I'm now starting to feel the BITTERSWEET reality of being employed...

I'm not really employed as the regular employees are since i my salary doesn't get bogged down with INCOME TAX, SSS, PAG-IBIG or whatever else that has something to do with the government. My talent agent has a cut of course, and whopping 50% at that! (It's supposed to be 30% maximum, but he's greeeeedy and we have noooo choice coz he monopolized all the projects of the company)

Anyway, what i wrote above is the sweet part coz i earn relatively a lot for 6 hours a day and i don't have to pay the taxes, eck eck.

The bitter reality is that i have to start helping out in the household expenses. I never really thought the day would come. I've always been the spoiled baby in the family since i have a 12++ year gap from my other siblings, so i always get what i want sans a lot of responsibilities.

I guess, now, that our family's having a financial crisis--which i foresee would last forever--i have to start chipping in. Boohoo! I'm still on my selfish-pamper-myself-stage in my life. But hey, what can i do right? I'm not as well-off as i was before. I wasn't even considered rich before, only that my family somehow carried on their extravagant lifestyle from way back in the 80s when they were still affluent. ("They" because i wasn't born yet).

So since i have a monthly paycheck and i did a lot of shifts for the month of March, my dad told me to help in the expenses by chipping in 5,000. I'm still in shock right now. I still can't believe it. This is really bad coz we must be really down and really that pennyless that I have to donate money already!

It's not that i never planned to chip in--i will, but i didn't think i had to already and so soon! I thought that i'd help out in the expenses when i get a stable job--permanent job, in other words.

Oh well, i guess it's about time I snap out of my dream bubble and live in the "real world"--which means, when your parents are both retired and unemployed, no money is coming in! Zilch, nada.