Posted on 04/15/2016 11:46:38 AM PDT by pabianice
...Jo-Ann was a child prodigy who went to college at age 14. She graduated and landed a coveted job at Citigroup.
Soon she was flying around the world leading meetings. Then she jumped to a management role at a financial printer. She was middle class, maybe even on her way to the upper middle class ... until the tech bubble burst. And September 11th hit.
The U.S. fell into a recession and companies cut back. In 2002, Jo-Ann was forced to train the Indian workers that would replace her.
After she was laid off, she struggled to find a good paying job. She melted down her savings and 401k. She got into the trap of working "dead-end crap jobs with crap wages," including a stint at Walmart.
Her life went from American Dream to Bust. Today she's in her mid-40s and makes $11 an hour processing payments at a financial firm despite being college educated...
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
I bet everything I had on starting a business, and it paid off very well. That probably put me on the same income level as this prodigy. The difference is I then lived on a comfortable but in no way extravagant budget instead of living a life that matched my income. If my business had crashed from its peak, I would have been fine. I could have retired seven years after founding my company. I actually did retire three years ago. Citigroup is finances and investments; this “prodigy” should have known better.
A career in crappy, low-paying jobs is what you get with a swelled "prodigy" head, lack of imagination, and no real goals. Enjoy mom's basement (until she dies, anyway). And stop whining.
I recently sold my house in San Francisco and am totally unable to rent here now, unless I spend that equity to do so. I was very excited when my boss said I could move away and work from home, I was not at all looking forward to looking for a job at 59 years old. I think my boss also realized at least here in the Bay Area with its rents its getting and will be more difficult to hire mid level workers.
Probably just one of the many poor decisions she's made over the years that's led her to where she is now.
MAGA!
I don’t think America will be America in two election cycles. I barely recognize the nation today.
This one is for all the marbles and I think too much damage has been done.
But I still support Trump outta the field, no doubt.
I am pretty sure I read that story posted here ~ a month or two ago.
The way I see it, we’re down by a touchdown with a second left on the clock. Trump is the Hail Mary Pass.
Pilots will go the same way as automated burger slop joints. They’re R&Ding automated jets, no pilots. In fact they’ve already developed and flown working models. Military will eventually go the same way, in a big way.
Yep
So bernie is the answer, a 70 year old white guy who’s first job was working for the government at 40 years of age and has been a street agitator for the last 39 of his 40. Yeah I got my chips on him
Every day a few more of us go on to that Tea Party in the sky, and a few more of Bernie’s supporters have a younger brother or sister turn 18. I’m afraid the tide runs strong against us.
I used to work at a company a few miles north of you in the North Bay. They discovered that telecommuting is feasible for many of their positions; so their workers are now telecommuters from Bangalore.
Feelin’ the Bern...
Yeah, the brainwashing in schools, TV, what passes for “music” these days, and even the liberal invasion of a lot of churches into “world government, peace in the Middle East” and “doctrines” that laugh at the Antichrist arising are birthing a world ripe for the Antichrist.
It will not be avoided. The Bible says let no man deceive you. I worked for a Christian organization that turned out such nonsense - they’ve pretty much gone belly-up. But others will take up the slack and some are leading the way on it. The wrong way, of course.
"I thank God I don't have a kid. I don't know what I would tell them," she says.
Thank God indeed.
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