I Quit My Job

Just in case you are not doing this, few people do. Have you asked everybody if they know anybody that is hiring. And I mean EVERYBODY.
The bus driver if you ride a bus, the guy at the next pump at the gas station, anybody you see at the races, boatyard, I mean ANYBODY.
So many jobs are filled word of mouth, even in good times. Sometimes a guy will tell you he is quitting or somebody is leaving at his work.

My and Josies SS is 31k. Sounds good right ! Pretax even. Doubt I would apply for assistance, but not a worry. Family of 2, don't qualify for nothing. Of course Medicare part D, 2 prescription plans, 2 supplemental medical premiums, Josie's 10 meds, 3 of which are $60-90 a months before the donut hole, then $450 a pop or about $1300 to get out of donut hole . So 31k is suddenly 18-19 before I pay a penny rent food etc.

But I ain't complaining. Hustle enough from selling yard sale stuff on ebay and amazon to survive and help phyzoeffective daughter and other daughter with 6 kids and unemployed husband. I was a teenager in 50's, a great time. ( if you were white ). See those million of immigrants in Europe and I got it good. Vietnam era vet , but turn the channel when they tool pix of those brave young men who died in service on Sunday news shows.

SCREW IT Must be getting old. all over the place.


FACE ASK EVERYBODY

Quote: Evenbob

You have a freezer, too bad you can't fish
more and fill it up. I could eat fish fried in a
little olive oil every day.

The only way you could claim I "can't fish more" is because I'm already fishing just about every free moment I have lol.

Food has certainly changed. The 26lbs I've lost so far has basically been fluff. When I was working at the casino, I ate out 5 times a week. That and the sedentary nature of the job put on a bit. Now it's totally different. Eating out is back to being special again. And eating is now something I treat like, I dunno, something a lot more specific than just putting food inside me. Something as simple as an apple tree or berry patch found when I'm hiking the cricks is looked at as a good $7. That's one whole commute to work and back that I no longer have to worry about. That's a chicken breast I now don't have to cook, or a salad I don't have to make, if I can just find enough to hold me. Lot's more fillers, too. Water, lettuce, stuff that fills the hole. It's gotta be a net positive to my lifestyle in and of itself.

It seems like I say "I'm not quite to that point yet" sort of often, but here again, I'm not quite to the point of actually having to hunt and fish for food. But if it ever comes to that, at least I know it's an option. It sort of ties in to my new and ever increasing frustration at these idiots crying about minimum wage or abusing the welfare system. The "fun" fishing I do alone could keep me in meat forever. I've still got about 50ct of 7.62X54R. That $25 could be turned into two and a half tons of meat.

Mentally, I may be close to snapping. In reality, I could go much lower and still be relatively fine.

Quote: buzzardknot

FACE ASK EVERYBODY

Certainly. But being sort of a recluse puts a bit of a damper on this.

Family, hockey team, fishing buddy. That is about the entirety of my contact with other people. Probably why I talk so much here. More than half of my ideas and most of my help come from here lol. And it seems whenever my situation comes up, someone knew a guy who was just looking, or so-and-so declined an offer for this, and I am of course all over it. So far, only the USPS has materialized out of it.

I don't know, I just know it's strange. I keep hearing that unemployment is down and jobs are scrambling to find decent help, but I dunno wtf these people are talking about. With my references and work history, I should have employers banging down my doors. Yet here I am, unable to even land an entry level retail gig. Unreal.

Oh well. Like you, I'm rich in all the ways that matter. Money will come when it needs to.

You could easily live on fish and salads. In the fall
they have canned green beans on sale, 3 cans for
a dollar. That's 90 cans for $30. Lasts me all winter.
Eggs are up, but they go a long way too. A dozen
eggs, 3 onions, 2 cans of drained greens beans,
half a bag of grated cheddar in a 6 qt slow cooker
for 2 hours. It's so good and so filling I can get
3 dinners out of it, for under $5 total cost. And
the 2nd and 3rd day is better than the first.

All kinds of good stuff to make for not much
money, especially with a slow cooker.

If you can learn to love eating insects you'd never go hungry. (except maybe in winter, if you didn't bother with storage.)

Do you deliver any mail to businesses? Walk the mail in . Being a recluse is a one man job. Dads don't have that privilege.
Anybody watching those hockey games ? ASK EVERYBODY !

I know Free advice is worth the price .

Quote: Face

I don't know, I just know it's strange. I keep hearing that unemployment is down and jobs are scrambling to find decent help, but I dunno wtf these people are talking about. With my references and work history, I should have employers banging down my doors. Yet here I am, unable to even land an entry level retail gig. Unreal.

Unemployment rate is down because participation is falling. Up until this year, my average time from layoff to new job offer was about 4 days. Now things have really tightened. Salary being offered is crap. They do not want experienced people. Shift managers at the gas station are only getting $10.50/hr. The economy is a Potemkin Village right now.

Quote: Evenbob

All kinds of good stuff to make for not much
money, especially with a slow cooker.

Oh yeah, I'm finding lots of avenues, especially where food is concerned. Work meeting, hockey meeting, family/friend gathering, I go to a lot more of these now lol. They at least have a party tray, if not a bar-b-que. Mom being mom and just wants to have dinner? Haven't turned her down yet =)

Quote: buzzardknot

Do you deliver any mail to businesses? Walk the mail in . Being a recluse is a one man job. Dads don't have that privilege.
Anybody watching those hockey games ? ASK EVERYBODY !

I know Free advice is worth the price .

Just two, both Union of Operating Engineers. They do have something opening, but it requires CDL-B and isn't for several more months. I have it in the queue, just in case I find enough scratch to foot the DMV bill for the license. But nothing at the moment.

I did take RonC's advice and am actually going about the registration process to get certified for refereeing in between posting. But as is common when your back is against the wall, the hits always seem to keep coming. They have a class a week from today, not but 3 or 4 minutes from my post office. Of course, it happens to fall on the one day and time slot I absolutely cannot bail from the USPS. Even the ones really-far-away-but-reasonable all happen to fall on the one day a week I just cannot bail. So in order to pursue this route, I'm gonna have to spend a Sunday getting up at 2a and driving all the f#$%ing way to Philly just to show a guy that I know how to skate.

Gotta love it =)

Quote: Face

I did take RonC's advice and am actually going about the registration process to get certified for refereeing in between posting.

Don't limit yourself here! I know a guy (why do I find myself always saying that!) who told me about reffing lacrosse. IIRC it pays about $75 a game. But if you do 2 or even 3 games a day/night that adds up. Best part is in these parts not that hard to get into, they start you with the kiddies and let you work your way up to the better games. He claims you can self-teach and that if you understand hockey it is not that different.

I have to check back with him and maybe it ends in the side hustle thread. Lots of other sports one can do also. You need some kind of cert for HS level though.

Quote: Evenbob

You have a freezer, too bad you can't fish more and fill it up. I could eat fish fried in a little olive oil every day.

So get a pond and stock it... one rv campground did that and found his rv slips were always filled once the word spread that the fishing was so good there. It was a small rv park but a big sales gimmick.

One young lady has been sailing around Panama and occasionally buys fish from the natives but usually just trails some lines behind the boat. free fish, rice, a few local fruits and spices... excellent meal and cost is in the pennies. One island stop she paid for some fresh octopus and the boy dove down and returned with so much she and her friend were hard put to finish it before it spoiled.

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