Hello, this post hit home with me. I also do not like being stuck in the system, working Monday-Friday 8.30-5. By the time I get home, have a cup of tea, feed the cat, stick on some washing, make some food, make lunch for the next day, it's almost time to go to bed. I don't have any kids and I do not have enough time to explore my passions. I draw, write poetry, play music, research, love nature, all kinds of hobbies and things fascinate me but I don't have time to pursue anything fully and it is so depressing.

It's the way the system was devised, spend all of our productive brain power time working for someone else because we need to earn money to live, giving us enough free time to do the basic necessities after work, eat to stay alive, keep on top of the house, and maybe some free time on the weekend to socialise and take a slight pause. It's infuriating. I took a decision last year to move back to my dad's place, I am 29 so it's not ideal. But I lived 3 miles away from him paying almost half my paycheque on rent and bills alone for the flat. The rest pretty much going on general living costs and able to save a tiny amount each month. I left university with some debt, took a car on finance etc so have debt to pay off but my current repayments mean I would be paying that off until I am 33 ish, so I would have to keep working to pay for somewhere to live and just to not be summoned to court, not only for the money I actually borrowed, but the huge interest slammed on top out of no where, invisible figures I now have to pay back too.

So I moved home, I now help my dad with the bill payments and put what I was paying on rent into my debt repayment plan. I should be able to pay it all off in early 2018. 1 year and a half and I would have finished with those repayments 4 years early. I wont owe anything to anyone. I know not everyone is in the position I am with regards to being able to move home, especially if you have your own family. I also have started studying again, I was put off at first as it was going to take so long to complete my studies, but I figures that time was going to pass anyway. Those 3 years will go by if I am studying or not, so why not? At the end of it I can start earning money slowly doing something I love, and build up from there. It's a small step in the right direction. You may not be in the same position to pay off debt if you have any, or to move to pay cheaper rent etc, but if there is something you are passionate about get studying. A lot of places accept partial monthly instalments, and yes it means you have to squeeze in study time in already limited time, but it would be so worth it wouldn't it? If you do nothing your situation will never change.

I used to get so jealous of my friends who had inheritance money, could buy a house, or had rich parents who bought one for them. I did not get anything like that, but just realised one day, well I'm not going to get a 20,000 inheritance, or half of my grandparents land or anything like this. So what can I do, what realistic steps can I make in my life, no matter how long it takes, to change my situation, because if I do nothing I will be a slave to the system for ever.

You're not the only one who feels like this by a long shot, and being on steemit is a good starting point, if this is all you can do to earn extra then spend every spare minute you have watching videos about steemit and how to earn. It may take you a year or so before you see anything significant, I don't know, but if you do nothing your situation wont change. So stick with it :)