I’m gonna break this down, line by line, and just be frustrated with the sheet stupidity about this for a minute.
Job 1: $1105 @ $7.25/hr = about 152 hours per month, about 38 hours per week for 4 weeks
Job 2: $955 @ $7.25/hr = about 131 hours per month, about 32 hours per week for 4 weeks
All together, $2060 per month at 70 hours per week working out of 168 total. Say that’s 5 days a week working both jobs, you’re looking at nearly 8 hours at job A and just over 6 at job B, leaving about 2 hour leisure time with 8 hours of sleep (lol) per day, not counting weekends. Neither job is full time, and neither job is at overtime. And if one job is McDonald’s and the other job is likely fast food or retail, this is most likely the maximum someone is being worked, but is likely not the case as store hours can change regularly, and/or overtime is granted due to poorly managed stores (from personal experience).
Of that income, expenses are:
$100 for savings per month, even though the average American has barely that much saved in general.
$600 for mortgage/rent, IN WHAT FUCKING PODUNK TOWN IN AMERICA???
$150 for a car payment, so long as it’s a beater car that probably breaks down every few miles.
$100 for car/home insurance, which, again, IN WHAT FUCKING ANYWHERE IN AMERICA??? Nowhere is it an option for car OR home insurance, and nowhere is it that cheap.
$20 for health insurance, which Obamacare/ACA pretty much guarantees that unlikely. In some states, this could be considered a poverty wage, and you might be lucky enough to quality for Medicare and Medicaid.
$0 for heating, which is some bullshit, even in most Southern states. Ah, yes, pinch those pennies by freezing to death!
$100 for cable/phone, which is again, bullshit. If you can haggle well enough, you can maybe get a deal for 1 of those services to be under $100, although Comcast is starting to come out with poverty line phone/cable/internet packages.
$90 for electric, which is a near impossibility in the South in the summer, and reads as utterly hilarious.
And $100 for “other”. What exactly is “other”? Who knows!
Allegedly, this means you’ll have $1260 spent with about $800 left for whatever. Except here’s the biggest rip: the average rent in most mid to large cities where most of these McJobs are have rent that is over $1000, with that $1260 as a pipe dream for “cheap rent”. That $800 is for everything other than rent. Including, but not limited to: food, gas, emergency medical treatment, pet needs, and everything in between, PLUS all of the “Monthly Expenses” listed in this chart other than rent.
Fuck this entire list. Fuck Visa and fuck McDonald’s.
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