How do you make a living?

[thundley4]

greytdemocrat   (59 posts)             Sat Dec-26-09 07:35 PM
Original message
How do you make a living???
   

I don't know about the rest of DU but I'm getting a little tired
of seeing the people that pay my salary get dragged thru the mud on
an ongoing basis here.

I'm talking about "Corporatism"...or whatever.

The company I do IT work for is a part of another company that
bought them out from another company I used to work for. It was a good
deal for all and no one has been fired even though the business I'm
in depends to a great deal how the US package shippers are doing, which
as anyone knows, isn't that great.

It's real easy to blame big places like Wal-Mart.

I work for my salary and I appreciate my employer. It can work both ways.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7329072

FLDCVADem (681 posts)           Sat Dec-26-09 07:37 PM
Response to Original message
1. I work for the federal government
   
I transitioned a few months ago from an IT corporation, prior to that I served 20 years in the Air Force.

Leech?

[quote[doc03 (1000+ posts)           Sat Dec-26-09 07:38 PM
Response to Original message
3. Since last April I make my living
   
from unemployment compensation.[/quote]

Another Victim of the 0Bamaconomy?

proud2BlibKansan   (1000+ posts)             Sat Dec-26-09 08:13 PM
Response to Reply #28
40. To paraphrase Thom Hartman
   
I'll take a socialist democracy over for profit capitalism.

Most DUmmies would.

[AprilRazz]

What no recreational pharmaceutical salespeople or white light practitioners?

[franksolich]

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:13 PM
#19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #28

40. To paraphrase Thom Hartman

I'll take a socialist democracy over for profit capitalism.

The passionate primitive, the "Sarah Ibarruri" primitive, who promised to move away from the U.S. if George Bush won re-election in 2004, has some spats with other primitives, well worth getting out the boat and going over to Skins's island to watch.

Name removed (0 posts)      Sat Dec-26-09 08:12 PM
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proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:10 PM
#19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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36. I suck off the government tit

Your taxes pay my salary. If the corporation you work for doesn't dodge taxes, it pays my salary too.

greytdemocrat  (59 posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:39 PM
Response to Reply #36
 
64. I Love you!!! 

I really do.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:52 PM
#19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #64

79. Love won't pay my salary

An old acquaintance of ours:

walldude (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:12 PM
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39. Independent contractor. 

I'm a self employed roadie. While your experience with the company you work for may be great, it's not like that everywhere. I had worked for the company I left to go solo for 16 years. 16 years of my life, I was the lead technician, when I started there they had 10 employees, when I left they had offices in NY, Colorado and California.

After 16 years I was making 15.70 an hour. Now that may sound like decent money but 6 months after I left I was making TRIPLE that. Now I make even more. My last Christmas bonus from that company was... $100. After 16 years, oh and they took taxes out of it as well.... Not all companies are good and not all are bad.

Yeah, yeah, sure, we know.

[I_B_Perky]

walldude (1000+ posts)        Sat Dec-26-09 08:12 PM
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39. Independent contractor. 

I'm a self employed roadie. While your experience with the company you work for may be great, it's not like that everywhere. I had worked for the company I left to go solo for 16 years. 16 years of my life, I was the lead technician, when I started there they had 10 employees, when I left they had offices in NY, Colorado and California.

After 16 years I was making 15.70 an hour. Now that may sound like decent money but 6 months after I left I was making TRIPLE that. Now I make even more. My last Christmas bonus from that company was... $100. After 16 years, oh and they took taxes out of it as well.... Not all companies are good and not all are bad.

Good... at $47.10 per hour you can afford the health insurance that you will be mandated to buy and still have some left over to support your fellow dummies. Might even have some left over to buy some pot and munchies.

[thundley4]

Good... at $47.10 per hour you can afford the health insurance that you will be mandated to buy and still have some left over to support your fellow dummies. Might even have some left over to buy some pot and munchies.

What he forgot to mention is that he only works 1 hour a day because of his disabilities.

[Oceander]

I'll take a socialist democracy over for profit capitalism.

That is a concept that I will never understand.  North Korea over the United States?  Cuba over the U.K.?  China over Canada?  In which are you more likely to have a nice, comfortable life where you can spew all the anti-government venom you want over an unencrypted broadband internet connection and never, ever, ever, ever have to worry about being arrested and "disappearing" into some hell-hole of a work-camp or a "re-education" camp?