A man who works three jobs but is still struggling financially has slammed the cost of living crisis, saying home ownership is now unattainable for most Australians.
Chris Booy, who is in his 30s and lives on the Sunshine Coast, vented his frustrations in a video shared to his YouTube channel.
‘I have never earnt more money but I have never felt more broke,’ is the title of his video.
Mr Booy explained he worked about 60 hours a week across three jobs including in the insurance sector, as a DoorDash and Uber Eats driver and content creator on YouTube.
Despite his onerous workload, Mr Booy said he does not feel like he is getting ahead, demonstrating the dramatic decline in quality of life for many Australians in recent years.
‘Working three jobs. I’ve never earnt more money in my life but I don’t feel like I’m getting ahead,’ Mr Booy said.
‘I live in Australia, we’re a great country, there’s a lot of opportunity afforded to us. It’s a good place to live. But things are expensive. The cost of living is insane right now.’
Mr Booy claimed the average Australian who works one job and is on the median income of $67,000 is ‘living just above the poverty line’.
In a video shared to his YouTube channel, Chris Booy (pictured) claimed he was working three jobs and making more money than ever before but was still struggling to get ahead in Australia
By comparison, he earned only $40,000 per year a decade ago, but was getting by more comfortably.
‘The quality of life in Australia is dipping,’ Mr Booy said.
‘Ten years ago I was earning probably half of what I earn 1736821201, I worked one job and things just seemed easier to afford.
‘I’d go out and buy things, I wasn’t stressing about groceries, I wasn’t stressing about paying rent. It was affordable to what you were earning back then and I wasn’t a high income earner.
‘Nothing special, nothing crazy and things were affordable, I could do stuff. Now working three jobs things just seem farther and farther out of reach.’
Mr Booy said his 60-hour work week was not sustainable as he had no time to ‘live’ even if he was earning more.
He added an average-paying job was not enough to survive in Australia.
‘Is that really the Australian dream? Because it feels like one job is just not cutting it. Wages aren’t going up, the cost of living is skyrocketing, groceries out of control,’ Mr Booy said.

Mr Booy, who is in his 30s and lives on the Sunshine Coast, said many Aussies were struggling to survive amid the soaring cost of living and skyrocketing rental and property prices
‘Whichever way you try to do your shopping and do it on a budget, it’s just not happening.
‘Just groceries and household stuff, it’s not splurging, but it’s costing hundreds of dollars a month just to get by, just to stay fed. There’s something wrong with that.
‘Housing… a large chunk of what you earn is going across to just keeping a roof over your head. It doesn’t feel like we’re getting ahead.’
Mr Booy’s goal is to become a home owner, but as property prices continue to rise he feels that may now be unattainable.
He explained as property prices rise a much larger deposit is required, and the size of the loans required to buy even a modest home puts the borrower in debt for decades.
‘I definitely don’t feel like I’m getting ahead, I’m feeling a struggle right now,’ Mr Booy said.
‘What are you supposed to do, if two people working standard jobs can’t get ahead anymore, what’s the solution? Work more jobs?
‘How much time are we supposed to be dedicating to trying to survive and trying to get ahead, as opposed to actually living life.’

Mr Booy said his goal of becoming a home owner was becoming more and more unattainable (stock image)
Mr Booy also took aim at the Federal Government for its exorbitant spending which fuels inflation.
Last year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Australia had made a deal to financially support Papua New Guinea to have a National Rugby League team.
Mr Albanese, along with his Papua New Guinea counterpart James Marape and NRL boss Peter V’landys announced the long-awaited $600million deal.
The team is set to debut in 2028 and will be funded by the Australian taxpayer over a period of 10 years.
Mr Booy also called out Mr Albanese for spending $368billion on submarines the country has yet to receive.
Mr Albanese announced the massive spending alongside the now vanquished US President Joe Biden and UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in 2023.
Former Prime Minister Paul Keating is among those who have declared that a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money at a time when the nation can ill afford it.
‘$350billion, if Crown released land for the people of Australia to use and we put that money to construction it would build a million homes out of our taxpayer money,’ Mr Booy said.
‘It feels like a f***ing circus with what’s going on. There are people who can’t afford bread. There’s a problem.’
‘Is it even possible to stay ahead of the curve anymore or is it just about keeping your head above water?
‘Something is wrong. When the majority of a country, when the majority of an economy, when the majority of people aren’t thriving and are struggling to survive, something is wrong.’

The young worker slammed the Federal government (pictured, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese) for spending billions of dollars on submarines and a Papua New Guinea NRL team instead of using funds to help struggling Aussies
Other social media users agreed, with many claiming the expectation of most people that they will be able to find an affordable home is now gone.
‘Growing up in Australia in the 70’s 80’s you pretty much won the lottery. Unfortunately those days are long gone, the great Australian dream is to now leave Australia,’ one person wrote.
‘I hate what this country became. This isn’t Australia anymore, its a land run by crooks,’ a second person wrote.
‘Working and saving money for the last 5 years and I feel like I have gone backwards and not forward because rent/housing/food/electricity has become so expensive,’ a third chimed.
A fourth added: ‘When did having a steak and a beer at the pub become a luxury? Not only is the cost of everything going up – the size and quality of the goods and services you’re buying is diminishing.’
Another said wage earners in Australia simply cannot keep up, with the only people who can live in comfort being those with money for investing, or retirees who bought homes back when they were much cheaper and sell for a huge profit.
‘No matter how hard you work a job, it’s not enough to keep up even before inflation,’ they wrote.
‘Fewer people can afford to save, much less invest, more people might face a tough time in retirement.
‘Low-paying jobs, inflation, and high rents make it hard to save. Now, middle-class Australians find it tough to own a home too, leaving them without a place.’
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