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here's how it went, video below.
pretty cool stuff, I get $420 a week as I am looking for jobs. Barely takes care of my cigarette bills a month, but it is good to see this service. I was initially against it because I don't like free stuff and being dependent on government, but since the money is going right back to the state in tobacco tax I guess it is ok.
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I thought unemployment payments only went to people who lost their jobs because of being let go. I thought that you had a job and quit. Be careful that you don't end up having to pay it back.
I have a medical excuse. One of the reasons I quit was due to stress, I am being treated for stress by a team of medical professionals. Also I don't have health insurance so that is burning through cash very quickly.
It is not a disability however. I do not qualify for disability at this moment. Honestly I'd rather just off myself, if I run out of money I will do that.
Cry me a river. I've been working asshole boss for 42 years.
I'm self employed.
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It is not the stress BH but how you handle it.
I'll tell you a secret now, how do you handle it ?
You don't. You learn to let it roll off your back as some say.
If you get paid by the hour fuck it. There should be no stress. Of course there is aggravation, but it is YOUR mind that creates the stress. I can give you a similar example with anger.
If someone smacks you upside the head in a bar, you are likely to get angry and get into a fight. But what about when you are holding a baby and he/she steps on your balls with those cast iron baby shoes. AND IT HURTS. Do you get angry and throw the kid across the room ? No.
So if you can control yourself then, why not any other time ?
And stress is a form of anger, it is just not directed.
You want stress go into business for yourself. Deal with the taxman, government regulations and all that. When profits are down you make payroll out of your own pocket.
That is why they say "Don't buy yourself a job". So you make a hundred grand a year, but if you have to work ninety hours a week to get it, that is not success. Success is when it runs itself. Get a good general manager who you can trust and just collect your money. Then you can do it again, and again, thus multiplying your income without working much at all. I wish I was up to the task, but it seems like you might be.
Time is irreplaceable. Now you quit, you got time. Time to contemplate and plan and plot. Use it wisely before your money runs out. I wish I could, but I lack a few things needed to make things happen.
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Don't laugh. Try it, your a smart guy. It should be easy.
You've had enough time off. lets get on the stick & become a productive member off society again. Now the time.
check this out brother...
First off I'm not your brother & second I don't need to listen that drivel.
Either your going to get off your ass & while you are getting unemployment, figure to out. your getting help & now its up to you to do something.
That or whine.
ok, I am not going to get my Cadillac in the garage by sitting on my ass.
are you a painter as a job? construction or contractor related trade job?
just wondering from your handle.
Yes.
OK, I'll tell a funny story. About 18 year ago I was doing a repaint of the interior of a residence.
One afternoon I was painting their 8 year old daughters bedroom & she comes into the room to watch me. So she's sitting on the bed jabbering to me & then asks "do you like painting?"
I turn around & say "not really" & she says "so why do you do it" & I say "because I'm not smart enough to do anything else, so do good in school or you could end up being a painter".
She went to school the next day & told the teacher what I told her.
I still know the family & she remembers my advice to this day.
"She went to school the next day & told the teacher what I told her."
There is no shame in honest work. I don't care if you suck shit out of sewers. I wish I could get a real job, but my skills are outdated and my eyesight just about gone.
Painting is one thing you can do well or shitty. If you can keep getting work you are probably doing alright at least.
I was gifted with a range of talents. Electronics and most aspects of house remodeling. To say the least I could find work. On my own in fact, I have not filled out a job application since the 1980s. I did at a place called Electrasound and beat out 154 applicants. They had a comprehensive test and I rewrote it. Well actually just pointed out an error.
In remodeling, I could do everything but the roof and the cement work. I made some money at that for a while. I used to have a saying "Hell no I don't want to do it right, but I don't want to come back and do it again". I almost started a company doing electrical work, I was going to call it "Overkill Electric" but then I thought twice and figured that is not quite the right name. But I have wired quite a few houses and the work always passed inspection. In fact in spades. I was taught by real experts at it.
But not everyone gets the same exposure. What I got, I got from a family of people with many skills. That is rare. It did make me some money, but I can't even read a tape measure these days. My PC has an extra big screen just so I can correspond. I could never deal with one of those smart phones.
I would like to have a job, any job. But I can't even run a cash register.
If you paint, then that's what you do. Do it.
If you are doing good work there is no shame in that.
I don't think there are medical "excuses" to quit your job and go on unemployment. Unless a medical professional recommended that you quit your job, I don't think that you can legally receive unemployment.
And yes, I know it's chump change which is why I never bothered.
that was only option, after a few months I am getting better.
I stopped throwing up every morning, and my blood pressure went down from catastrophic levels.
it is chump change, glad you found something so quick in the situations you found yourself in.
now after talking to ex coworkers, seems company is going into the shitter, glad I left, as they have no way to boost morale at all there. just all about the cheese it was there. last company I left took a few years and they were out of business, saw the writing on the wall at that time, and have been seeing it with the other one a few years back.
Easy Brother. I'll move your ass here before you go down drain.
Will
thanks for looking out. Carolina sunshine might be a good change from the war zone wasteland here.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
Not getting into anymore politics here.
"Not getting into anymore politics here. "
Too late dude. I got kicked off of AK for politics.
Just so you know the subject was about Obama stopping the embargo o Cuba, and whether they has stereos or monophonic equipment. My comment was that these embargoes and sanctions do not work. The last time they actually worked was on Japan and that led to the Pearl Harbor attack. That was a blockade and causing people to starve. The government never did that to Cuba, or anyone else. Just Japan. They also put people of Japanese origin in concentration camps.
But I am not here to talk world politics. The first thing to realise is that UI is not welfare. Your employer pays into it ad that is money you could have had. It may be mandatory in some states but it wasn't before. In fact, social security is not mandatory, no matter what their website says. But you pay into it and so does your employer and if you get hurt bad you collect, and they take care of the medical bills. Do you want out ? Some people do and there is a form for that.
Same with workman's comp, it may be mandatory today but it was not in the past. It is a form of insurance. Businesses DECIDED to pay into it to protect themselves financially. If you got hurt at work you could sue, but comp moderates all this and at one time you could get a Jewish lawyer and own the place. Worker's comp protects them from that.
Nowadays, most companies protect themselves by paying into UI, SS and comp. It is not for you, it is to cover their ass. And this is money you made them that did not go into their pocket. It went to some government agency.
So your UI pays you like $400 a week ? In most states they pay half, so you were making $800 a week. What did you do to make that money ? Well maybe it is none of my business.
But I am about to post more recipes. Secret spaghetti sauce as well as how to REALLY make a roast. Ever go somewhere and eat roast and it is like shoe leather ? Their mashed potatoes are like soup ? Well I know how to do it right.
It is almost as bad as the kash, but it works. A spoon should be able to stand straight up in a pot of mashed potatoes.
I am running out of time, but I will find the time to post these things. Be patient. I might do one today.
But anyone who chooses a name like bullethead is OK with me. But if you take and use my recipies you will find spice. Some people cannot handle that.
I warn you, we getting into spaghetti sauce, you will find spice. This sauce is so spicy that I don't even use it on the pasta. It is on the meat and what is on the pasta is romano cheese.
Looks forward to some recipies.
I am going to make Beef stew this week in the slow cooker, trying my own style and switch things up a little bit.
I am looking forward to more recipes, I will keep my eyes open.
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"E Burres Stigano?"
The Mind Control from Jeopardy directly leads to pizza consumption, etc...
now that I have some time perhaps some book writings are in order? I have a lot to say on things like this.
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I worked for 45 years and never got unemployment even a few times when I wasn't employed.
Once I wasn't eligible for two years due to being laid off with a severance package that the company paid out in two years vs. a lump sum. I wasn't eligible for two years, so I obviously went back to work in a few weeks. That company folded a year later, and I was unemployed again. I still wasn't eligible because of the two year severance package, so I found work again.
The last time I got laid off, I was 68 and decided that I didn't want to go to the trouble of looking for work and decided that I was "retired".
Bullethead quit his job because he was fed up with it. I'm pretty sure that he doesn't legally qualify for unemployment. If he does, it's tricking wrong imo.
It is not a lot of money really, no one can live on this, I could barely get by before on $92K a year with all the expenses and taxes. If I didn't have money saved I wouldn't have any option because it has been 3 months and not one bite. I am over qualified for everything, plus I am 40 years old. Who wants a 40 year old with a masters when you can have two 25 years olds with PHDs for the same price?
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the first time. The company laid off everyone over 50. I ended up working another 16 years. You are hardly washed up at 40. You have more experience and should know things 20 year olds don't that would make you more valuable to the right employer.
I had to take a lower paying job when I left my first employer, but eventually worked my way up to really good pay ( over 6 figures). Unless you are a big name CEO type, you may have to work your way up again. You probably shouldn't have quit your job until you had another lined up. It is easier to get a job when you are employed than unemployed.
We can retire on our 401k and other investments, sort of, plus I'm fortunate that my wife gets a decent pension from her decades as a public school teacher.
However, we would have to cut back significantly and be much more aware of our expenses and discretionary spending. I'm 58 1/2. Kind of weird that my blue-collar Dad was able to retire comfortably at 55 with his military retirement combined with his civil service retirement. He wasn't so dumb after all. Here I am still needing to work!
The one huge eye opener for me is the cost of good health care insurance. Notice I said "good".... not some junk plan that barely passes as worth while.
I have friends younger than 65 years old who are paying $1900/mo for two people in order to have the same level of good coverage that their employers once subsidized.
That's not chump change! To me that would be our biggest expense if retiring pre-65. Our mortgage payment (PITI included) isn't even that much, and it will be paid off in 8 years or sooner, much sooner if we chose to divert cash into paying it off. We have no other debt. Cars are paid for. It's health insurance costs that have me concerned most with retiring pre-65.
I recommend maximizing SS at least to 66 before taking that. The difference can be significant. I am retired at 68 only because I ran out of work. My wife is still working, but is 7 years younger and wanting to hang it up. I keep encouraging her to keep working to maximize her SS and pension.
I have a significant 401K, but like SS, pensions and everything else, I am holding off any withdrawals until I am 70.5 and have to.
I was lucky to retire from one company I worked for for 30 years. I have medical and dental through that unless I ever let it go. That has worked so far. At 65, you have no choice but to go on Medicare. I pay for both Medicare and insurance for my wife which is taken out of my pension. When she is 65 and has to go on Medicare, we may have to reevaluate our insurance situation.
My first few years on Medicare, I was still working. They made me pay extra (about 50%) because of our income. I still had to pay the same premium for my wife as before. For two years I paid more for Medicare and insurance than before I was 65. Thankfully, congress passed legislation to stop Medicare from upping our premium due to our income. What kind of retirement deal is that? You get on Medicaid and pay more than before you were on it.
That's water under the bridge at this point.
The scary part about retirement to me is inflation. I watched my dad retire early and get poorer and poorer due to inflation. I'm trying not to be in that boat, but once you hang it up, who knows what inflation or the stock market will do?
thanks a lot for sharing, I'll be ok.
I don't mind working my way up at all, definitely in another field because that other one almost killed me.
I've seen some friends retire at 34, I mean retire. Stacked cash and called it quits, you don't have to keep working if your frugal.
I've worked in Vermont for over 25 years and it is the rule here.
That's what my brother's in laws were telling me.
I'm still a little bothered by this, and that attitude. It somewhat reduces incentive to really pound the pavement.
However it is good to know it is there. The woman gave me a project hospitality contact info too, if it gets really bad. There's definitely a thin line one has to walk on a tightrope to avoid homelessness.
When everything seems fine, there could be always something to mess it up. I think that is murphys law.
met a girl a while back and she told me she was enrolled in clinical studies that paid her $8K to participate. I asked her what was the nature of the study and she said it was for treatment of schizophrenia (red flag!). Participants aren't told whether they're getting the actual medication or a placebo (sugar pill). Of course this is an extreme example; just one of many; google 'paid medical trials ' for more info.
I've been on unemployed message boards reading some horror stories.
A couple of winters ago, a guy couldn't pay his heat, he was asking for freezing to death and said he hopes he doesn't wake up. Another one I read were selling their plasma to get by.
I guess modern day ways to make money are to become lab rats, hope one can survive to earn money after taking those experimental drugs. I believe they do make you sign a waiver that they are not responsible for ill effect.
I have lots of options should things go south, self immolation in front of City Hall is one. A new found life of drug cartel member is another. I may or may not be joking :)
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