Thank you for the referral.
My people came here in 1729.
For all of that I was raised to what I believe to be a higher standard. And I won’t hijack this thread other than to say my heart and soul, and EVERYTHING I do is by the Grace Of God.
I’m tired of it Mamelukesabre.
I’m not meek. I’m not stupid. I’m not lazy.
I was given a full ride academic scholarship in 1979. I turned it down. I told the woman in that office that day to give it to someone who deserved to go to school but didn’t have the money. I had the money to go to school because I worked for it. I didn’t need the extra.
She got tears in hers eyes and told me no one had ever done anything like that before. She said they just take the money and run.
And I did the first 2 years of engineering skool.
I am a professional cabinetmaker.
Ya need any cabinets?
I’ll do them for free if I thought it would feed me.
The people I work for now are the same as so many people who say “it’s my money”. Vultures. And claim they are Christian.
We are similar.
I went to college for engineering. Paid my own way. Went part time and worked part time. Sometimes I ran low on money and took a semester off school to work a full time job on top of my part time job. It took me 10 years to finish with no debt. Then went to grad school. Then got a job as an engineer and got laid off after one year of work.
I was out of work for one year and never filed for unemployment. When my savings dried up, I started using credit cards and survived by transferring credit card balances from one card to the next. I literally lived on beans, ramen noodles, and wonder bread. Eventually I gave up looking for engineer work and took up a trade. It took me over 2 years to get debt free and a comfortable savings once I started working again.
Eventually I became my own boss. And now the economy sucks, I’m going broke(fast), and the government is pulling “eminent domain” on me and is playing hardball. They are doing eminent domain via back door method...threatening to condemn the property and bulldoze it, then pay me what the land is worth.