@MN_Engineer
A company will never tell you they're about to lay off. Trust your gut if things are slow at work.
@lilfairycupcake
after 55yrs, i finally came to the conclusion that working for others is a lose lose lose endeavor. showing up on time, never missing a day, get along w others, doing your job, is just not enough. so now i work for me.
@courtneydurham8429
Nobody has an emergency fund. Most Americans cannot afford a $1000 emergency. Our current jobs barely pay enough to cover food and rent. I'm so tired of hearing people say "emergency fund". It's not an option for a good chunk of the working class.
@정의구-f1c
A Korean here. We dont give birth anymore because life is too harsh, having a baby became a luxury that normal people cannot even dare dream of. With no job security and rapid growth of inflation, the US is becoming a worse country than korea to raise kids.
@stymiesnerdly771
I just turned 48 and found myself unemployed at the beginning of February for the first time in over two decades. This week marks my 2nd week of school as I’ve decided to pick up a completely new trade. I’m tired of relying on corporations to grant me the privilege of earning an income, provided I play their reindeer games and keep my mouth shut. I’m finally betting on myself instead. Thankfully I’ve lived a Dave Ramsey inspired fiscal life for quite awhile, so I’m able to attend this school while paying in cash and it’s not critical that I have immediate employment. I feel for the younger generations that aren’t setting themselves up to be self employed in some capacity.
@janetbishop6031
What people are fed up with is, the fact that companies hire a skeleton crew and then force each employee do the work of two or three people if they want to keep their job!!!
@denine685
I don't blame the first girl! I used to be a waitress and bartender. I've had nightmares about the restaurant filling up and I'm the only waitress.
@TOGAB
This system HAS to fold. Watching the misery and depression of sisters and brothers locked into this soul-killing system is heartbreaking
@SunShine-ij9yl
Now ppl see why our grandparents fought so hard for Unions and workers rights, child labor laws etc
@maryfields1382
I retired just 6 weeks ago from a 30+ year job. My supervisor and her supervisor visited the office and took me, plus three other people in my group, to lunch. They pretty much said I was retiring at a good time, because the company was looking at AI to replace a lot of the people who have the same role I did throughout the US. The others at the table got really quiet. They're not even hiding it anymore.
@AmericanConstellation
After my son hit 6th grade in public school. I pulled him out and home schooled him. He's 25 now and very successful.
@lizzien5846
I was a restaurant server for all of my 20s. I’m in my 50s now and I still have nightmares of waiting tables.
@WeAreHereWithU
Welcome to my life. I'm 72, and starved in the 70s due to recession. 80s was ATC layoffs, you couldn't buy a job. Later in my state was the oil shale bust. The 90s were flat. Early 2000s was 9-11. Then, 2008 finally broke me. I lost what little I had. I worked two night jobs just to survive most of my life. After 2008, friends let me live in their homes or I'd be another homeless senior. I never wasted money on smoking, drinking, gambling or drugs. All I did was work. If not for my friends, I would have ended it long ago. Now I'm old with health problems and have to rely on a broken healthcare system and live on social security. Don't do what I did.
@MistyMcCarthy-cf3kx
MY DAUGHTER IS A TEACHER AND WAS TOLD SHE HAD TO GET A SECONG MASTER'S DEGREE AND SHE TOLD THEM NO WAY AND WENT TO A SCHOOL 15 MILES AWAY AND GOT HIRED FOR THE NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.
@michaelwoods6001
I live by the motto, "Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do." Position yourself accordingly.
@lurenzo774
The same people replacing people with Ai are the same people that required bachelors/masters degrees. It’s really messed up.
@TheChristafershawn
I remember the day I came to this conclusion. I was working as a laborer at a musical theater and realized these people around me are doing what they love for a living. So I followed suite and put my two weeks in, learned a couple hours of cover songs (I am a musician), bought a battery powered PA and a $350 acoustic/electric guitar and went to the pier to busk for the first time ever. It was one on the scariest things I had ever done despite playing hundreds of club gigs in the past. I played for about an hour and half and when I counted my tips expecting to of made $30-$40 I was ecstatic to count $80. The next time I went out I played a bit longer and made $140. That is when I kicked myself for not doing it years before and thinking it was beneath me. Making a living your way, is the only way if you want to be happy at the end of the day. Hell it beats waiting tables and I am doing what I love.
@Seedavis397
People need to get into the trades. I’ve been working in the trades (hvac)for 17 years right out of highschool. Worked for 2 companies for all of those years. Bought my first house at 24 for 99k. Sold for 155k. Bought second house 200k and sold for 250k. 5 years ago bought my forever home 3500sq ft 16 acres swimmin pool 2000 square foot shop in upstate SC. Already doubled in price but not selling. Btw I have wife and 7 kids and she stays home with them and homeschools so I’m the sole income. Started my own hvac company 2 years ago and killing it.
@TheRealJPhillips
Ppl keep talking about having an "emergency fund" and "savings". Who can keep money long enough to build money to put in these accounts?? If you can, good for you. For the rest of us who have so many surprises financially....AINT NO MONEY LEFT TO SAVE.
@YakMotley