I just disagree with you. Maybe more mentally challenging when facing the project, but no. It is not harder than just squeaking by. I'm studying comp sci and have been doing advanced math programs since I was 5. Maybe for somebody who struggles with math and doesn't enjoy it, but does it for money it may be more difficult, but not a single math equation I have ever performed was harder than managing an 80+ hour work week. Poverty knows no colors and since you apparently experienced it I am genuinely shocked to hear you talk this way. Maybe if math is so difficult for you, you should look for a different career and stop shitting on other people's situations.

I blame nobody but myself for failures on my pet, as do anybody with most common sense. Whatever your life experiences were they were very askew and at this point I fee bad for you. It must be hard living with so much hatred in your heart for people in different situations.

So please, keep telling me how math is harder than staying awake during 20+ hour shifts on an oil field or being treated like the filth of the earth at one job for reasons beyond your control only to do the same job at a different location for the next 8 hours only to get to hours of sleep to start it all again, just so you can live in a moldy apartment and have food on the table. I'll take software development every fucking day.

You're talking to somebody who is good at math and has worked his ass off in the real world, one of those things you clearly haven't (but it would seem your parents may have). I never called myself a victim, I'm proud of every hour I have ever logged at what you call minimal skill jobs because they teach me how to respect others who aren't fortunate enough to do things as trivial as math. I hope I never come across you at a convention. Privileged shit.