When you’re broke but still need to go to work

If you’re not working remotely, this is the genesis of your problems.

And you don’t have a car but still need to pay for transportation

Two options:  you can either call in sick or pretend it’s the weekend.

When you try to borrow from people but they’re broke too

Everyone else is waiting for their salaries too.

And you start to convince yourself that it’s only a few more days before your salary drops

It’s the hope that kills, but you have to stay alive till it comes.

You start budgeting because you’ve finally realized that you need to do better with money

All those money skills that only work when there’s no actual money.

You start to regret your terrible spending habits

You flashback to the times when you were (acting like) a baller.

Salary day comes, it’s 2 pm, and the alert still hasn’t dropped

The anxiety is second to none.

You also can’t go home because how will you trek from Yaba to Berger?

This is where you start pretending to work late but you’re actually losing your mind.

Your salary finally drops and you breathe a sigh of relief

  Your enemies have been put to shame.

Then you forget your budget and start spending like you’re Otedola’s long lost child

Budget who? You’ve suffered too much to not spend this money.

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