CET Wrote-I am glad there are some lazy people out there. It makes it easier for those who want to work to make money.

*********************************************
I own two companies and myself like all business owners you talk too, the number one problem is finding someone that will show up on time and just plain show up and do an honest days work.
I spoil the good workers and weed out the bums the first week hired. Because of that I have a nonexistent turnover rate.

No matter how unskilled you are you can go into any business and work like its yours and be there everyday and you will succeed.
Business owners beg for people like that.
I have a women that came to me 8 years ago with 2 kids and a 10th grade education, she said I will do any job you have, just give me a chance. I hired her for $4.00 an hour and gave her 30 day probation.
She made over $60,000 this year. Why? she don't miss a day and I can trust her with anything I tell her to do and not have to worry about it getting done.
Sometimes the way she acts, I question myself if I really do own the plant or if she does.
In todays lazy and lack of ethic work climate, it just leaves a load of opportunities for some one that wants to, to make good.

Im an assistant teacher and bus driver for the Headstart program.
My yearly pay reaks, but I help tons of kids that live with not so loving families.
I always slip em xtra food to take home.
It gives me more time with my kids than a father could ever imagine. I work Mon-Thurs 7:00am to 5:00 pm and have Fri, Sat and sunday off. Im off in the summer and holidays like the school system as well. HG

__________________
I was built with the body of a God! To bad it was buddah.

http://www.hotrodders.com/forum/jou...&journalid=2415

You're a standout among corporations. Most HR departments, ours included, will put an application directly into the "inactive" file if a high school diploma or equivalent isn't shown. Unless you fit the description needed to make affirmative action advocates happy. Then you get hired.

My manager was instructed to hire someone bi-lingual. No if's, and's, or but's about it. After turning down 30 or so perfectly qualified applicants he finally found a barely literate guy from Puerto Rico to fill the district managers request.

Our first Assistant Manager went to another company. Instead of considering me for the job, I wasn't even asked, A girl from another store with less experience, education, and automotive knowledge was given the position without any consideration to other, better qualified, people.

Now we a have a multicultural, bi-gendered group of dumbarses to tell you in two languages in a nice way "No, we don't have it but we can order it."

I'd love to live in America, but I don't know where it went to.

Larry

i'm so drowning in debt it aint even funny. i never made so much money in my life and have a job basically forever until i slap a kid or grab some chicks *** then i'm gone in 60 seconds but still... i've never been so broke in my life. $10,000 paint jobs don't make it any easier. i have 4 credit cards i owe $200 a month too and that's after i re-fied the house last year. this house is the main problem. i have 5 bedrooms for just me and my wife and nobody else living here. HEEELP! my wife is actually starting to make some money so things are bound to get better..Right?

jesus, 800 dollars a month in credit card payments? Is that minimum?!

K

to me, i have only had my own job for a year, but i know that i had the right stocks and they have (for the most part) been goin up and, mom has been doin alright. not like the early mid 90's though.

I went through 25 years of worrying about paying the bills.............NO MORE. I still owe some money, but do not worry anymore. I make good money, am putting some away for retirement and am happy...............

__________________
Home Handyman Forum I Shade Tree Mechanic Forum

Well in about another year I will be completely paid off and out of debt with just living expenses to take care of..The rod will be getting close to done..well as done as anything I build ever gets..

Eating Ok..still walking so life is just fine..

I know if I wanted to I could open a little shop and do some fabricating jobs to make a bit extra..Not sure I want to as I want to be able to travel and get to some of the shows and things..

Has to do with attitude I think..

OMT

__________________
I would rather make it work than make it popular..And if it does not work it will not be popular..

yes, minimum
retirement? what's that? i couldn't stand doin nothing anyway. i got absolutely no plans for retirement. good thing huh?

Bull, why not sell the house and move into something more appropriate for two people. Or maybe take on some room renters.

five years ago I was just married, had two trucks, a very well paying and rewarding job, almost completed my education but put it off so my wife could complete her schooling, was starting a business of my own on the side, and the future was bright.

Now I find myself in the process of being divorced, I have one of those two trucks with 475 000kms on it, the same job which is still well paying but hardly rewarding, I have completed my education because I was tired of waiting for my wife to support me so I could finish it properly, my business is now closed but it didn't cost me anything to try it, and I'm facing a new future more uncertain than ever, although there are certainties about it.

*I am solvent, so my debts will soon be taken care of.
My wife will soon be my ex wife. I wish her success in her future endeavours.
*I will have the Mustang on the road by summer.
*I will have a newer truck to pound the miles to.
*I won't be at my current job for long and I will be leaving on my terms.
*I will start a new education or perhaps continue the one I already have.

I'm at a cross roads, and I can go anywhere I choose to. The choices we make about every aspect of life are what count. Saving money is important, but happiness is more important, luckily the two don't have to be mutually exclusive. A very intelligent and dear friend of mine tried to console me when I told her of my divorce and gave me about the best piece of advice I have ever heard: "All we have in life is time and health, all we have to do is spend them both wisely."

Am I better off now than I was five years ago? I'm older, wiser, less distracted from my goals, more rooted in my values and morals, have a way better understanding of the financial game. Right now I'm in no man's land, I'm not exactly sure of where I'm going or what I'm going to do, but I've given myself until spring to decide. Maybe when I boil the hides on that Mustang for the first time and I feel self-actualized again, I'll be able to answer that question. For now, financially better, it's every other aspect that sucks.

With Bulls luck he probably owes more than the house is worth.

Larry

I started investing in real estate under the Clinton Economy, and set myself up pretty well. I have to fight a little harder now than then, but I am not losing ground.

I will be retired at 58 only because my son doesn't turn 18 until I am 58 LOL- then, I will never work again. My wife gets her CPA next January so things should be really good then, she will probably get a super job at BP and we will probably move to Russia, Croatia, or Germany, she is legal to practise law in Russia, and a CPA here, so BP and VECO and Conaco/Phillips are headhunting her pretty hard. I will go to graduate school the year after next, if we are in America, or will do something similar overseas.

So the future looks good, but probably not here in the US, much as I love it.

Could you explain?

Better or worse is a state of mind isnt it?

I had a kick a** job five years ago. I was making over 100k a year more than I had ever made in my life. My wife and I bought a house in a real nice neighborhood.

Over the last 4 years jobs have come and gone. Some paid well some, paid crap. When you own a house, you gotta do what it takes so you dont loose it. I had to work one christmas at the mall as an asst. mngr to make ends meet.

in the last year I have held some good positions and starting to inch closer to my old salary range. I had enough "extra" money this year to buy my ranchero, and a hot tub, and make sure everyone has a nice CHRISTmas. My wife has had some extra $$ to fix her old mercedes. When I bought my house 3 years ago everyone thought we "overpaid" because no house on our street had ever gone for over 500k, now the houses on my street go for 800k...

Like I said: Good Bad, its a state of mind.