Re: Money CAN buy Happiness
Originally Posted by
Gabi
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I can't be a#*ed with the poor me attitude because others are getting paid more than them.. get qualifications same as them, spend a few years studying with very little money to live on. Then end up with the lower paid worker moaning about you.
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I can't be a#*ed with the poor me attitude because others are getting paid more than them.. get qualifications same as them, spend a few years studying with very little money to live on. Then end up with the lower paid worker moaning about you.
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Well, Gabi, we were talking about someone with a 4 yr. degree who is financially ripping off the company, at other workers' expense, but I guess you missed that part.
Anyway, I have 2 years of college and I know people who have 4 years, who are making less money than I because that's all the work they can find.
At the same time, the wealthiest man I know, who has a very good job in one of the largest corporations in the world, has only 2 years of college.
I have also known of people who had no higher education whatsoever, who never want for anything.
Education is not the great equalizer.
Additionally, the idea that any 2 people in this world who obtain the same level of education in life will remain on the same financial level throughout their lives is naive. There is a saying: "Shit happens". Life is ready to throw crap at people without notice. Some people get hit, some don't, and some get hit over and over.
I started a business with my husband and we ran it together for 21 years. My husband turned out to have Narcissistic Personality Disorder and he became more difficult to live with as time went by, including that he was physically abusive. I left him, as society tells women to do. He quickly grabbed everything we had before I could even get money for an attorney. Our society doesn't put its money where it's mouth is regarding domestic abuse: The good ol' boy Judge let him get away with it and said 'no' to my request for enough money for a retainer for 1 attorney to stand up with me in court against my husband's 2 attorneys. Meanwhile my husband was living on our land, in our home, with our business and accounts, while I started working a job that paid minimum wage ($9 an hour) to survive. In the end, I received 1/6 of everything I'd worked for my entire life, and I've had to use it to supplement my income since then.
I have worked all my adult life. I am a survivor of domestic abuse. I am a survivor of our court system that doesn't back up a woman after it tells her to leave a dangerous situation. And I am a survivor of breast cancer AND the medical bills that go with it.
Right now I have a friend who is a single mother, an manager and accountant, with a 4 year degree, who is now in the middle of her own battle with breast cancer. She is having to apply for grants to keep a roof over her head and that of her child.
If you think education is solely what calls the shots in life when it comes to anyone's financial standing, then you have still got a lot to learn that wasn't covered in your formal education.
Life, not education, is the great equalizer.