Last November, CNBC interviewed a millennial journalist– living in expensive New York City– who paid off $102,000 in student debt in six years while working a job with a $40,000 salary.
In the home stretch, she paid off the final $32,000 in eight months while paying the rest of her living expenses. She says she did it by sacrificing some personal time outside of work. Instead of loafing on the couch with Netflix or socializing, she took up side hustles. She did dog walking, cat sitting, babysitting, and freelance writing.
Any millennial with ambitions to own a house shouldn’t be cheering for a housing market crash, even if one is imminent. They should be working as hard as they can so that they can save up to afford the house of their dreams in whatever market they find themselves.
My money is on cursed spawn of a guy in media who wanted his son to have some hustle and grind backstory before becoming a business reporter. Media jobs are so few and far between I don't believe anyone is going to gey started without serious connections lol.
She says she did it by sacrificing some personal time outside of work. Instead of loafing on the couch with Netflix or socializing, she took up side hustles. She did dog walking, cat sitting, babysitting, and freelance writing. Any millennial with ambitions to own a house shouldn’t be cheering for a housing market crash, even if one is imminent. They should be working as hard as they can so that they can save up to afford the house of their dreams in whatever market they find themselves.
:joker-gaming: "And what if I don't hurt myself to save your twelfth investment opportunity? What will you do then?"
The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.
The irony of calling millennials entitled and then writing this. Like what they’re saying is that millennials should sacrifice their personal enjoyment, work themselves to the bone, and save up enough money and then give that money to them, the author, who bought a house and wants the money from selling that house. They’re essentially saying that they want a to exploit a millennial by making them work like a dog and then taking their life savings, with enough class consciousness for the wealthy on top to advocate making that the norm for millennials. Is this what commodity fetishism is? Wanting exploitation while pretending it’s not you and just “the market”?
It’s also fucking fiction I don’t care how many side gigs you work you can’t live in nyc and pay down $100k of debt on a 40k salary it’s just a fucking lie
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cursed spawn of used car salesman pivoted into opinion-production
My money is on cursed spawn of a guy in media who wanted his son to have some hustle and grind backstory before becoming a business reporter. Media jobs are so few and far between I don't believe anyone is going to gey started without serious connections lol.
a used car salesman and a marketing exec made a baby :scared:
:joker-gaming: "And what if I don't hurt myself to save your twelfth investment opportunity? What will you do then?"
- The big guy
I hate every word in this paragraph
Lol did dog walking pay twice what her regular job did? Those numbers seem fake as hell.
The irony of calling millennials entitled and then writing this. Like what they’re saying is that millennials should sacrifice their personal enjoyment, work themselves to the bone, and save up enough money and then give that money to them, the author, who bought a house and wants the money from selling that house. They’re essentially saying that they want a to exploit a millennial by making them work like a dog and then taking their life savings, with enough class consciousness for the wealthy on top to advocate making that the norm for millennials. Is this what commodity fetishism is? Wanting exploitation while pretending it’s not you and just “the market”?
It’s also fucking fiction I don’t care how many side gigs you work you can’t live in nyc and pay down $100k of debt on a 40k salary it’s just a fucking lie