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Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE
Yes I am a bit old fashioned. I am American born and rasied on American values. Sure I may come accross kind of brash when it comes to this kind of subject, but We are in tough times right now. Your wife might lose her job tomorrow, then what? WHat if she becomes pregnant and has to leave her job for medical reasons? I never said give up your hobby or your dreams. You may want to set it aside for the moment and focus on whats really improtant in your life. I think its great that your wife is supportive of your wants and needs. Hell I wish more women were at that level of conciousness. Good for you, but you still have to stand up and fill the roll of being the man. My wife also makes more than I do(so what), but I don't sit around relying on her to cover my a$$ financially. And you bet that I take care of the house and keep things running smoothly while she is at work every day. I am lucky because I now work from home. Self respect. I started working at the age of 13 to help out at home. Once I turned 18 and joined the US Navy I never went one day without a means of supporting myself and that of my family situation until I retired in 1997. Call it pride or whatever you wish. Now even retired I still work so we can both be involved in the hobbies that we choose. We are very much focused on our family life, but we make sure that we have room for the extra stuff as well.
Yes I may be a bit tough on these matters, but the bottom can fall out on any of us in a second. You have to cover your six.
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I appreciate the advice and it is taken into consideration. I feel the gnawing end that seems to be nearing. I understand my situation and am in and I have already done things to make repair. These times are a bit out of hand. I was at a Job fair today at the Grand Seirra, a local casino, and only 10 vendors showed up for close to 400 people that supposedly had attended. I arrived at 45 till 11 and I was probably 40th in line. Though I didn't feel I got anything from it I still left resumes with three of the vendors. There is another at our local university next wednesday that I will also be attending. My brother is going through ropes to see if he can get me a job with his work though they laid of their most recent employee, I would enjoy working for him at USBS. I am an idiot, but not a complete one. I knew what I was doing by leaving, I know what I will have to do if nothing proper comes up.
However I did get good advice to which route I wanted to take with my RCs. Looking at how so many here have so many, and knowing that so many here have went through the same feuds regarding selling or not. I have talked things over with the wife and I am going to loose most of them so that we can have some extra to put into the OS savings account. We have an OS savings account that we started adding to back when she and I were both working two jobs. It is a second savings account that has slowly grown to a decent amount that we usually only dip into for things like furniture or a new computer...
I guess I should just be grateful for having peers like everyone here that will give me the tough answer I rarely get elsewhere.
And with that I think I am pretty much over this conversation and I have a feeling others here are thinking it has dragged out a bit longer than expected. So thanks everyone for letting me tell you a little about my life story. Next time it will be less ranting.