How to spend the first salary meaningfully?

" A girl in Hangzhou used her first salary to buy a mobile phone for her best friend" rushed into the hot search and caused heated discussions.

Netizens expressed that "this kind of girlfriends is really enviable", " please give me a dozen girlfriends like this". The girl expressed that she wanted to make her best friend happy for a lifetime, and would spoil her no matter what.

Of course, there are also different voices, such as "Why don't you buy it for your parents first?" and so on.

01 Salaries handed over to parents

This reminded me of how the first salary in my life was spent?

My first salary was very low, like only $800. I gave $500 to my mother and kept $300 to buy daily necessities.

At that time, I was young and my thoughts were simple. I just want to earn money and give it to my parents to subsidize the family. I want to help my parents save money for my younger brother to study.

Therefore, my first salary income is basically handed in in full, and the use was very simple. I didn't buy gifts for myself, my family or friends, I didn't do anything earth-shattering, and I didn't have any special meaning.

 

02 Buy a gift for someone you love

Although my younger brother is younger than me, he worked earlier than me.

My younger brother's first job was to work as an assembly line worker in a factory. After working hard for a month, my younger brother was very happy when it came time to get paid. He went to the factory very early that day.

When I went home in the afternoon, I brought back a watch and said it was for me. The dial and strap are both gold, delicate and beautiful, and I have liked gold since then.

The younger brother said that he had visited several watch shops and thought this one was the best.

I was so moved that I was about to cry. I was afraid that he would make a joke, so I suppressed my tears.

Since then, this watch has accompanied me throughout my youth, from going to school to working until now, I still keep it. This should be the most valuable of my assets, at least in my eyes.

 

03 How to spend the first salary

The first salary, no matter how much or how little, is a reward for our hard work when we first enter the workplace. Different people treat their first salary differently.

Some people have understood the difficulty of their parents, and began to learn to live on a budget, save a small part of their salary first, and use the rest to pay some fixed expenses, such as rent, water and electricity bills and so on. Some people will use their first salary to express their gratitude to those who have helped them, such as wrapping a red envelope for their parents, preparing a small gift for their mentor... In fact, it doesn’t matter what you give, what is important is the content contained in it.

There are also people who reward themselves with the first salary and experience the harvest after hard work. There is nothing wrong with this.

Make an appointment with friends for a dinner, buy home the lipstick that you have wanted for a long time, and send yourself a bouquet of flowers, watch a movie with your loved one, record your happiness in the day's account book, and set the next "small goal" by the way..

How does it make sense to get the first salary? There is no standard answer. But no matter how you arrange it, it is recommended to save money, learns to keep accounts, spend rationally, don't spend extravagantly, and leaves some living expenses for yourself while celebrating happily. Because I still have to live for the next month, I will rely on the saved wages.

Do you still remember the first time when you were paid your salary? How much did you spend? Do you have any good memories? 

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Things you should never do

Things you should never do

 

Things you should never do

1.    Sleep with your confidant.

2.    Marry your lover.

3.    Treat every colleague as a friend.

4.    Go to a friend's company to work.

5.     Reveal your real thoughts in front of the boss.

6.    Trust the boss's promise.

7.    Cannot hide emotions.

8.    Talk loudly on the mobile phone in a crowd.

9.    Get used to making excuses for yourself.

8 sentences that make you mature at least 5 years old

1.    If you don't like your current job, either quit your job or shut up.

2.    Learn to endure loneliness.

3.    Don't be as fragile as glass, be a person with a strong heart.

4.    Control your mouth, know what to say and what not to.

5.    Know how to create opportunities.

6.    If the phone does not ring, you should make a call.

7.    Don't marry hastily.

8.     Write down the things you want to do in your life, put the list in your wallet, and take it out often.

Habits of successful people

1.    Smile.

2.    Simple lifestyle

3.    Do not borrow money from friends.

4.    Say good things about others behind their backs.

5.    Just smile when you hear someone say bad things about others.

6.    Don't let people know all about your past.

7.    Respect people who don't like you.

8.    Be ruthless to things but affectionate to people.

9.    Do more self-criticism.

10.  Cheer for others.

11.  Be grateful.

12.  Learn to listen.

13.  Start with ‘we’ when speaking.

14.  Talk less.

15.  Like yourself.

 

15 Tips for Establishing Networks

1.    Learn to empathize

2.    Learn to adapt to the environment

3.    Learn to be generous

4.    Learn to be low-key

5.    Be sweet;

6.    Be polite

7.    Learn to be grateful

8.    Be punctual

9.    Keep promises

10.  Learn to be patient

11.  Have a normal heart

12.  Learn to praise others 

We must understand when we are young

1.    If you are not brave, no one will be strong for you. 

2.    Children without umbrellas must run harder! 

3.    If you chose the path, you have to walk it even though you need to kneel.

4.    I would rather run and be tripped countless times than walk in a comfortable life. smile proudly even if you failed.

Three Regrets in Life

1.    Can't choose , 

2.    don't insist on choosing,

3.    choose constantly

Three major traps in life

1.    carelessness,

2.    gullibility,

3.    greed

Three major tragedies in life

1.    do not learn when you meet good teachers,

2.    do not make friends when you meet good people

3.    do not grasp good opportunities when you meet them

Three great Incompetence in Life

1.    Do not compete with leaders,

2.    Do not compete with colleagues

3.    Do not compete with subordinates for merit. 

Signs of maturity

1.    No matter how sleepy you are in the morning, you will get up and go to work immediately; 

2.    Like to eat home-cooked meals more than restaurants outside;

3.    Watch news than entertainment news; 

4.    Call friends less often; 

5.    There are fewer and fewer people or things that can make you happy;

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The coffee that energizes us is actually quietly stealing our energy

The coffee that energizes us is actually quietly stealing our energy

 
We all love coffee. Even if you don't like its taste, you will like the changes that coffee brings to your body: it makes you more focused and full of energy. But how long do the effects of coffee last? The latest research shows that coffee may not only provide people with energy, but will consume energy.

Coffee: The Culprit That Steals Your Energy

Caffeine is an adenosine antagonist. If the term is too complicated, you just need to remember that it does not generate new energy for you, but draws and depletes the energy you already have.

Adenosine is a substance secreted in the brain that acts to make people feel sleepy and regulate sleep. The more adenosine in the brain, the sleepier you are.
In addition, adenosine can also help us reduce inflammation in the body, regulate the heartbeat, and help digestion.

Your body likes regular sleep, so the brain releases adenosine on a 24-hour day and night cycle. If you force yourself to stay up late, you will feel more sleepy because your brain releases more adenosine than usual to help you fall asleep at normal times.
After consuming caffeine, the human brain does not stop secreting adenosine, its receptors are only temporarily inhibited. At this time, your state is very delicate: your body feels tired, but you yourself don't feel tired.

Like an over limit credit card, it can no longer be used after the it reaches a certain amount.
Neuroscientist and Stanford professor Andrew Huberman calls it "sleep hunger." But when the limit is met, it finally triggers the phenomenon of "coffee no longer works", that is, coffee burnout.

How to Avoid Coffee Burnout?
Caffeine is a recreational drug that is in use today.
Maybe someday in the future, it will be locked in the back of the cabinet like alcohol and prescription drugs, and minors are prohibited from touching it. But before that day comes, we need to learn to use caffeine healthily.

The first step is to understand caffeine. Here are three little-known facts about coffee:
The half-life of caffeine is five hours. This means that if you drink a cup of coffee five hours before bed, it is equivalent to drinking half a cup of coffee before going to bed.
While coffee keeps you focused and energized, it can also increase your stress.
Adenosine takes time to wear off in the morning. At the same time, many hormones are released when you wake up in the morning.

With this knowledge, you can improve the frequency of coffee drinking and ensure healthy sleep. Specifically, you can:
Stop drinking coffee ten hours before bedtime to ensure that your body can completely deplete the caffeine before bedtime and prevent it from inhibiting adenosine.
Work off any remaining stress with physical activity. If you feel anxious or tense during the day, try going for a walk or exercising.
Drinking coffee 90 minutes after waking up in the morning will give your adenosine time to wear off before you artificially (caffeine) suppress them.
Coffee is not bad.

For some of us, coffee is a life-enhancing agent that helps us regulate when we spend our energy, thereby helping us take control of our lives.
But it needs to be remembered that coffee is helping people to draw energy, not generate new energy. And all overdrawn things will eventually have to be repaid.
Keep this in mind to really deal with the relationship with caffeine.

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