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You guys get disposable income?
On a serious note, here it's very hard to get to a point to get any disposable income, unless you stay living with your parent's all your life and never get married, ...
This is the main reason why I'm now able to actually afford a used ps4, physical manga and be able to finally buy games, especially indie one's without the guilt of pirating them.
NOTE: I'm 20 and have been working since I was 18 seasonal work since that's mostly all you can find here, even if you finish university/college so I just skipped that part.
Man you're still just 20. It gets easier. I didn't really have any serious disposable income until I was around 26. Now I can basically buy what I want.
Obviously it's different for everyone, but if you save money and develop good spending habits, it should get a little easier over time.
Here it's the kind of living space where at 40 with 20 years of working years you get barelly any disposable income.
Here it's the fact that the difference between income of somebody who just starts and somebody who has been working at the same company is so small you could think it's a rounding error.
EDIT: Example being on my last summer job I was getting higher wage than a person who was working there for 27 years.
youre incredibly short sighted, and missing the larger picture of the economy. youve only been working for 2 years, and you didnt start til you were 18, and it was seasonal.
in the last 3 years minimum wages have skyrocketed across the board, leaving all kinds of new people with higher wages than existent staff. it is a problem, but it will eventually work itself out.
..but youre complaining about your job efficacy and agency at 20. wait til you actually get some experience in the job market, and maybe actually pursue a career over the next 5-10 years.
the only kids with disposable income before 25 were the rich kids whose parents paid for most of their shit already anyway.
Seasonal work is the kind of work 90% of the population in the country bere does, it's literally the only thing available here. That's why 95% of my friends and people my agre group left the country to search for careers. Because here to get started with a carrer you either need to have cosmic level of luck of habe somebody who will get you in.
I plan on leaving the country myself to be able to actually pursue a career but because of some circumstances I'm not able to atm.
What the heck country are you in where literally everyone works seasonal? Surely there must be people with normal jobs that work year-round. There aren't any teachers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, bureaucrats, etc.?
I'm no economist but I'm pretty sure if 90% of a country's workforce only works for a couple months a year, that country will economically collapse.
Croatia, the number prob is too high but most people I know and see only work seasonal work here, tricky part here is that thay season work can be anywhere from 3 months to 10 months, depending on the job.
And on the note of teachers, doctors, ... we are severelly lackijg then because people leave the country since the pay is so small that it pays of more to work a seasonal job than being any of them.
Ironic.
So do you just sit on your ass for those other months? Because you could try doing freelance work on the internet or something. I just find it so hard to believe that an entire country is functioning off of people only working a few months a year.
Not at all, also most my seasonal work is for 7- 10 months, so my income downtime isn't that high but I still take time to make money in that downtime and make sure I have some income and apply for full time jobs.
I make something close to 35-50 job applications a month when I'm not working and last month of the season work, but barelly anyone will hire here when there isn't a tourist season.
On the note of feeelancing I tried, but don't really jave the skills to do it since I mostly like to do manual work, I'm not a fun of sitting at a computer to make money.
Mostly like this last month I have been painting the walls and assembling furniture for my grandmother that recently bought a new kitchen. Of course not for free, she wouldnt be able to bare it to not pay me for that work.
Well in that case I'll refer you to my initial comment. It gets easier. Be smart with the money you do make, keep trying, and before long you will have disposable income. Like I and others have said, it's totally normal to not have a lot of money when you're just 20. Most people don't start experiencing any kind of financial security until they're closer to 30
I mean... you haven't given any details, but it sounds to me like you should explore a different line of work. When you said you only do "seasonal" work, does that mean you're just straight up not working for most of the year? Because in that case I'd say there's a pretty simple way you could improve your income situation.
When I say seasonal work I mean there are only open jobs here for the tourist season, which is seasonal.
I tried getting into all time jobs here but they are very very rare and super picky about getting only people who have some connections.
Being married can make things cheaper. 2 incomes, and most expenses are not doubled, like rent or utility costs. That is until you have a kid, then things can be as expensive as you let them get.
In most cases here, the woman doesn't work because it's very hard for them to get a job here. So they are in most cases just literally housewive with no income.