fuck this economy

stealing a neighbor's wireless, hotspots.. duh?

 

We are doing "ok" now, in the context of the current financial crisis.
The next couple of years will decide how the next 10/15 years will pan out.
A. because we are due an election this year and the two main parties have radically different ideas about our financial recovery.
B. It obviously takes a while for the strategies of today to feed into the future.
C. I think I'll quit while I'm ahead.

Deviate was suggesting nothing in Britain has really changed for centuries.
Clearly Deviate is a wind up merchant so I forgive her.

We were pretty much a third world country 100 years ago (well most people lived in abject squalor etc).
Now look at us.
The 5th richest nation in the world.
Social mobility for most people.
The welfare state.
Multiculturalism.
A rather impressive health care system.
The streets paved with gold. (Ok, maybe not)

 

haha oh, okay, figured so lol

 

im doing pretty well actually :willy_nilly:

 

well that's exactly why i thought you were doing ok! haha. you didn't have a g.w. bush, as well.

 

Ssssshhhhhh!!!

 

You gotta adapt bro. I was working, got laid off.I knew I could draw unemployment for a while. So what better chance than to go back to school and finish up? No jobs out there for the average joe schmo with just a high school education. Even if you luck up and get one, your making minimum wage or around bout.

I finish up this degree in the next year, and I'll have a job before I graduate making a comfortable living. Excited.

 

i'm happier now with someone who can't seem to end wars someone else started then i was with someone just started them out of thin air to be an ass hole.

as for the economy. everyone talks about glass stigal cause they can blame a democrate, or think they can or something, but what the hell ever happened to the law against too big to fail? believe it or not, at one time in the u.s. there was one. it was called the sherman anti-trust act.

and the protected status of the "financial service industry" (which btw used to be called a confidence game and people used to go to prison for it), that created the whole economic colapse, possibly deliberately, they've certainly gained by it like the bandits that they are.

my personal life, i didn't have shit before it hit the fan anyway.
i had a wife who had a check that paid the rent and bought my computer.
she died and might not have if we had real health care, instead of using poor people as guinnie pigs to test new medications on without telling them, let alone asking them and paying them to do so, which the law also required once upon a time.

 

well, I came so close to getting another job in the legal field with the promise of law school.. but the managing partners said no more hires. probably because I have a cock.

so now it's time to go back to mechanics, if I can even find a position. I'm an ASE certified master technician, and even with those credentials, who wants to bet I can find a job here in a week?

it's time to prepare for homelessness.

fuck the economy, and fuck the world. I'm getting drunk.

 

even though I love drugs and hate authority, I'm actually considering the military. it's guaranteed pay and health insurance. and on top of that, I'm probably angry enough now at this point in my life, to kill people.

I just need to find someone I fully trust to take care of my dogs while I'm gone. which will probably be impossible. FML.

 

Well, I bet you could find a gig in a week as a mechanic, but the wage would be comparable or only slightly better than flipping burgers.

I've found paid positions and told the interviewers to go fuck themselves because they honestly expected me to do electrical, mechanical, welding, retrofitting and PLC programming for 15 an hour and provide my own tools on top of that... damn near 20 years of developing and refining my skills for that? Nah, I'll find something else to do to keep myself fed, clothed and housed.

 

so is this what the economy was designed for?

 

I don't follow exactly what you are asking in that question. no, the economy was not 'designed' for guaranteed pay. the economy was not even designed. so I'd like aired direct question please

 

oh sorry - no, i was just joking that the economy makes joining the military seem like a good idea to some people, which is unfortunate... i hope that's not your only option

 

it's not, but I can't say it's not tempting. and I would have money for law school when I got out.

however, in reality it is likely i'd go back to growing and selling before making a crazy decision like that. it's just I have never felt this desperate for a solid income. people aren't even buying drugs here at the same rate, so I'm not sure that is even an option. when people aren't buying drugs, you just know shit is bad