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The Unforeseen Change in My Life Story

James, 03801

It was all just going well if not great for me. I’d just started my career journey, my first accounting job. I moved out from my parents house and then COVID came.

Everything just took a new turn and it was all upside down. I have bills to pay, I got suspended from work as they tried to minimize cost of running the bank, bills are piling up, I start taking loans and they’re just going up. I had one year full of trouble, suffering and there’s nothing I could do. I am staying indoors, no chance to get a new job, fear that I might even get COVID-19, it’s all so much for anyone to handle.

I think I have never been scared this much about tomorrow like I have been in the past two years. It’s been one literal hell of a ride for me and I’d think for so many more.