I was working my normal shift as a waiter, serving customers, taking orders, and doing my best to make them feel at home.
I had been working here for the past few months, and I was starting to get a good handle on the job. Little did I know, this would be the last day I would ever spend at the café.
Without any warning, the cafe closed down almost immediately
Suddenly, without any warning, the owners closed the café down with no notice. I was completely blindsided by the news.
I had been counting on this job to help me pay my bills and I had no idea what I was going to do now that I was out of a job. I had planned on staying at the café for the foreseeable future, so I had no backup plan.
I tried to look for another job, but with the current economic situation, it was hard to find anything. I had to resort to doing odd jobs here and there just to make ends meet.
Even with all this, I was still barely making enough to cover my monthly bills and expenses.
Started to owe a lot of money
The situation soon started to spiral out of control. I was already in debt from the previous months, and now I was finding it even harder to pay it off. I was getting deeper and deeper in debt, and I had no way of getting out.
I tried to get help from family and friends, but they were all struggling too. I was desperate and I knew I had to do something. So I decided to take out a loan, hoping that it would help me pay off my debt.
At first, I was able to make the payments on time, but soon the interest started to pile up. I was finding it harder and harder to keep up with the payments, and I was starting to get into even more debt. I was in a vicious cycle that I couldn’t seem to get out of.
To make it worst, the café owners had not even settled my last drawn salary from working there though it was only a few hundred bucks and I had a hard time trying to reach them to get my money back.
I am starting to think if I should declare bankrupt now just to run away from all these payments.