Flat Broke and Nothing To Show

[sonar732]

Well,

It might be a while until I'm back online ladies and gentleman. Back in December, I had to quit my dream job of working at SF because the entry level position didn't pay enough to offset daycare cost. Now, after being jobless for almost four months, our funds have been depleted to $1000 in the red. What's at risk? Internet, cell phones, and the van my wife drives to work.

I've had quite a few job interviews, but they just haven't panned out. I'll have internet for one more day before it being shut off, so y'all take it easy!

Joe

[Dowly]

Hopefully you'll get everything sorted as soon as possible!

[Kapitan_Phillips]

sonar, the absolute best to you, my friend. I have the utmost faith things will work out for you, and I hope you can find some way of letting us know how you're doing!

[CCIP]

Best of luck. Not the greatest situation to be in, but I'm sure you'll pull it through

[bookworm_020]

Hope you get back on your feet soon!

[Tchocky]

Best of luck man
Having the Navy on your resume should help you out, says you can take orders

1 - Nice to see CCIP posting, and off the meds :p

2 - Joe, I'm about two months behind you

[jumpy]

Best of luck there fella, I know that situation.
Was made redundant a month or 2 before christmas last year; been living on company payout since then.
I've been for a few interviews earlier this year, and got one job about 20 minutes drive from home, turns out they were offering 18k (which was nice) for more hours than I was working before at my last job (which wasn't so nice).
I ditched the job after one day, partly to do with the conditions, but mostly due to the fact that on balance I was getting the same money as my last job (which was crap for what I was doing) and working more hours for it.
I have until the end of this month to get more work, otherwise I'll be flat broke. Then I look at the list of bills and required expenses:

Gas: £150.00 quarter (ish)
Electricity: £175.00 quarter (ish)
Rent: £450.00 calendar month
Telephone: £35.00 monthly
Internet: £19.99 monthly
Council tax: £90.00 monthly
Car insurance: £55.00 monthly
Water rates: £175.00 yearly (2 instalments)
Food & drink: £150.00 month (we could spend so much more...)
Contents insurance: £22.50 monthly

So, say we have a monthly figure of 45 quid for gas + elec and a few other bits and bobs we're looking at the better part of a thousand quid a month between the two of us, not including her car insurance, tv license etc.
I dread to think what it would cost if we had kids. And the fact that if you earn £18,500.00 our beloved government has seen fit to increase income tax on some of the lowest paid people in the country. Nice http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7333496.stm

The whole money thing sickens me at times. Seems like all we do for most of our lives is work to make some other **** richer, be it a bank, insurance company or business that will 'let you go' at the first sign of not making quite as much profit as they were hoping to this year... make the lowest paid workers redundant (and try and skank them out of what they are subsequently owed) rather than getting rid of the senior management idiot who over-extended the company with it's clients and by buying out a competitor, who's employees were kept on instead of the rest of us who were there first. Not that I'm bitter about any of it of course.




Keep yer chin up and don't let the bastards grind you down.

[Brag]

Friend of mine sent similar message from a library. About to become homeless. Some months later got news she was working for a newspaper. Now, her book is being published in the next few months.

Cheer up, keep plugging, you'll win!

I was homeless once. Bad luck is not permanent. See you back soon!

[Graf Paper]

From those of us who occupy the niche of perpetually "down-and-out", I wish you best of luck and many blessings, sonar!

I suppose it's a good thing that much of my satisfaction in life is now derived from being a homebody. So long as I have coffee and my old computer to monkey around on, I'm generally a happy man.

@Brag:

I had no idea camping out in the Cambodian jungle after your plane got shot down counted as being homeless. :p

[CptSimFreak]

I'm near same boat....just found a cheap room....looking for a job....bank account is running dry....

[XabbaRus]

Jumpy what kind of car are you driving or is that for 2 cars?

I have to agree with all the rest though.

[HunterICX]

Good Luck, Sonar
lets hope everything will be better soon

HunterICX

[Dmitry Markov]

Good Luck! And come back online!

[Sailor Steve]

Three months ago I ended a one-and-a-half year stint of homelessness. I'm grateful to be able to post from home rather than the library, and to be able to play - and play with - games again.

I'm still not working full-time, and things are still iffy in the home department, so I know how you feel. Keep plugging; something will work out.

[kiwi_2005]

Haven't had a full time job since 2006, just part time here and there doing old jobs yet somehow i manage to pay the bills/internet/food so can't complain i cannot enjoy a holiday at the beach etc., but everyday is like a holiday for me. I kinda like it, im not going to turn out fithly rich this way yet as long as i get to eat and have the internet im okay

Good luck, Sonar.