Speaking of real money...

[LuFins Dad]

Luke just finished his first week as a server at Benihanas... $1300... That tracks to $68K per year... Evidently, that's great for a newbie, but average for their servers.

I wonder why inflation is so bad.

[Axtremus]

Luke, hospitality tycoon. Congratulations!

[jon-nyc]

That’s awesome.

[mark]

[LuFins Dad]

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of real money...:

That’s awesome.

I'm not so sure... I'm glad that it puts getting a car in reach and I'm also glad that along with a part-time on-campus job it can basically help him graduate relatively debt-free, but I do worry a bit about unrealistic expectations of the value of money. Dinner and a movie with a date used to cost me about 10 hours of work at that age. For him, it will be about 2 hours...

In addition, I am serious about inflationary concerns, here.

[Aqua Letifer]

I worked restaurants for quite awhile. It took quite a few years before a 9-to-5 paid me as much. I found it funny at the time, not at all frustrating, because I worked my ass off in those earlier jobs. I definitely worked harder for more money. Those jobs are hard on the body, even for servers.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in Speaking of real money...:

@jon-nyc said in Speaking of real money...:

That’s awesome.

I'm not so sure... I'm glad that it puts getting a car in reach and I'm also glad that along with a part-time on-campus job it can basically help him graduate relatively debt-free, but I do worry a bit about unrealistic expectations of the value of money. Dinner and a movie with a date used to cost me about 10 hours of work at that age. For him, it will be about 2 hours...

In addition, I am serious about inflationary concerns, here.

Emphasize keeping his eyes on the prize, which is graduating debt free. He'll be okay, his mom and dad did a good job.