is your salary much enough to support your life?

Since you just started working, its best to know your priorities every after payday. Know what you need to buy or pay first and what not. Its best to set aside for the rainy season. I started saving few hundred pesos on my salary on my 2nd year on my job, i thought its the best thing to do. I deposit money on my account and not think about it anymore..i only need to withdraw when theres emergency or when i dont have any other option.

I am a student and i am earning partly in house..For this life i am satisfied..But i will not spend more money unnecessarily..

i am a single mom of four teen children. as much as i can i try to budget my income to support every single one of us. of course we dont go out that much but i try my best to buy what they need specially the things they need for school. if i have more then that is the time that we can go out and have fun. its hard to be a single parent but lucky my children do understand.

The best way is to find a rich boyfriend or husband. He will be happy to make you live in a good life. If not, just kick him away. I always say to myself, if i no make 1 million, i don't get married.

Yes, my salary is enough to support my life, but not enough to support my family. So, I need to think about shifting my job. Usually, I am a person, who doesn't spend a lot and who doesn't have many extra curricular activities, and I am single. So, I think it is enough for the time bieng. But, when I get married and start to have kids, I need to earn more.

Well,sad to say that in times like this, there are many of us facing the same problem of our salary not being able to support our life. For myself,i was lucky when i decided to settle down and get married, at least, although both of us are not that rich, we are able to support one another in times of like this. Ok seriously, when u r just being employed, it will not be enough to pay everything that was mentioned. I was once in your shoe of having to pay everything, but tat time i havent bought myself a car. Finally when all was settled down, i managed to buy myself a car cause i need it badly for transportation. I guess in terms of salary , mine is still not high. There are many ways to make some money. I have friends who are freelance in a lot of areas ranging from part time delivery man to all sort, as long as its legal. Of coz, sacrificing your time with your loved ones and your own rest time.

Yes, but I paid off my loans literally within months of employment after graduating... only spent on the essentials and not the luxuries until all paid off... It's good that you're not asking your parents for money - heck, it's time for you to be looking after them... But, if you have any debts and if your parents can afford to, why not ask them for a loan for you to pay off your debts. Would be better to pay any interest to your parents rather than the banks...

This happen to everyone especially from those fresh graduated. You can either do your best to save money or get some part time work to earn more money. And your salary will incraese year to year.

Yes It does and am glad i still don't have children yet.think about expenses for their needs,education and even Life,education and insurance plans. for now, despite that it's satisfactory am saving a lot for the next months bill. well, am happy that i got a job.

I do not earn any salary. I earn money online by writing posts and reviews and thus I earn money. The money that I earn is definitely more than enough for supporting me. I am satisfied with what I earn. However, it is also true that the costs of daily life are increasing and we have to earn more and more.

it depnds that one's salary is much enough to support our life on various factors.first how many members are there in the family . secondly, how much expenses per month . thirdly, how much saving after the whole expenses. if saving is there then salary is enou.gh

my salary is not really enough for me.I am turning 26 this October.I am planning to beef up my savings,but with my current salary I know it'll be hard.I'm working part time in a former colleague's web company.I am exploring opportunities to work abroad,but with recession,it'll be hard.

I honestly have to say that back when I was working I paid everything since my husband is still looking for work. Then I stopped working for about 2 months to rest and all. Right now we are really by pay check to pay check. There are only a few things we need to pay since we still live with my in-laws but its difficult. I started working last week and hopefully by the end of the month things will be normal. We should have enough funds to get thru the 15 days. That is why I started doing online stuff just for extra. Hoping this will add to our income and pay for stuff like my childs education and everyday needs.

My salary as a student worker at my college is barely enough to sustain me. I only work August through the beginning week of May, and I'm basically screwed for summer work. There are limited work opportunities around here because of the economy and unemployment rates. This summer, I secured a position working for AVON, but even that takes some personal investment. I'm scraping bottom until August. Can't even afford to get my car fixed. Then again, it's not just me, so I don't feel too awful and alone. Most of the people I know are not making enough money to sustain their lifestyles and are having to make significant cutbacks. My uncle works as a clinical psychologist, so you'd think he's making good money. He's not. A lot of my friends and their parents have become unemployed, some of them verging on homelessness. Many salaries - the ones people are fortunate enough to have - aren't even enough anymore. It is difficult living on limited means, but you just do what you have to do to stay afloat.

Its same here. when w eare students we just do not understand how much we cost.now we face the haet when we earn ourself and then try to manage expenses from there. But I was never demanding from parents. what I earn, is just what goes for expenses.

With what I earn, I still help out at home. I contribute to pay for the bills like electricity, water, phone/internet bill and groceries. If all those things would be paid from my salary, there wouldn't be anything left, as in nothing at all even for my travel expenses. I usually hope that my other brothers and sisters who are working would also contribute for the expenses at home. They usually do and sometimes, they would have a hard time pulling out some bills from their pocket. I do get that feeling sometimes as I would be thinking that I'm the only one doing my part. (-_-") Aside from trying to earn a little extra, like here in myLot, I also try to lessen my expenses. I compute the right amount that I should set aside for travel until my next pay so, I'd know that even if I do contribute a bit more, I'm still at ease that I wouldn't be asking from any of them for money. I also try to avoid doing large purchases. Even though I really want something, I just keep in mind that I can still buy it later on when I have more than enough. Even with the things that I need, I tend to minimize my expenses as well. It would be nice if I could be here in myLot during my vacant time in the office but, that's not possible in my case. (^_^")

No... sad to say, I don't think my salary is enough for me. With so many bills to pay, if I were the only one paying for them there wouldn't be any left for food. Good thing I do not pay for the house since I live with my mum. To supplement my income, mum and I make pickled papaya and I sell them. I also tutor a student, cannot add more, due to lack of time. After that most of my salaries goes in paying debts.

yes, my salary isn't much enough to support my life. even though, i'm already worked years ago.each month, we should be pay apartment monthly charge, telecommunication fee, transport charge and so on,those were fixed, and other fee, such as eating, shopping, they are not huge to pay.we are young, we can't manager ourself very well, so we also spend all of our salary at the beginning of the month,until the end of months, we often have no money to do other thing.to solve this problem,some young people has become slave housing.they loan money to buy a house,and fixed to pay the accrual each month.their salary often can not cover their life.nowatodays,it is very difficult to life for the young people.

Your salary will improve, no doubt. And you will also learn how to administrate it better. You are at the age where one is climbing the ladderI´m retired and don´t have as many chances in the future as the young people. Still I help myself getting some money from this online work. And I´m glad that posts like yours apppear here. Your generation has been a lot more pampered than mine and that worries me. But when I read your post, I can see that younsters grow up, mature and learn how to accept their responsibilities even if it´s not easy. Congratulations!

for us, my husbands the only one that works. i used to work, but he wanted me to stay home with the baby, esp now because we're expecting another. but its hard right now we have so many bills so we live paycheck to paycheck. i want to get a job but nobody will hire me seeing as im pregnant, so the see me as a liability. Im hoping the economy gets better soon because its ridiculously hard these days.