Flat Broke and Nothing To Show

[Skybird]

Good luck. They say the look you greet the world with, returns to yourself. Hope you get the needles out of the red zone that way soon.

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by XabbaRus

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

I have to agree with all the rest though.

After a succession of junk cheapo cars, I spent 4 years saving and not spending anything I didn't have to, in order to buy a landrover discovery 300tdi (2.5L). My insurance is fully comp and includes breakdown recovery and has the maximum no-claims discount.
She drives a fiat seiciento 1.1 sporting, but considering she's had several bumps her insurance is almost 90 quid a month I blame it on a lack of spatial awareness.
We are both just breaking into our 30's.
If only it was for 2 cars lol I've mentioned having 2 car insurance in my name, but she doesn't want that, as she wants her own insurance and no-claims. Go figure, it's probably chaper but you can't tell 'em.

[antikristuseke]

Just got a job myself after having been unemployed since the first week of January. Good luck, hoefully your problems will be over soon.

[FIREWALL]

Good Luck Sonar If it's any confort , all of us one time or another have had our foot near the Abyss.

[SUBMAN1]

Man - I'd have a fire sale of possesions, and take a job delivering pizzas if I were in the same boat. Buy a junker car for $500 that could get me around and thats it. You've got to do something like that. A pizza job could net you a couple $K each month at least. Take two jobs - grocery store + pizza job.

WHere there is a will, there is a way. Sorry to hear you're on hard times my friend. I hope you can pull out of it.

-S

[Ishmael]

Don't feel like the Lone Ranger, fellow ping-jockey. I've been technically unemployed since Nov. 2006 when I was laid off and hired back as an independant contractor and functionally unemployed since last April due to my wife's stroke and my need to be her caregiver. The only thing that's saved us is a little inheritance my wife received from her mother's estate. I have been husbanding that over the past year and a half and I can stretch it for another year or so. I just started looking for work but, at 54, I'm competing against people half my age and having a wife with medical problems only drives up their health care costs.

As for me, I just see it as life in Republicanland. They, their DLC fellow travelers and corporate cronies have gutted the US manufacturing base for the past 30 odd years. So I always fall back on this old saying:

"Those who still have faith in the system, have yet to experience it fully."

[sonar732]

I'm talking to the Active Army recruiters now since none of the job interviews have panned out.

[PeriscopeDepth]

Originally Posted by sonar732

I'm talking to the Active Army recruiters now since none of the job interviews have panned out.

Whatever route you end up taking, good luck.

PD

[XabbaRus]

Hope something turns up sonar. Jumpy now I see why your insurance is so high. My dad has a Disco 3 - glad I don't.

It pisses me off that all over the press they say people should save, but how? you need £40,000 a year to save anything meaningful. I'd love to put money into a pension but then what? Budget is maxed out...

[jumpy]

^^
I don't mind being stung a certain amount on insurance... I'm fully comp with max no-claims bonus/protected no-claims and the car was valued at 5k - I'm 31 now so it ought to come down in a few more years. Either that or I'll look to a specialist insurer. It's car tax I really hate. Fortunately despite GB's best efforts to flece the motorist with backdated tax hikes in the most recent buget, I'll only end up paying a max of £200.00 per year for car tax. Had I saved a little longer and got a discovery2 td5 model made from 2001 onwards, in 2010 the cost to tax the car would be £455.00 per year! For a Disco3 tdv6 it's a shed load more.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/road-tax/ works out how much you're going to have stolen off you



Sonar: Keep at it mate.
I'm a great believer in things happening when they're supposed to - after a couple of weeks with nobody getting back to me jobwise, I had 4 people from an agency I'm registered with ring me on the same day, all wanting to discuss jobs they want to put me forwards for.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by 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

Sell the van, kick the cell phone to the curb, but keep the internet. You need it for your job search. Also, have a fire sale / garage sale. Sell some stuff on Craigs list too. Kick any TV / cable bills, but keep the lights on, food on the table, and a roof overhead as first priority.

Hope all turns out. I hate it when people go through this kind of crap.

-S

[Kapitan]

Good luck and hope it all works out for you in the end !

[sonar732]

I'm a few days away from the Medical officer approving my "fit for duty" letters from the two doctors I needed.

Active Duty Army

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by sonar732

I'm a few days away from the Medical officer approving my "fit for duty" letters from the two doctors I needed.

Active Duty Army

Good to hear! At least you got something to do!

-S

[bradclark1]

Originally Posted by sonar732

I'm a few days away from the Medical officer approving my "fit for duty" letters from the two doctors I needed.

Active Duty Army

What MOS are you getting?