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Marjorie Suddard wrote:As one of my favorite actors said in one of my favorite movies, "In this world you can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, I was smart for a while; I recommend pleasant."
Might be time to give that a whirl, kiddo.
Margie
"Harvey" FTW!!! I'll go back to the nerdery now.
Thank God my mortgage is paid off. I do have an equity line with a bit on it, but it should be manageble.
DrBoost wrote: My wife was in Pizza Hut (we had a coupon for a free pizza for my son) last week or so. She said there were 20 people filling out applications for the 1 job opening. At the same time there was 1 couple actually eating there. Scary
I was in Scotts wedding this weekend I left Wednesday and returned on Monday morning to find that not only was the Burger King down the road from my house closed IT WAS RAZED AND A LOT FOR SALE SIGN WAS IN ITS PLACE.
The news this morning reported Michigan had 8.9% unemployment-highest in the country. I interviewed for a job yesterday where the company received 1,100 resumes. I guess being one of three to be interviewed is a good thing, but I hope I'll be 1 of 1,100.
Holy cow!! 1,000 remumes!?!? I was wondering how many people answered the ad for the position I got. BTW, any of you that are looking for work happen to be looking for a tech writing position?? I got a call this morning, AM General is looking for a tech writer. I have heard that they are a good company to work for. If you are interested, PM me and I'll pass along the contact info I got.
DrBoost wrote:Holy cow!! 1,000 remumes!?!? I was wondering how many people answered the ad for the position I got. BTW, any of you that are looking for work happen to be looking for a tech writing position?? I got a call this morning, AM General is looking for a tech writer. I have heard that they are a good company to work for. If you are interested, PM me and I'll pass along the contact info I got.
wouldn't speaking miltarese be a requirement to?
No, just beneficial according to the ad.
shook my head reading through this thread, its pretty clear many are in the some same boat. I'm living off a cumulative 65% less income than i did just 5 years ago. after loosing a job and having to take one with 30% less pay (and twice as much work), and living expenses increasing about 35% (fuel,food,taxes, insurance.) I have also seriously thought about walking away, and i don't have a voodoo mortgage either. its a pretty hard blow when you have a basic spec home and find out its suddenly worth 100k less now than it was 2 years ago (and it wasnt worth allot to begin with!) but value is unimportant if there are no buyers anyway, so i try not to sweat it too much. Most of my home expenses are add ons due to taxes and insurance, cant do much about insurance expense except shop around, but taxes can be reassessed to reflect current market values. Mine have been, and after this tax year ends my house taxes should be reduced by almost 2/3rds, that's a couple hundred a month i wont have to pay... so something to look into for those who are getting creamed by over inflated assessments done over the past few years during the "boom." . another option may be simply having someone take over the house, kind of like taking over the lease on a car.. there are still allot of people out there that can afford a house but just dont have the credit rating to qualify for a loan, who knows... while these arent answers for the original issues here, maybe some ideas will help some a little bit.. Im stuck for now, but I still consider myself fortunate, ive been in much worse situations and survived, and this too shall pass i hope...
