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re: Better not be bragging about cheap gas or this guy is gonna get ya!
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:49 pm to southernelite
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:49 pm to southernelite
I'll never understand why they couldn't save money in the good times like literally everyone else. Yes, I could go get another car tomorrow of I wanted to, but instead I'm filling up my emergency fund.
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Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:50 pm to UncleBlazer
Yep that is where I'm divided. The fact that they didn't save sucks. But most if them are on that 2nd marriage because their woman slept with Jody.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:51 pm to foshizzle
Classic ant and the grasshopper analogy.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:51 pm to southernelite
It sucks for them baws, but they have to pitch in to do their part to passive aggressively defeat ISIS aka the Obama Doctrine.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:51 pm to fr33manator
That's where they made their mistake.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:52 pm to CajunAlum Tiger Fan
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I hear an English degree is pretty valuable.
If you are a technical writer you will never go hungry.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:52 pm to Bossier2323
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Every junior high teacher in the country should make a minimum of $100k salary.
#supportourteachers
I think teachers are underpaid, just where would the money come from? As it is people hate the tax levels, and private schools on average pay less than public school. (But really top tier schools offer free tuition for employee kids, which does add in a huge benefit)
I think though that the biggest folly in education is not teaching students to master a 1040, Credit scores (and how to use credit cards and debt to income), balance a checkbook and understand that you have to pay yourself first.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:52 pm to Jcorye1
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I'll never understand why they couldn't save money in the good times like literally everyone else. Yes, I could go get another car tomorrow of I wanted to, but instead I'm filling up my emergency fund.
But those wave runners and 4 wheelers tho
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:53 pm to Jcorye1
Well, most people don't save money, that's the problem. It's not just oilfield workers that are guilty.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:54 pm to southernelite
While I can relate somewhat to his message, as I have been laid off twice, the lack of education is the problem for the 'woman' in the message. Plus, she must not have had a good lawyer in the divorce to be taking half his wages, plus having him pay for health insurance, education, etc.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:54 pm to fr33manator
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What, was # 3 short a leg and a foot?
Posted on 12/10/15 at 10:57 pm to southernelite
Oilfield starter kit
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:00 pm to southernelite
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Think about it in these terms........If you are a woman, and you marry your husband at age 25. You give him 2.7 children and the very best years of your life. Then, at age 40, that rotten bastard decides to trade you in for a DIFFERENT 25 year old. Your hard work, your dedication, your youth, are spent now, and some new hottie is reaping the fruits of your ex's salary, while you are relegated to a 12 year old mini-van, running the pre-teens to soccer practice, while holding down two piece of shite jobs just to pay for a manicure once every other month.....
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:03 pm to Napoleon
More lazy teachers than good ones. I hear first hand. My sister is a teacher and my mom is IT at a school
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:04 pm to southernelite
I love the OT because it's just as heartless as me. Got the responses I was hoping for in this thread.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:05 pm to SmackoverHawg
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No one gives a shite when insurances frick me, cut my reimbursements or take money back for services I rendered or people don't pay me shite.
I say this all of the time about the oilfield being down and people thinking you should pay more to keep them working. No one was saying pay more for houses in '07 & '08 when the real estate market crashed so I could keep my guys working. In fact, I see a few here hoping the bottom falls out of the Laffy RE market right now so they can build cheap.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:05 pm to Nado Jenkins83
Just as teachers know what they're getting into, so do oilfield workers. You have to know the risks. If you don't, and you don't plan for those risks, you'll wind up in the situation that this guys post alludes to.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:08 pm to southernelite
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Also a 400 mile commute?
He moved. Come on now...You're the one that posted it.
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:09 pm to southernelite
Yep. Couldn't agree more. I got laid off in April. Did some different work here and there until now. Gonna have to make a change as I 'm not going back to it. May go back to school. Not getting married early gave me a chance to do what I want.
This post was edited on 12/10/15 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 12/10/15 at 11:11 pm to Hazelnut
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My fuel bill is exponentially larger than the average person, as my commute is nearly 400 miles, round trip. So my gas cost is WAY lower. I am glad for that, but the way some, otherwise seemingly intelligent people around here act, and speak, oilfield workers are getting their comeuppance with all these layoffs. And nothing is further from the truth. The VAST majority if oilfield workers are hard working, paycheck to paycheck, family men.
Sorry, part of it was in a comment I didn't post.
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