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🗓️ 27 August 2025

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0:00.0	Brought to you by the Every Dollar app.
0:04.3	Start budgeting for free today.
0:06.8	I'm kind of at a clean slate in life right now.
0:08.7	I'm 23.
0:10.1	I'm about to go back to school.
0:11.7	I'm going to trade school for IT.
0:14.5	And I've been in debt for like my whole adult life.
0:17.5	Since I turned 18, I moved out.
0:19.1	My parents got divorced, so I moved out.
0:24.9	And I've just now dug myself out of that hole for the most part.
0:30.0	Through some blessings with family members and things like that. And I just want to know,
0:34.8	you know, someday when I get out of this year-long training and I'm making some type of decent money, I plan to have a part-time job while I'm in school.
0:38.3	What can I do to prosper?
0:41.3	Because up until this point, it's been hell.
0:44.1	I've tried to take care of myself, me and my fiance,
0:46.7	just struggling by on a full-time income the best we can,
0:50.6	but it's just like wages aren't proportionate to the expenses of everyday living anymore.
0:55.7	So I guess that's my question.
0:57.1	No, that's not true.
0:59.2	That's not true.
0:59.8	Wages are definitely proportionate to the expenses of everyday living.
1:03.3	Your wages maybe aren't.
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