Hi, my name is Vanessa and I'm 21 years old.
Hi, my name is Anthony, I'm 22 years old from Houston.
And this is the Financial Audit.
THE Financial Audit!
We'll start with you, Vanessa.
What do you do for a living at 21?
I'm a meat wrapper.
Meat wrapper. Wrapping that meat, that's exciting.
I bet you love that. So...
How much do we make doing that?
An hour, or?
Yeah, sure.
16.50 an hour.
Okay, 16.50 an hour. How many hours a week
- Are we working, currently? - Vanessa: 30 to 40.
30 to 40. How inconsistent?
Kind of inconsistently. I just started to get into it, so, yeah.
This is a new job?
A new position. I've been working at
the same store for like, over a year now.
I just transferred.
And what do you do for a living?
For right now, I'm a stay-at-home dad, but I...
You guys have a kid?
(Both) Yeah.
Okay.
I know people used to have kids when they were young.
I guess it's actually a very normal thing
For so many people,
But to me it just blows my mind,
As a 29 year old who's like,
I can't even imagine having a kid yet,
I'm like, "please, I'm just a little baby,"
So, it's like, how the fuck? Like...
- (Anthony) Yeah, we're... - Whoo! But, okay.
Good for you guys. Planned?
- (Anthony) Hmm... - (Vanessa) No.
- (Anthony) 50/50. - (Vanessa) We knew what we were doing.
Okay, you're a professional meat wrapper, you should've wrapped that meat.
Yeah.
That wasn't my job yet.
(laughs) Not yet, okay.
Wow. So how old's the kid?
He's two.
Woah, so this was— this was young.
Similar to, like, when my parents had me.
Okay. Wow.
So we're relying on the single income of 16.50?
At, potentially, sometimes 30 hours a week?
How are we doing off of that?
We're barely making it.
I mean, we're still going past it, but it's kind of...
We don't have no extra money for nothing.
Yeah. If I need money, I would ask my mom.
Be like, "Oh, can I borrow this much?"
Borrow? How much are we borrowing from your mom?
Right now? I owe her 50. Not much.
50 dollars?
But, how often are
Pretty often
We're paydaying from our mom?
Okay stay at home dad obviously
Okay we're
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Uhm, so wait but they're two
Okay I guess we're avoiding day care
Day care is expensive
Why is the stay at home dad
What we've chosen
Well for right now I mean
I was waiting for a job interview
cause uhm
I I've already had the interview
I have it on Thursday
But uh
I was just waiting
for the to call me back
How long have you been waiting
How long have you been
2
2 to 3 weeks
It was more like a month
Over a month
How long have you been out of work
A month
Oh well what were you doing
Uh I was working
At my friends shop
but uhm
Friend's shop?
Yeah but I had gotten
Kinda like fired from them
From your friend?
You have to be really bad at
your job to be fired from your
friend don't ya?
Yeah I was uh well I mean
I was I was working there
for a little bit for like a week but
Her and her mother
We're complaining that
It wasn't enough pay a
And I was away from home for long time
Even though it was a
really easy job
You and your mom we're complaining to
his friend
Who is his boss at the
same time
No we weren't complaining to his friend
We were complaining to him
Because
What were you making?
I was making like
He was making like
13 something an hour
What was the shop and
what was your position?
It was like uh It was a small shop
and I was in the back
Just taking out the orders that they order
But he was he was selling
Selling....
Oh under the table?
Yeah....
Type stuff
Not really legal
Oh fuck
Yeah
Behind your friends back
No no no.
No that's what the shop was
Why wasn't it legally sold?
I mean it was just Texas is not legal here
But the shop was to sell it
Uh well the shop wasn't registered
basically
So it wasn't it wasnt like
Cause I know next to my Condo
when I used to
I can say it cause I don't live there
Uh it was on Boulevard
And theres like
Like this collection of shops
And theres a shop
that grows weed out the window
and they sell it in a way where they're
like if this
catches on fire
and smoke comes from it
you know
that might be something that happens
and that was they're legal way of being
able to sell it
and they sell like a certain strain thats
legal
but
it sounds like you guys aren't doing
This is just like straight
I know it's illegal in Texas
But like places in Austin they
don't enforce it
Yeah well I mean
They just like
They didn't like really uh
It wasn't they didn't build
enough towards it to where
to get attention from like
police or anything
like no one that was like suspecting
anything
Yeah cause its like actually dangerous
things happen
Yeah so it was just like
uhmn
under
under the table
like you said like
like stuff on Instagram
that we have like customers
Why'd you get fired
Uh my complaining
Complaining and they didn't have the money
for it either I wanna say
Well it's not that I mean like
Why didn't he just say no
UH
I mean he did say no but they
always just like
Because we wanted him to find something
better
He was working 40 hours in 6 days
Like but a normal job youll get 5 days for
40 hours