Ayman Ismail
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Uh, not necessarily.
I mean, I want to make my budget work as best as I can.
I have so many awful memories of like going a night without dinner or having, you know, nothing but like bread and cheese because we were that strapped.
It was rough.
It wasn't enjoyable.
I also remember like getting kind of made fun of in school because I only had like one pair of pants and like people could tell if the stains weren't going away.
Yeah, it sucked.
And my dad at the time, he was working as a taxi cab driver in New York City.
My mom, actually, she ended up taking a job at the school because she needed the tuition discount and also to make money to make it happen.
So that was the position they were in.
They were like, okay, it doesn't make sense for us to do it.
We're going to do it anyways.
They made it work.
I don't feel like I'm in that desperate of a position.
We could take a look at my finances.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Yeah, let's do it.