hi! i don't know if i come by this post too late, but im form VENEZUELA and well i'm a lawyer but, currently a stay at home mom taking care of my 5 months old son.
what can i tell you about how living in Venezuela is? well is not easy, we just went through the worst blackout our country has ever been through, and we have issues to make enough money to buy food or medicine (if you can find any when you have the money to buy it), so yeah is not fun to live here.
My baby's daddy and love of my life just received his paycheck for the the half of the month, he was payed 12$ that are supposed to be anough for us to buy food and baby stuff for at least 15 days, LMFAO, yeah I made miracles and manage to buy:
1 chicken, 1/2 Kg of beef, some vegetables and a couple of little bags of condiments, and yeah that is supposed to last 15 days for my family of 4 (baby's daddy, mom of baby's daddy and me plus the little kid) I wasnt able to buy the diapers i need for the kid or to buy him the fruits that he needs.
thank god for steemit it gives me a way to ear some money to buy the stuff my kid needs.
anyway i post this just to spread the word on how we live here, im a lucky woman being able to afford food and having a healthy family, but there are other that far worse than me and that just breaks my heart!
Saludos @victoriabsb .
Eres joven y fuerte y se ve que tienes los pies bien puestos sobre la tierra.
Eres sin duda un ejemplo para muchos.
Que dios te siga dando el aguante, las fuerzas y la sabiduría para lograr sacar a tu bebe adelante.
Disfrútalo el tiempo pasa muy rápido.
Te estaré siguiendo y leyendo tus post.
Ahora mismo estoy esperando recargar mi RC.
Así que... Nos vemos.
hola! muchisimas gracias por tus bellas palabras, en realidad no espero ser un ejemplo para nadie más que para mi hijo, si crece muy rápido ya no parece un bebe de 5 meses sino un hombrecito jajajaja
Dear @victoriabsb
Thank you for sharing your story with us. It is really saddening to see what your country is going throught. Heartbreaking.
You speak such a good english. How come? Are you using some quality translator or do you indeed operate english so well?
That's more than minimum salary in Venezuela, right? and yet it's surely not enough to survive. Would you mind sharing with me what does he do for living? Just curious.
ps. did all those ingridients cost 12usd? Oh ....
God bless Venezuela. Seriously I cant imagine how difficult it must be to live there now.
Yours
Piotr
Hi! even tho, i do sometimes use a translator to help with some words (google), whose meaning escape my knowledge , i learned english in high school so, i work very well with english and also autocorrect helps a lot! lol
Yes, 12$ way more than minimum wage here, our monthly minimum wage is of just shy of 6US$ at the current price of the US$, my boyfriend works in PDVSA as a coordinator of logistics for operational oil rings, he has a degree that is similar to a bachelor degree in the US, is call Senior Technician in Oil Rings from an University, just 2 years from an engineering degree, his monthly salary is 24US$ approximately, so we are lucky enough not to have to survive with just 6US$ a month but, as you can imagine 24US$ a month are not enough for a family of 4 (my BF, my Bf's mom, my baby and myself), i'm a lawyer, but currently my work is to stay at home and taking care of our 5 months old, so we just have to work around the difficulties and try to find money in other places like Steem or selling our old stuff .
Like i said we are lucky we are professionals and have knowledge enough to make a living in the difficult economical situation that our country is in, but is important for people outside our country to know, that if the 2 of us with our college degrees and with at least my BF good work, are having trouble to make a living, imagine those who don't have the same luck as us, i know of people that have more kids and only the 6US$ a month income i sincerely have not idea how they do to live like that.
yes! we were lucky to go to kind of a farmers market and find some good pricing on the vegetables, also the chicken was cheap just 2US$ the kilogram (it weighted 2KG) usually the chicken is 3 to 4 US$ the kilogram.
Dear @victoriabsb
Thank you for your amazing reply. I appreciate it greately. Hope your family didn't suffer much during your latest (two times?) blackouts.
I'm really trying to figure out how people do actually manage to survive in those conditions.
Truly saddening.
Yours, Piotr
my dear @crypto.piort
lol 2 times would have being fine, but today marks the 3rd time this week alone that we lose power, it just keeps coming and going, and im lucky enough to have the power coming at some points like right now, cause my sister lives in another state and she hasnt had any since monday.