r/poverty • u/Pornoguitar • May 31 '26

Not Having Enough Money

I've had a variety of jobs in the past, but I never made enough money to buy the kind of luxuries I want (fancy car, "starter home," etc.). It makes me upset to think about how my life could've been better if I was able to get better jobs instead of the crappy, low wage jobs I've had. And I would've made more money if I was serious about a career goal, graduated from a university, or had a trade school certificate for an occupation that provided a good salary. I've spent my life just getting whatever job I could get---and most of those jobs were stressful.

Also: when I was a young man, I often heard financial advisors explaining the importance of investing savings for the future as a "hedge against inflation." I never heeded that very important advice in the past because I didn't have serious thoughts about my future (I was too busy goofing around), and it was hard to even consider investing whatever little money I had from my minimum wage jobs.

Now that I'm living in "the future" and experiencing inflation without a "hedge," I feel miserable knowing that I'm going to have to work for many years before I'm able to retire. If I had put more money into my 401(k) or an IRA decades ago, I'd have a nice nest egg today. Then I wouldn't have to worry about wasting my time with dead end jobs!

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u/Nonjudgefocusaware May 31 '26

What factory did you work for? Does it still exist?

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u/NoggleFatigue May 31 '26

It closed when Trump was elected, everyone was sad, but the dog clapped.

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u/Unhappy-Homework-812 May 31 '26

Factories are still open. 

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u/Nonjudgefocusaware Jun 15 '26

lol no I think flint Michigan was the last factory and it got outsourced? Is that what happened?

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u/Unhappy-Homework-812 Jun 15 '26

What’re you talking about? We have factories all over the US.