[Huck]

Since then, Maglione has been able to find only temporary work in his field, taking a pay cut of nearly 30% from his former salary of $77,000. For a family and mortgage, he says, “that doesn´t pay the bills.” Worried about utility costs, he runs after his two children, 11 and 7, to turn off the lights. And he has considered a new career as a house painter. “It doesn´t require that much skill, and I don´t have to go to school for it,” Maglione says. And houses, at least, can´t be painted from overseas.

54K is still is good salary. His mortgage and bills should have been based on conservative assumptions, if he'd been more frugal with utilities etc in the first place, he'd have more savings now, and if he thinks he can make 54-77K house painting he's nuts. I know, I've done it.

Maybe the guy was misquoted, but he sounds like a real loser.

[sauropod]

BS. With our current tax burden, and the way it is skewed toward raping the middle class, your "conservative assumptions" crap is so much male bovine fecal effluvia.

[Question_Assumptions]

54K is still is good salary. His mortgage and bills should have been based on conservative assumptions, if he'd been more frugal with utilities etc in the first place, he'd have more savings now, and if he thinks he can make 54-77K house painting he's nuts. I know, I've done it.

You don't live in the New York City metropolitan area, do you?

Maybe the guy was misquoted, but he sounds like a real loser.

Or maybe $54,000 per year in New Jersey isn't the same as $54,000 a year in Kansas.

[ColdSteelTalon]

54k is not a good salary not for a man with 3 kids. To call someone a loser who you do not know is very shallow.

[Question_Assumptions]

Actually, you DO live in New Jersey. And you think $54,000 is a good salary?

[ColdSteelTalon]

54k in new Jersey for anyone is not very good. A single man can get by well but that's about it. House taxes are extremely high.

[KneelBeforeZod]

I've had this happen to me...but it was just moving to AT&T HQs instead of overseas.

when you start training a bunch of new people... start looking for a new job.

if you can't get one, then I guess you just have to ride it out. but if you can, its a good bargaining chip... a nice bonus or you're leaving ASAP.

[TheSpottedOwl]

54K is still is good salary. His mortgage and bills should have been based on conservative assumptions, if he'd been more frugal with utilities etc in the first place, he'd have more savings now, and if he thinks he can make 54-77K house painting he's nuts. I know, I've done it.

He isn't a loser. He's bitter. Can't say that I blame him. I went through childhood with parents who lived through the depression. Until I barked back, I got a bath on saturday, just one bath a week. Water was expensive. The gas to heat the water is too expensive. The electricity used to power my little transistor radio was....too expensive. I still run around shutting off lights, and keeping the furnace off, because I went back to school, we're living on child support and alimony....and it's too freaking expensive. Forget about Scouts, soccer, band, and ballet, I'm looking at going on food stamps because my two kids at home are like locusts.

I'm hoping that I can eventually get a job in publishing, or newspapers,proofreading and editing. I'm hoping that being an American will give me an edge in that field. I don't expect to make 70k. I will be happy to make a decent living wage with health benefits. Har har har...

Don't sit and laugh at this man's misfortune, okay?