tryan
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yeah, like CT said .... better to be 21 and broke than 91 and a billionaire.
TromboneAl said:I might have missed it, but I didn't see anyone write that their recovery from hitting bottom was due to institutional charity.
TromboneAl said:Great stories, guys.
I might have missed it, but I didn't see anyone write that their recovery from hitting bottom was due to institutional charity. For example, stories that included a homeless shelter or meal program that got them back on their feet.
Martha said:Well, I got shy and deleted my story.
Martha said:Well, I got shy and deleted my story. But I didn't finish it anyway.
donheff said:I did almost exactly the same thing in Houston in 1973. Six months later I got laid off and returned to Chicago.
Jay_Gatsby said:Funny how marriage can often bankrupt you as much as it can help you succeed financially. :
Layed off, fired -- it is all in the mind of the beholder. I was working as a service adviser at a VW dealership - the guy who takes your car in and then calls you back and says, "wellll, it looks like we are going to have to crack open the case to find out what's going on in there..." My older, much loved predecessor who had moved out of town came back to Houston and the boss immediately hired him back. I was offered the option to stay on as a trainee mechanic. My wife was two months pregnant and I decided it was time to head back home to Chicago and get a "straight" job. Layed off, fired, quit?2B said:Not to be mean but I don't who was laying off anyone in Houston in 1973. If you could spell "engineer" you must be one. If you wanted to work in a chemical plant or refinery, they were hiring anybody. I should know. That's where I worked.
Now if you got fired, I'm curious what you could get fired for.
donheff said:Layed off, fired, quit?
donheff said:Layed off, fired -- it is all in the mind of the beholder.
TromboneAl said:I might have missed it, but I didn't see anyone write that their recovery from hitting bottom was due to institutional charity. For example, stories that included a homeless shelter or meal program that got them back on their feet.
We were poor but didn't know it. When I was in university, there was a scholarship that needed a means test. My Dad refused to fill it out. I said: Look we are not going to lie. If the truth let's me qualify, so be it. I qualified. That was when I knew that we were not as well-off as we thought.Leonidas said:My perspective on how life was back then has been colored by all the experiences since, as well as sitting here now with a lot more money than I ever thought I would have. Being poor sucks, but it doesn't mean that your life sucks. Being rich can be very nice, but I've met a lot of rich people who have so much misery in their lives that I would never want to trade places with them.
I might have missed it, but I didn't see anyone write that their recovery from hitting bottom was due to institutional charity.
apparently your one of the guys averting your eyes to my posts or you would have noticed i mentioned my mom.
TromboneAl said:I was wondering whether institutional help, as in food for the homeless or homeless shelters, made any difference for any of you. It's relevant when considering different charities around this time of year.
TromboneAl said:I can't seem to find that post, GFN.
I was wondering whether institutional help, as in food for the homeless or homeless shelters, made any difference for any of you. It's relevant when considering different charities around this time of year.