I had to move to Portland. Into a place with my sisters friend. This was the worst roomate ever. It was a few blocks away from my sisters with her freshly hatched twins.
The dude I lived with had a thyroid problem. And he worked as a chef at a high end restaurant. This meant he got fucking wasted every single night after work. And his body pretty much allowed him to drink until he thought it was acceptable to bang on my bedroom door screaming “YOU FUCKING SKINNEY NIGGER FAGGOD GOD HATS YOU” over and over again for hours.
But to the minimum wage thing. I was desperate to get out. So temp agency and Napa Auto parts.
This was the worst job ever. moving transmissions while avoiding meth fueled forklift drivers.
It took me two hours to get to work on the bus. And 2 hours to get back. Our shifts were 12 hours. So not much sleep in there.
Then I discovered about 50 of the employees had a tent city 10 minutes from the warehouse. So I lived in a tent for a month for a min wage job.
Then I got a job at Kodak dealing with kiddie porn. Ar least that paid enough where I didn’t have to shit in a bucket and dump it in the river.