{"id":9318,"date":"2022-04-03T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2022-04-03T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T08:57:50","slug":"the-mid-ses-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/03\/the-mid-ses-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mid SES life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t know if anyone out of the Singapore context would know what &#8220;SES&#8221; means. It&#8217;s an acronym to describe socio-economic status in one of our textbooks here. The short of it, high SES means you&#8217;re rich as heck and low SES means you&#8217;re on the lower end of it with little income and such. Since we&#8217;re here, I might also let you all know high SES also means being <em>atas<\/em> which is Malay for &#8220;on top&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But you don&#8217;t pronounce it in the Malay way to say it is high SES, you got to say it in a faux-English way where it&#8217;s &#8220;A-tas&#8221; for the extraness of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, as per usual, I was looking at instagram, scrolling through, seeing how some &#8216;influencers\/celebs&#8217; post pictures. That and I got ads before I get to watch a youtube video about how you can make &#8216;money online&#8217; by going to <em>their<\/em> special webinars and all that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some influencer\/celebrities especially actors and actresses, I just wonder. How <em>do<\/em> you make money? I know some of them are thankfully supported by family, work in some business, be a tutor\/lecturer, be a real estate agent and whatnot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, those are pretty clear cut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But there&#8217;s some that, it just seems that they do party (of course it&#8217;s just pictures, so they won&#8217;t post about their struggles) but what <em>do<\/em> they do to get money to party? What do they work as when they&#8217;re not on screen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then the money making youtube ads. I don&#8217;t believe they get money from whatever they&#8217;re doing. I&#8217;m just wondering do they get <em>enough<\/em> by making people &#8216;buy&#8217; into their webinars and all that to create a sustainable life?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What <em>is<\/em> their actual struggle to make monies? Cause what they post looks just so dangerous to me in their expensive cars (maybe rented for a shoot?), fancy condos and whatnot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don&#8217;t want to know how you all &#8216;made it&#8217;. I want to know, is it all sustainable and why the heck are you all still trying to sell these investment courses if it works. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is it to diversify income or something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which brings the point of my mid-SES life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I&#8217;m not doing my most lowest, I know I&#8217;m not doing a high-SES life either. I&#8217;m just mid-range average. Maybe even slightly on the lower range of average. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If all these &#8216;high-SES&#8217; people are diversifying in trying to get as much money from as many places as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, am I doing <em>enough<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When considering all the work I do, is that still <em>enough<\/em>? I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s the average of enough at this rate. Cause if so called &#8216;high-SES&#8217; people are doing so much to just get as much income as possible somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then, am I doing too little?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course I ask what other people&#8217;s plans are so here. Let me tell you what I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I work, get the income there, save bunch of the monies. And then on the <em>See Pee Eff<\/em> side, I do invest with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But besides that, should I be having <em>more<\/em> jobs or something? Is there something I am missing because all these people keep trying to gain more somehow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone out of the Singapore context would know what &#8220;SES&#8221; means. It&#8217;s an acronym to describe socio-economic status in one of our textbooks here. The short of it, high SES means you&#8217;re rich as heck and low SES means you&#8217;re on the lower end of it with little income and such. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/03\/the-mid-ses-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mid SES life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[275],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whatever-works","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-2qi","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9321,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions\/9321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}