. It appears she has $221/mo after paying rent to go to everything else. That's financially suicidal. If she got just one roommate to share that $1245 apartment, she'd almost have the $600 she said she wanted.

I am astounded that someone with so little compassion exists.

Clearly, you haven't lived long enough.

when all else fails, pull out the appeal to emotion card.

$8.15 an hour after taxes.

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