I was able to crawl out of the debt-hole and bootstrap myself into the lower middle class. For the first time in my adult life, I can afford to eat in restaurants where I don't work.
“The Guy I Almost Was [1]”
It's best to start from the beginning if you starting reading this comic. Not as outright hillarious as Sluggy Freelance [2] but it's more subtle, a dryer form of humor.