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After 9 years at a company, I decided to leave because I receive a proposal to work in another company, but right then the "Operation car wash" crisis came. Several contracts were suspended due to lack of payment. Many employees were fired and other had difficulties. The company together with its staff had to scratch a living and hope for better days ahead.

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During the pandemic, unfortunately, thousands of people died. In a addition to that, thousands of other people lost their jobs and began to live in poverty. Many were evicted and began to live on the streets, scratching a living off garbage. The pandemic came to an end and little by little the economy is returning. I do hope that everything returns to normal as soon as possible.

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Life breaks our legs on several occasions. Sometimes we come across problems in our work and we have to overcome them because we need to have money to keep our household bills. My father, for example, went through a difficult situation. He had a good salary with commissions and suddenly the store went bankrupt. His salary was reduced for some time to 60%. We had to Scratch a living for a while but he didn't give up. He worked hard and got a new job with better pay and the situation got a lot better.

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During the pandemic, we all could see that many companies had to scratch a living without knowing about their future.

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During the pandemic my cousin lost his job and had to scratch a living off anything he could do. I helped him the way I could until he got a job and things got a little better.

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Most people who live in the country, except for the big farmers, are simple people who have to Scratch a living but always have a smile on their faces.

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When I graduated, I started working in a pet shop and other small veterinary clinics. I worked for three years that way and almost made no money at all. I didn't have the maturity to understand that at the beginning it would be difficult and I decided to leave the veterinarian because I thought that that profession didn't make good money. I started working on other things, got some money, but again not enough. I realized I needed to do postgraduate to grow and stop scratching a living. I completed my postgraduate studies in veterinary orthopedics and things started to improve, but I'm still far away from where I want to be.

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I have a friend who spent literally 4500 reais to go to the premium section of Taylor Swift´s concert. My friends and I inveted her for lunch and she declined and said "Guys, I can´t spend more money because I´m scratching a living after buying the ticket." And then, I told her, "See that guy grabbing cans and putting in his bag to sell them and buy his lunch the next day? He´s scratching a living, not you.

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Rafa: Hey bro, what's up?

Larry: Hey, kind of.

Rafa: Oh, what happened?

Larry: I'm scratching a living bro. I can't buy the new Spider-Man video game. I'm broke.

Rafa: Easy bro, I think you are overreacting. Do you really know what scratching a living means ?

Larry: I'm not sure but it is to be poor, right?

Rafa: Man think twice before say something like this. Scratching a living is like when you don't have enough money to survive! To eat!

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During the pandemic, many companies broke and lots of people lost their jobs and they had to scratch a living. But luckily the pandemic came to an end.

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Some years ago, my husband and I bought a small apartment, but unfortunately my husband got sick and we had to scratch a living. But to our luck a friend helped us and lent us some money.

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I once heard that administration is key. And that is really true. Let me tell the story of a man who had two stores and because of his lack of control in his finances and insensibility towards people who worked for him, he was bankrupt and full of debts and now he is scratching a living, living with his mother.

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About three years ago, we had the Pandemic, which was a tough moment in our lives when it was necessary to change our life's way.

My friend called Daniel is an English teacher and to keep his classes he had to go through a lot of changes and fortunately he didn´t have to scratch a living. But many other English teachers didn´t have the same luck.

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We live in a country which is full of natural resources. But the big majority of its population have to scratch a living without much hope about the future.

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During the pandemic, it became way more visible the difficulties of my country in terms of job opurtunities and economy. Because of the fact that people couldn't go out of their houses. A lot of shopping places and markets closed, which also means that a lot of people were scratching a living and looking for a job and keep themselves healthly and safe. Even after the pandemic there are people who couldn't find a work and are still unemployed. Also, the number of people who live on the streets grew a lot. Everytime I walk on the street, I see many people who are really scratching a living everyday. It's terrible.

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About three years ago, there was an unprecedented scenario - the pandemic .

Not only my company but almost all the companies had to scratch a living. Fortunately my company survived.

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In 2019, I went to Curitiba to compete in my first national American football championship. Days before, I asked my parents for money so I could eat there on the trip. My parents only gave me 200 reais, and as we all know, food on the road is very expensive. On the way back, we stopped at Graal, where I met a guy who was in need, as he was having difficulties finding a job and was scratching a living. Even though I had little money, I bought him a bag of rice so he could eat.

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In 2019 I went to live in São Paulo and I sold my apartment in Rio de Janeiro because I didn't think about going back to live in Rio. I bought an apartment in São Paulo and after 3 years I decided to return to Rio. I rented my apartment there but I had to lived with my parents for 5 months with my daughters until I found an apartment to buy in Rio. It was not easy to share a room with a small closet for three and also I had to scratch a living for a while. Well, the despite that, we managed to mature a lot with the experience and for my parents it was wonderful to have us around again.

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Use this post to record your voice... just the way John did.