Unfortunately, I'm only able to list to Rush on 2 days, Thursday and Fridays. Today I heard something that he was saying that sparked my nerves. Its about the state of our economy.
I feel very lucky, but then again, its not luck, to still be working. I have never found it hard to look for and find a job. I search, apply, go for interview and hope to be hired. Lately, things are tight within my field also. So pickings are slim if I was thinking to upgrade.
What Rush was say, and I paraphrase here, that some woman was talking about her situation. I'm gonna use my example, cause its the same way I feel.
To STILL have a job, or to be working for that matter, is a blessing. Some of my friends, whom are HAD high paying jobs, are all out of work now, and have been searching for the last 2 months, if not more. Its
awkward to be around them when they were working, cause going out meant that I had to look at prices, what to wear, you know. I was the lowest paid person in the group, and to me it showed. I was worried about my costs when it came to pay at the end, and sometimes I would be broke for a couple of weeks. But none knew of this, and I couldn't and wouldn't say anything to any one of them about it.
The shoe is on the other foot now. We still get together, but its like
MacDonald's Dollar Menu so to speak. Me, my cost, my maintenance is always within my limits, with a little left over for splurging if I want to or NEED to. My friends, I see
despair on their faces, I feel it in the hearts, and hear it in their words. Here's what was sort of said with Rush.
I find myself being treated ashamed of for still working. Who am I to have the luck of still working when all of us are losing our jobs, homes and families because the state of the country. What makes you so special, you don't even have a college degree. Look at you, you don't even have a girlfriend, any children. Saving account and checking, always with a balance of less than 500 every month, how can you live like that. And look at what you wear, that's why you can't get a better job, cause you don't have clothes that impress. I don't know how you do it, but I couldn't live in some one else apartment and share anything, bathroom, kitchen, that's nasty. Its always better to have your own.
Yep, that's what I hear from my so called friends, but since times have changed, their voices and rules have changed also. I'm hearing, see I might have to get like you, be cheap. I'm not being cheap, I'm living cheaply. They have their car payments, school loan, credit card bills, phone bills, electric bills, food bills, and what
ever other bills they have. I have just rent, 125 a week.
Lets do the
math. Daily newspaper, 5 days a week @ a dollar a day, then
Saturday, its 1.50,
Sunday NY daily news,
NY post,
NY times. 2 to 3 packs a cigarettes a week, no more. 20 dollar phone card, 10 dollar phone card.then add 25 more dollars. That's it, that's all I have in bills for the week. My friends say, don't you go out, out where? I
download ALL my movies and music. That's my entertainment right there.
I also read in one of the magazines my mother holds for me. 'Hard times are among us, but hard times has always been here for me'. Something like that.
I feel kind of bad for those who have a hard time finding a job, its, well, its hard out there. I don't have much, but I'm
grateful for what I do have.
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