Comment by simoncion
1 month ago
> Don't people have rent/mortgages to pay anymore?
Are you too early in your working life to have catastrophe savings [0]? If you're not, is it seriously going to be a four-alarm fire if you suddenly got fired?
Related, like, do you have a plan for what happens if unexpected injury prevents you from doing the work you're doing ever again?
[0] let alone "fuck you" savings
I mean, by now I have savings, but I still kind of live as though I don't. The way I was taught was that you're never supposed to touch your savings. If you have to, it's a huge problem. If the balance is going up, that's normal, and if the balance is going down, that's a raging fire.
As someone who lived off my savings for the last 5-6 years, I'm glad you cannot see my balance :)
And also I learned that apparently my life is a raging fire, fun! :)
i mean, if you're forced to use your catasrophe savings, that still sorta makes it a catastrophy situation