Remember the 08 Financial Crash? How bad did it get you?

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but overall it wasn't too bad for my fam until like 2009/2010 which was still during the recession
 

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were around the same age(i was like 16/17 during that time) and it was hard af to find a retail job:dead:

we were competing with bachelor degree mfers for cashier jobs :gucci:

that's still going on today too :gucci:
@Sagat @Poitier would y'all say the crash is why NYC became the sterile place it is today?
 

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I was working in building maintenance in Manhattan and I worked in Lehman brothers during the collapse. Surreal seeing offices slowly emptying out. Till one day they shut down altogether.

Still have my Lehman brothers id somewhere.
 

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Lost my job and lost so called friends who disappeared when u wanted to just borrow a dollar...

After that I never had friends again..just people I know...u have more support from a animal or people u don't know than people who say they are your friends
Let the church say Amen
 

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Interestingly, it was better for where I worked at that time. Before law school, I worked at a law firm that represented banks in foreclosures and evictions and such. The firm was super busy with all these foreclosures around 07-08. So it actually didn't specifically effect me negatively other than the high gas prices or something like that.
 

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Didn't really affect me as I was in school/doing nothing.


I wish I knew about investing then. Priceline dropped all the way to 52 a share. It's over 1800 now. Citigroup was less than a dollar :snoop:



Low-key I'm hoping for another collapse :yeshrug:
I'm not sleeping on the next collapse, Mfers took advantage and got rich off that shyt, im about to eat too
 

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I was working in the mega-yacht industry, straight out of jail, 22, 18 months in a halfway house, finally got a job with benefits, full time employment. It was a labor job, 7:00 AM start, grinding, sanding, wiping down, on these yachts that were 300 ft plus, some of the biggest names in tech, finance, world powers owned these yachts, hundreds of millions to purchase, 125,000 for the gas, to fill up. 100,000 on teak decks, just the most grandiose and opulent you can imagine, the height of decadence.

Everyone was buying houses, guys I worked with, maybe making 60k a year, blue collar guys, were buying multiple properties. The guy who drove the damn lunch truck we ate at, got a real estate license and was selling houses to his customers. Insane, in hindsight.

After that fateful September/October day, it was over. There was maybe 6 months in 2009 where I worked everyday, one more big project. The entire business went into a death spiral, all those yachts pulled out, their owners were ruined, in some cases, many just went to cheaper yards, internationally. Crippled the business. 60% of the employees went home that week. People with families, multiple children, just devastated. We were told we would collect "work share" benefits, for working partial days, and missing work, those benefits didn't come til late March. I went the way I learned how to make money at 16, and I remember I had like 10 unemployment checks saved up when I finally cashed them.
How did you bounce back
 

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were around the same age(i was like 16/17 during that time) and it was hard af to find a retail job:dead:

we were competing with bachelor degree mfers for cashier jobs :gucci:

that's still going on today too :gucci:

Yea man. I was unsure about college after HS graduation plus my grades were terrible. The Recession had me in a classroom the next fall breh. I got into whatever college I could get into then I transferred to a better one the next year after fixing my gpa.
 
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