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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Miss Mia on June 07, 2008, 07:53:41 PM
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greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Jun-07-08 07:40 PM
Original message (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3404299)
I am going to take a 2nd job. I am a teacher and am going to work at McDonalds
part time 7 bucks an hour 30 hours a week
going to pay off some bills
1st
pay off our cruise...used the stimulus check 1500 for down payment June 2009
2nd pay off my one credit card
3rd pay off hubbys one credit card
4th pay off a consolidation loan
5th pay off 2nd mortgage
will leave first mortgage and student loans
2 years tops
Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 07:45 PM
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1. my dad worked part time at McDonalds
when he was a meteorologist sergeant in the Air Force supporting six kids
yellowdogintexas Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Jun-07-08 07:47 PM
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2. you won't be the first teacher to do this or the last
One of my teachers worked weekends and summers in a local dept store
I have known lots of teachers who sold Tupperware or Mary Kay or other such things as second jobs
if you don't teach in summer you can work 40 hours if you want to.
Skink (1000+ posts)
Sat Jun-07-08 07:49 PM
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3. Free egg Mcmuffins
tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts)
Sat Jun-07-08 07:50 PM
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4. Well, if I was you
I would have used my stimulus check to payoff some of that credit card debt first, before planning another expensive vacation.
:-) :-) :-)
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There's more!
greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 07:53 PM
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5. naw
I live for cruising
the stimulus check paid for 1/2 of the trip
and it will be our daughters grad from HS trip...our last as a family probably
since she will be going to college and starting a new life
Tansy_Gold (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 07:54 PM
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6. I was offered a first job at less than that
so you won't get any sympathy from me.
Maybe you should have used that "stimulus" check to pay down a few bills instead of making a "down payment" on a cruise.
Credit cards? 2nd mortgage? Consolidation loan? If you don't get your spending habits under control, your "2 years tops" will end up being. . . . a whole lot longer.
Tansy Gold, who got $0 in her stimulus check
greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 07:55 PM
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8. no need to be nasty...we don't need the 2nd job I want the second job
my spending is fine
our finances are fine
I am doing this to speed up payoff
the combined credit card total for both is less than 5 grand
I am not asking for sympathy
No, sorry hon, your finances aren't fine. You're having to take a 2nd job to pay off shit, you shouldn't have probably bought anyways.
And yes, you are indeed asking for sympathy.
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I was hoping to see if the misgynaecological Kansas school teacher, "Proud2BLib," had shown up at this bonfire, to castigate George Bush for "low" teaching salaries that compels her fellow Kansas school teacher (but remember, the former lives near Kansas City, while the latter lives near Wichita) to take such a second job.
Alas she's not there yet, but the warped primitive showed up.
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I was hoping to see if the misgynaecological Kansas school teacher, "Proud2BLib," had shown up at this bonfire, to castigate George Bush for "low" teaching salaries that compels her fellow Kansas school teacher (but remember, the former lives near Kansas City, while the latter lives near Wichita) to take such a second job.
Alas she's not there yet, but the warped primitive showed up.
I caught it while it was still a fresh thread Frank.
ahh, she's edited her OP now to include
I am NOT looking for sympathy
I am not struggling in our monthly finances...I am just going to make it so that we can cruise every year and do more things we want.
Now I expect this to die. She wanted to get sympathy for having to take a 2nd job, but then a few posters ( :-)) called her out on taking a cruise when she should be paying off her credit card debt.
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Let's see here ---
$1500 stimulus check paid for 1/2 the cruise. We can assume they need/want to use a second job to pay off what we can presume to be the second $1500. $7.00 an hour nets to around $6.00 an hour. At 30 hours a week, that is 9-10 weeks to pay off that one trip. The numbers get worse the more real-life assumptions you throw in.
And that means for 9 weeks you will be a back in the morning and a shape coming to bed at night.
I like my way better: save money, then spend it.
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Thought she was getting divorced?
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More MAth for DUmmies:
To pay off a $5,000, 17% credit card debt at $700 a month (apx. what you take home monthly at $7 an hour, 30 hours a week), it will take 17 MONTHS. 2 years tops barely addresses #1 and 2.
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Thought she was getting divorced?
I think she prefers to bitch about her husband than actually leave him.
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More MAth for DUmmies:
To pay off a $5,000, 17% credit card debt at $700 a month (apx. what you take home monthly at $7 an hour, 30 hours a week), it will take 17 MONTHS. 2 years tops doesn't even address #1.
They could do it, but they'd have to cut way back and that means no more cruises.
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There is nothing about this persons life that is believable at this point. :whatever:
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I assume SoylentGreenbriar does not teach economics.
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There is nothing about this persons life that is believable at this point. :whatever:
I do believe we have another example of the DU "Stretchy" phenomenon.
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She makes this sound like some big sacrifice. She's a teacher and she's off all summer so it isn't like she's sacrificing much. I also suspect a bouncy here. Why didn't she volunteer to teach summer school? She would have made more than $7.00/hr teaching summer school.
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She makes this sound like some big sacrifice. She's a teacher and she's off all summer so it isn't like she's sacrificing much. I also suspect a bouncy here. Why didn't she volunteer to teach summer school? She would have made more than $7.00/hr teaching summer school.
Remember her big rant about Vast Teddy's "No Child Left Behind" thing that the primitives blame on George Bush?
That was about a month, six weeks, ago.
Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
It's possible the greedy thorn primitive wanted to teach summer school--or maybe she's burned out, and didn't want to, who knows--but better teachers filled those slots.
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She makes this sound like some big sacrifice. She's a teacher and she's off all summer so it isn't like she's sacrificing much. I also suspect a bouncy here. Why didn't she volunteer to teach summer school? She would have made more than $7.00/hr teaching summer school.
Remember her big rant about Vast Teddy's "No Child Left Behind" thing that the primitives blame on George Bush?
That was about a month, six weeks, ago.
Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
It's possible the greedy thorn primitive wanted to teach summer school--or maybe she's burned out, and didn't want to, who knows--but better teachers filled those slots.
Or the thermos filled with coffee and Brandy isn`t allowed. :-)
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Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
Yeah, I wouldn't really expect, "Ok students, What would Pi divided by the square root of 12 and multiplied by 3 equal if Bush weren't elected?" to be following the educational standards.
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Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
Yeah, I wouldn't really expect, "Ok students, What would Pi divided by the square root of 12 and multiplied by 3 equal if Bush weren't elected?" to be following the educational standards.
DU Answer: I can't answer because the book was written in Florida.
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She makes this sound like some big sacrifice. She's a teacher and she's off all summer so it isn't like she's sacrificing much. I also suspect a bouncy here. Why didn't she volunteer to teach summer school? She would have made more than $7.00/hr teaching summer school.
Remember her big rant about Vast Teddy's "No Child Left Behind" thing that the primitives blame on George Bush?
That was about a month, six weeks, ago.
Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
It's possible the greedy thorn primitive wanted to teach summer school--or maybe she's burned out, and didn't want to, who knows--but better teachers filled those slots.
How did she manage to get two jobs in the horrible * economy?
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DU Answer: I can't answer because the book was written in Florida.
Yeah, and what's with all these holes and Braille shit? :lmao:
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It gets better yet.
Journalgrrl Donating Member (434 posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 10:39 PM
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18. Though this actualy does piss me off ...
Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 10:40 PM by Journalgrrl
First - You are taking a job that should be for someone who needs it to feed their family, pay rent, etc...
Second - You have credit cards and mortgages, fine. But think about those who need the job because they will never have credit or be able to even keep enough money in a banking institution long enough to save anything...
Third, a Cruise, Are you kidding me? If you wanted to, you could have used at least part of that money to help someone out or donate to a local shelter. Instead you take a job you don't "need" to subsidize your own selfishness?
That chaps my hide, is all I am saying...
I worked three jobs last month, thought it could help with the cost of living that has gone from bad to worse in the past 6 mos. I was wrong - Got nothing better to show for it, because LIFE has sucked it from my hand before I could even see a difference. I am still looking for a more permanent third gig to juggle as I raise my 3 kids in a rental with housing asistance and struggle to just put food in the table, much less utilties.
Extras? gee, I bought a $8 camera to take pics of my kid's year end show at Kindergarten... but probably can't afford to develop them.
So you should keep your "I'm bored, I think I will steal a poor person's job" to yourself.
Have fun on your Cruise.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 10:42 PM
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20. Have you seen the unemployment rate lately?
Yeah, it's kinda bullshit to take a second job for extras when a lot of people need a first for food and rent.
AND then it turns into a stretchy.
greenbriar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 10:43 PM
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22. as for helping others out...we are letting someone live in our finished basement RENT FREE
and I cook for him
Two years ago, we had a family of 5 living with us because they got evicted and had NO WHERE else to go and a baby that was 1 month old
so don't preach to me about helping others
so sorry your life sucks
bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 11:15 PM
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32. Upon reading this thread, I am disturbed that, in the current economic climate,
you would take a job that you don't need, to finance your consumption, when in all likelihood there are others that need that job much more than you do.
Ymmv.
kevinbgoode (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 11:41 PM
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37. I'm still trying to get the first full-time job as I near completion of my degree
and the most awful thing that is surfacing is getting the very polite emails from colleges and universities that aren't rejecting my materials (after they solicited them) but that they have been told to freeze any new faculty positions that have not been hired due to budget woes.
Another DUmmie that got an advanced degree in some bullshit that can only be used in academia bicthing about not being able to get a job. :loser:
Fox Mulder (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Jun-07-08 11:46 PM
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38. I'm working a first job at a ****ing Wal-Mart...
Edited on Sat Jun-07-08 11:47 PM by Fox Mulder
just so I can pay my bills. :(
I can't find decent work within fifty miles of here.
:loser:
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Thought she was getting divorced?
I think she prefers to bitch about her husband than actually leave him.
Isn't her husband legally blind also? Or was that a previous husband?
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LOL I wonder how many moles are in this thread???
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Hey DUmmies! Move to Shreveport, LA. They have "Help Wanted" and "Employment Opportunities" signs everywhere. Restaurants are especially understaffed and offering good money.
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Wait a minute how can she be doing fine financially in this horrible * economy?
I also love the DUmmies claiming she stole the job at Mikey D's from someone else.
I am glad to see the plagiarizing primitive is doing something productive this summer assuming she really got the second job. Chances are she will get canned anyway after she rants to the first customer about how bad * is.
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Let's see here ---
$1500 stimulus check paid for 1/2 the cruise. We can assume they need/want to use a second job to pay off what we can presume to be the second $1500. $7.00 an hour nets to around $6.00 an hour. At 30 hours a week, that is 9-10 weeks to pay off that one trip. The numbers get worse the more real-life assumptions you throw in.
And that means for 9 weeks you will be a back in the morning and a shape coming to bed at night.
I like my way better: save money, then spend it.
I hope she isn't teaching financial management.
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$7.00 an hour nets to around $6.00 an hour.
Too bad 70 thousand doesn't net around 60 thousand. Ahh well, so much for those tax cuts being only for the rich.
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Just amazing... They really think that working at a McDonalds is a 'career'. Fast food has one of the highest turnover rates in any industry. They are ALWAYS 'hiring'.
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One would think an educated person, such as a teacher, who wanted a part-time job during the summer could do what someone else mentioned and taught summer school, or tutored people in summer school, or hell, get a job at Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, or anywhere else. When I think of McDonalds, I think of 17 year-olds. Besides, why is she trying to take a job away from a 17 Y/O who's trying to earn money for the summer in this terrible * economy?
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Someone help out an uneducated idiot here. I have only taken 7 semester hours of college (formally, I have loads of hours for real estate) and I don't understand the comment about the 'Student Loans'. She is saying she still has student loans to pay off but HER kid is fixing to go to college ..... shouldn't her student loans be paid off by now?!
Sorry, I don't know how all that works so I'm curious.
KC
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Someone help out an uneducated idiot here. I have only taken 7 semester hours of college (formally, I have loads of hours for real estate) and I don't understand the comment about the 'Student Loans'. She is saying she still has student loans to pay off but HER kid is fixing to go to college ..... shouldn't her student loans be paid off by now?!
Sorry, I don't know how all that works so I'm curious.
KC
I never had student loans. My college was paid for with grants and by my parents. I would think that they should have been paid off by now. To be financially wise, one wouldn't go on a cruise when they have that much debt, but then I think greenbriar has shown that she's not financially wise.
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One would think an educated person, such as a teacher, who wanted a part-time job during the summer could do what someone else mentioned and taught summer school, or tutored people in summer school, or hell, get a job at Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, or anywhere else. When I think of McDonalds, I think of 17 year-olds. Besides, why is she trying to take a job away from a 17 Y/O who's trying to earn money for the summer in this terrible * economy?
17 year-olds ?
I don't know about your neck of the woods,
But around here most Mickey D's employees have trouble
with the English language if you know what I mean.
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Someone help out an uneducated idiot here. I have only taken 7 semester hours of college (formally, I have loads of hours for real estate) and I don't understand the comment about the 'Student Loans'. She is saying she still has student loans to pay off but HER kid is fixing to go to college ..... shouldn't her student loans be paid off by now?!
Sorry, I don't know how all that works so I'm curious.
KC
I found that rather interesting too.
Way back when I went I took as little out in loans as I could and worked a couple of jobs to pay my way through.
My first priority after graduating was pay off the loans and get a clean start. I guess she chose the 30 year payment plan.
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More MAth for DUmmies:
To pay off a $5,000, 17% credit card debt at $700 a month (apx. what you take home monthly at $7 an hour, 30 hours a week), it will take 17 MONTHS. 2 years tops barely addresses #1 and 2.
I like my math better. My math essentially led to me being paid several hundred dollars to install my new Environmental Conditioning System last year.
Then again, I'm not a DUmmy.
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Someone help out an uneducated idiot here. I have only taken 7 semester hours of college (formally, I have loads of hours for real estate) and I don't understand the comment about the 'Student Loans'. She is saying she still has student loans to pay off but HER kid is fixing to go to college ..... shouldn't her student loans be paid off by now?!
Sorry, I don't know how all that works so I'm curious.
KC
I found that rather interesting too.
Way back when I went I took as little out in loans as I could and worked a couple of jobs to pay my way through.
My first priority after graduating was pay off the loans and get a clean start. I guess she chose the 30 year payment plan.
Well, it took me 10 years to pay off my student loans. But pay them off I did and the ROI has been fantastic. I went to Pepperdine, Malibu, so I am sure you can see how I needed a combination of loans, scholarships and CWS to get it done. That combination, BTW, is a great incentive to graduate as quickly as possible. I did it in 3-1/2 years by taking 2 summer trimesters.
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She makes this sound like some big sacrifice. She's a teacher and she's off all summer so it isn't like she's sacrificing much. I also suspect a bouncy here. Why didn't she volunteer to teach summer school? She would have made more than $7.00/hr teaching summer school.
Remember her big rant about Vast Teddy's "No Child Left Behind" thing that the primitives blame on George Bush?
That was about a month, six weeks, ago.
Throughout that entire rant, one sensed that the greedy thorn primitive had "flunked" some sort of work evaluation, and being a primitive, she of course was trying to blame her failure on George Bush.
that's like Ed McMahon blaming losing his house on the economy - but when you get to the meat of it, he spent more than he made, and admitted it. how that comes even near the economy problem is beyond me.
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17 year-olds ?
I don't know about your neck of the woods,
But around here most Mickey D's employees have trouble
with the English language if you know what I mean.
I walked into a McDonald's (in Virginia, near the beltway) here last summer. I tried to order a big Mac and a coke. The mexican woman at the counter stared at me, then turned around and in Spanish said, "What does this gaucho want?" Her problem was I speak Spanish. I told her she was in the US and should learn German, then walked out.
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Hey DUmmies! Move to Shreveport, LA. They have "Help Wanted" and "Employment Opportunities" signs everywhere. Restaurants are especially understaffed and offering good money.
my future son in law to be graduated with a degree in Engineering (structural) and a minor in math. He also has about 12 years of actual experience in farming (his family does wheat) and 4 years in construction (he's about to be 26) ... he's got more job offers in Seattle than he can afford to drive to for the interviews right now.
here's my advice DUmmies: get a degree that's actually worth something in ANY economy. another teacher is not something this country needs.
as for Greenbriar 'taking' anyone's job at McDonald's; what utter horse poo. that is not a job that anyone is using to feed a family and pay a mortgage on. its a teenage kid's job. heck, i dont know many 20something kids who work fast food these days. they all work retail or restraunts where they can make tips.
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he's got more job offers in Seattle than he can afford to drive to for the interviews right now.
See? This * economy is even hurting the people that would otherwise be able to get a job!!! DAMN YOU BUSH!!!
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Someone help out an uneducated idiot here. I have only taken 7 semester hours of college (formally, I have loads of hours for real estate) and I don't understand the comment about the 'Student Loans'. She is saying she still has student loans to pay off but HER kid is fixing to go to college ..... shouldn't her student loans be paid off by now?!
Sorry, I don't know how all that works so I'm curious.
KC
could be that she went back to school later in life and went on the 10-15 year plan to repay them.
have you heard Michelle Obama stating that her and Barack just recently paid off their student loans? Granted, I think they are both lawyers, or he is. But they are in their mid 40s now .. or it was just a bunch of junk, to make the little people think Barak and Michelle feel their pain. :whatever:
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he's got more job offers in Seattle than he can afford to drive to for the interviews right now.
See? This * economy is even hurting the people that would otherwise be able to get a job!!! DAMN YOU BUSH!!!
well, let me be clear - he lives 2.5 hours away in Eastern Washington :-)
and he is helping his dad get the equipment ready for harvest, which he wont be around to help with this summer.
all that is to say, he isnt worried about getting a job at all. he is just hoping he has enough time to help his dad before he has to report into his career starting. his dad already has contracts for harvesting all the wheat (its all pre-sold i assume) and they have too much work this year.
apparently, some people look way down the road and can see that even in a down shifting economy, people still need certain things (like wheat and structural engineering) and avail themselves of the opportunities. kinda funny how that seems to work..
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$7.00 an hour nets to around $6.00 an hour.
Too bad 70 thousand doesn't net around 60 thousand. Ahh well, so much for those tax cuts being only for the rich.
No shit.
On top of the fact if a single person with a kid or two would also get Earned Income Credit....
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One would think an educated person, such as a teacher, who wanted a part-time job during the summer could do what someone else mentioned and taught summer school, or tutored people in summer school, or hell, get a job at Lowes, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, or anywhere else. When I think of McDonalds, I think of 17 year-olds. Besides, why is she trying to take a job away from a 17 Y/O who's trying to earn money for the summer in this terrible * economy?
Some of those places wont hire you if they think you won't stick around past the summer....
McDonalds wouldn't be bad for her...someone has to babysit the teenagers, and being a teacher that should be a plus...
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here's my advice DUmmies: get a degree that's actually worth something in ANY economy. another teacher is not something this country needs.
Not true. There's a huge demand for teachers of math, science, and special ed. What this country does NOT need is another moonbat history or English teacher.
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Some school systems have cancelled summer sessions this year due to budget shortfalls. Ours did. It's possible that there are no summer teaching jobs. But, I suspect that she's not wanted as a summer teacher. I bet her employer has a "thanks, but no thanks" stance on her.
I love that they are crucifying her for taking a second job. LOL! And it's not like she's kneecapping poor people to take this Mickey D's job away from them. That would assume they are lining up and begging the managers for positions.
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could be that she went back to school later in life and went on the 10-15 year plan to repay them.
True.
At least she is paying them.....allot of people don't. That is why the DUmmies are really mad at her.....
I know people that have piled on the loans and played allot of games...instead of taking the time to apply for scholarships, it becomes easier (especially with advanced degrees) to simply get the loan...often they will sign up for full time, get the money then drop a couple classes....which just sets up the train wreck later in life.
My last girlfriend of a few too many years took a job one semester before she would of had her masters....she owes 64k in student loans.....she just deferred for another three years.....the payment will be around 600 for 20 or 25 years......I am pretty happy to call her my ex.....
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Why would a blind man want to go on a cruise?
The motion of the ocean in the cabin?
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As usual, DUmmies stumble into a truth but not for the reasons they think -
This year, it’s harder than ever for teens to find a summer job. Researchers at Northeastern University described summer 2007 as “the worst in post-World War II history†for teen summer employment, and those same researchers say that 2008 is poised to be “even worse.â€
According to their data, only about one-third of Americans 16 to 19 years old will have a job this summer, and vulnerable low-income and minority teens are going to fare even worse.
The percentage of teens classified as “unemployed†— those who are actively seeking a job but can’t get one — is more than three times higher than the national unemployment rate, according to the most recent Department of Labor statistics.
One of the prime reasons for this drastic employment drought is the mandated wage hikes that policymakers have forced down the throats of local businesses. Economic research has shown time and again that increasing the minimum wage destroys jobs for low-skilled workers while doing little to address poverty.
According to economist David Neumark of the University of California at Irvine, for every 10 percent increase in the minimum wage, employment for high school dropouts and young black adults and teenagers falls by 8.5 percent. In the past 11 months alone, the United States’ minimum wage has increased by more than twice that amount.
So it should be no surprise to see teen jobs disappearing or to hear bleak testimony from employers across the country that make these hiring decisions.
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You don’t need a business degree to understand why employers are making these cuts. The classic summer jobs — cashier, waiter, grocery clerk — can help an employer with increased service or make up for full-time employees who take vacations.
When the minimum wage gets boosted, however, employers cut down on hiring teens who typically fill lower-priority slots. Most of the work still gets done, but customers may get stuck standing in longer lines, and teens suffer because they’ve been priced out of work.
There’s no end to the economic data that confirm these common-sense observations. Research from the University of Georgia, the University of Connecticut and Cornell University indicates that increasing the minimum wage causes four times more job loss for employees without a high school diploma than it does for the general population.
Furthermore, minimum wage hikes don’t effectively target the people who are typically portrayed as the key beneficiaries — low-income adults raising kids. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, just 14 percent of those who benefited from the most recent federal minimum wage hike are sole earners in families with children.
A summer job for a teen is much more than a paycheck: It’s a chance to gain important skills, increase one’s value to future employers and — just as importantly — learn what it’s like to have a job! But ill-advised policymakers are blinded by the basement salary figure instead of looking at the big picture.
Mandated wage hikes have negative consequences that too many politicians are ignoring. Hopefully some of them will discover the truth when they return home this summer to find their teenage children stuck languishing on the couch.
http://www.examiner.com/a-1431559~Kristen_Lopez_Eastlick__Dude__where_s_my_summer_job_.html
Oh to have a mole to post that. :-)
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Why would a blind man want to go on a cruise?
The motion of the ocean in the cabin?
If so, it wasn't with greenturd. She fell in "love" with another man on that cruise...remember?
She was whining that her husband wanted to get amorous on the cruise before they went so the reality is that she is just a user.
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What's even more puzzling is the other night during a thunderstorm she was posting about her husband being late getting home and them being alone.
Her legally blind husband DRIVES ?
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Legally blind is 20/200, which is the second row of big letters on the eye chart. I can get my 20/200 left eye corrected to 20/60. Might be able to get 20/40 if I have a cataract replacement done.
I think gb is just being a petty bitch.
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What's even more puzzling is the other night during a thunderstorm she was posting about her husband being late getting home and them being alone.
Her legally blind husband DRIVES ?
The truth never changes but lies are hard to remember.
She simply posts on any thread what she thinks will get her sympathy.
Only at the DUmp with its resident liars and plagerizers do they all look away.
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What's even more puzzling is the other night during a thunderstorm she was posting about her husband being late getting home and them being alone.
Her legally blind husband DRIVES ?
I have seen that...knew a blind guy with a lawn care biz....I was service mgr at dealership, he pulls into the service lane, me and my co worker see the reflection off his thick glasses and thought we should take cover....he did fine...but when he tried to go into the waiting room, he was pushing on the wall, not the door....
true story
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(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/229551714_a5b4f7bc43_o.jpg)
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here's my advice DUmmies: get a degree that's actually worth something in ANY economy. another teacher is not something this country needs.
Not true. There's a huge demand for teachers of math, science, and special ed. What this country does NOT need is another moonbat history or English teacher.
ok, yes, you clarified it much better than i did... moonbat teachers are something we definitely do not need :-)
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My mother in law is legally blind. She quit driving the day she was declared.
I think her taking out half of the garage a few days earlier had something to do with that decision also.
That picture is hilarious !
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What's even more puzzling is the other night during a thunderstorm she was posting about her husband being late getting home and them being alone.
Her legally blind husband DRIVES ?
I'm 20/200+ in eyesight without glasses or contacts. For all those fellow contact wearers out there, I wear a -12.0 contact right now in both eyes. Next week I'm going back to the eye doctor, I expect I'm a -12.5 since my last check up a couple of years ago.
I wouldn't drive without my glasses or contacts, cause I can't see for shit. But with them, it's perfectly fine. :)