Welcome to the meat grinder my friend.

You sound part of the younger generation starting to enter the work force. Stay at home as long as possible (family situation permitting) and save your pennies.

I think these days with the current climate you have it really tough - everything is fucked in the work world and its all about more production more money at the cost of your soul. Good employers are far and few between.

You have 2 options:

• Stay on your current trajectory and feed yourself in to the grinder, you might eventially find stability.

• Alternative life paths to the traditional ones.

I know a few people that barely work and travel around all the time. They are some of the happiest people I know. They usually have a skill that can be traded for goods or money like painting, woodwork, think trade based skills, handyman stuff.

You also have the third option of asking your parents for a small loan of 1 million dollars and starting your own business.

have to wait some time for a bus one way or the other

[waiting about 30 minutes]

...and...

Comute is about an hour each way,

[where you are not having to pay attention to driving]

but I have mandatory one hour lunch,

This is 3.5 approximately hours a day that have no responsibilities to your job that you can put your attention on other subjects. lets even allow a subtraction of 30 minutes for having to change buses/trains or set up of lunch and clean up. This leaves about 3 hours a day. This is your resource for personal/professional improvement and change.

This is a huge untapped value that you can use to change your situation! Have you thought how you could use this time to move yourself forward?