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your idea of akin is whatever you fucking want it to be.

and this discussion has little to do with bush, either.

again, what's your point?

 

Geezus.

People, can we please keep this thread from getting locked?

 

Yep,that's pretty much the truth. When you get, say 200 people laid off and there's maybe 5 hiring, what are the odds?

I mean, tell me, how much sense does it make to send a resume to a place that is either 1) laying off people, 2) furloughing people, 3) filing for bankruptcy or 4) going out of business (see Seattle P-I)?

 

Might make sense if you can lowball them and encourage the brass to dump a higher-priced scribbler. But you'll want to stay at the bottom of the pay scale forever, just to make sure no one can do it to you.

 

SF_ Express....my sentiments and confessions, too....i look back on what I could have been saving and putting away and, instead, spent it on some foolish things and didn't do the proper budgeting..i could have had much more in my IRA or 401K. some of this is my undoing. and i think the vast majority of Americans, if they truly looked at themselves in the mirror, would admit that some of this can be attributed to a desire to go overboard on some things. now we're all suffering from it. i have second-guessed myself many a time as to some of the things i did financially that are now--with the current economic state of affairs--really biting me in the ass.

 

Right about now, I'd consider finding another suitable income in any industry "landing on your feet." That's a tough prospect, too.

 

I remember when I was 22, less than a year out of college, and signing up for a financial plan that included setting aside $100 a month in some sort of growth fund that paid someting like 6-8% a year. That was almost 30 years ago. I gave up less than six months into it so I could have more blow money.

I figured it out once that had I kept on doing just that same $100 a month at 6%, until the downer of the last six months, this would have been worth more than $200K or thereabouts. Not enough to retire on, but certainly a good base 15 years out from retirement age.

What a stupid I am.

 

If Sid Hartman needs $$, I'm sure his best BF Bobby Knight will be available for a bailout. Sid's been a member of the Friends of Bob club for decades, one of the plants Knight uses when he wants to get messages out. Surprised he didn't use Sid for his Georgia trial ballooon. But then he had Fisher in Atlanta to do his dirty work on that one.

 

You certainly aren't alone. Someone titled it "the tyranny of the urgent". It takes more self-discipline than most of us have to deny ourselves that vacation, newer car, electronic toy or whatever in favor of saving for something decades down the road.

But, as a wise-ass former colleague said upon reading a story of a man killed in his 20s, "that's one retirement plan that won't see the light of day."

 

Bisher.