Is your job useful?

Dunno about that, cheaper than a girlfriend..... a LOT cheaper than a wife. Hookers are the low-price leaders.... um, or so I heard...

 

The original "pay-as-u-go".

 

Margaritaville opening here in March....They've already talked to me...

There. I said it.

The job I've been training for all my life...

 

I guess I could always fall back on Nursing...Been a while, but you don't forget it when you did it as long as I did...

However, right now, M'ville is winning....

Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes, Nothing remains quite the same....

 

I'm sure not all wives are like this but.... I have married friends that feel their wives try their best to spend money as fast or faster than they can make it. One of them is in a process of spending 60k renovating the kitchen because his wife just had to have it. What job does she have ? Zero, all the kids are grown she has no job. Except her self imposed job of outspending his income.

 

60 grand huh..........

a) Wife and new kitchen

b) 120 good prostitutes


hmmmmmmm.........

 

Yeah it is. He works 7 days a week running an autoshop no vacations. At least not for him the owner. He's a nice guy that everyone gets along well with. His wife.... nobody can stand and has no real friends. For some odd reason that none of us can understand (but respect) he stays with her. Love is strange.....

 

Yeah, he picked the kitchen and wife..... I don't get it either....

 

Ever hear the saying 'cheaper to kep her'? Could have something to do with it. If spending $60k on a new kitchen what would half of all asets plus alamoney be? The $60k just might be the cheaper option.

 

I couldn't afford to get divorced even if I wanted to, misery it is

j/k Tracy

 

Lol, actually you hit it right on the head. He already crunched the numbers. It is cheaper to keep her.

 

I would probably be SOL in a depression. I am a project manager for web application supporting sales teams in the silicon (chips!) industry. I've looked around for an alternate means of income, but most alternatives are far less then what I make now. Mainly working on piling up the IRAs, emergency savings, eliminate debt, and stocking up preps.

I think a depression might be better than a recession. In a recession there are a lot of lay offs but we tend not to make drastic changes like moving to a tent, and we struggle to keep up the house and loan payments. And it is hard to give up on the old career and totally switch gears and expectations. In a depression we would be forced to wipe the slate clean and make drastic changes if necessary.

If the economy got really bad we would probably invite one or more of daughters' families to double up with us and share expenses and earnings. We might move out of the suburbs into a much more rural area, or stay put and start a family business.

 

On the civilian front, my unemployment wouldn't be so viable. On the other front, I see a pretty good chance that I'd be okay.

 

I'm a welder/fabricator. If you can break it, I can fix it(usually). I imagine that in such a situation things that are normally thrown away will be repaired and pressed to serve a little more.

 

My job would be as usefull as tits on a boar hog!!!! I am a landscaper whose money comes from high end customers. The only good thing is I know how to raise animals, grow crops, pour concrete, hunt, fish, and if it has wheels, I can drive it. The landscaping would definatly be out of the picture though.