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I had no money when I had my first job offer 300 miles away. I used the job offer to secure a loan for a brand new car and I moved to a place that was 5 minutes away from the company. I was paid $35K in a country with a much higher tax rate - I get exactly $1200/month after all said and done.
I guess we have to agree to disagree.
How could you have no money? Are you that irresponsible to not have saved? And don't you know how irresponsible it is to borrow money for a brand new car when you're broke? Why couldn't you get a job locally and not 300 miles away? Why didn't you just sleep at work and then you wouldn't have to have the car payment at all?
How does the nitpicking feel when its directed at you?
I can only offer sympathies. I've had sudden car problems recently too that although they didn't affect work they will financially affect me for the next couple of months. It's tough, and I'm pretty frugal. I will say my experience is sleeping in the office is never an option at my places of employment. There's liability and other legal issues, security issues, probation issues--what kind of office would give full access to its building to a new employee after hours? Very few.
Moving forward, I would look around to finding options to board the pets somehow, somewhere while searching for a new job and settling into it for a period thereafter. If you have to rent a cheap room in a house closer to job centers, you have to do it, and it's easier with no pets.
I believe this was a federal job. That is bad karma, to blow a fed job. Almost no one gets fired after probation, and few get fired during probation. This was health insurance, a pension, more than just a pay check. And it blows future fed jobs.... Pretty much.
I don't think the OP really liked the job, but maybe something better will come along. BTW, I did unemployment eligibility for five years. And adjudication for benefits. So, I do know something about it.
I am pretty sure it was a state job, not federal.
I also do not think it was an office type job. I got the distinct feeling from her posts about it that it is something that is dangerous, difficult for the state to fill the position, and that it is the type of workplace where it is a given that not all people end up staying because of the nature of the work, not the type of place where you have to be a total idiot and jerk to lose the job. If the job is what I **think** it is, I would not even have applied for it, let alone lasted months doing it. I couldn't have. She has guts for even trying.
1. swim to ireland
2. gather and dry some rushes from the bogs
3. weave the rushes into a working automobile
4. drive back across the ocean
5. go to work in the morning.
GOD the OP must be a total LOSER if she doesn't do something as simple as that! she'd only have to do it ONE TIME. i have personally done it 87 times, in the snow, uphill.
How could you have no money? Are you that irresponsible to not have saved? And don't you know how irresponsible it is to borrow money for a brand new car when you're broke? Why couldn't you get a job locally and not 300 miles away? Why didn't you just sleep at work and then you wouldn't have to have the car payment at all?
How does the nitpicking feel when its directed at you?
Bye bye, now.
I was a student. I saved about $100 a month at the time. :-) After I got the job, I saved about $300 a month.
Your nitpicking doesn't bother me. I managed my situation well and never had any issues. :-)
1. swim to ireland
2. gather and dry some rushes from the bogs
3. weave the rushes into a working automobile
4. drive back across the ocean
5. go to work in the morning.
GOD the OP must be a total LOSER if she doesn't do something as simple as that! she'd only have to do it ONE TIME. i have personally done it 87 times, in the snow, uphill.
Aha! Now I know who you are, MacGyver! Don't forget your Swiss Army knife and your duct tape!
How could you have no money? Are you that irresponsible to not have saved? And don't you know how irresponsible it is to borrow money for a brand new car when you're broke? Why couldn't you get a job locally and not 300 miles away? Why didn't you just sleep at work and then you wouldn't have to have the car payment at all?
How does the nitpicking feel when its directed at you?
Bye bye, now.
Exactly! He must have been raised by rabid wolverines, not humans! It is amazing he is still alive!
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