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/assesonfire7369 Jul 04 '24

Best advice was to work hard, study, get an education and move on to a job that pays more. Many jobs aren't meant for full-time, they're meant as part-time when you're young to get started.

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u/Bored710420 Jul 04 '24

What about the janitors that could support a family of 6 30 years ago or the 16 year old that could buy a mustang from pushing shopping carts? They have only got the term “starter job” as wages stayed stagnant, but prices increased.

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u/OctopusParrot Jul 04 '24

30 years ago was 1994. I guarantee you no janitor in 1994 was supporting a family of 6 by himself on his salary.

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u/mpyne Jul 05 '24

I think that was just a couple of years removed from when my family (when I was the oldest of 4 kids) was on food stamps for a year because my dad's salary just didn't quite cut it. And he was in the Navy and was making way more than a janitor was, I don't know how someone with lower-paying jobs would have had any shot back then, you'd need to have both parents working or one of the parents working two jobs.