In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Good luck SIX!
I know that finding the porch situation was definitely an unexpected knock, but look at it this way: You still have your job (even if you don't like the situation) and you still have your house, and better yet, you have your health.
Yeah... I won't have the job much longer because the schedule they're giving part timers just won't work at all for me. It's about 40 miles round trip, so gas is pretty prohibitively expensive when I'm only getting 4 to 5 hour shifts, and let's face it... my car is still a piece of crap. My shifts can be any day of the week that the computers randomly choose, and they could be anywhere from 3:00AM to 11:00PM. Then there's the fact I'd be getting only exactly 20 hours per week when right now I was averaging anywhere from 28 to 32 per week when they needed the extra work.
Not only is this schedule going to play hell on my ability to ever really plan out any work on the home, especially to plan out when somebody can come help on any 2-man jobs, but it will barely pay enough to live on and feed my car. It just doesn't make any sense to keep working there.
My health is debatable. I'm in great shape, but this teeth situation isn't going to fix itself. There is a ticking clock on all of that.
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You also have the prospect of another job closer to home, which ... btw ... I would make a strict dollars-and-cents decision on: Are you likely to earn more money at this new job than you would at your current employer (with daytime hours) or that you might get with unemployment? I would not think about whether or not it would be "fair" to them to take a job if you're going to move because they aren't "fair" in return; THEY would make a strict dollar-and-cents decision on you too. Generally speaking, employers aren't "loyal" to their employees so they don't deserve any loyalty in return. And if you decide you want the closer job and they hire you, with your work ethic and your previous experience you will be helping them make money from day 1, which is more than most employers can hope for!
I know they wouldn't be loyal. They never are, are they?
I'm assuming they're going to pay less than what I make now, but given all the reasons I listed above, and the fact this would be an overnight job, the positives would likely outweigh that negative. Who knows? If they pay little enough, I might even be able to get on food stamps in the interim to make it a wash. Not something I really want to deal with again because it's a huge hassle, but that's the single benefit of making next to nothing and I'd be a fool for not taking advantage of it if it was there for the taking.
Unemployment wouldn't be much. It should be more than enough to pay my bills while I'm on it though. It wouldn't be enough to put a dime into the house with though. If I go that route, I'd have to be able to get a home equity line of credit for that so I don't start putting stuff on the credit cards with the ridiculous rates they have these days.
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I hate to keep harping on the job situation but it's only as bad as you make it. You can be jobless and income-less if you make a stupid decision, and your situation - which seems bad now- can become a whole lot worse all of a sudden and you will look back on today with fond regret. So make you decisions cautiously; don't jump off the metaphorical cliff.
That was your Depression-era granny talking to you!
Yeah. I know. :)
Maybe after three weeks without me my manager can convince the new guy of how good I am? Maybe he hasn't even noticed the difference without me? If he's willing to give me 8-9 hour shifts every weekend, I'm probably not going to pass that up. Otherwise, I've pretty much already made my peace with losing this job and I'm already looking forward.
Don't have a plan yet,
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Oh I'm an inveterate list-maker because memory is so bad as things come up I have to write them down if I can't tackle it right away. Then I try to make an "achievable" list for the day from my random list of things to do, and, finally, I log them when they've been completed. I need more time management discipline. I like to check in here in the AM and scan the news while everyone else is asleep but I think I need to start cooking in the AM to free up more afternoon time. So you'll see less of me here but I'll always check in to this thread to see how everyone is doing!! I refer to you and BRENDA and other friendly folk in this thread as my "internet friends", I feel like we have a real connection -even if it's virtual- and I hope you feel the same.
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Oh I'm an inveterate list-maker because memory is so bad as things come up I have to write them down if I can't tackle it right away. Then I try to make an "achievable" list for the day from my random list of things to do, and, finally, I log them when they've been completed. I need more time management discipline. I like to check in here in the AM and scan the news while everyone else is asleep but I think I need to start cooking in the AM to free up more afternoon time. So you'll see less of me here but I'll always check in to this thread to see how everyone is doing!! I refer to you and BRENDA and other friendly folk in this thread as my "internet friends", I feel like we have a real connection -even if it's virtual- and I hope you feel the same.
Yeah. Sure I do. :)
Nice that we have one thread where people can talk to each other like human beings in the RWED. This is really my only internet place, so I'm glad that it's still kicking all these years later. Thanks to big H for keeping the lights on for us.
Just got rid of a car load of stuff over at the Goodwill. I was going to put it off until tomorrow, but given the holiday and they close early I figured let's just do it now and get it out of the way. I told them I'd be back with more this week.
Also have three big bags of trash staged to go, but I have to wait an extra day until trash day because of the holiday this week, so they can't even get into the cans until I get those emptied.
My poor car has at least one more week out in the rain.
Now if I can only force myself to clean up the back corner of the living room where the piece with all of my networking/phone stuff is and clean up all the wires and polish that end of the floor I think I might call it a day and I'll be happy with the work that got done.
I can actually hear an echo in my living room now lol. That sure brings back memories.
Hopefully my bro comes over tomorrow to take some stuff and maybe he'll grab a few books before I give them away too. Assuming he comes, I'll be getting the king sized bed, a crappy dresser and a few high back chairs out to the garage to await garbage day. I think I'm going to be clearing that garage out for the next month before I can even consider what I'm ultimately doing with the bedroom sets...
Or actually clearing out what I don't need in the garage, for that matter.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Some CDs sorted out and put away and I even listened to a couple. But a few broken cases. Will have to see about replacing them.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Good luck SIX!
I know that finding the porch situation was definitely an unexpected knock, but look at it this way: You still have your job (even if you don't like the situation) and you still have your house, and better yet, you have your health.
Yeah... I won't have the job much longer because the schedule they're giving part timers just won't work at all for me. It's about 40 miles round trip, so gas is pretty prohibitively expensive when I'm only getting 4 to 5 hour shifts, and let's face it... my car is still a piece of crap. My shifts can be any day of the week that the computers randomly choose, and they could be anywhere from 3:00AM to 11:00PM. Then there's the fact I'd be getting only exactly 20 hours per week when right now I was averaging anywhere from 28 to 32 per week when they needed the extra work.
Not only is this schedule going to play hell on my ability to ever really plan out any work on the home, especially to plan out when somebody can come help on any 2-man jobs, but it will barely pay enough to live on and feed my car. It just doesn't make any sense to keep working there.
My health is debatable. I'm in great shape, but this teeth situation isn't going to fix itself. There is a ticking clock on all of that.Quote:
You also have the prospect of another job closer to home, which ... btw ... I would make a strict dollars-and-cents decision on: Are you likely to earn more money at this new job than you would at your current employer (with daytime hours) or that you might get with unemployment? I would not think about whether or not it would be "fair" to them to take a job if you're going to move because they aren't "fair" in return; THEY would make a strict dollar-and-cents decision on you too. Generally speaking, employers aren't "loyal" to their employees so they don't deserve any loyalty in return. And if you decide you want the closer job and they hire you, with your work ethic and your previous experience you will be helping them make money from day 1, which is more than most employers can hope for!
I know they wouldn't be loyal. They never are, are they?
I'm assuming they're going to pay less than what I make now, but given all the reasons I listed above, and the fact this would be an overnight job, the positives would likely outweigh that negative. Who knows? If they pay little enough, I might even be able to get on food stamps in the interim to make it a wash. Not something I really want to deal with again because it's a huge hassle, but that's the single benefit of making next to nothing and I'd be a fool for not taking advantage of it if it was there for the taking.
Unemployment wouldn't be much. It should be more than enough to pay my bills while I'm on it though. It wouldn't be enough to put a dime into the house with though. If I go that route, I'd have to be able to get a home equity line of credit for that so I don't start putting stuff on the credit cards with the ridiculous rates they have these days.Quote:
I hate to keep harping on the job situation but it's only as bad as you make it. You can be jobless and income-less if you make a stupid decision, and your situation - which seems bad now- can become a whole lot worse all of a sudden and you will look back on today with fond regret. So make you decisions cautiously; don't jump off the metaphorical cliff.
That was your Depression-era granny talking to you!
Yeah. I know. :)
Maybe after three weeks without me my manager can convince the new guy of how good I am? Maybe he hasn't even noticed the difference without me? If he's willing to give me 8-9 hour shifts every weekend, I'm probably not going to pass that up. Otherwise, I've pretty much already made my peace with losing this job and I'm already lNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
I bet I still have my unfinished to-do list from years ago on my PC somewhere.
Kind of don't want to even find it cause it would be depressing how long ago it was last updated.
It's all about fresh starts now. :)
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Jack, fresh starts are good. 
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Bill to pay and other things to do.
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The sun is back.
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No sun around here, I'm afraid.
Just saw about the hardest rainfall I've ever seen in my life for around 15 minutes straight with some hail. Tornado warnings were all over the place with a few touchdowns. My old man said that there was 20 minutes hard hail by him and that when it was over it looked like snowfall in the middle of November. 2 hours later it still hadn't all melted. He said the water came up so high in his driveway that it was about an inch away from flooding the cabin.
Thankfully everyone I know is alright and there wasn't any flooding in the houses. Streets were all fubared for a while, but the water didn't get in.
Crazy.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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