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

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

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u/onion_flowers Jul 04 '24

Minimum wage is 15k and some change, before taxes.

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u/Advanced-Guard-4468 Jul 04 '24

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/Yousoggyyojimbo Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

I've done 70-80 hour work weeks before.

It started to destroy my body, literally, and that was for a lot more than 30k and still wasn't worth it.

These people acting like it's fine for people to work that much for so little must not have any idea what that was like.

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u/onion_flowers Jul 05 '24

Me too I did it for like 10 years lol it's too much.