11-06-2023, 12:19 PM
Yeah, color me unsympathetic. I couldn't afford a car when I was younger so I didn't have one. I rode the bus to work. It's true what they say, it does build character. When I moved to the swing shift in the machine shop so I could pull an extra fifty cents an hour, I couldn't ride the bus anymore because it stopped running at a certain time. I borrowed a bike and often got a ride to work with the disassembled bike in the back, but sometimes rode it to work (about 7-8 miles). I always rode it home at 2am. After a couple of years of this, I eventually got a car and worked two jobs to make the financing work (4 x 10hr at one and 3x 12hr at the other ). I did that for something like 5 or 6 months before I burned out working 10-12 hrs a day, every day of the week. The next car I got, I paid cash and vowed to never finance a car again. I did finance a car one more time (married with newborn) but all the others are paid off when purchased. You have to work and save. I think it's called adulting these days.
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