My girlfriend is a teacher and she also has this mentality. She complains about not being paid enough, barely being able to pay bills, not being able to afford eating out, etc.

She always knew the pay sucked, but "the job chose her".

I don't get it. Don't choose careers that can't afford the lifestyle you have. She got lucky because she met me and I could help, but what about everybody else?

I'm right there with you. I don't understand it either.

My best guess is that some people aren't money-driven. For example, a lot of people I went to school with got "useless" majors, and from time to time I would hear them make comments like "it's not about the money", or "I was born to do this". And in their heads, that all takes precedence over the almighty dollar.

And then real life hits them like a freight train, and they are suddenly $40k in student loan debt with a degree that makes no money.

The problem is that these are some of the same people that constantly complain about how little money they make.

I feel somewhat sorry for people like this, but it's also like "did you expect to make a livable wage in Santa Barbara with a Forestry degree, Kevin?".

Some people just don't plan ahead. Idk man.

No offense to OP, it's awesome you were able to work so many hours a day, but I do not think this would be worth it.

Delivery jobs like this basically trade automotive equity for quick cash. You may get $25 today, but you'll sell your car for $25 less (or spend an extra $25 in maintenance, or fuel) when the time comes.

I'm not sure how the math works out though, it may be better or worse than I expect.

Mississippi isn't last!!

I find it a little weird that old movies suddenly jump to spot #1. Like, did they just not know about them until last week?

What a save!

Yeah, my local Microsoft store is driving all the mom and pop stores out of business.

So all the crappy ones

Offer emails need to start with "good news!" Or "bad news :(". None of this beating around the bush nonsense.

It's once every 3000 minutes, only 182 kids die each year in pedestrian car deaths. The data is very misleading.

Damn dude I'm not the one that left 90 comments in the span of a day, I don't think I'm the one you should be worried about here

You should go there.

It's one of those things where the original intent was good, but that group in particular gives the whole thing a bad name.

I never said it shouldn't. I think public transportation and mobility should be a higher priority.

But the people from r/fuckcars are incredibly annoying. It's a constant barrage of dumb ideas ("let's put nails in the intersections to stop people from driving") and the same 5 parroted talking points they got from a YouTuber repeated ad nauseum.

Like, we get it, you've all said the same five things a billion times. Shut the fuck up already.

Yeah video games and cell phones are definitely not the things that made kids stay inside nowadays.

"Of the 6,205 pedestrian traffic fatalities, 181 (3%) were children in 2019." - NHTSA

181 annual child deaths in a country of 330,000,000 people is not "so many kids". That's 0.00005% in case you want a percentage.

140 children die each year from choking, should we get rid of every single thing that could cause choking too? Because the death of even one child is one too many, right?

You should take a look at what they actually believe.

The last post I saw was about putting nails in an intersection to get revenge for a pedestrian that got hit.

One guy I talked to literally said "it's a war" between pedestrians and cars, in defense of the whole nails thing.

They're lunatics, and they just parrot the same talking points from a popular YouTube video.

This is denial, for folks coming into the conversation just now.

In the past few days I've interacted with two people from that sub.

One person suggested "we need to put nails in intersections to stop cars" after someone got hit at a crosswalk.

The other suggested we should just remove highways.

It's annoying to hear the same insanely impractical talking points parroted by some redditors who watched a YouTube video.

Can you r/fuckcars guys just... not annoy everyone else for five minutes on this sub

"the only thing the SAT measures..."

Very true, but let's not forget that the only thing college measures is how well you do random busywork. Even the really technical majors still have a ton of BS classes, depending on the college.

I would argue that the SAT measures exactly the kind of thing that colleges demand out of their students.

Take that, Brits.

Oh my goodness what a burn

The police aren't a fan of the oxford comma