Depends on your lifestyle. If we’re talking paying mortgage/rent, bills, weekly necessities, dates, takeaways, holidays etc…in this economy minimum 3.5k.
@rsaani_ A guy matches with a girl, talk for six months. Things get serious, agree to get married, eventually they do. Later, the guy finds out that from inception of their relationship and even after they were married, the girl had been secretly meeting multiple other men in hotel rooms.
Minimum wage in 2005 was £5.05 and a Freddo was 10p. Meaning that one hour of work got you 50 Freddos.
Fast forward to 2025, minimum wage is £12.21 and a Freddo is 35p. Now one hour of work will only get you 34 of them.
That's a 142% rise in pay but a 250% rise in frog shaped chocolate bars.
If wages had kept up with the price Freddos, the minimum wage would be £17.50 an hour.
The economy’s in shambles and yes I’m measuring it in chocolate frogs. But this post is about more than that. Too many people are working full time and struggling to survive because absolutely everything is increasing faster than wages.
Something needs to change.
There’s no greater disservice to yourself than holding on to a relationship you know deep down isn’t meant for you, out of hope that time will change what truth already revealed.
HR Meeting on Monday because I refused to take on BAE systems as a client. Do I care if I get sacked? No. I won’t trade my conscience over a pay check.