Nice to see my classmate post in here. Finally managed to get him in here and know what bitcoin really is. A great start, dude. Keep it up.
As for the topic, it is indeed true that you must save some of your salary in case shit happens. It's better to be safe than to be sorry after all. 20% is a good percent if you might ask me, and as you have stated, it can be divided into two different ratio: emergency and cash reserves. In this way, you might avoid the hassles of loans whenever an emergency happened when you least expected it. Also, you can have something to spend whenever you run short of your salary.
I believe in only spending when it is necessary. The worst is taking loans to buy stuff that depreciate in value. Younger generation these days tend to spend indiscriminately leaving very little for savings. When it comes to saving it's a matter whether one has the discipline to do it.
Yes. Discipline is what the younger generation lacks today. We tend to be pressured by different trends and sometimes "want" to be in the trend so we end up spending rather than saving.
Good post, I will keep this in mind (20% of salary sounds good but some people might not have enough of a salary to save that much), but how are you making $7.5 an hour. I am assuming you live in a country other than the US or Canada where that wage would be illegal because your language/grammar is a tiny bit off and the wage of $7.5 would be illegal here. Where are you from?
We live in the Philippines. The minimum wage is Php 429 (or $9.57 at the time of writing) for 8 hours. Very low, yes. You can't even live decent with those for a month, so people end up being indebted and therefore cannot save money for whenever an emergency occur. But amazingly, people can go with it, but tbh, the wage is so low that you cannot live very comfortably with the salary you might receive on your payday.
If the minimum wage is $9.57 then how are you being paid $7.50. A minimum wage of about 10 us dollars actually isn't bad here, with the currency exchange thats actually higher than the canadian minimum wage. Or is that 9.57 for a total of 8 hours of work? I think that violates human rights, 1 dollars an hour is too low