This is what happened when I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps

[garbon]

One thing I don't understand.  So a perfect financial storm happened to her.  She became pregnant with twins, they bought a house, then the housing market crashed, her husband became unemployed.

Maybe I missed it, but what happened to her job?  She quit to become a stay home mother?

Nah, she kept her shitty job. But it was, you know, shitty.

What's weird was that until that 25k part, she had said that she was constantly getting promoted and was "succeeding" with regards to her career. She grew up in an white affluent neighborhood and considered that succeeding?  That's why I feel like something is missing.

[Monoriu]

What's weird was that until that 25k part, she had said that she was constantly getting promoted and was "succeeding" with regards to her career. She grew up in an white affluent neighborhood and considered that succeeding?  That's why I feel like something is missing.

My thoughts as well.  My guess is that she switched to a job with fewer hours and lower pay when she became pregnant.  Then everything else happened. 

[Admiral Yi]

It's not totally clear what happens to her job.  25K for a local TV producer in Boston sounds impossibly low.

[Monoriu]

The main thing I get from this story is that we all need much larger financial buffers than what we probably realise. 

[Razgovory]

Do you believe it's ever fair to give away "free money"?

I've already answered this; several times in fact.  You didn't pay attention those times and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't this time either.

There are 63 threads where the phrase "free money" shows up.  I haven't found the ones you are talking about.  I did ask you in 2012 what "Free money" is, but you didn't answer it.  However, something I did find was that I was just as hilarious and incisive in 2012 as I am now, which is not bad.  To be consistently that clever and funny over a period of years is not something to laugh at.  Wait, maybe it is.

Also I found Hans old quote on the social contract

Fuck the social contract, I didn't sign on to having millions of worthless pieces of shit demanding handouts while contributing no effort themselves.  Why should those who work hard, save money for the future, and take responsibility for themselves be required to bail out all the worthless layabouts who blow all their money and then some ob big-screen TVs and XBOX 360's and then want a handout because working would distract from their play time.

Fuck em all.  There is nothing more antisocial than the "social contract", which rewards bad behavior and punishes responsibility.  This is why the poor shouldn't be allowed to vote: they end up voting to rob the public until eventually society collapses under their irresponsibility.

[DGuller]

To be fair, Hans is a fascist scum.  Or whatever word you should use instead of fascist to avoid being accused of throwing out empty inflammatory labels.

[Razgovory]

To be fair, Hans is a fascist scum.  Or whatever word you should use instead of fascist to avoid being accused of throwing out empty inflammatory labels.

I think his opinions are well represented in the conservative movement though the politicians tend to be a bit more diplomatic.

[Sheilbh]

It's not totally clear what happens to her job.  25K for a local TV producer in Boston sounds impossibly low.

Sounds believable to me for a local TV producer in London. Lots of people want to work in media. They get shitty deals because of it, in the hope that one day they'll break out.

[garbon]

It's not totally clear what happens to her job.  25K for a local TV producer in Boston sounds impossibly low.

Sounds believable to me for a local TV producer in London. Lots of people want to work in media. They get shitty deals because of it, in the hope that one day they'll break out.

Doesn't sound like "succeeding" though.

[derspiess]

To be fair, Hans is a fascist scum.  Or whatever word you should use instead of fascist to avoid being accused of throwing out empty inflammatory labels.

Do me next!!  What am I??

[derspiess]

It's not totally clear what happens to her job.  25K for a local TV producer in Boston sounds impossibly low.

Sounds believable to me for a local TV producer in London. Lots of people want to work in media. They get shitty deals because of it, in the hope that one day they'll break out.

Doesn't sound like "succeeding" though.

Reminds me of the joke about the man with the carnival whose job it was to clean up the smelly bucketloads of elephant dung. A passerby, who saw him hip-deep in the excrement, asked, "My good man, how can you put up with such demeaning conditions? Haven't you ever thought about another line of work?" To which the carnival worker replied, "What—and give up show business?"

[Sheilbh]

Doesn't sound like "succeeding" though.

You're succeeding in getting paying work in that industry and building a reputation. That is success necessary to get the ultimate success: a secure well-paid media job.

I know people who are on the constant life-rigmarole of decent paid contract jobs at the BBC (the BBC almost never hire people permanently because they don't want new people in the pension scheme, at most you get 2 years at a time) to incredibly low-paid deals at independent production companies selling their wares to the odd internet start-up. They're succeeding in that they're getting paid work, which thousands of interns who want in don't, and they're building a profile. But it seems to take a while to be financially successful.

[Razgovory]

To be fair, Hans is a fascist scum.  Or whatever word you should use instead of fascist to avoid being accused of throwing out empty inflammatory labels.

Do me next!!  What am I??

You're alright in my book.

[crazy canuck]

Doesn't sound like "succeeding" though.

You're succeeding in getting paying work in that industry and building a reputation. That is success necessary to get the ultimate success: a secure well-paid media job.

I know people who are on the constant life-rigmarole of decent paid contract jobs at the BBC (the BBC almost never hire people permanently because they don't want new people in the pension scheme, at most you get 2 years at a time) to incredibly low-paid deals at independent production companies selling their wares to the odd internet start-up. They're succeeding in that they're getting paid work, which thousands of interns who want in don't, and they're building a profile. But it seems to take a while to be financially successful.

Same here.  Media jobs are not what they used to be as the industry can no longer afford the pay scales of yesteryear.  Not with advertising dollars drying up and going to other platforms.  Further, the CBC, our state broadcaster, the place to be for safe secure media employment, is shedding thousands of jobs and will be a shell of its former self within the next five years.

[Grey Fox]

Doesn't sound like "succeeding" though.

You're succeeding in getting paying work in that industry and building a reputation. That is success necessary to get the ultimate success: a secure well-paid media job.

I know people who are on the constant life-rigmarole of decent paid contract jobs at the BBC (the BBC almost never hire people permanently because they don't want new people in the pension scheme, at most you get 2 years at a time) to incredibly low-paid deals at independent production companies selling their wares to the odd internet start-up. They're succeeding in that they're getting paid work, which thousands of interns who want in don't, and they're building a profile. But it seems to take a while to be financially successful.

Same here.  Media jobs are not what they used to be as the industry can no longer afford the pay scales of yesteryear.  Not with advertising dollars drying up and going to other platforms.  Further, the CBC, our state broadcaster, the place to be for safe secure media employment, is shedding thousands of jobs and will be a shell of its former self within the next five years.

Unless Canadians do the right thing & elect a Liberal government in 2015.