Posted on 12/12/2008 7:00:32 PM PST by MrPiper
Conservatives thoughts on just being laid off. (I was)
I was laid off this week.Two weeks before Christmas. Am I scared, No, I have no debt and a savings account.
I have been in my trade for 15 years and have excellent skills.
I took and passed my states contractors license a few months ago and passed. Yea me!
I have about 3 years of living expenses in the bank and no debt.
I'm taking a well deserved few months off before the next year and will start my own business come spring. I'll be hunting and fishing in my spare time. Who needs the damn government! Not this family.
My husband (our sole breadwinner) has been laid off twice, both times just before the holidays. The first time, we were expecting our 3rd child at the beginning of January.
Both times, something even better was just around the corner. We enjoyed the extra time together, made good decisions, stayed out of debt, and had faith that it would all work out for the best and it did. I’m sure it will for you too.
My best wishes to you and your family...
I'd beg on my knees on ice To live in Nice so nice!
I have this thing called an accordion file and a pencil. Taxes are simple with a LLC.
That sounds like a win/win situation!
And you have a skill that will always be needed.
Good luck to you.
Nite all,,, 4am comes early. Best to you and yours. Regards...MrPiper!
I was laid off back in August. I have looked for a job within a 50 mile radius, to no avail. I didn’t have the luxury of having any savings since I have been laid off four of the last five jobs I’ve had. I am thinking of starting my own business also, although I have very little cash to begin with. Good luck and hang in there.
Well, Congratulations.
I also HUNT and FISH =
but I'm a ole granny - am I not supposed to?
Welcome to the club... good nite,,, its late for me. Of course you welcome to the hunt/fish club:-)
room free - if you got a chainsaw and can beat the guy who's 'sposed to come, as soon as he can, to get the downed tree out of the drive.
I got fired from my last job (5 years ago) when the 2 owners got in a feud and divided the business.
Seems neither of them wanted to seriously take on the customers and business my group was working on at the time, so I started my own business to do it.
I had always wanted to start my own business, but was too timid. Getting fired was God’s way of kicking me in the pants and saying - stop talking and go do it!
Just keep yr. personal savings in reserve - that’s what you will live on and will keep yr. family from worrying if things go slow at first. Don’t get tempted to use them to build out a big new office or go on a crazy marketing spree.
Good luck!
Tell him to check contractors on the military bases. A fair amount of work going on most of them and it often peaks with high demand for staff.
I could go back to it long term in a heart beat - if I could take my indoor tub, flush and PC.
Maybe make a couple barrel windmills for enough power for them...
At least, I have my little house snuggled down in the forest with a buffer between me and 'the Madding Crowd'. (All I can see out my windows is forest and sky. All I can hear is wind, rain, blizzard, great barred owls, moose, coyotes, a loon now and then, and/or the thick silence of the no-moon nights. Some things are worth more than others.)
LOL
s'what I do - along with long nail through a board where I spike my 'paid' receipts...holds a year of more, easily accessible.
“You’ve been paying unemployment insurance for 15 years. Why not collect?”...
It does not quite work that way.Think of it as car insurance. The employer pays a quarterly fee to the state UI fund; it doen’t come out of the worker’s pay. Everytime someone collects, the Employer’s rate goes up.That’s part of the reason why employers usually respond to claims for Unemployment Insurance benefits- to help keep their rates down. Beneftis are paid only for work done during certain quarters; usually the past 18 months only. Any work prior to that timeframe is no longer counted.
That said, I would advise MrPiper to apply for Unemployment Insurance benefits; especially if you have lost your job through no fault of your own. Claiming benefist will help stretch your own funds longer. I saw many people get in trouble because they waited to claim benefits after they used up their personal funds- when their earnings no longer counted or they could not get as much per week as they would have when they were first laid off.
It might take awhile filing for benefits; those state claims examiners will have their hands full.An the first week you file is a waiting week, it doesn’t count for cash. But don’t get fustrated and the weeks you claim will get to you eventually.
State UI laws vary from state to state but that’s generally how it works.
Oh, and a coffee can for expense receipts ;o)
Probably a trillion lines of COBOL code still out there.
And they need someone to maintain it.
And if they decide to try to migrate off of it, they still need people who can read it and translate it to C++ or whatever.
Now your average dentists office is probably running Windows, Excel, and Word.
The guys with the Legacy code are the big boys. The banks, insurance firms, transportation outfits, the utilities.
They can’t afford to ignore the stuff, and will pay what it takes to keep it running.
These taxes are unAmerican. They make you a co-owner with the state. Look, schools and sewers (redundant, I know) could find funding somewhere else- without putting someone's hard earned property at risk.
This is the first tax that should be repealed by the people. It isn't necessary as it could be replaced by some other tax that wouldn't put homes at risk. It's a sovereignty thing.
Perhaps a surcharge at the time of building to establish an escrow account for future needs could be done. But not an unending scheme with untold increases in it's design.
The state has no more valid claim to a tax on your house than the clothes you wear. Yet, acquiesence to such an act has led to services provided by the state that hold little if any value to 'free' and self-sufficient people. It allows the state the luxury to breed parasitism and collectivism beyond what might be possible otherwise.
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