I related to Walt a lot more earlier on, but yeah he kind of always does dumb things and really overreaches himself with the people he decides he's capable of dealing with. At first I tuned in with the vague idea that he was going to become this real badass running some kind of drug empire, but instead a lot of the early comedy comes from him and Jesse being such inept criminals *g*


Walter also seemed to be the sole breadwinner

Honestly I always wondered why Skyler couldn't find another job to take on instead of Walt teaching AND having to take on the car-wash job that he obviously found degrading, but idk maybe he didn't want Skylar working? He does seem to have old-fashioned views of a man needing to support his family, but still it always struck me as odd that Skylar was just at home all day which is pretty unusual these days anyway with most partners, and on top of that her husband was working two jobs and she was clearly worrying about the credit card bills, so it seemed like another job could have come in handy?