Financial Independence Daily FI discussion thread - March 21, 2020 |
| Daily FI discussion thread - March 21, 2020 Posted: 21 Mar 2020 01:08 AM PDT Please use this thread to have discussions which you don't feel warrant a new post to the sub. While the Rules for posting questions on the basics of personal finance/investing topics are relaxed a little bit here, the rules against memes/spam/self-promotion/excessive rudeness/politics still apply! Have a look at the FAQ for this subreddit before posting to see if your question is frequently asked. Since this post does tend to get busy, consider sorting the comments by "new" (instead of "best" or "top") to see the newest posts. [link] [comments]  |
| What FU money looks like as a healthcare worker Posted: 20 Mar 2020 11:51 PM PDT I'm a US nurse working in a US military facility overseas. My husband is active duty and stationed near me. We are debt free and have a year's worth of expenses in a liquid emergency fund. My friends and colleagues in the US are telling me horror stories about how they do not have enough masks to take care of COVID patients. How for-profit hospitals are asking them to make their own masks, or, on the flip side, are threatening to fire them for bringing in masks from a personal supply. They are scared. They do not have the reserves to be able to quit, so they keep coming back to work, knowingly exposing themselves and their families when the organizations they work for could be making different (better) choices. Earlier this month I was asked to do several unethical things regarding protecting Soldiers from COVID. Because I have the luxury of being in a place of financial security and working for an entity that has a notoriously hard time firing civilian workers, I dug in my heels and said hell no. Since that point, I've become even more vocal at work. FU money has given me the ability to protect those around me who have no say. If they fire me for doing what is right, my family and I will be okay. [link] [comments]  |
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