circumstances. I bought a car 6 months or so ago. My sister and her brother in law have a lot of financial problems and didn't have a car. I moved in with them, they take my car all day to go to work and pick up the kids and stuff. I'd leave, but I'm new to the area, and I give them all my money so they can pay the bills and buy food. I literally work 15-18 hours a day to float them right now. I enjoy the work actually, I relate it in a lot of ways to video games...but damn, I could use a day off, a trip to the grocery store, something. I was talking (emailing) my sister about it today...It's actually been more like 3 or 4 weeks that I've left the house for anything other than taking them to or from work, or picking the kids up from school. I make a lot more money than most turkers, but at the expense of hours at the computer...without it, we would all literally be homeless.
They got evicted from their expensive apartment right when I moved in (it was only supposed to be very temporary) We lived in a hotel for a month at 100 a day. Our only option was to find a private landlord that wouldn't check credit. The only place we found was 3500 sq. feet, 2000 a month plus utilities, paying to have the yard mowed each week (because that was only 35 a week and we couldn't scrape together 200 for a lawnmower all at once) When you struggle, you pay late fees. Last week, my sister incurred over 400 in overdraft fees from her bank, plus late fees on utilites, cable, etc.
I was having trouble finding a job...my sister mentioned one night she would do surveys. I was like...I'll do mturk. I hadn't done it since 2014, and when I first started doing it, I only did it for a few months before getting burned out. I'm over a month in, and doing things a lot different this time around. I'm making enough money that I enjoy it for the most part, but I still feel like a slave to an oppressor. Having adults in your family that act like children is frustrating to say the least.
But they have two great kids, a dog, a bird, and the appearance of a healthy life. Maybe I'm enabling them, maybe I'm keeping their kids from a homeless shelter. I struggle with all of this, plus my own problems everyday.