Life Keeps Moving....but we ever be as happy as our parents?

Life keeps moving but not at the pace that I thought that it would.  I still couldn't tell you where I thought that I would be at my age but I'm sure that they wasn't where I thought that I would be.

Working three different jobs trying to make some semblance of money and living the American dream.  Though I suppose right now I don't have much interest in the American dream.  At 26 I still have no vision for myself married and with kids within the next five years.  So what is my American dream right now?  Good question.  And thus part of the current quest.

I work six days a week and make little to no money.  I don't have the extra money to pay off my car nor the extra money to even pay the gas in my car.  So for those I rely on the graciousness of my parents.  I know I probably should be more independent that I am but the reality is that is reality.  I don't have enough savings wise to just pick up and move somewhere where there is a better prospect of jobs.  Despite what people what to tell me I do need about two months to three months minimum in money to survive in the time period that it would minimally be required to job hunt.

You know what people need to stop telling me is how easy it is to get a full time job.  Time has changed.  Getting a job in the East where the jobs are not as in abundance as the cost of living around this area is high.  I think the answer is just to move out of the state.  How I go about it and where I want to go is another question that remains to be answered.  Answers I am in short supply of these days.

Sometimes I wonder if we will ever get to the financial security and happiness that our parents generation is able to achieve.  For most of us twenty somethings we aren't making enough money to pay back student loans, get out of the house, make bill payments and pay for gas and a car.  So where does it in the end up leaving us?  Working a few part time jobs in the hope that we can make enough to live comfortably at our parents house with their help.  At least that is the position that I am lucky enough to find myself in.  So in that regard that is one lucky thing that I have going on right now.

So despite the downs I think sometimes we forget to see the ups.

So looking at an up I think I shall end here until the next pondering hits me.