[GH85Carrera]

At my first job I was paid monthly. Mostly because the boss-owner was too lazy to do it more often.

When I moved to OKC paychecks were weekly. I so remember my first week in my super dumpy apartment. I have spent basically all my savings in the costs of moving to OKC. It was Monday morning and I was getting ready to go to work and I had about 12 bucks in my my checking account, and no savings left at all. I worked just two miles from that apartment, so a tank of gas lasted a month or more.

If grandma was not happy to see me I would have starved to death. After the first paycheck I bought some simple high carb foods. Lots of potatoes, rice and macaroni and cheese. I did splurge and buy one six pack of beer to last the week.

My paycheck was 12K per year but with taxes, rent payments and utilities it was not much left over to save. I had my American Express card, and I knew it had to be paid off at the end of the month. That is why I had it and not a Visa. Later I decided it was stupid to pay them for the honor of having a card. So I went to a free Visa and tried really hard to pay it off each month.