WHO SAYS YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ALL?

 I don't understand this $15.00 an hour Minimum wage raise some people are  pushing for.
In my day You had to have a job so You could live.
If that job didn't pay enough, then you got two jobs until you could find one job that did pay enough to live on.
You lived where you could afford to live.
The State didn't raise the minimum wage so you could afford to  live there.
Listen, this isn't brain surgery. You can have the life you want. You just have to put the work in.

Establish yourself.
Get a job and stay there until retirement instead of hopping around from job to job trying to find yourself a better deal.
You can make your own better deal by staying there (depending on the job you choose) if the job has a pension, benefits, or both.  Which is what you should be looking for to begin with.
 And don't expect to walk in the door and make $20.00 an hour either.
Take whatever job you can to get your foot in the door and eventually you can work your way up to the job you really want.
And as the years go by you'll get more money through raises, or cost of living adjustments, etc. It can be done.
You can have it all.
You just can't have it all at once.
Not unless you win the Lottery anyway.