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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is that when you are at work, you are there to make money, not spend it.
Making sure that work doesn't become an accidental cost center can help you keep more of what you are working so hard to make.
Today's tip was inspired by Kristin of the Frugal Girl blog.
Kristin is in school to become a nurse.
Over the summer, she worked at a nearby hospital.
She packed her lunches and snacks, so she didn't have to buy food from the cafeteria or the vending machines.
She mentioned hearing the saying from someone else that when you are at work, you are there to make money, not spend it.
If you drink the free coffee rather than running to a coffee shop, and you bring your lunch and snacks rather than paying for what's on offer, you could likely save $10 a day or more.
Now, I will admit that saving $10 a day on food or coffee isn't necessarily a huge amount.
That comes out to about $50 a week.
Over a year that is $2 ,500, which, while something, is probably not going to make or break a lot of people listening to this podcast.
But on the other hand, since you spend after -tax money, not spending $2 ,500 mindlessly is like landing the equivalent of a $3 ,000 raise or at least something like that.
If you got a 3 % raise on a $100 ,000 salary last year, that would be like doubling your raise.
That's what happens when you remind yourself that you are at work to make money, not spend it.
In any case, while I don't like to sweat the lattes or other small things, I do think repeating this phrase might be helpful to some folks, because I do know that it is easy to let your job become an unintentional cost center.
Yes, we all need to look presentable.
Yes, we need to get to work.
And yes, we often need to eat during the course of an eight -hour workday.
But soon we are buying pricey clothes because we need to look a certain way.
Or maybe we need to drive a certain car so we don't stand out in the parking lot.
Vending machine food or sodas just add insult on top of this.
Because not only can these items be expensive, they are almost universally terrible.
Kristen posted pictures of her lunches on her blog and they looked really good.
She'd bring cut -up produce or salads or leftovers and lovely little metal tins.
It hardly looked like deprivation.
It certainly looked better than a vending machine soda and a can be a reminder of the primary purpose of a great many people's jobs.
We all hope to love our jobs.
But most people wouldn't do their jobs for free.
Making money is a key benefit to this transaction.
So if that is the case, best not to let the job become an unintentional cost center.
If there is a good reason for spending money, well, so be it.
A planned lunch at a college every Wednesday is perfectly fine.
And building relationships is probably worth the cash.
If that afternoon latte is the only thing that keeps you from quitting your job, well, be my guest.
But if we are talking spending money on a bag of chips when you're hungry rather than bringing a bag of pretzels from home, well, that's a different matter.
The goal of a job is to end up with a lot more money than you started with.
Not to see big chunks of your paycheck disappear into the experience of having the job itself.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast.
If you've got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at laura .lauravandercam .com.
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There's so much beauty in Mexican culture like mariachis, delicious cuisine, and even lucha libre.
Join us for the new podcast, Lucha libre behind the mask, a 12 episode podcast in both English and Spanish about the history and cultural richness of Lucha libre.
And I'm your host, Santos Escobar, emperor of Lucha libre and a WWE superstar.
Listen to Lucha libre behind the mask on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you stream podcasts.
