That’s a lot of cash for you age, part time, congrats. My first job was weekends for $2.35 an hour.
Make the best of it. You’ll be the cat with cash. Go out less often, but kill it when you do.
It is about to change. Change is good.
Rumi writes, “If it tugs at your smile, trust that.”
If the gig makes you happy, trust it. You can always quit - which gets easier each time you do it, so don’t quit.
Do yourself a huge favor, and I mean huge. Like fucking hyoooge.
Bank half your income. Put 200 Euro into a savings account every month. You’ve never had this money, so you won’t miss it. As Iago said, “Put money in your purse.”
In ten years, come back and tell me how brilliant I am for giving you this advice.
If you don’t follow it, come back and tell me how stupid you were for not following it.
$2.35 would buy an entire bag of onions back then. You’d have enough change to buy a belt that would last for all those onions. This was important because you’d want to tie the onion to your belt, which was the style at the time.
Luckily this will be easy for me. My parents give me a little bit of cash daily, and I save most of that. I tend to be a little stingy by nature. Over the last year I have been able to make almost € 3k with matched betting (I talked about this in another thread) and by saving each cent I got.
Thank you for the tips, I’ll try and get the most out of this experience.
I interviewed at Burgerville, a regional fast food restaurant, for a job as lot person. Cleaning the lot, then making some ham and cheese sandwiches.
I got hired and the first day they referred to me as the “Lot Boy.”
Wasn’t my first job though. I picked strawberries. Packed a lunch, got up at four and caught a yellow school bus out to Sauvie’s Island, a forty minute ride, and picked berries in the increasing heat for a dollar a flat. We would eat “lunch” at eight or so, then pick until eleven. I made about four dollars a day. I was ten.
I did that with my brother Jon, who passed in 2001, and it was the hardest job ever. Jon saved his highest praise for hard workers, if you were a “berry picker” you had his utmost respect.
My first job was picking peaches, and minimum agricultural wage in Tx at the time was $2.25/hr, and that was one of the hardest jobs I’ve ever had. Peach fuzz is like fiberglass insulation, it gets everywhere and itches like crazy, and you don’t dare scratch because that just makes it worse. You don’t see the fuzz in the grocery stores, because it all gets brushed off by machine while you’re sorting and culling them. Technically, I only worked in the shed the first year, I wasn’t old enough to be allowed in the orchards, but the second year was all picking.
People in the U.S. as a whole don’t realize how hard agricultural work is. On a related note that’s apropos to the current political situation, back in the 70’s and early 80’s when I was doing this, it was all Jr high and high school kids doing the picking. When my dad was peach farming in the 90’s, though, it was all Mexicans, mostly illegal. He tried to hire school kids every Summer, but they would quit after a couple of days because it was too hard. The Mexicans would get out there and work their asses off all day without complaining. Damn them and their stealing our jobs by being willing to do work Americans won’t do…
Yes, I’m pretty pissed off. I want a job mowing lawns and those fucking Mexicans are taking it away from me. We have to build that wall so I can go wash dishes.
Yeah, but the wall is to keep out the drug dealers and murderers and child rapists, but I’m sure some of them are very fine people…
Never mind that immigrant crime rates are lower than native crime rates in just about every metric. I’d better be careful though, this is a flame-free confession thread, and this conversation could start a serious flame war.
It will change, but also there’s a great quote “People don’t need more time, they need a deadline”. In other words, the more things you have on your plate, the more intentional you are with your time.
Honestly not sure whether the next home gym addition should be an extra pair of 45s or the 54-pound orangutan kettlebell. Leaning towards the KB, since it looks like the zombiebells are never coming back.
I don’t buy DBs for my home gym. I only purchase KBs. They do everything I need that a DB would do and more. Also… walmart seems to have a fairly routine sale on Cap KBs.
@The_Myth why are you so disagreeable with today? lol
