I started working a couple of months before I even graduated from college. As an entry level employee, I have no choice but to accept low-paying jobs just for the experience. I know this is just temporary and its my stepping ground. Once I learned many things, then I will decide to spread my laurels to other companies who can provide me a better salary.
I am in that point now where I earn more than I do. But you have to work for it. More often we want to start in the top coupled with a huge pay check. That is not always the case. Everyone has to start from below.
I experienced how to be broke. I am now experiencing the joys of what money can buy, but I have to tell you, having just merely 10,000 in your bank account compare to a million DOES NOT make you a different person. It doesn’t make other people with thinner pay checks lesser people than you are. We are still one and the same.
For some reasons, I know that many people will disagree. Sure, more of this
means better food, nicer house, faster cars et al, but as I enumerate, these are all material things. And just like money, it doesn’t make you better specie than others who don't have these things.I always thought that I could be happier when I reached the first million mark in my bank account. Did I felt any better? No. Did it make me a better person? No. Why? Because I can’t help thinking about it always. I can’t help thinking about what to buy. But since I know that this kind of amount is very hard to look for especially if you are just working class as I do, I starve my self with these material things. Worse, I can be boastful sometimes, though not through words but it drawn me too much worse emotions and attitude.
I am not saying you don’t have to look for it. In this materialistic world where people have to have it in order to survive, we have to work for it.
But money can’t always buy anything we want much more, what we need. It’s a cliché but it’s the truth - and it hurts.
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