Have an associate degree in engineering, wanna go ahead to do two more years to have my bachelors but I also enjoy barbering so I've paused on schooling and now cutting hair. Charge 30-$40 a cut and it takes about 30mins for one. averaging 9-12 cuts a day (6-7 hours) for 5 days, sometimes 6. Averaging 300 to $400 a day and 1500 to $2100a week, excluding tips, before and after hours, house calls or any extra charges. America! Land of opportunities Ampa
America is, in fact, a Socialist Paradise! However, when you start working "hard", you will be in a capitalist business environment. If you cut'n hair in a big city, then your rent, taxes, utilities, supplies, salaries and unemployment insurance for every on the books employee (if you have them) have to be deducted. All of a sudden $6-8k per month looks more like $2-3k and that's what you have left to pay your own residential rent and school clothes and sneakers and trips, etc. And you're competing with probably 2, 3 other barbers in the same 10 block radius!
@@MAdams-ey4if I'm not sure how you're doing the deductions to go from 6-8k s month to about 2-3k. The office job workers don't even have deductibles that go that far (about 70-80%) from the math u did. Booth/chair/studio rent, your own housing rent, health insurance, etc. Then at the end of the year you file your taxes. Payment for cuts are optional ; cash, cashapp, venmo etc. None of all that combined go that far (70-80% deduction) even for the rich. Working hard here is important. It's a bad thought to not wanna work hard cos of taxes. You pay taxes regardless of however much u earn. So why not wrk hard and live a good life, good house or apartment than some bad looking government housing 🤷🏿♂️
one interesting point that connects all of the callers is the host last point, if you want to get world class skills and education, you have to leave the country and that ain't development. Ghana's been doing it's own thing for over 50 years and electricity, education, water, roads, transportation, consumer credit, etc., are still substandard and not competitive with the West or the East. We have to stop making excuses and focus on what real and important. The changes needed in Ghana/Africa will be a long time coming, 20, 30 years. The grown ups in Ghana/Africa now will not be the primary beneficiaries, it's about the Children of Africa's Future, 15, 20, 30 years down the road, that's the conversation we need to have. Real Talk!
Here's the case we're not planning, although we have something called NDPC. One of my pet peeves with the ruling NPP, eg, is that they claim not to believe in long term planning, on the excuse that it would tie their hands and not allow them to implement plans in their own manifesto. How silly and petty is that? If we all agreed on broad long term goals,, wouldn't parties then design their manifestoes to be unique in their details but geared toward the overarching national objective? The fact, even, is that we have very fundamental problems, and there's little to choose between the two parties on what needs doing, or even HOW it should be done, if you think about it.
You should get to interview immigrants and working professionals not students and persons who travelled on temp visas. The perspective of the former will be more helpful
We been voting saa but yet still non can find any better solution to the issue,only this year alone the way the YOUTH are running away from their onw country is very sad & is like the politicians do not care bcuz for them they've make alot of wealth & money from us, so, they careless is a shame when is this going to stop a country with ABUNDANCE of NATURAL RESOURCES with less than 35 MILLION PUPULATION but our leaders intentionally find ways & means to keep all this to themselves & family & the citizens suffer for this WHY 😢😢
Depends on where they live and work, but 20k in 4 months that's 5k a month. That's possible for those that earn more, like 7-10k a month and pay less than $1500 in rent. So not a lot of ppl, but it's possible. And I understand majority cannot even save 2k a month
@@sirlord_7235 that's 120k a year minimum. It's only the 1-5% that make that. and I'm being generous with the percentage. I know and I worked as a professional myself. Do the math....the average black family earns around 40k a year....whites, around 65k.
People your ilk who hail mediocrity will never stop finding opportunity to water down on all things good. Sad you have blind yourselves with the propaganda of your political masters.
We hoped things would get better but we have been disappointed big time and not just that they are getting on our nerves Rent childcare healthcare parent support its just tough but we are still here
