Let's talk about money

Neus Rossell: "A two-star hotel is a luxury for me."

The teacher and communicator reviews her professional career and explains how it relates to money.

Nieves Rossell
Júlia Riera Rovira
04/04/2025
3 min

Communicator and teacher Neus Rossell (Sils, 1990) was raised in a very austere family, where "very little" was enough to make them "super happy." At just 16, she started working as a waitress in her hometown and hasn't stopped since: "While I was studying, I was always working. At 17, I started at a music school where I was a student, and when the season ended in the summer, I was at a summer camp."

Rossell has paid for his entire education. With the first money he earned, however, he bought a car: "We had a broken-down one at home. They told me they would sell it to me, but they wouldn't give it to me. That's why I bought it abroad, because it was cheaper." After studying education at the University of Girona, he went to Switzerland for a few months to further his education: "I sold the car I had bought so I could pay for my studies."

One day, returning from the school where she worked as a teacher, she decided to make a video: "With no intention of anything. I didn't even know what the influencers". The communicator had always liked to chat and the world of entertainment, but she did not imagine that Jair Domínguez and Peyu would call her to collaborate on The bunker"Right now, I have the perfect life because I have the two things I want with the time I need: communication and teaching."

The presenter of Beasts and Flames She claims she makes a better living on the radio: "People think it's show time and that's it, but there are many weekends when I'm stuck at home and can't leave because I'm working." Even so, at home she takes on more work from school: "I have stomach aches from stress. I'm thinking about how I can do it with this kid. They sell me activities at night and I wake up and have to write them down." "I like my job and I want to do it really well. That's why I put in more hours than I should by agreement," she assures. "I'm so passionate about it... Sometimes I see someone working really hard on shows and I say to Jair [who is also her partner]: 'Aren't you jealous?'" she explains.

As for her personal finances, the comedian doesn't have any big expenses: "I don't smoke, I don't snack, and I don't value cooking. I mean, I'm super happy with boiled pasta. I think this is very good for me because I don't do it on purpose, but it saves me money." "I like to go running, to go to the mountains; I don't have any hobbies that I spend money on, either," she adds. What she does like is traveling: "I go in the van, but I can only go in the summer, because in the winter I freeze. Then I spend money on hotels, to be comfortable. With the van "We shower with cold water," she recalls. And she emphasizes: "I'm not asking for a super hotel either, just having two stars is a luxury for me." In fact, she rejects boasting and overly helpful attitudes: "Once I got the water and the lady from the establishment came to me and said, 'No, no, what are you doing? I have to put it in the glass.' And I said, 'But I can do it.' We both apologized, but I got hives. I wasn't used to seeing things like that." rich". Silence admits to feeling uncomfortable in these environments: "I find it incredible that people brag so much," she says.

Since leaving home at 22, Rossell has always lived in a shared apartment. But a few years ago, she got fed up: "They would tell me, 'I'll raise the rent by 200 euros (just like that), and if not, you'll leave.' Or, 'My son has separated and has to come to this apartment.' I was fed up with these problems." That's why she took the plunge: "I decided that with the money I'd earned throughout my life, I would put a down payment on an apartment." This is, she says, the best financial decision she's ever made. Now she lives peacefully, knowing that they can't evict her from her home.

After five seasons working in The bunkerThis is the last one: "It makes me very sad. I've never done radio, and it's given me a lot." She emphasizes that she's learned a lot, especially from the people around her. The communicator explains that she would like to keep this job for life. "It's a very unstable sector, and it will be what it has to be. I don't have many strings to pull; I'm very novel. People have worked here and there and they keep asking," she explains. However, Rossell explains that she passed the teaching exams, and that gives her peace of mind.

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