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

BREAKING GENDER STEREOTYPES

WOAHHH

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