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View Poll Results: do you make 'enough' money? | |||
No, I wish I made more money | 25 | 56.82% | |
I'm content with my income | 17 | 38.64% | |
I think I actually make too much and should give some away | 2 | 4.55% | |
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09-19-2007, 11:38 AM | #1 |
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Do you make 'enough' money?
Given the choice, would you make more, less, or stay at your current level of income as it relates to the cost of living.
be honest.
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09-19-2007, 11:42 AM | #2 |
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Yea, It's back to being a pauper for me. Mmmm....Ramen for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Awesome.
I just got comfy with the weekly Sushi dinner I was having...well there's just something about that, that must really piss god off.
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09-19-2007, 11:45 AM | #3 | |
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09-19-2007, 11:43 AM | #4 |
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MORE MONEY!
I have an associate and two jobs. bleh. Last year an employer after seeing my transcripts told me I was really close to a BA and 'go get it'. In a short amount of time I can tripple my income. If I could just get off my butt.! |
09-19-2007, 11:45 AM | #5 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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I'm happy with my money; it's having to work for it that's the problem.
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09-19-2007, 12:38 PM | #6 |
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Yup.
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09-19-2007, 12:43 PM | #7 |
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I voted for more.
I make enough to get by just fine right now, although we live pretty frugally. I also have enough extra to fund my 401K so I can retire someday. What I don't have, is enough left over after both of those to save for college for two kids. So yeah, I want more fucking money. |
09-19-2007, 12:47 PM | #8 |
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I voted that I want more. I think I get paid fairly for the work I do, but I'm currently part-time and would be much more comfortable with full-time work. We're surviving just fine, but I would like to have more in the way of savings before having children, which my husband and I both want very much.
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09-19-2007, 11:50 AM | #9 |
Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya?
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It's no secret that I say I am way underpaid, for what I do.
But, everyone says "you make more you'll just spend more (and still have debt.)" I contend that, though that is true, I'd rather worry about the Lexus payment than what I'm going to do when the tires all fall off my existing car. (Had a flat this morning...not even the tire that has had a slow leak, it was one of my "newer" ones. It's always something.)
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09-19-2007, 11:52 AM | #10 |
in a mood, not cupcake
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I choose 'more,' as my current level of income is 0. Hopefully I'll be choosing 'stay' in the very near future.
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09-19-2007, 12:37 PM | #11 |
no not that other guy, the other one
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More, please.
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09-19-2007, 12:50 PM | #12 |
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HM and Limey....you're both single and live alone, right?
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09-19-2007, 04:14 PM | #13 |
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Nope. I married in April of this year. I am referring to our joint income. We don't have (or intend to have) kids.
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09-19-2007, 06:52 PM | #14 | |
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congrats! and sorry if i missed that announcement if it was made! i hope you are getting it regularly.
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09-19-2007, 08:41 PM | #15 |
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Tough call.
I make $0, but I work long and hard, and the work I do is very important to me. I'd like to earn money, but I can't earn money doing what I do and I can't do what I do and do a paying job. What do I do? 1) I am the scrip fundraiser for my kids' school. I put maybe 10 hours a week into it in school time...and raised $20,000 for the school last year. Those ten hours are split into a few hours here, 10 minutes there, 30 minutes there, 5 minutes there etc. This year I'm going for $25,000 The year before last (before I took over), they made about $11,000. I was treasurer then. The person who did scrip also worked for $ and could not do what I am able to do. 2) I help out in the school. I'm a room parent, I run special classes, I help with remedial math, I help with reading, I chaperone field trips, I shelve books in the library, I sort the lost and found.... this takes maybe 8 hours a week on average Plus commute. 3) I am treasurer and head marshall for my kids' swim team. This takes maybe 4 hours a week on average 4) I am the membership thingy for the pool we use in the summer, and head marshall for the swim team etc etc etc This takes about an hour a week average because it's summer-heavy. 5) I am the director of a non-profit publishing company dedicated to publishing quality literary fiction which "falls through the cracks" because it cannot be pigeonholed into a standard marketing genre. This takes any time I have left (after all the other things and houewiffery thingy) because I am the main "joe-on-the-street" reader. I love all these jobs. I love to be busy. I put in a great deal of effort and time and get great results. I'd love to be paid for it, but that is impossible -they are all minimal budget non-profits. At some point, I need to get a paying job to ket my kids through college. But I love what I do. So no, I don't make enough money right now and yet, yes I do. I live in the hope that when the time comes that I need to earn $$ to pay for college, all the skills I have acquired as a volunteer will help me earn top dollar.
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