Need to Move Out.

[Oddity]

So. Due to reasons that'd really belong in Social & Relationships if I were to post them, I feel I need to move out of my parents' house.

Thing is, it's a tough job market in my neck of the woods, and making money online isn't working out for me thus far. Don't give me this SBI stuff, either; I can't spare the fee right now and I haven't quite figured out online money-making on my own. I'm stuck with wage slavery right now, and considering taking a telemarketing job just so I can make enough to get outta here.

I might get into college this year, which would help - I could live off the student loan - but I need a backup plan in case my portfolio ends up at the bottom of the pile again this year.

So what I'm getting at is, aside from just renting a room or something as opposed to an apartment or basement, using thrift stores, and frugal grocery shopping if that room doesn't come with board, any tips on living away from home off of just-about-minimum wage?

[darkun]

There are a couple of ideas you could consider if you really need to move out of your parents place. First idea is to move out with friends. Split all bills and all chip in for food. Second idea is to move out with your girlfriend / boyfriend - so long as you are both working you can potentially save heaps.

Another idea is to ask your friends who have already moved out, if you could rent their room at their parents place - you'd still be living with parents, but they won't be your parents :P

I don't know if you have a car, but if you do perhaps you could trade it in for a mini van and kit it out as a camper van - it's not really a long term option but you could camp at caravan parks every now and then or even park it on public land.

Some of these ideas might seem a bit silly, but I've also been in a situation where I simply had to find somewhere else to live immediately - so even silly ideas are worth thinking about sometimes.

[Bradshaw]

Can you write 3-6 articles per day in a month? Can you research and write?
Try Associated Content and Demand Studios. They pay upfront, so...

[Karanime]

Originally Posted by darkun

There are a couple of ideas you could consider if you really need to move out of your parents place. First idea is to move out with friends. Split all bills and all chip in for food. Second idea is to move out with your girlfriend / boyfriend - so long as you are both working you can potentially save heaps.

Another idea is to ask your friends who have already moved out, if you could rent their room at their parents place - you'd still be living with parents, but they won't be your parents :P

I don't know if you have a car, but if you do perhaps you could trade it in for a mini van and kit it out as a camper van - it's not really a long term option but you could camp at caravan parks every now and then or even park it on public land.

Some of these ideas might seem a bit silly, but I've also been in a situation where I simply had to find somewhere else to live immediately - so even silly ideas are worth thinking about sometimes.

I'm in the same boat, and this stuff sounds good... :P

/<3

[Eric L]

If you would address the issues in or out the household that are causing you to feel a need to move out, you could be at the advantage of not having to pay **** and would actually be able to stay in that house at the same time and could also allow yourself to self-study through independence courses and save LOTS of money and I assure you, these study methods work and are recognized. I have used some in the past and they are pretty potent and efficient, plus, you can take your time in them.

Do you have a mate and feel like you need to move out because of it, or is it because you are trying to find someone and feel like this household thing is holding you back somehow?

Trust me, I can help you - you just need to break down stuff a little more for me. Lay it out for me

[InterfaceLeader]

It's possible to live out of the back of a van (or a camper van if you want some luxury).

[Oddity]

Originally Posted by Eric L

If you would address the issues in or out the household that are causing you to feel a need to move out, you could be at the advantage of not having to pay **** and would actually be able to stay in that house at the same time and could also allow yourself to self-study through independence courses and save LOTS of money and I assure you, these study methods work and are recognized. I have used some in the past and they are pretty potent and efficient, plus, you can take your time in them.

Self-teaching is not for me - I need the structure, the deadlines, the fellow students, the place-that-isn't-home to go every day (if I ever get that elusive online income, the work will at least be done from a cafe or something; working/learning from home just makes me feel like I have license to be less responsible)...it's all there in traditional school. It'd be significantly harder to get that with self-teaching. Not to mention take significantly longer, and I really really really don't want to spend another year in the fast food and retail industry.

Besides, it's about time I moved out anyway. I don't feel like a grownup staying here.

Do you have a mate and feel like you need to move out because of it, or is it because you are trying to find someone and feel like this household thing is holding you back somehow?

Nothing to do with mates; it's a lot stickier than that. I do have a thing going on with a guy, but it's a distance thing and...well, I think the fact that I'm calling it a "thing" and not a relationship kind of says all that needs to be said here. It's far too soon to move in with him, particularly since it'd mean crossing the continent, not to mention an international border.

Trust me, I can help you - you just need to break down stuff a little more for me. Lay it out for me

It's all about religion and lack thereof. My father is a pastor; my mother is very, very, very devout. They're well-meaning, I know, but the tension caused by the fact that I'm an atheist is just starting to get to be too much. It doesn't help that they're nosy as hell, too - my dad just had to make an uppity comment on it when he saw Dawkins's The Greatest Show on Earth lying on my desk. However, after I made a snide comment back he backed down and said "It's alright; you're an adult, you can read what you want" - but I'm not sure that's the end of that discussion. Dad's a little more open-minded than Mom (the operative phrase here being "a little"), but Mom seems to think she went wrong somewhere along the process of indoctrinating me and nearly cried last time we spoke of it. If she tries to start another conversation on it, I'm telling her the topic is off-limits. I'm not going to be emotionally blackmailed into going back to faking Christianity to please everyone like I did in high school.

Now, I could try living with any of the plethora of relatives on Dad's side I have out here (except the newlywed couple and the, ah, lady of the evening - both need their privacy, obviously), but all of them (except the hooker) are deeply religious, too, and I'm sure we'd have the same issues, and I am not about to go live with a hooker.

I moved to BC from Alberta just over a year and a half ago - all my friends back in Alberta? Also religious. I'm quite boxed in by Christians here.

Things aren't too bad yet, but...well, I'm already to the love-them-but-don't-like-them point, if that makes sense, and I don't want to start hating them. I need to get away before we drive each other nuts.

EDIT: And no, I don't own a vehicle. Still need to get off my lazy butt and get a license, in fact.

Originally Posted by Bradshaw

Can you write 3-6 articles per day in a month? Can you research and write?
Try Associated Content and Demand Studios. They pay upfront, so...

3-6 per day? Are you kidding me?! I could, but they'd be utter crap, and that's not the kind of writing I want associated with my name.

Now if I were to write well, I could probably decently supplement a living off of a site like that, but I need to make said living here.

[Karanime]

This probably doesn't belong in this forum, but... LoA it?

I'm trying that here in a bit.

/<3