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donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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Lilofan said:
One just has to find a way to make it work but that requires retuning your mindset. My first jobs out of school, I brownbagged my lunches, cooked food at home and budgeted per every dollar where my expenses would go to. At the same time I purposely lived below my means and invested monthly in mutual funds when back in the day that was not a thing to do. Time magazine wrote an article on The Death of Equities. How so wrong was that article. Equity investing long term is pretty much your money is working harder than you do. The books, The Tightwad Gazette and The Millionaire Next Door was my go to reading material and it still is when I refer to some information. I give credit to my parents who taught me to account for spending and budgeting and the power of dollar cost averaging in investing in the markets for over 30 years.
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During the last major recession, Carolyn and I still made more than 60k combined working several retail jobs. We had to to pay the bills. And those 4 years were without healthcare, or any other benefits, until I was hired back by my architectural firm on Feb. 11th of ‘13.
I can’t even imagine making less than what I do now, but, we all know how that can change in a heartbeat.
At this point, there’s a lot of gravy, and whatever Carolyn and Matthew make beyond me is just more gravy.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Cesar R M said:
In restrospect. I am at fault too. I already suspected he did this with 2 people before me. But seeing the manager I like, leave because she had the same issue.. and now me.... yeah..
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How can he do that? Just... Not pay you for the month? You have a contract right? Isn't he obligated to adhere to the contract? I hope you can just move and get a job right away.
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Yikes. We came upon a nasty accident on our way home from my in-laws' tonight. We had gone to celebrate E's birthday wih them and on our way home we saw an ambulance that must have just arrived as we got up there. There was one person lying on the ground with someone leaning over them, it looked like maybe holding something to their head, but you couldn't really see anything...just the person leaning over another person. And another person was knelt down with an injured person leaning back against them in a half sitting position. All civilians, so the EMTs must have just arrived. There was a car in the middle of the intersection with the front end all smashed, and numerous first responders were just getting there to take over...We were fortunate that the accident was basically on the road to our left, so that road was basically blocked off, but our lane of the road we were on was free. The other direction was all backed up and couldn't get anywhere because that's where the one car was in the middle of the intersection, and the crossroad was completely blocked with ambulances, injured people, the totaled cars. The news article says only 2 cars, but several people were injured and taken by ambulances to the hospital. I hope no one was too seriously injured. It looked pretty bad. You couldn't really see anything other than just that there were some people who were injured, but you couldn't see HOW they were injured....just that they were on the side of the road with civilians trying to help until the EMTs took over.

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Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Songbird76 said:
How can he do that? Just... Not pay you for the month? You have a contract right? Isn't he obligated to adhere to the contract? I hope you can just move and get a job right away.
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It's an internet company with a "freelance" contract.
There isnt exactly any law stopping him from doing this.
And I do not have the means to take him into court in germany. He could hide his by using the US side.
 

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