Let the church say AmenLost 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
I'm not sleeping on the next collapse, Mfers took advantage and got rich off that shyt, im about to eat tooDidn'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
Low-key I'm hoping for another collapse![]()
How did you bounce backI 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.
I got $900. I caught up on rent. I got groceries and paid off bills.I think i got the $600...not 100% sure though
were around the same age(i was like 16/17 during that time) and it was hard af to find a retail job
we were competing with bachelor degree mfers for cashier jobs
that's still going on today too![]()
Rotating non consecutive weeks off, came out to one week a month over the course of about 8 months.how does this shyt even work![]()
why even stay???Rotating non consecutive weeks off, came out to one week a month over the course of about 8 months.
It was that or fire the least tenured staff, the office voted for furloughs
Me? Because I was the newest hire.why even stay???
I think that was the actual amount. They were 900 or 1200I got $900. I caught up on rent. I got groceries and paid off bills.