Someone did the calculation and if this is using minimum wage ($7.25/hr), it’s 38 hours for the first job, 33 for the second and predicated on your boss not shafting your schedule
let’s put everything else on hold for a second. let’s say you genuinely have these living expenses. fine.
the most interesting/disturbing part is that your employer is expecting you to work a second job. mcdonalds vehemently opposes minimum wage raises with the argument being that it increases unemployment, right? assuming a situation where you have one vacancy per potential job-seeker, which is a perfect market, every single job-seeker filling several vacancies at once will increase unemployment on their own.
I worked in cable. You could *maybe* work phone bill and cable in your first year. Beyond that deal? It’s unlikely. Hell, most of the cable packages with anything of worth are over 50$ before taxes or hidden fees.
And internet is nowhere on that list. So it falls under cable (in which case you definitely can’t afford all three outside of signing deals) or ‘other’. Which means you can never buy a nice pair of shoes/go on a paid date/etc.
And don’t tell my you don’t need internet- short of libraries (which now often have computer time limits)- internet is not free to access and most jobs require an email address at least. Any job in my fields would require me to have internet access.
What this is saying is that they think it’s okay for some people to live a few steps above hand to mouth so others can dwell in opulent extravagance.
Also where tf is the water bill??? Under “other”?? That shit’s a NECESSITY
So was talking to my dad about this.
Gas/trasportation (~30/wk)
Food (~100/wk)
You could barely make it.Of course, my brother is diabetic. So he automatically can’t do this. Insulin is expensive.
And then my dad pointed out something we’d overlooked. Taxes. So assuming this 2,060 a month, you’d have $24,720 a year. And this is NET INCOME.
Federal and state tax means most ppl pay ~33%. You need a gross income around ~36,000/yr.
An expected work week is 40 hours. So 40 hr week x 52 wks = 2,080 hours36,000/2,080~ $18/hr You’d need a wage of $17.31/hr for a 40 hour work week. And that is assuming no vacations aside from weekends.
Assuming the 71 hour work week above, you would need $9.75/hr to achieve the $36,000/yr.
7.25/hr x 71 hrs x 52 weeks = $26,767 per year 36,000-26,767 = (9,233)
A person working off of this budget would end the year $9,233 in debt.
the mere fact that they expect it to be the norm for someone to have 2 jobs is enough to stop reading and set fire to the whole damn thing
it also doesn’t even take college into consideration
good question
Because of something called Parallax. Which is when distant objects appear to move much slower than closer ones.
When you’re driving and look out the window, the road right below you appears to be zooming past you. But the mountains in the distance appear to be barely moving at all. This is because they’re further away and so take less of your field of vision. You’d need to move further for them to appear to have moved as much as closer objects.
The stars are much much much much further away than the mountains. So much so that even after thousands of years of moving at incredible speed, they still appear to have barely moved at all.
Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space.
when I was a kid, “parkour” was called “free-running,” which is a WAY cooler name in my opinion but anyway.
my older brother and I went through a a huge free-running phase, watching youtube videos about how to climb brick/stone walls and jump off high places safely etc.
I was already part-squirrel so it just made sense.
Eventually, we moved on from it when I was like thirteen but when that chicken flew onto the CVS Pharmacy roof and the only way to get to it was to shimmy up a concrete pole, brace myself against a chain-link fence, and then hop onto a brick ledge,
I was just like
[anime protag voice] “all of my training………… …was for this chicken.”
What even is your life?
my brother was going through a ninja phase unrelated to naruto, I was in my naruto phase, and I guess we both like the idea of being able to jump off of building unscathed. It honestly worked out.
Are ladders illegal at the CVS Pharmacy?
Are you accusing me of being a person who stops and considers a situation before acting
