What's going on family.
I hate that I mostly write when I'm frustrated or upset, but that's just how my brain works best I guess. So I'm sitting at my job (as always) and I'm trying to do up a mental budget. July/August is always a busy time for me. School's coming back in soon and Heaven wants to change to a school that wears uniforms. That I have to buy. Daycare, credit card, and rent is all due today but I get paid tomorrow. Then cheerleading payments coming up that I'm avoiding paying. I'm afraid to tell Heaven she may not be cheering this year because it would just be another disappointment to my baby that I don't want her to have. Basically, to sum everything up: I'm broke.
But I have a job and I'm always at work. I work between 36-40 hours per week and live well within my means. So why is it that I'm always scraping together pennies to get basic things done? And more importantly, how do I achieve this upward mobility that I know is possible? This is what I've been thinking about for months now. More so recently as I realized I can't really get jiggy with the bureaucracy (rules) of the workforce. This is probably why employment looks so different for my generation and entrepreneurship is so popular (even though it's definitely not easy). And I'm not saying I don't want a regular job. I do! I need health insurance and a 401k someday. What I'm saying is this isn't ALL I want my life to be.
Lemme tell you a little story about bees. Bees are almost single-handedly responsible for the pollination of millions of plants. As we know, there is only one queen bee and the rest are either drones or workers. Drones are male bees, used to continually impregnate the queen to maintain the bee population. And the other female bees are called workers. You know why? Because they work. And that's allllll they do. They work and work and work for the hive until they die. Then you know what happens? Another generation of worker bees replace them and do the same things. The cycle then just continues.
Now like I said, there is NOTHING wrong with working a job. Especially one that you love or one that makes you enough money to live comfortably. I'm still at work right now as we speak! And I commend the universe for the natural evolution of bee communities because I love some honey and flowers. But what I'm saying is that cannot be me for the entirety of my life. I've watched it in both my grandmothers: just working to pay bills. Going to work everyday for 8+ hours a day for 15+ years and not seeing any real progress in life. It caused one of my grandmothers to become very sick and she had to retire early due to disabilities and the other it just became miserable and unhappy with her quality of life. I am so grateful for both of these women because it was through their hard work and sacrifice that I'm here today and able to speak to the rest of my family (y'all). But it would be a great injustice to them if I followed down that same path.
Each generation should be about improvement and development. I was the first in my family to go to a four-year university. It's already expected that my girls will go to college because I went. It'll then be expected that my grandchildren will go to college because their mamas are going to go because their mema went (yeah I'm gone be a mema). So with that being said my mema and granny worked their entire lives so I won't have to and I don't plan to.
I'm listening to Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki on Audible and it taught me quite a bit. I recommend it to every first generation college student because I think we have a lot on our shoulders in terms of improving generational circumstances. The two most important things I learned was assets vs liabilities and how the rich don't WORK for money. How many stupidly rich people have "real" jobs? Did they make their insane amount of money working at a job? Or for someone else? While they may have a job or position in a company, they almost always have something on the side. Sometimes the job they work IS the side hustle. My mindset is obsessed with this concept because looking at the exponential increase of cost of living paired with the almost nonexistent increase in wages, it's pretty safe to say my job shouldn't be my only source of income. My energy is too live and my purpose is too great to be trapped in some 9-5 job working my life away. I know there are other ways to make it, better ways at that.
So I want to challenge and encourage y'all to look at your financials and see where your money could be put to work. Create, innovate, and supply. Develop ways to accrue generational wealth. Poverty ends with us!
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