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I have never owned a credit card in my life. The idea simply never appealed to me. I think it went against my free-spirited nature:
Why would I spend money I don’t have and put myself in jail paying it back? I really don’t like owing people money, and I avoid paying for things in installments. If I cannot pay for something in full, I am not ready to have it.
Some people have told me credit cards are great for building credit and that you need one if you want to buy a house someday. I am sure th…
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I enjoy your writing and the perspectives you are sharing for several years now.
When reading this post I had a nagging voice in my head. What if:
- you don’t have the financial means to just say bye to your job and go do whatever you want?
- what if you are the sole carrying parent to several kids?
The thought was triggered by “leaving a cozy tech job”. Sounds tough. But what about leaving your job that “barely makes enough money to get your family through the month to do something crazy/new”?
This…
i dont have good answers! luckily there are many more people sharing than me :-)
No worries. Maybe what's needed is more examples? Or more specific example? Or maybe in the case that you talked about he would have done it even if he wouldn't have had a cozy tech job?
There is this idea of job crafting, creating the job you want to have. This is easier for those higher up in the hierarchy as they have more autonomy. That concept gets the same criticism. But one of the most impactful paper on this topic is researching how cleaning staff in a hospital are crafting their job to enjoy it more.
Financial capital makes it easier to just do whatever you want to do. Social capital also makes it easier. But your personality also plays a role. It's the interplay between the three. If you don't have one, one of the other needs to be stronger.
Lastly about (near) poverty and creating change in your life, I think there is a level where you're life is so crap that you are willing to take big risks to create change. And then there is the level where it's really fucking hard, but the risk of doing a big change is too big. You're spending all your cognitive and emotional energy staying afloat, but as you are not yet drowning you are not ready for doing crazy stuff.
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This is not “fake” news. However, we’ll probably hear the Trump-Poilievre’s minions create more gossip about it.
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Isso me define tanto que automaticamente penso: eu preciso escrever sobre isso
