Hi all! I'm coming here to seek some financial help to fund my PC as I need it for finding work. My area has a really bad job market right now and I'm unfortunately a high school drop out with barely any income or vehicle to search for work. I have zero work experience and I have already applied to multiple places, every single one of them ended up ghosting me. No matter what I do or how frequent I email and call businesses, no one is hiring or is interested in hiring *me*. I have no idea what else I can do except rely on social media and my art for income, until more jobs open up and I can apply to more positions. I just placed a down payment on this new computer I got, to my understanding it's about $350-$400 a month. Unfortunately I cannot afford that with my art alone, so I'm seeking help here. I will be paying everyone who donates back with my art, you just need to send me proof of donation and I will make you a doodle. Please Please only donate if you have the means to do so, if you do not, I beg you to share this as much as you can. I need the help, and my dad is already beyond stressed. He's currently working 6 days a week, over 60 hours. Up to 14 hours a day sometimes. We pay bills and rent and currently my dad is the only one capable of affording it, However every single month we struggle to keep food on the table. I have resorted to skipping meals just to be able to pay this computer off and just to be able to help my dad a little with whatever he needs help with. I am currently eating one meal a day and if I'm able to, two meals. If money is too tight, I will straight up not eat for at least 2-3 days at a time. I insist on stretching out whatever food I have access to, and I'm serious when I say we do not make enough to survive, I'm praying this computer helps me out more. Maybe helps expand my digital art capabilities, maybe helps me with remote job positions. I'm not sure yet, but I Need to pay this computer off and I cannot without your help.

To those waiting on art already, I'm working on it! Trust me I will get to yours very soon, I have about 24 people in my queue as of right now. Whoever donates *now* will be getting their art in between owed commissions so I may be late on your stuff. It might take me awhile but I would really like to pay everyone back for being as nice and as patient as you all are, I couldn't ask for a better following.

I will be using a certain portion of proceeds to pay my computer off and whatever I have left will go straight to my savings to help my dad and I have a better future. My housing situation is currently really bad, to explain it as best as I can without boring you with too many details, my mom and my grandpa suddenly passed in 2019 forcing us to shut down and become extremely depressed. My dad made the decision to quit his job because he needed to take care of me when I dropped out of high school. We both relied heavily on my Government checks as I was a minor when my mom passed. We eventually couldn't keep affording our land payment and thus lost both our land and our house. We got offered to live with my uncle, who is quite possibly the worst human being I know and that alone is a very long story. I'm constantly surrounded by fighting and negativity, I try my best to not leave my room because I avoid my uncle as best as I possibly can. He truly sucks and I wish you all could witness the person he is behind closed doors. I've been wanting to find work so I could start saving to get both me and my dad out of this house so we could live on our own and just overall experience a better life for once. I've been in this situation for 21 years, quite literally my entire life. Born into poverty, faced some of the worst trauma a child could endure and now I'm in a different home with an even worse situation going on. I'm tired, my dad is tired and we need to get out of this house and we need to stop relying on useless evil family members. I'm grateful he's letting us stay but I cannot live with him anymore.

None of this will be possible until I pay this computer off and start building an actual savings account. The goal will stay at $5k unless we reach it, if we reach it, I will up it some more. Absolutely ANYTHING helps, EVEN one dollar! The more I get to save up the quicker we can get out of this nasty poverty funk we've been trapped in for so so many years. I will continue searching for jobs, but for now I need to lean back on Your help as well as my commissions. Thank you for reading this, absolutely anything helps like I said even if it's a singular dollar or if you're simply sharing it around on social media.