76% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck

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even if their employees quit, a posting for even a crappy job you will get like 300 resumes.

I remember at my work a contract for 6 months paying like 13 bucks a hour just doing data entry was posted, and my sup said there were like 300 resumes she had go through, folks with thier bachelors, masters, 20 yeasr of job experience were applying.
The job I just left was paying $12/hour. Now the average pay rate for an entry level Web Designer is around $24/hour. I took that $12/hour job happily (at the time) even though I knew the pay was well below what I shouldbe getting cuz I had graduated college 4 months before and had no job until then. There are a lot of well educated / well skilled people working shyt jobs.
 

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The job I just left was paying $12/hour. Now the average pay rate for an entry level Web Designer is around $24/hour. I took that $12/hour job happily (at the time) even though I knew the pay was well below what I shouldbe getting cuz I had graduated college 4 months before and had no job until then. There are a lot of well educated / well skilled people working shyt jobs.

this is sad to me .

I feel im over educated for my job. but honestly i regret majoring in marketing i shouldve done finance. i just hope i get this consulting job which will allow for me to ...work from home....make more money... work less hours.... and travel
 

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too much money out here to be living like that

i never understood nikkas with jobs..... working all week to get the same amount...just to do it over and over with no real plan or goal

a job is supposed to be a comeup..nothing more nothing less

outside of kids,a disability,mental illness, etc....you should never be broke :ufdup:
 

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too much money out here to be living like that

i never understood nikkas with jobs..... working all week to get the same amount...just to do it over and over with no real plan or goal

a job is supposed to be a comeup..nothing more nothing less

outside of kids,a disability,mental illness, etc....you should never be broke
:ufdup:


its easy to say this but the reality is that its not working like that at the moment for a lot of people.
 

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The most amazing sociological fact that most people today forgot about is the process in the west to turn people into workers. When the capitalists built factories in England and needed workers, people refused to work for them and chose to raise their sheep and use the common-land to survive. The elite barred people from the common-land and confiscated their herd of animals, people had to be broken to work for wages. :wow: I wonder how many of you know that, that working for others to eat and pay rent was not normal 300 years ago :to:
 

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The most amazing sociological fact that most people today forgot about is the process in the west to turn people into workers. When the capitalists built factories in England and needed workers, people refused to work for them and chose to raise their sheep and use the common-land to survive. The elite barred people from the common-land and confiscated their herd of animals, people had to be broken to work for wages. :wow: I wonder how many of you know that, that working for others to eat and pay rent was not normal 300 years ago :to:
Neither was living past 30...
 

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People hoarding all the money also hurts the economy.

The problem is not the system. You really think 76% of the people have it WRONG? Think about that for a second

100% truth.

Even if that was the case, I'd be willing to bet that someone making $200,000 living paycheck to paycheck and someone making $24,000 living paycheck to paycheck are living entirely different type of lives.
 

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The main problem is people don't treat themselves like a business. More coming in than going out. But like someone else said in this thread, people's money management skills are awful. People are brainwashed into thinking going into debt is "normal".
 

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The main problem is people don't treat themselves like a business. More coming in than going out. But like someone else said in this thread, people's money management skills are awful. People are brainwashed into thinking going into debt is "normal".
That's what credit card companies and even the government want you to think.

The damn country is in debt and they go to work like....:ehh: I'll be out in a few years anyway

:manny:
 

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I'm not surprised by that number. In my estimation, that number is actually much higher than most would like to think about or admit.

The reality is, almost everyone lives paycheck to paycheck....probably even most of the "No not I" people in this thread. The reality is, if you need a paycheck to survive, then you're paycheck to paycheck because you couldn't just stop working right now and live indefinitely, pay your monthly expenses indefinitely and pay off any outstanding debts like student loans, car loans and mortgage based on what you have accumulated. Yea, some may be able to not work for 3 months or 6 months or maybe a year or maybe even two years based on their savings. But eventually, most are going to be on some job site filling out applications and going on interviews.

How many could really stop right now and say "well, everything is paid off and I got a couple hundred stacks in the account...I think I'll retire tomorrow." How many people have their mortgage paid off in full right now? How many have their car(s) paid off right now? How many have their student loans all paid off right now? AND have a couple hundred stacks liquid in the account that you can touch right now? I don't mean an IRA or some other retirement account that you can't withdraw from without paying taxes/penalties? So, even the "I have a 12 month emergency savings account" can't do that until they have reached the level where they are truly autonomous.

So, with this in mind, its not about how much money one makes at a job. Its about what one owns and who one does not owe. The dude who lives in North Philly with his rowhome paid off, his cars paid off and no debt is experiencing more financial freedom than the dude who makes 100k a year but has 275k left on the mortgage, 25k left on his Audi payments and 75k in student loan debt. Because even though the second guy may have more income, the North Philly dude has more freedom...he's not beholden to a paycheck anymore.

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