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Wah, wah, wah! Sorry I am not having any empathy for minimum wage workers. I was one a long time ago, making as little as $4 an hour to sweat in a warehouse doing backbreaking labor.
That was motivation for me to save money, delay gratification, pay my own way to earn 2 degrees, and increase my earning power.
In order to do this I had to SACRIFICE for several years. People don't understand the concept of not having everything you want, and planning for long-term success. And it never gets easy.
Wah, wah, wah! Sorry I am not having any empathy for minimum wage workers. I was one a long time ago, making as little as $4 an hour to sweat in a warehouse doing backbreaking labor.
That was motivation for me to save money, delay gratification, pay my own way to earn 2 degrees, and increase my earning power.
In order to do this I had to SACRIFICE for several years. People don't understand the concept of not having everything you want, and planning for long-term success. And it never gets easy.
True . Just like in the quote I posted a few back about how most people spend most of all their money on things that have no value .
Cars are probably the biggest thing people spend on that keeps them broke .
But then people say they “deserve it “ because they work hard . Hear it all the time .
“Yeah you should buy X , you work hard .. you deserve to treat yourself “
The goal shouldn’t be to make minimum wage “comfortable “ people should be trying to figure out how to get out of min wage as fast as possible .
One of the reasons public schools abandoned the vocational track was racial discrimination litigation. The lawsuits asserted (1) people who go to college earn more in lifetime earnings than people who go into trades, (2) a higher percentage of white people went into the college prep track than racial minorities, (3) more racial minorities went into the vocational tracks than white people, (4) therefore, the public schools were guilty of racial discrimination by steering minorities into the vocational track and whites into the college prep track.
The irony, of course, is that nowadays a plumbing contractor with a half dozen trucks and a dozen employees is, most likely, a multi-millionaire.
Wah, wah, wah! Sorry I am not having any empathy for minimum wage workers. I was one a long time ago, making as little as $4 an hour to sweat in a warehouse doing backbreaking labor.
Same here, I used to be a burger flipper.
I didn’t like it so I joined the military, finished my education, and now I don’t flip burgers anymore.
Wah, wah, wah! Sorry I am not having any empathy for minimum wage workers. I was one a long time ago, making as little as $4 an hour to sweat in a warehouse doing backbreaking labor.
That was motivation for me to save money, delay gratification, pay my own way to earn 2 degrees, and increase my earning power.
In order to do this I had to SACRIFICE for several years. People don't understand the concept of not having everything you want, and planning for long-term success. And it never gets easy.
And how many times the minimum wage are you earning now?
And how many times the minimum wage are you earning now?
Ignoring bonus compensation and the fact that I never actually only work 40 hours anymore, I make more than 6 times the minimum wage per hour. My wife makes 3 times.
Our overall compensation including bonus, 401k, and other benefits is probably 14 or 15 times per year what I made 8 years ago making minimum wage with no benefits.
But what does that have to do with the price of rice in China?
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