Hello, I'm Abbers. My name is Jesse Meekham, and this is podcast number 61 for you need a budget,

where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt, and save more money.

I want to get back to the basics today and chat a little bit about the budget. We've had the opportunity getting a lot of awesome applications for

our rails position, Ruby on rails position to basically build out some very cool stuff for WANAB in the coming months and years.

And as I read the job applications, it's fun to see people wanting a job not for the money, but for other

intangible benefits. You know, work life balance, a challenge challenge wanting to learn something wanting to make a

difference have an impact you sell those things in these interviews with these great

candidates and it's exciting and I was thinking about that the job

application is is kind of a way to articulate what you want to do with your time. You're saying I want to spend my time in this way I want to spend it

building something great that other people can use to improve their finances

and you enter into a contract with an employer and you say,

I am willing and ready and would love to spend my time, my life, a portion of your life, to do this work and then you're

compensated for it.

And I love in these cover letters that I'm reading

and different things. I love seeing that so clearly articulated. People caring

about their life and their accomplishments and how they feel about their work.

And I wonder often if we couldn't look at the budget in the same way.

If we couldn't say that a budget is simply a clear articulation

of what you want your money to do, with no judgment attached to it whatsoever.

So when you really, really want that thing, then that is perfectly appropriate.

What we find happens in our culture where we're just marketed to constantly

is that we end up having our money do things that we don't really want.

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