I am also pessimistic, actually. The thing I realised these couple of months is in life things can be unfair or by a stroke luck fate deals a bad set of cards or bad things happen because of my incompetence.
...However, whatever situation one is in, the cliche of being optimistic that's sold by people may not be too practical. What's practical I find is to be able to do something even a small little thing to be better off. Because I believe little things do add up. Of course, sometimes trying to improve can backfire or backslide but it's just part of life. No one is immune to failure lest they do nothing at all.
When I go out, I do see people working in jobs they cannot extricate themselves from and bosses that exploit people. I mean if they could they would have changed jobs or ...
