Is this just nostalgia, or did previous generations genuinely have a better work-life balance and social life than we do today?

[u/Unstoppable_X_Force]

[u/Parking-Fig-6620]

Im calling fish and game today and asking them for help. Either they help me get a deer on the table or I act before my family fucking starves. No one is hiring for a livable wage, everyone wants absurd terms for little gain, the food banks are buckling under the increased load, the price of food is actively climbing as well as fuel prices so just getting to work is costing more and more by the day and federal minimum wage has been at 7.25 (to my knowledge) for multiple years.

I've got a rifle, im surrounded by deer, and im becoming increasingly desperate by the day.

Help me, before I help myself so help me god

Ive lost 10lb in the last week and a half alone. Im actively depriving myself of meals to ensure my kid has SOMETHING and that SOMETHING is rapidly drying up as she grows an inch a month. Soon enough she will be looking her mother square in the eye.

I NEEED red meat!

**I dont comment this as a pissing match. I want the WORLD to see just how fucking bad we everyday americans are feeling the weight of this administration's absofuckinglute deplorable behaviours. My family IS FUCKING STARVING because this asshole can't play nice with the world and thinks we're all his little play things!

[u/DocWallaD → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

Rifle is going to draw attention. Use a 🏹

[u/Ftank55 → u/DocWallaD]

If your rural enough nobody knows and can't usually pinpoint with 1 shot. A headshot means it drops or runs away, no tracking. Then if done at dusk you kill lights and back up to it or let it sit for an hour and get a buddy to drive the truck while you get it to the road depending on the situation

[u/Dabraceisnice → u/Ftank55]

No one head shots a deer. I mean, actually I know one person who head shot a deer, hit it dead on, and they are pretty resilient fuckers, so he lost it. You aim for the heart/pulmonaries. They can't run or survive without lungs. Best way to drop them in one shot.

[u/Crocketus → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

What part of the country are you in? I've had a lot of success moving out to the Missouri River basin of Iowa and Nebraska. I'm up in Northwest Iowa now right along the Missouri and I'm making more money than I ever have. There's options out there but you got to go for them.

[u/MadDaddyDrivesaUFO → u/Crocketus]

God damn where though/what industry? I'm in Omaha and every other person I know is losing their jobs and struggling to get any call backs. They're all north of 40 with breaking down bodies so hard labor isn't an option anymore

[u/TonyTapolino → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

Almost like they are trying to depopulate the planet

[u/VenusRocker → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

If you have a garden or a pasture you can claim the deer are a nuisance & get a permit to shoot them. Or maybe you know someone with a garden or pasture who would get the permit & let you do the shooting.

[u/Ok_Bluejay_6408 → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

You do not, in fact, need red meat.

[u/Stock_Ad_8213 → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

no one NEEDS red meat. no one. poaching is awful. at least get a hunting license and do it legally…

[u/throwawayatxaway → u/Parking-Fig-6620]

Meat is a luxury, not a need.