scraping a meager living

part-time job, especially for students (as opposed to one's main occupation when it is only part time) / part-time worker

凌ぐ: weather out, endure, stave off / 凌ぐ: outdo, surpass

to grumble (about something trivial)

pass over / cross / traverse

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

weather out, endure, stave off / outdo, surpass

(colloquial) current boyfriend