Comments by "J ay" (@Jay-ho9io) on "The Financial Diet"
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@lisa9867 speaking ss one Marine to another, you're doing EXACTLY what drives the kids to say "ok Boomer."
It's NOT THE EIGHTIES, MARINE.
It really ain't.
I came out of the Fleet in 2012, out of the uniform last year. We have LCpls NEEDING to draw foodstamps to feed a family of two kids and a spouse Because base housing is not existent, commissaries are by and large shutdown, and housing and food is so goddamn expensive.
The overwhelming amount of fast food does not pay $15 an hour. There are in fact very FEW pockets of the US where that's the case.
The majority of my citizens in the city I work in, work multiple jobs to make ends.
No one suddenly became too good work. It's that in the FOURTY YEARS SINCE the 80s, things have changed, changed for the worse, actually gotten harder, and the work is harder for less money adjusted for inflation.
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@davidg9091 I'm not in the hope business, Dave. If and I do say if because I don't know what you want, but IF your preference is to assume you're screwed no matter what and there is no point to fight, nor heart to fight in you, that's on you. I'm sorry you're in that space. It's not a good one.
Me, I'm for fighting and building.
If I can move the needle however much to the progressive, then I will. If I can make the bastards of the world get even a little less of what they wanted, or hurt even a few less others, than I've won.
They have all the advantages. I have myself and those that are willing to organize, come together and fight in whatever way they're best at fighting, and build in whatever way they're best at building.
But I would challenge you like this; if there's a one in a million chance at winning something and all the other chances mean you lose.... You still CAN'T win without taking the chance.
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@matthewcooper3218
1. Very little. We split bills by ratio of income, but pass that, it's her money not mine.
2. Using census and CDC data, we are both above average as far as physical fitness, me more so than her.
3. Marriage is excellent.
4. Yes 5. No (And there was ample opportunity, we were a dual enlisted marriage when we were in our respective services) and 6. Yes.
Now about that data.
Where does it come from, and what measure were taken to develop it? How rigorous were those studies? Can you cite the papers? How deep did you get into the methodology? Sample size and such. Was it controlled across race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, etc, etc.
Because I actually don't particularly buy into some very poorly supported assumptions made by a collection of cherry picked "research" that have sample sizes of "two dozen college kids." Or "The 30 people we could get to pick up the phone."
It is not terribly difficult to believe that someone could find themselves in the trades because of their military experience, and someone else could find themselves in tech because of their military experience and still have a happy and healthy functioning marriage on the other end of it.
And I have found that when you dig into a lot of these research, it comes up rather thin, at best.
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@HosCreates Those apprenticeship times are regional, and vary from state to state, but yeah there's definitely a training time for them.
Law enforcement requires an academy, But I make roughly what your spouse does as an officer in the Metro Atlanta area. I have a degree, but one is not required. I literally worked beside people who are 22 years old who started this career with no further education, two people in their 50s with Masters degrees.
Sanitation, also requires no previous training. Pay is less than what I'm making now, but it is a living wage in the Metro Atlanta area.
However plumbing, electrical, carpentry, and HVAC all will outpace my pay scale over tiime.
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