“You can love the company as much as you like, but the company will never love you back.” - My dad.
In a similar vein, HR is not there to help you, they are there to protect the company.
The best I ever received? Start saving and investing when you’re young to benefit from compound interest over time. I didn’t take the advice, but I received it!
Did you have money to invest when you were young enough for the advice to matter?
If you worked for $8/hr and took 5% of your income and put it towards retirement (I know 5% is a lot when you’re broke) from age 18-67 assuming you got a 2% raise every year, you could retire with ~$385,000 in the bank and it would last you until you were 79. That’s using the default numbers from Bankrate. If you could bump your savings rate up to 15% using those same numbers (which is admittedly unrealistic) you would be a millionaire at retirement. The moral of the story is start early and be consistent.
If you’re making $8/hr, your head is going to be incredibly deep underwater. 5% is not remotely possible at that wage. At 15% you may as well be living in fantasyland.
Most people wouldn’t remain at $8/hr their whole life, you would likely earn more as you gained training and experience. My point was that at the extreme low of full time wages, your savings rate at an early age helps determine where you would end up. It’s doable especially at hire wages.
When I was making that kind of money, I still saved way more than 5%. Granted, after inflation, it is like $11.50 now. Still, 10% would have been pretty easy. 20% would be possible if I didn’t blow money on things like spend $3K on a bike for hobby use. Also, that’s assuming you don’t have unexpected expenses. I lived somewhere where having a car wasn’t necessary, so that made a huge different in budgeting. And when I needed surgery, I was lucky with insurance. Otherwise, that could have easily have eaten up the savings I had.
So 15% is definitely possible… with lots of luck and good circumstances.
The fucked up thing about plain money is that even if you have a million today, that million will be worth less than half when you retire, due to inflation and nrtions that keep printing more money to cover their expenses.
Which is why the second part is to invest it.
People with money usually don’t keep it as plain money though. On average, if you just invest it in S&P500 (assuming historical returns), it’ll be worth at least 4 million after adjusting for inflation after 30 years. 3 million dollars reward for having 1 million dollars. But even if you’re like a gold-standard fanatic and just put it in gold, the same applies.
I’m not going to point out the ridiculous problem with this, since you already did before bowling over it. I’m just gonna disengage.
Saving and investing is also way easier if you don’t give yourself the option to not do it. You won’t manually move 10% of your money each month, but if it goes to a 401k or a separate account automatically it’s far more likely to stay there.
As a young teenager: Do not start working until you have to. Once you start, you’ll never stop.
Depends on if you have found your passion. I found the career I was passionate about at age 14 and now have more experience than the vast majority of my peers. Until just recently, I had never managed someone younger than me, and I’ve been a supervisor for a very long time now.
That’s true. I started at the ripe old age of 12, and I haven’t stopped since.
Don’t give crazy a baby.
Think long and hard before having kids. Understand if you actually have what it takes to give them a proper life.
Yeah it is not a decision to be taken lightly! Very rewarding, but one of the hardest things you’ll do.
Don’t put your dick in crazy
Always stick your dick in crazy.
Far away from where you live with a fake name and number.
Crazy is pretty great in the sack.
Never have children with your ex
Never commit more than one crime at a time
There are so many laws that it’s impossible not to break multiple at once if breaking a big one. Like planning and executing a heist requires you to break a hundred different laws.
Well then don’t do those, lol
I think it’s more like “don’t drive fast with a tail light out” or “come to a full and complete stop at a stop sign if you have (illegal) drugs in your car”.
Nailed it, haha
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“Get off the drugs, dude.”
Just needed a friend to care enough to say something so simple, and it changed my life. Sobriety is terrifying for so many, but in my experience it was absolutely worth it.
I’ve never touched the stuff, but sometimes I wonder if life would be less horrible if I was numbed to it. What makes it worth it?
Being myself, knowing myself without the dull edge of substances, actually being present in my life and in other’s lives. Drugs were an escape, a place to hide and avoid. Facing reality, while difficult, was such a more fulfilling experience than when constantly running from my own existence.
No, drugs only solve problems temporarily, very temporarily, and then they bring a bunch of additional problems into your life.
And then you get drunk again and forget them, rinse and repeat.
Physiological dependence ends within weeks, and they say after that people relapse basically because their life is bad and they miss being a checked-out junkie. OP’s response kind of reinforces that; they have a life now, and they enjoy it, so they don’t want to go back.
Obviously from everyone else’s perspective it doesn’t help. That and your reasoning are basically why I’ve stayed away from drugs and alcohol completely (and avoided caffeine), but I pride myself on being open-minded. As weird as it sounds, I need to at least consider that the guy on the piss-soaked mattress might have a point, or I’m not being intellectually honest.
Being a drunk is great fun. For a time. Then it stops working, and you’re left with the original problems, plus a bunch of additional misery.
You’re doing neither yourself nor anyone else a favour by being overly shy and reticent. You yourself will enjoy life much more when you are yourself and while not everyone will like you, the ones who don’t often don’t stay in your life long and it’s easier to find people you vibe with if they can see you for who you are.
Granted, I very much did not take this advice as a teenager and even now I’m occasionally too shy. But looking back it was good advice and I really wish I hadn’t wasted so much time and energy on not being negatively noticed by people I didn’t really care about then and who haven’t been in my life for years.
Survivorship bias is a thing. Just because someone is successful doesn’t mean following their advice will make you successful. “I put all my money into lottery tickets and now I’m a multi-millionaire. Everyone should do what I did!”
Don’t argue with stupid
I like this as a way of rubberducking. Not on the internet though. Don’t argue with stupid on the internet.
Have an emergency fund and pay yourself first.
The emergency fund comes first $1000 or 6 months expenses tends to be the sweet spot. It keeps you from taking on bad debt like credit cards and pay day loans. 5% of your paycheck is a good place to get started, that’s usually enough to build up funds fairly quickly without hurting too much.
Retirement doesn’t have to be a ton of money each pay check, especially if you start early in life, but if you ever want to retire you have to start as soon as possible because the later you start the more money you have to put away. Take the company match on a 401(k) or 5-20% of your paycheck. Invest in a target date fund or S&P 500, Russell 2000 fund, or whole market fund (and look at the expense ratio, you want that to be as low as possible) and call it a day. Individual stocks are for suckers, but if you want to gamble with individual stocks use 1-5% of your portfolio to do it so it’s not the end of the world if you pick a loser.
Finding your target for retirement is a big step to knowing what you need to save early. Play around with some retirement calculators and debt payoff calculators fairly often as your target number may change based on your lifestyle.
pay yourself first
Did you get this from The Richest Man in Babylon? I just quoted another part of that book for this thread. That’s one of the core lessons of that book.
Probably, I’ve read it before.
I couldn’t tell you the original statement. It’s an extremely popular saying among financial advice people.
Shave with double edged razors. The razors are more extensive (compared to disposable anyway) but you’ll save money on the blades.
I bought a razor for £30 and £7 on 100 blades. That was 12 years agoml. I’m 2/3 the way through my razor pack.
I found no difference in how close of a shave I got and while it takes a bit more skill, I got the handle of it after a few shaves.
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The world and society is a complex game of house that went on way too long and everyone forgot they’re playing it.
Quality follows where consistency leads
If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
Don’t play rigged games
Try to do the right thing, but actually take some time to try to figure out if it’s right or just feels right.
Being right and being wrong feels the exact same until challenged with facts.
