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#32: The Art of Spending Money 🤑 - by Matt Yao

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updating my money beliefs

When I was fifteen I started my first job as a retail associate at a private school uniform store. Every summer, these rich kids and their moms would grumpily stumble in and repeat their annual cycle of picking out new outfits for the upcoming school year. I did this job because it was the only employer that would actually hire anyone under the age of 16. I was paid the minimum wage of $7.25 and every hour I spent folding clothes while standing on sore feet felt so rewarding. For my strict 30 minute break (one time I got reprimanded for taking a 34 minute break), I set a cap of my hourly…

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