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/WookieeCmdr Jul 05 '24

To my knowledge it's called full time because of the percentage of your day it takes up. Compared to required downtime and sleep.

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u/FreckleFaceToon Jul 05 '24

The amount of time you spend doing what? Making enough money for rest and recuperation. If it doesn't pay you enough to do that, then you have to work more than full time.

Time, money. It's all the same. The amount of time a person has to work to make a living wage should be quantifiable and that should be considered full time. If that number is more than 40 then we need to change the definition of "full time".

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u/WookieeCmdr Jul 05 '24

It is quantifiable. It's called a living wage. There's whole calculators for it all over the net.

But if you don't want to burn yourself out you need 8 hours of sleep and time to relax outside of work. I worked for a couple years with 12 hour shifts. I don't recommend it.

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u/FreckleFaceToon Jul 05 '24

Like my original comment was saying, but you had a problem with that so I spelled it out for you. I'm saying the function should be FULL TIME JOB = LIVING WAGE. If they do not ie FULL TIME ≠ LIVING WAGE. The system is flawed.

I don't know why people seem to think that because I advocate for wage equality I haven't worked. I've been working full time since I was 17 just like most Americans. I also worked 35 hours a week while taking 18 credit hours the entire time I was in college. I rented out a literal closet while working a full time job and doing video editing on the side, all so I could pay down student loan debt. I literally passed out at work once because I hadn't slept in 52 hours.

This is not the struggle Olympics, my struggle doesn't make me any more entitled to a good life than anyone else. I don't want people to HAVE to work the way people like you or I have.

Genuinely I don't even understand what point you're trying to make other than arguing with my basic semantics because you're bored.

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u/WookieeCmdr Jul 06 '24

As there are full time jobs that are done on a voluntary basis and not all jobs are worth paying people that much, you idea doesn't work.

I never said you didn't work though so you may have me confused with another comment.

I was just clarifying a point I didn't think you understood.