How Much Money Do You Earn Working For The C.C.C? -

I am joining the California Conservation Corps in March and i was just wondering if anybody knew how much money you earn monthly.|::::|If you are doing something you enjoy and care about. financial compensation shouldn t matter. For the sake of answering your question 8$ an hour, with bonuses depending on number of hours worked and if you train to be a specialist you can make a little extra cash. It s not a profitable biz, but a rewarding one none the less. Good luck and enjoy.|::::|Often we think in terms of how much money we make. What allows us to have greater life-styles, more things, be happier, and be healthier actually depends upon how we spend our money on and what. It is true that someone making $10/hr will reap economic benefits not possible at $1/hr and a person making $1000/hr certainly has the potential to have a much higher life style than one making $10. Still, the person making $1000/hr can end up in as much, if not more debt, and living pay-check to pay-check just as the $10 per hour person. I will assess that you are currently living somewhere between homeless-and-desitute and mansioned-and-rich. Would you spend $100 for a pair of jeans to go tromping about in the woods? Probably not, you would probably consider it a waste of money. At minimum, the $100 pair of jeans would give you no more functional service than a $10-$40 pair of jeans. Most definitely, if the jeans cost $100 because they had a logo sewn on them or a designer s name on a tag within them they will not provide you more functional service outside of the human social factor. Those brambles in the woods aren t going to be any more or any less impressed by a specific label. The same goes with all of your purchases through out the rest of your life. You must decide just how much luxury you can and will afford reguardless of how much money you do or do not make. Some luxury will have some functional value and others will not. There will be times that you find that the cheapest choices cost much more in the end by the time you get done buying repairs or replacements. There may come a time in your life that you actually quot;needquot; to join clubs, owen more expensice vehicles than you would elsewise, and more as a function of your profession. Remember to think of these as business investments, treat them as such, and keep in mind where the profit and loss lines cross. Always remember that while some things may be immediately gratifying, they come with a financial cost which will be all the more noticable the less money you have to spend. Splurge and spend some on these types of things but, don t let them eat your entire pay check. They include food and beverages out, credit card and interest debt, services, things you want but don t need, and general excesses that have little or nothing to do with value or something you can touch or feel (non-tangibles).