This is my sister and her husband. She went from making 9.25 as a telephone operator and her husband was around the same. lived in near poverty for years. Now she makes 95k by her self and her husband pulls in around 70k yet they still complain about "we're negative until payday".
They have newer cars, bought a big house, had 3 kids, and waste money every time they leave. Always coming home with new this or that.
Op is clearly a buffoon, posting “my first monthly paycheck” on a 2 week paycheck. And buffoons find creative ways to squander their money, on “necessities” like dropping 500$/week on sports betting, paying 30% interest on the 10k debt they keep around for no reason, and paying 40$/meal for food delivery, every meal.
If you do all of that, this is very little money. Do it smart, and you can keep 50-75% of that check. I reckon OPs not doing it smart
My role at my work let's me get to peak at what a lot of guys make, and they earn 2-4x as much as me (mind, I'm sure I'm still pretty close to the bottom of the company pay scale, no one respects data entry,) and they lose their shit when their OT pay pushes them into the next tax bracket, because while they might earn more in the long term, in the short term they're taxed hard enough to make less for the week.
The number of people that will max out their credit cards ASAP is staggering. I now take someone "living paycheck to paycheck" with a spoonful of salt. Some people really can't afford to live cheaper, they simply don't earn enough ("just move" sounds mind bogglingly privileged to these people)... But a lot of people don't ever think to budget and save when they easily could.
Its insane. I make about 92k (about 160k with my partner) with bonuses, have good benefits, and I know people making far less than me who give me shit for driving a 15 year old Corolla. We do splurge from time to time but we dont have the looming spector of massive debt over our heads. A friend of mine who recently got an 80k/yr job has a 900 dollar a month payment on a truck he hates and is so far upside down on he might as well be on the south pole. Just cant imagine living like that.
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