Marlboro are between 7.50 and 8 bucks so 1 pack a day your looking at 250 a month
$50K a year isn’t enough to live on
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I smoke a pack a day or less. When I buy 2 packs at Kroger it’s about $6.50 a pack. Not $400 a month but still need to quit
It depends on where you live and the lifestyle you want to live.
Last time I looked they were about $8 for premium brands.
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I have always said schools would run much smoother without the students.
Bingo……18 years experience here
It's enough if you respect money and know how to manage it. You have live in your means. I see this @ my work every time we hire someone, they want to work 6 mths and want a raise and become supervisor over people that's been there for 10-15 yrs.
And if you’re young .. working 40 hrs a week to get that 50k which is not enough for you.. get a 2nd or part time job. I did it for several years and sure helped me with xtra stuff I wanted to acquire
But that sounds like work
jmf
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Yea 50k for a teacher sounds way above norm. My wife has been teaching for 10+ years and doesn't even make 40.
Exactly. People feel entitled to a lifestyle that demands a 100k salary. I understand inflation but i cant stand to hear someone fussing about their income while they have a 1500 dollar cellphone and 100 dollar payment along with a brand new car with a 700-1000 dollar payment.
People figured it out 100 years ago and did what they had to and made sacrifices. The majority now would rather get on facebook and ask for handouts before they gave up cellphones and internet.
Times get hard and all the youtube tv , netflix etc will be the first to go !!
This is what I was taught.
Thats me... I buy alot of stuff i dont need nowadays but im also in the best job ive had in my life. I made good money in the early 2000s but when that recession hit i was laid off and unemployment was about 1/4 of my weekly average. You talking about a lifestyle change for the next 18months .. I remember going from winter into spring , I left the central unit on 78 througout spring just to save money on the bill. Siting there at home all day sweating. I found a job about 7 months into my layoff as a temporary making less than half what i was used to but they worked 20 hrs of OT almost weekly and thats where i got ahead.
While it sucked and my pride took a hit , I did it because i had a wife and daughter less than a year old at the time.
It was rough but everytime i could see a problem with money GOD always provided. It was almost storybook how it happened.
The one that gets me is when i had a house payment coming up and i didnt have nowhere near enough so i was gonna miss the first payment that I had ever missed. I hadnt told anyone and the very next day my Grandma called me up and the first thing she said (after small talk) was "Come to the house when you can, we are gonna pay your house payment this month".
Dont know how or why but in that moment i realized how blessed i was/am.
I know there are single parents out their struggling to get their kids a next meal and its a shame we (govt] cant help the ones trying to help themselves instead of peddling all our money overseas
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I did…. 7 years. 3 degrees. Got TWO weeks off a year when I started not 15-20. Worked 50-100 hours a week , not walking out at 3:30 pm everyday. And my retirement was dependent on what I saved and not some state/union funded retirement.
Teaching is hard but it’s a part time job with great benefits.
If it doesn’t sound too bad why is there a teaching shortage? all The things you said are true but the job still has to be done and it isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
MickThompson
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Wouldn't take much of a mortgage to eat up half of that with today's prices and interest rates
Edit- just ran a payment estimator on a $275k house- it'd be hard to find a a decent 3bd 2 ba for less. That would run $2300/ month.
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$50k won’t get you far around here. If you had $2000/month in rent alone that’s $24k gone immediately and you haven’t paid bills (electricity, water, tv, phone), bought groceries, put anything into retirement, and heaven forbid have a car note or try to have a date night. It might be doable but would be very tough anywhere around the greater Nashville area and I’m including counties that touch it.
My dad retired from teaching, brother is a teacher, ex wife is a school counselor, and daughter graduates in May from grad school to be an elementary teacher so I’ve seen and heard plenty. There are goods and bads just like any job out there so if you feel called to teach you’re not doing it for the money and will make it work.
My dad retired from teaching, brother is a teacher, ex wife is a school counselor, and daughter graduates in May from grad school to be an elementary teacher so I’ve seen and heard plenty. There are goods and bads just like any job out there so if you feel called to teach you’re not doing it for the money and will make it work.
I had plenty of those times where I was stressed to the max cause I was a one income family with two small kids at and my wife was a stay at home mother. NEVER did God not provide, it may have been a grandparent like yours did you or an odd job that I would do at night after work and my family was asleep. I remember numerous times of clocking out going home and eating dinner with my family and putting my boys to bed. Only to turn around kiss my wife and tell her “I won’t wake y’all when I get home in the morning” after doing some job throughout the night that someone asked if I could help with like remodeling a house or tearing out fences.
jameseboy
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Got my teaching degree in 1967 and pay was too low then to support a family. So I found other employment. I bought first house in 1969. I made $10,000 a year and felt like it was a good living. Paid 17,900 for that house, paying $110 a month and mighty worried about where all that money would come from. Point is teaching has never been well paid and you need enough money to buy a house when you are young
PickettSFHunter
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50k isn’t enough in my rural area of TN anymore. Cost of living has gotten just as bad in a lot of rural areas as it is in cities.
