What Did Your Normal Path Look Like?

I got my first job for 32 thousand dollars a which i had negotiated up from something like 28 or 29 originally. I did not know at the time that you can't actually afford a thousand dollar plus apartment, plus utilities, plus a brand new car, on 32000 dollars a year. So i went out to be normal, and i just started using credit and eventually found myself with a lot of debt and a job that was uninspiring. The very real notion that all of these adults around me, people that i thought had it figured out, that i looked up to to guide me, sometimes, in some cases, weren't actually very admirable people. And i was heartbroken by