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04-04-2008, 04:48 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Central, Ohio, USA
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Cash NOW is the best. $20.89 credit this month on my PENFED VISA bill this month. Waiting for cash/gift card at the end of the year or some other period seems a bit of a hassle but that is just MO.
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04-04-2008, 04:56 PM
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gone traveling
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 2,146
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Originally Posted by Notmuchlonger
Either that or dont go into a field that is known for its crap pay.
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Hey I told these people get out now, go back to school do anything but to stay in teaching now is just dumb.
Not a snowballs chance in you know where would I start a teaching career now, especially in NON UNIONIZED north carolina!
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04-04-2008, 05:19 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 4,764
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Originally Posted by newguy888
Hey I told these people get out now, go back to school do anything but to stay in teaching now is just dumb.
Not a snowballs chance in you know where would I start a teaching career now, especially in NON UNIONIZED north carolina!
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Yep dont blame you. One of the underpaid jobs in the US.
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04-04-2008, 07:24 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 2,487
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Originally Posted by newguy888
Why thank you rambler, I see you are feeling better. My OP was just saying that I thought most americans had more money than the media says we have. You know all this economy doom and gloom stuff. By the way, Most people I know the young teachers that I work with these days here in North carolina, are in debt up to their eyeballs, all looking to tend bar paint houses anything to make extra money to pay the rent or mortgage, but then they all go out and spend a ton in the bars drinking and eating out while they tell me their sad money stories.
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Thanks, I am feeling better and going home in a few minutes.
Agreed, most have more more than the media says we have, but aren't necessarily using it properly....
There is too much doom and gloom on the news, and it causes collateral belt-tightening damage (people who can afford to spend become afraid and stop spending, making the economic death spiral even worse...more fodder for the media).
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Originally Posted by newguy888
If you need more money to pay the mortgage, get another job!
Heck if the illegals can work their you know what off so can a legal american citizen. Instead of standing or sitting on a bar stool drinking on a friday sat or weekday night, work BEHIND the bar and make money instead!
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Spot on the money.
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04-08-2008, 03:03 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by bright eyed
Sometimes I do look around and wonder how people can afford everything they appear to have - then I realize it's just borrowed on cc's. Even people with the nicer homes, cars are/were leveraging their homes and cc's and now are having to cut back.
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Oh yeah. See Debtor Nation**(July-August*2007).
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04-08-2008, 03:06 PM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Originally Posted by Dreamer
Our house is paid for and so are our 4 vehicles.
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Four?! :confused:
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"To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive". Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage (1878)
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04-08-2008, 06:38 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Eastern WV Panhandle
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Originally Posted by Milton
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Interesting read. Some think it matters, some don't. All I know is, I have the gut feeling that "the piper will be paid" and I'm happy to be debt-free.
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