/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>51001417
I have eaten sealed food from a schools outside trash before

>>51001417
between 2010 and 2015 I worked for no salary at all, trying to save my father's business, which still went bankrupt

It was donuts, they were good but tasted of banana due to a peel amongst the grabage.

>>51001417
kek imagine being so poor that you're surrounded by houses this close

>>51001417
I'm living it

>>51001417
I lived in a condo w a pool like that for 3 years. I still own the condo I rent it out now.

>>51001417
Is that your pic OP?

My lowest point was when I was literally homeless. I had just gotten out of the hospital for intestinal bleeding and my mom notifies me a week later that I'm losing the apartment (that she generously helped me with throughout college not going to lie giving credit where credit is due). Just going through intense depression and senioritis, I could not finish my last two classes. I totally agree with her making me homeless but I was on death's door after that hospital visit, which was caused by doctors fugging up a routine endoscopy.

I would live in my car try to eat food and throw it up a minute later things like that. Her reason was, "Son I want to retire. I also need you to clean out your apartment so I can show it to the next person I'm subleasing it to."

I needed to be kicked out. But we've never been the same since. Family doesn't let family die. But anyway that's my story I've recovered since and I have about 100K saved since I did the major in something useful at least but I'm 35 and have tons of health problems that stem from that experience still.

>>51001524

It happens. $20k a yr * 5 = 100k lesson

I lost my job, was barely eating/went vegan, had 1 pair of shoes & slept in my car during a hot summer in Texas

>>51001574

Bet your mom going to come back around. Be sure to let her down the same she did to you. Women screw over their son and kids all the time for their own. Women have no loyalty.

>>51001628
This

My mom's a saint but she still used all the child support money she got from my dad to go on trips and buy personal stuff while I wore the same clothes throughout school and only owned one pair of shoes

>>51001417
i had to house hack to afford my house. I rented to a 24 year old white female (im male). She paid the rent on time, but it was during Covid and she ended up being a total slut, had to kick her out and terminate the lease because she was fucking guys around the house when I worked all day and she worked from home. It got annoying. Really opened my eyes to the true nature of women. Never realized that women need to be pounded or they go insane. She couldnt go a few days with out a dick in her. She was also a total cunt who wouldn't even take the trash out

>>51001602
yeah I learned that hard work doesn't pay
all that matter is luck

>>51001699
Did she at least offer to let you pound midge?

>>51001417
>having neighbour houses not only within visible range, but that close to you
sorry OP, you are still poor

>>51001417
I was a lot happier when I was poorer actually. Living out of my rusted out, discolored ford focus was probably the most down-to-earth experience I had growing up.

This one time, i felt compelled to respond a thread on 4chan where the OP wanted me to tell him about my lowest point when i was poor.

I hope your happy

::racks shotgun::

>>51001574
make sure to put your mom in a retirement home with alot of nigger staff

>>51001574
just sue the doctors that fucked up the ednoscopy

>>51001666

Ya bro, technically the place is yours since the child support was for you. Anyways, you're not the only one nor the only story. Pretty standard stuff. You talk to your dad?

>>51001989

Gotta find a lawyer and be able to prove it.

>>51001524
Same. But try 2008-2018 for me. My entire 20s lost trying to salvage his businesses. Ones I didn’t really want to be part of, just felt obligated to help with.

>>51001417
>living in car
>girlfriend has no idea
>she gives me key to her place
>sneak into her garage to sleep every night until moving in a few months later
ngl, not being cold and accosted by police/niggers anymore was fucking glorious
no material wealth since that point has even slightly compared to being safe and warm

>>51001417
Back after I graduated college, I remember counting change in my room to go get a burrito. Honestly didn't feel all that bad. Something about this makes the burrito taste that much better.

I'm doing much better these days. Hope to buy a house soon.

>>51001417

I was carrying around buckets of shit working at a pet hotel.
That was 7 years ago.
Now I have 100k saved up and make 175k a year. The wheel of furtune is something, huh?

>>51001417
I got hit with a $40 overdraft fee for a $3 burrito

worked in a call center for microsoft technical support because i didn't sell btc at 69K

oh it's right now

>>51001536
kek this, no way he thinks that is making it. Probably a shithole state too

Having to settle for a Mustang instead of a Lexus at my Sweet 16.

>>51001608
>I had 1 pair of shoes

Are you a femanon or something? Who cares

>>51001417
I was a child playing soccer and teammates used to make jokes about my 20$ shoes :(

Had no money, a $10 Starbucks gift card I never used and had to pull an all nighter in college

I ate Starbucks for dinner….

>>51001707
but the more industrious you are, the more luck you will have

>>51001417
I put leftover ramen in the refrigerator to save for later

>>51003600
brutal

>>51002934
>mom could only afford to get me a macbook air and not the 16 inch pro this year

>>51001417
>Tell me about your lowest point when you were poor
I was in college. Living in a tiny roach infested place. When I unfolded the single bed I could not open the door to the room to get out. To get to the bathroom you opened the door to the 3x3 hall closet, walked in to the right where the wall was supposed to be which was the opening to the bathroom. Taking as many classes as I could to finish as fast as I could. Mom said she ran out of money to help (already took out loans). Mom has breakdown says she is going to kill herself. Barely any money for food. Was eating one Taco Bell $0.39 been burrito a day. Would clip coupons out and buy bread and the cheapest "food" I could find at the store and try to use all the coupons even though i did not buy the time for the coupon to lower the total. Stress was terrible. I wore the same jeans every day, and it showed. In addition to the mega course load I worked in the physics and environmental departments part time. It was rough but I made it.

>>51003825

You people are so weird who rush college. I know a guy who broke down to me and admitted he pimped out his girlfriend during college because it was so hard going to school and working. I think ppl are drama queens about the whole thing.

>>51003887
dude was probably just a cuck

Sleeping in car, personak belongings in the boot and back-seat.
I'd stay up all night and nap throughout the day with the seat reclined.
One morning, I overhear two women as the walk past, I pretend to sleep.
"Hey look... I think he's living in there".
I got my shit together after that.

I cooked hot water my showers in a big metal pot on the stove for all 4 years of High School.

side note, im about to leave this site simply based on the asshole captcha

>>51001574
You mutts are fucked, what's with the societal norm which compels your boomers to treat their children like parasites and throw them on the street? Disgusting collapsing country.

>>51003887
>who rush college
It was a then or never option. Once you start working you need to compete for promotions. Once I got my first professional job I worked way too many hours to be able to go to school part time, plus with my major I needed the weekends for numerous trips and six weeks during the summer. If I had rich parents I would have cruised it live everyone else. There this rich blond girl at school driving around in $120,000 convertable Porche carera. I had wrecked chevy that I drove to and from school once every six or nine months.

>>51002670
You are so gullible to be deluded with 100K chances. You should have sold off. Back to the trench. I sold my position long ago. It's in stable, and it's all staked on freeway for a good and rewarding return. See you next year in the markets, alts.

>>51004998
OMG, this is absolutely unreasonable for a parent to throw out herson. Fuck. The world and the economy are so fucked.

>>51001417
>ate a cake out of a dumpster
>smoked half smoked cigarette butts left in ashtrays
>scraped and smoked a large amount of weed resin and weed crumbs mixed with food crumbs and miscellaneous dust and cat hair
>once gave a crack dealer a handjob to front me a bag of coke (made $120)
>slept in a tent in the woods for 2 weeks one time
>shoe fell apart while walking between cities, had to tape the sole on with duct tape for like 30 miles

its a long way to the top, finally sitting on a $3m networth at age 35 with a 28yo wife who massages my balls i can look back and say it was worth it

>>51001417
When I was a poor kid I usually asked my friends for the leftover cup noodles soup so I could use it to eat my plain cold rice.

Choosing between a train fare or ramen, for years.

>>51002047
>>51001524
Important lesson to not mix business and family

>>51003553
Unless you're being industrious for the benefit of a greedy psychopath. Make sure your work benefits you more than anyone else or you're going to feel like a hamster on a wheel charging someone else's phone.

>>51001417
dated a fat chick and got kind of fat

>>51005286
Bro your supposed to empty cig butts into a rolling paper not straight up smoke them

There were free conferences in the city and they would give some free food. I was just going there to eat sit and listen to some topic. Sometimes I was attending two conferences to eat for the whole day. Other than that I was just eating beans and pasta. This kinda allowed me to be remain somehow respectable despite being poor as it gets.

I lived in a rundown apartment with 4 other people for one year and then 5 years in a less shitty apartment with drunks. They would blast music in the night, puke, break shit.
I had my own room, but the walls were paper thin and I could hear almost everything and this went on during all of my university years and even some years when I got employed.
But I saved a lot of money this way.

>>51007161
>But I saved a lot of money this way.
This is always the biggest cope. Spending the best years of your life in a very shitty way is not redeemable by any amount of money.

>>51003825
>clipping coupons
Idk why people always cite this as though it was really shit. Who gives af. I still shop carefully and look for discounts and I have 60k Link and my own home. To complain about doing it as a student sounds spoiled. I still eat well and am generous to others but being frugal is how I got here and its not easily unprogrammed. Why should we give free money to the shareholders of some supermarket chain? No thanks, I'll take the discount instead.

>>51001417
Worked freelance in publishing for a few years when I was in uni.
One year I made 13k (canadian bux) and I was getting food from dumpsters. Also I'm fairly sure I was going through a depression mostly because I fucking hated uni with every ounce of my being and skipped half my classes to play katawa shoujo.

>>51001417
>depressed
>jobless
>took meds to even sleep
>apply for jobs, don’t get replies
>had to borrow money from family
>afraid I would be living in street

thankfully got a job through a friend, worked tirelessly there during pandemic, actually got promoted when team members got poached by competitor. Now “essential team member”, making good money. In good shape again. Have gf of 9 months, but she is depressed and asking me for money all the time (small amounts) as she is jobless, so I need to break up. Only problem I have right now. Another promotion coming up. Have started to buy crypto in June during the local bottom. Trying to build up wealth for a house and maybe a family at some point, although I am greatful even now.

>>51001417
At my poorest I was using my creditcard to pay bills, then using my paycheck to pay off the creditcard before I had to pay interest, and then paying next months bills again once the new credit month started. Absolutely disgusting way to live, would not recommend.

>>51005286
How did you cope with the whole jerking off some dude part?

>>51001574
Gotta love how boomer accumulated their wealth in the wealthiest country in history during unprecedented economic noom, ruined the entire thing and are now throwing their children out in the cold when there's a slightest chance that they won't get to enjoy the same lavish life during their retirement.

>>51001417
i only had like 100$ /month ,was eating the shitties food you can imagine

I have not hit the bottom yet. It still gets worse. Usually they've been leaving me alone at night lately, but tonight I parked in a parking lot of 300+ space and someone cam ena parked right next to me. I moved and showered, and when I got out of my portable shower stall, someone had parked next to me an another man was standing behind me. After they fucked off, some truck, again, parked right next to me in the completely empty lot of 300+ spaces, and when I moved away from him I got anally raped and they're putting JG in my ID now to let me know not only who's raping me, but who'se controlling my computer.

>>51001417
doordashing and asking for money to just pay my credit card bill

>>51001417
I posted on the random acts of pizza subreddit. I had no cash and no job and couldn't afford to eat. Not eligible for welfare as a foreigner.
Someone sent me 2 xl pizzas that fed me for a week.
I'm very well-off from crypto now, I should really pay it back but it's probably just E-begging trannies nowadays. I'd do it if I could vet the recipients properly

>>51001707
>>51001524
>luck
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

You and your pops just couldn't create your own luck. You're mixing up working hard and working smart.

>>51007368
Humans adapt to their current situation a lot easier/quicker than you'd expect.
You do what you gotta do.

>>51007577
Why don't you just send reddit tranny a pizza in honor of that

>>51007624
Yes that's called repression

>>51002094
How the fuck did she never find you? Either your sneak ability is legendary or her perception is legendarily shit.

>>51003008
Every man basically needs 3 pairs of shoes. 1 for work 1 for everything home related and 1 for sports.
A rich man should own around 10-15 pairs.

>>51007690
>10-15 pairs of shoes
>for a guy

It's crazy what being raised by a single mother will do to a guy.

>>51001417
homeless

>>51007700
No. You buy 5 pairs of sneakers 3-4 pairs of sport shoes and fill the rest with working shoes. Wearing the same shoes everyday is awful for your feet posture etc. Imagine thinking taking care of your spine is female behaviour Kek.

>>51007718
Imagine not wearing these every day

>>51007664
She knew.