Kim from The Frugal Engineers shares her journey and the importance of determining your real hourly wage.
Kim’s Story
Kim’s story starts as a 15-year-old in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. While growing up in South Carolina, she realized the employment opportunities in that tourist town were limited, especially for young women. With limited employment opportunities, the emphasis on education in public schools was not really there.
You could see the results of this lack of emphasis through the building sizes for their high school grades. Each grade level had its own building, but the senior’s building was half the size of the freshmen’s building. So, you weren’t expected to graduate from high school. And Kim witnessed this first hand as her friends battled teen pregnancy and drug addictions.
