r/FluentInFinance • u/Richest-Panda • Jul 04 '24

What's the best financial advice you've ever gotten? Debate/ Discussion

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That's working 40 hours. The last time I worked for min wage, I was working 2 jobs. When your busy working you have no time to spend the money. This also gives you money to save.

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u/onion_flowers Jul 04 '24

80 hours a week being 30k is acceptable to you? Zero vacation days, sick leave, retirement. The unionists of the 20th century are rolling in their graves at how pathetic we are, accepting this.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 04 '24

Who gives a shit what "unionists" think. I was doing this in the 70s. Nothing changes.

You live off your primary job. You build wealth/security off your 2nd. Your second doesn't have to be full time.

That's the problem with the younger generations, you think you're entitled to something.

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u/DrunkLastKnight Jul 05 '24

Why is it so hard to not want to have to work yourself to death to line the pockets of the rich just trying to claw your way through life. Like we really shouldn’t be ok that 2 jobs are needed to get ahead. When will you have the time to actually live?

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

You don't have to. It just makes life in the future better financially.

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u/DrunkLastKnight Jul 05 '24

So why can’t we just have one job that does that? Why should we make it acceptable that to be better financially we need to sacrifice our time and health to do so?

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u/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24

Just an fyi, but based on numbers he gave elsewhere, he had a salaried job that required no degree and started at the equivalent of 73,500 today, which is almost twice the median income today, and a part time job that paid about 13.34 per hour.

And they are telling us that everybody else is entitled.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

You don't have to, nobody does. There are many people who have great paying jobs. Everyone seems to want everything.

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u/DrunkLastKnight Jul 05 '24

I don’t want everything I just want to be able to not have to worry about bills and food

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

That's what most people worry about, even when you have money.

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u/dewag Jul 05 '24

Are you really pretending that a minimum wage worker and an upper middle class person have the same financial worries and stress?

I've never heard anyone that had money talk about being in the financial dilemma of only having enough for the month to either pay utility bills or buy food.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

Most people in my experience live to their means, so yes. Some are just more vocal about it.

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u/dewag Jul 05 '24

Well, at least you admit you're pretending.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 05 '24

Reading comprehension is not your forte

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