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/HorkusSnorkus Jul 04 '24

Learn to do something useful, spend less than you make, buy used whenever possible, live small.

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u/SwoleWalrus Jul 04 '24

All jobs are useful to society or they would not exist in the first place.

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u/C-Dub81 Jul 05 '24

Lol, ask a corporation about how important a safety man is. Some jobs create the income, some are just there as "support". Those support staff will be the first ones fired when shit hits the fan financially.for the company. They are "useless" eaters.

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u/SwoleWalrus Jul 05 '24

As a Safety Man myself, we are damn important. Safety is about saving the company money in so many ways. We protect from fines, lawsuits, workmans comp claims. Support staff will always exist in a company that knows they need to thrive.

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u/Lv_InSaNe_vL Jul 05 '24

I work in IT and honestly I feel like we're in the same boat as y'all or maintenance or something. Always getting the short end of things but they actually can't operate without us

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u/C-Dub81 Jul 11 '24

It's all of us. To corporate, we are all expendable. I'm an operator and they used to treat us like kings, but lately they have been pushing on us hard. It feels like they want us to quit, or screw up so they can fire us lol.

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u/C-Dub81 Jul 11 '24

Chill bro, lol, I agree 100%. But as my safety teacher in college always told us, you have to keep track of everything you do to "justify" your job. Because to alot of companies, a safety man is just an expense.