I’ve been working one or two jobs since I was 11. farms, construction, lawn work, restaurants, snow removal... whatever. through college, sometimes three jobs at once. most times I was doing 60-110 hrs/wk (6 days per week). I’ve worked in secure holes and overseas for long periods of time. doing whatever required to get the job done.
during all that time, I’ve never spent much on ‘wants’, mostly focused on ‘need’ spending.
the result of doing this over 30 yrs would be financial security.
I did spend years where my meals were oodles of noodles or peanut butter sandwiches.
but at no point did I look at a slice of pizza in the trash and think “oh yea... dinner!”
I’m pretty sure if I did, I’d go hungry and find another job asap (and yes, there are *always* jobs available, even if they aren’t advertised)
As an Army Ranger during the nam conflict .. I Learned how to survive!
Every survival skill that I had learned served me well while I was going through that experience.
I can GUARANTEE you that Without a home or transportation, living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the time that .. You would Not be working a ‘normal’ job or three ‘normal’ jobs at the time!
You would do Anything to get yourself back into the ‘normal’ flow, get transportation first, (which I then slept in) and after that your prospects for Real work would present itself!
Nobody wanted someone who they didn’t think could be relied on to report for work, If they didn’t have reliable transportation.
This is South Florida that I’m talking about and it’s a Rattlesnake for the down and out!
And .. Unless your pride gets in the way .. You Would eat some ‘nicely boxed’ and still warm pizza from a pizza hut dumpster .. when you got hungry enough!
I didn’t say that the pizza were just slices, thrown away on a trash pile.
They were always boxed and warm! 8)
I’ve heard the same thing about college dumpsters at commencement time are treasure-troves of good stuff left behind.