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Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez, a book summary for working professionals. Why is a good salary gone before the month ends, and how do you stay safe if the job goes? The book's answer: a salary is hours of your life sold for money. Count the hours and costs the job really takes, and your real pay per hour is far lower than the payslip says. See where every rupee goes, ask three questions, and what you keep becomes a cushion, then an income that makes the job a choice.

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You are away from home thirteen hours a day, and your salary pays for nine. This book, first written in 1992 and fully revised in 2018, prices everything you buy in hours of your life.

In this book summary of Your Money or Your Life you'll hear:
• Joe Dominguez, a lighter and a hundred dollar bill: the one answer to "what is money?" that is always true
• The book's own example: why twenty five dollars an hour can really be ten, and why a one lakh salary can be worth less than half
• An accountant who charged ninety dollars an hour and really earned seven dollars and fifty cents
• Why the book's method is the opposite of a budget, and the three questions that cut spending without one
• How Joe left Wall Street at thirty one with seventy five thousand dollars and never worked for money again
• Elaine's wall chart, and why people who keep going see their spending fall by about a fifth
• The cushion that makes losing a job less frightening, and the man who came home saying he was bulletproof
• The crossover point: the month the money your savings earn passes what you spend

⏱️ Chapters
00:00 Your Salary Is Less Than You Think
00:42 You Sell Hours, Not Work
02:49 You Earned More Than You Remember
04:28 You Are Paid Less Than Your Payslip Says
04:59 You Count Only the Hours You Are Paid For
06:44 You Cannot See Where It Goes
08:57 You Can Cut Without a Budget
09:41 You Never Ask What You Got for It
11:14 You Never Put It on the Wall
13:18 You Make the Job a Choice
13:46 You Think Safety Is a Bigger Salary
15:48 You Reach for the Shortcut

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Your job pays you far less than your salary says. Count the hours, keep what gives you nothing back from leaving, and let what stays grow into a cushion and then a choice. That is Your Money or Your Life's answer.

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Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin are illustrated from their 1992 portrait. The readers in their stories are shown as anonymous figures.

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