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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 815319" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>There are some people like this. However, I believe that if you look at the history of the majority of people in that situation, you can find things they have done and decisions they have made that caused them to be in that situation. Just from personal anecdotal evidence it is not just one decision, but a series of decisions:</p><p></p><p>I have a cousin who got a close to minimum wage job after graduating high school. He grew up very poor, so as soon as he had a job be purchased a car on a loan. He worked there for a few months and then "found" another job that would have a better top pay, so he moved to it. A few months later, he "found" a delivery job that was lower pay, but he was going to kill it on tips. A few months later he realized that the pay even with tips didn't match what he was making previously, so he changed jobs again. For about ten years he was stuck in that cycle. He would go through starting positions that paid close to minimum wage at four to five companies every year. He didn't plan for the future, just always thought the grass was greener at a different location and swapped and swapped. At that time, he always blamed other people for him always being at a starting wage even though he kept changing jobs. He was evicted from several rental houses, and always blamed the landlord even though he wasn't paying rent. He had a vehicle repossessed and blamed the bank even though he wasn't paying the truck payment. Back then he said that it was only "luck" that I was able to get a degree from GT, and that if he was "lucky" like me he would have been given a nice job. He eventually went to truck driving school and now makes a decent living driving a truck. The biggest thing that changed with him was his mentality. He decided to make himself more valuable. He decided to start being responsible with rent/(now mortgage)/bills. I know that several people had talked to him about the differences between waiting for "luck" and being responsible and doing things himself. It took him making that decision for himself to make a difference.</p><p></p><p>One side story about that cousin. His mother was very poor. She made very bad decisions with jobs and money for her entire life.(she is retired now) (it also explains where he learned from) My cousin and his younger brother always wore second hand clothes to school. First day of school, most of the kids had nice and starchy brand new clothes, but they did not. One year, probably sophomore of high school, his mother had a little bit of money and they got brand new off brand clothes. He was very happy, and it was apparent to me that he was proud to be wearing new clothes on the first day of school. Some of the other kids made comments to me about him wearing off brand stuff. I berated them and told them to leave him alone. A few of them told him that he had a large rip in the back of his jeans. I saw him slinking backed into a corner of the room and he told me what the other kids had told him. I looked and let him know that his jeans were perfectly whole. Pissed me off greatly. Something so simple was one of the proudest moments of his life to that point and other people had to ruin it. I used to think that was only kids that act that way, but I don't think that any more.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 815319, member: 2426"] There are some people like this. However, I believe that if you look at the history of the majority of people in that situation, you can find things they have done and decisions they have made that caused them to be in that situation. Just from personal anecdotal evidence it is not just one decision, but a series of decisions: I have a cousin who got a close to minimum wage job after graduating high school. He grew up very poor, so as soon as he had a job be purchased a car on a loan. He worked there for a few months and then "found" another job that would have a better top pay, so he moved to it. A few months later, he "found" a delivery job that was lower pay, but he was going to kill it on tips. A few months later he realized that the pay even with tips didn't match what he was making previously, so he changed jobs again. For about ten years he was stuck in that cycle. He would go through starting positions that paid close to minimum wage at four to five companies every year. He didn't plan for the future, just always thought the grass was greener at a different location and swapped and swapped. At that time, he always blamed other people for him always being at a starting wage even though he kept changing jobs. He was evicted from several rental houses, and always blamed the landlord even though he wasn't paying rent. He had a vehicle repossessed and blamed the bank even though he wasn't paying the truck payment. Back then he said that it was only "luck" that I was able to get a degree from GT, and that if he was "lucky" like me he would have been given a nice job. He eventually went to truck driving school and now makes a decent living driving a truck. The biggest thing that changed with him was his mentality. He decided to make himself more valuable. He decided to start being responsible with rent/(now mortgage)/bills. I know that several people had talked to him about the differences between waiting for "luck" and being responsible and doing things himself. It took him making that decision for himself to make a difference. One side story about that cousin. His mother was very poor. She made very bad decisions with jobs and money for her entire life.(she is retired now) (it also explains where he learned from) My cousin and his younger brother always wore second hand clothes to school. First day of school, most of the kids had nice and starchy brand new clothes, but they did not. One year, probably sophomore of high school, his mother had a little bit of money and they got brand new off brand clothes. He was very happy, and it was apparent to me that he was proud to be wearing new clothes on the first day of school. Some of the other kids made comments to me about him wearing off brand stuff. I berated them and told them to leave him alone. A few of them told him that he had a large rip in the back of his jeans. I saw him slinking backed into a corner of the room and he told me what the other kids had told him. I looked and let him know that his jeans were perfectly whole. Pissed me off greatly. Something so simple was one of the proudest moments of his life to that point and other people had to ruin it. I used to think that was only kids that act that way, but I don't think that any more. [/QUOTE]
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