It is done

[pyesetz]

I have officially declared myself to be a failure as a provider for my family.  I have sent a letter to my aunt, asking for some early inheritance so I can make ends meet.

When I joined the Furry Fandom, I was feeling like a failure because I could not figure out a way to get my family out of a country that had gone crazy and whose government wouldn't grant me permission to leave and wouldn't say why not.  But eventually I got past that problem.

Now I'm a failure again.  But I don't feel like barking.  What sound does an anthropomorphized Homo erectus make when things aren't going well?  Maybe one of these.

Maybe I should join the otherkin, but their self-description doesn't quite sing to me.  My biology is obviously within human range since I have managed to produce offspring.  I don't really have species dysphoria or phantom-tail syndrome.  My Inner Ape is not a self-exploration exercise, nor a daydream to escape from my burger-flipping existence.  I haven't played D&D in years.  I am a professional computer wizard who casts spells for a living, but that says nothing about what kind of animal is inputting the keystrokes.

Comments

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

You think it takes a huge salary to raise 2 kids? Look around you at all the people who make less than you do raising even more kids. :-P But since you have a sure-fire fall-back position already in mind, I don't think you are going to accept any other solution besides holding to your current location and standard of living. I wouldn't either, come to think of it, so that's more or less understandable. But I have made the necessary sacrifices to get by over the past couple of years. I know how little it costs to move locally if you do it yourself - not thousands. Thanks for purportedly soliciting advice.

[pyesetz]

You think it takes a huge salary to raise 2 kids?
No, but it takes more than half-time work for a single-earner family.


Look around you at all the people who make less than you do raising even more kids.
Yeah, I'm really lucky that I can get away with working so little.

But I have made the necessary sacrifices to get by over the past couple of years.
I am sorry to hear of your pains.

I know how little it costs to move locally if you do it yourself - not thousands.
My household has way too much stuff!  They allocated to us half of one of those gigantic moving vans—it wasn't quite enough.

Thanks for purportedly soliciting advice.
Did I?  The only question in the original post was, "What sound does an anthropomorphized Homo erectus make when things aren't going well?"

Advice like "Just look for a house that costs half as much" seemed rather flippant to me.  Just how stupid do you think I am?  I did that already!  So my response was perhaps too nasty.  Sorry about that.

[dakhun.livejournal.com]

There's only one house that is the very cheapest house in the entire country, and everyone else has room to downsize. I did not realise that you lived in that house. :-)

Plus, given that the optimistic forecasts for Canadian housing prices over the next two years only show them going up at a rate somewhat slower than that of inflation, and the pessimistic estimates are well below that, this is not a good time to be overextended with residential real estate in this country.