Three Jobs and Still No Money

We must be missing something, or maybe it is just me. I got to thinking, during the non existent time that I have, that there must be something I am missing. I have no time and no money. I work three jobs, go to school full time, write on the side, and try to have a social life yet it all seems to be rather impossible. I use impossible, because even as I type this post out, I am busy working at one job, ordering new tires for my car and worrying that I may not make it to my third job on time today. All of this, while debating what to cook for dinner, what homework desperately needs to be done, and which people I should make time for this week. It seems that I am working non-stop, always just a second ahead of the game, an inch from dropping the flaming swords I am juggling.

One of the initial events this week which got me thinking, was when my tire was punctured by a nail (between two of my jobs) on Monday. The result was me having to skip two classes, and wait for three hours at the tire center for them to fix a simple repair. Only it didn’t happen. After two hours, they told me that due to my tread being so worn, they couldn’t do anything for me. The tires are less than a year old, and cost me six-hundred dollars last Christmas. I am sure, like many other hard working citizens out there, I should be making enough money at my three jobs to cover a six hundred dollar expense. Yet somehow, I seem to fall short once more.

This whole debacle led my thoughts to the simple realization that there has to be something more, there has to be another part to this equation that I am blind to. If am working seventy hour weeks, how can I not have money?