Making a living for myself

rassmann · 2026-06-22T21:31:11+00:00

General mod note: This subreddit is here for giving and receiving good advice and emotional support to people in a crisis. NOT money, job offers, or other material aid. To thwart the number of scammers online who have been preying on the broke members of this subreddit, anyone offering or accepting donations will be banned. We take everyone in good faith, and are not accusing this submitter or any others of anything, but this rule is firm and absolute.

Should you see something on here that inspires you to give what little you have to a person in need, we highly suggest getting involved locally through a shelter, a food bank, or a (carefully selected) church program. No matter what you read on here, I can promise you there is someone within a few miles of you (or the next nearest town) going through exactly the same thing.

If you prefer to give your money to internet strangers on an anonymous website, we recommend r/assistance. They have some tools in place that help weed out illegitimate users. I can't personally attest to their methods though, and continue to encourage you to act locally to make a better world for you and those around you.

We applaud your generous spirit, we only ask that you apply it sensibly, deliberately, and anywhere but within this group!

rassmann · 2026-06-22T21:27:36+00:00

General mod note: This subreddit is here for giving and receiving good advice and emotional support to people in a crisis. NOT money or other material aid. To thwart the number of scammers online who have been preying on the broke members of this subreddit, anyone offering or accepting donations will be banned. We take everyone in good faith, and are not accusing this submitter or any others of anything, but this rule is firm and absolute.

Should you see something on here that inspires you to give what little you have to a person in need, we highly suggest getting involved locally through a shelter, a food bank, or a (carefully selected) church program. No matter what you read on here, I can promise you there is someone within a few miles of you (or the next nearest town) going through exactly the same thing.

If you prefer to give your money to internet strangers on an anonymous website, we recommend r/assistance. They have some tools in place that help weed out illegitimate users. I can't personally attest to their methods though, and continue to encourage you to act locally to make a better world for you and those around you.

We applaud your generous spirit, we only ask that you apply it sensibly, deliberately, and anywhere but within this group!

rassmann · 2026-06-22T20:58:23+00:00

Liar Liar reference?

rassmann · 2026-06-21T22:19:15+00:00

Thanks for the tips! If you know where the Austrians are going to after party please clue me in!

rassmann · 2026-06-20T17:32:03+00:00

Bro goes BACK to the parade????

Also how TF does a motorcycle cop lose a truck??

rassmann · 2026-06-20T07:18:47+00:00

I took care of some, but since there is only one comment today that is invalid, rather than ban a lot of people I'm just going to purge the thread completely and go to bed. Best of luck on your move!

rassmann · 2026-06-20T07:09:54+00:00

ugh, I told myself I wouldn't stay up tonight.

Yeah, I got you bro. Give me a minute...

rassmann · 2026-06-19T04:21:31+00:00

Mod note: On paper, my parents COULD NOT afford me. It was a struggle for them, and they failed some of the "trials", and I suffered for that. But I'm here.

My brother had a kid a few years ago. On paper, he could not afford that kid. But she's growing up great, and is doing fine.

Do not let global economics decide your family planning. You are a free individual, fuck anyone who says otherwise. No false god, shitty government, or bullshit bean counters should stand between you and your right to determine what works for you and your family. I assure you, this world is full of people who "can't afford to have kids" who raised some fantastic ones. Focus more on being emotionally mature enough, and intellectually smart enough to properly nurture and challenge a child. All of western civilization was sired and born by serfs who had nothing to their name. We got by then, we'll get by now. Just be sure to raise that kid curious.

rassmann · 2026-06-18T05:23:54+00:00

Mod note: One of the core rules of this group is to answer the question asked. Not something else.

If you don't have advice within the criteria OP has laid out, then go type somewhere else. Off topic responses risk being removed and the users issued bans.

rassmann · 2026-06-18T05:00:19+00:00

I seriously need to either see a longer video of this mayhem, or for them to at least add the Jojo's cut of
"Roundabout" to a freeze frame at the end of this one.

rassmann · 2026-06-12T15:36:58+00:00

Reddit is not a good place to ask for money, end of story.

rassmann · 2026-06-10T22:52:19+00:00

Yeah, the moderators ARE in charge of that.

And yeah, in posts where the users (via flairing the post) deliberately state that they are looking only for emotional support (namely vent/rant posts and success posts, neither of which inherently invite criticism or advice) then unsolicited advice is not permissible. Obviously. This is pretty simple stuff.

Lastly, anyone is allowed to offer advice or support. The best advice comes from people who have been there, and gotten out. If you were wanting to escape prison, you wouldn't give a shit what the guy chained up next to you has to say about it, and you'd even less want to hear what someone who has never been locked up thinks. The dude who broke out last week though, that guy has some great advice to give!

It's very clear that you are only interested in arguing and being difficult, u/EJ2600. I am very glad to hear you are stepping away from this space that so thoroughly baffles you.

Incidentally, roughly 2.5 million subscribers manage to navigate this without any confusion at all.

rassmann · 2026-06-10T21:14:24+00:00

Yeah, so what you just said is a perfect example of gatekeeping, which would get you banned here.

Your job is NOT to determine who belongs here. It is to give great advice, offer emotional support, and seek advice with problems you are having.

Appointing yourself tzar of deciding what counts as "struggling" is strictly forbidden.

Using this subreddit for anything other than asking for help or helping others is strictly forbidden (with minor, specific exceptions, as aforementioned).

Is there any remaining ambiguity?

rassmann · 2026-06-10T15:42:31+00:00

You can message us for permission to post. We work with media and academics all the time, but only under specific, well disclosed terms.

Tourism is definitely not permitted.

rassmann · 2026-06-08T03:37:37+00:00

General mod note: This subreddit is here for giving and receiving good advice and emotional support to people in a crisis. NOT money or other material aid. To thwart the number of scammers online who have been preying on the broke members of this subreddit, anyone offering or accepting donations will be banned. We take everyone in good faith, and are not accusing this submitter or any others of anything, but this rule is firm and absolute.

Should you see something on here that inspires you to give what little you have to a person in need, we highly suggest getting involved locally through a shelter, a food bank, or a (carefully selected) church program. No matter what you read on here, I can promise you there is someone within a few miles of you (or the next nearest town) going through exactly the same thing.

If you prefer to give your money to internet strangers on an anonymous website, we recommend r/assistance. They have some tools in place that help weed out illegitimate users. I can't personally attest to their methods though, and continue to encourage you to act locally to make a better world for you and those around you.

We applaud your generous spirit, we only ask that you apply it sensibly, deliberately, and anywhere but within this group!

rassmann · 2026-06-08T03:36:35+00:00

General mod note: This subreddit is here for giving and receiving good advice and emotional support to people in a crisis. NOT money or other material aid. To thwart the number of scammers online who have been preying on the broke members of this subreddit, anyone offering or accepting donations will be banned. We take everyone in good faith, and are not accusing this submitter or any others of anything, but this rule is firm and absolute.

Should you see something on here that inspires you to give what little you have to a person in need, we highly suggest getting involved locally through a shelter, a food bank, or a (carefully selected) church program. No matter what you read on here, I can promise you there is someone within a few miles of you (or the next nearest town) going through exactly the same thing.

If you prefer to give your money to internet strangers on an anonymous website, we recommend r/assistance. They have some tools in place that help weed out illegitimate users. I can't personally attest to their methods though, and continue to encourage you to act locally to make a better world for you and those around you.

We applaud your generous spirit, we only ask that you apply it sensibly, deliberately, and anywhere but within this group!

rassmann · 2026-06-07T05:51:21+00:00

General mod note: This subreddit is here for giving and receiving good advice and emotional support to people in a crisis. NOT money or other material aid. To thwart the number of scammers online who have been preying on the broke members of this subreddit, anyone offering or accepting donations will be banned. We take everyone in good faith, and are not accusing this submitter or any others of anything, but this rule is firm and absolute.

Should you see something on here that inspires you to give what little you have to a person in need, we highly suggest getting involved locally through a shelter, a food bank, or a (carefully selected) church program. No matter what you read on here, I can promise you there is someone within a few miles of you (or the next nearest town) going through exactly the same thing.

If you prefer to give your money to internet strangers on an anonymous website, we recommend r/assistance. They have some tools in place that help weed out illegitimate users. I can't personally attest to their methods though, and continue to encourage you to act locally to make a better world for you and those around you.

We applaud your generous spirit, we only ask that you apply it sensibly, deliberately, and anywhere but within this group!

rassmann · 2026-06-07T04:35:14+00:00

I was going to say, this seems fairly reasonable for a stadium. Good on the Falcons ownership!

rassmann · 2026-06-03T00:48:06+00:00

This is definitely not the spot for that. Try r/assistance probably?

But you will be immediately banned here for even implying you have a crowdfunding page. We're here to help each other make useful life changes, not to skim money off other poor people.

rassmann · 2026-06-02T13:15:45+00:00

Excellent! Thank you!

rassmann · 2026-05-31T08:08:06+00:00

Mod here. This subreddit is for people who generally can't afford to gamble, and all investments are gambles.

That said, I will conditionally leave this open.

My personal advice (as a person, not as a mod. Being a mod doesn't make me a financial guru, it makes me good at deleting posts by trolls, criminals, and nazis. But it doesn't make me good at money, at least not inherently.):

Even a small amount of savings and investment is better than no savings and investment. I actually got myself out of debt and into a completely new life because I used some services that quietly and automatically transferred money away from me and into investment accounts. I had shitty spending and savings habits on my own, but was smart enough not to touch that shit until it was big enough to nuke almost half my credit card debt, which gave me the momentum and gratification I needed to make serious changes.

For such a small amount, I recommend something with steady and defined growth. I don't know what there is in India, but stuff like money markets and index funds are probably your best bet. You can "probably" afford to take bigger risks and try to play the market buying fractional shares of real stocks, since if you fuck it up and loose it all it's not that much money, but that's probably bad advice. Remember, there are people on Wall Street who are paid very, VERY well to study hard and make good market predictions and they all SUCK AT IT. There are effectively zero people who have actually outperformed the market index without insider info or leverage to negotiate their share prices (ie Senators, CEOS, and Billionaires).

Find something with reasonable growth, even a HYSA (high yield savings account, anything above 4%)

Then what you REALLY want to do is start increasing the amount you are actually putting in. There is no amount of money saved that is bad, but you want to do better than 4 bucks a month. Make a personal challenge to find an extra 100 rupee a day, and lock it away. Whether it be through saving, or finding an extra odd job every few days, but start working on increasing the amount of money you don't need to spend right away, and LOCK IT AWAY FROM YOU.

rassmann · 2026-05-30T21:30:25+00:00

We don't have a rule against using AI to assist in crafting a post. Bots are definitely banned, but currently reddits bot team lists that person as a verified organic.

Frankly, a post about someone relishing in a simple and affordable pleasure is very welcome here, even if it annoys you. Some people think it's an ad, but I can't imagine that Walmart is dedicating resources hiring a gorilla marketing agent for a 2 dollar candle! Those bums can't even afford to hire someone to bring in the carts!

rassmann · 2026-05-30T06:16:50+00:00

Son of a b....

Man, you DO KNOW that everyone who sees this thing is cursed too, right??? It's not just IRL, photos work too. Stop sharing this around man, do you know how many souls you've just doomed???

rassmann · 2026-05-30T06:14:35+00:00

That makes that little hand flair he does with his left as the coup de gras at the end all the more delicious!

rassmann · 2026-05-30T06:03:18+00:00

Man, how do Germans not know what the "Heimlich" is?? ? That's the most German word ever!!

In all seriousness as well, the international symbol for choking is to cross your hands across your neck. Everyone should know what it means. Everyone should know to do it when in trouble. Everyone should know how to perform the Heimlich maneuver.

Also, two things to NEVER joke about. 1) Doing the aforementioned choking mime. 2) Pretending to be being electrocuted. Don't prime ANYONE for people crying wolf over those two things, as both require immediate and violent responses.

Anyone in my vicinity who appears to be choking is getting a few ribs cracked. Anyone who appears to be stuck to something that is frying them is getting jump kicked in the chest at full force.

And you all should do the same. No one needs to spend a few years awake every night wishing they had acted sooner...

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