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You really should be focusing on finding some sort of career that will give you benefits. Do you have any type of retirement fund started? Social security isn't going to pay much with you taking all of these lowish paying jobs if social security is around in 40 years when you'll qualify.
I assume you live with your parents. Are they rich to leave you millions of dollars for when you retire?
Who knows how much money they'll even have left after they could be paying for nursing homes for themselves if they're one that will have to get admitted. It eats up a lot of money.
My dad died with a very nice bank account, his wife has been spending it the last 15 years. I bet there will not be anything left for anyone when she dies.
You really need to start thinking about what will happen to you when you can't work any more. Physical labor jobs do a body in.
Google is a waste of time?
Remind me, how old are you? IIRC you're my son's age, mid 30's.
I would think Amazon would be a decent job, especially now that you're trained on the various types of fork lifts. I know a few people that work at Amazon by me, none of them are unhappy. I haven't asked what they do there. I assume they do physical jobs.
Talk about funny as heck reading the first 40 posts at once. LMFAO!
Ron Jeremy is a PORN STAR from the 80's. I don't think you like playing with "those" kind of BALLS
LMFAO
I swear I almost spit my coke a few times LMFAO
Check Sam's club too because my hub will be making close to $20 an hour. You know how to use the various fork lifts. You should be able to find jobs all over that need someone. I think I told you, I learned how at a plant nursery which takes skill to not let the plants dump while driving over bumps, in and out of tractor trailers, some with rotted floor.
Sam's club and Walmart both give some pretty decent benefits. They also will pay for college and other perks.
If the Indiana job could be a career, then go for it. If you're only going there to check it out, I'd say probably not.
I haven't seen someone change jobs as much as you. Every time I turn around, you seem to be quitting a job you just started or are looking to find a new job.
I've told you before, my son started with DirecTV back in 2006. They trained him. He stayed about 7 years, is with Comcast. He makes decent money. He upgrades his skills when they offer it. He's been debating applying to work on a bucket truck which pays more. DTV and Comcast would offer you better benefits then a lot of other jobs.
As I said, you need some sort of career to plan for retirement. Chances are if you keep doing labor intensive jobs that your body will break down like mine and my hubs. I haven't worked in 20 years. He's not going to work his main job (delivering new cars) much longer than the day he is 65. He will get his pension, thanks to the union he used to work for. He will keep the Sam's club job until he can collect his social security at FRA (full retirement age), unless his body can't handle it, then he will go to part time at Sam's I assume.
You really should check out the retirement section here. There are always posts on how to make money with investing and ones where people post what kind of retirement they have, do they have enough money. There are some that retired using travel visas, living in other countries, jumping from place to place because they only have a small social security check.
You are still young enough to put in enough working hours to pay into social security where you make more then you did when younger. I can't recall what their formula is based on how they calculate what you get. If you were 67 right now, going to collect social security, you'd collect about $1,000 a month when working minimum wage jobs. Where could you survive on that low money every month?
Please get serious about finding a decent job or one you can grow into because before you know it, you'll be in your 50's like me. You won't be able to afford to retire because you screwed off bouncing around jobs most of your life.
I was actually wondering where you went.
And... I used to play soccer when I was younger.
I am very, very handy with the balls. I was good at it!!
Another poster here told me to consider an EKG Technician course. Of course, I would move.. I don't trust NJ with my livelihood. Trying to work as much as I can now, unless I land a business opportunity. I don't limit myself.
I feel Democrats make ceilings, not floors.
I'm using my forklift skill.. gonna finish my mac and cheese, will read your post when I get home. Your posts are always welcome in my book. (You're the opposite of, shall we say, less serious posters. Thank you for that.)
I am very, very handy with the balls. I was good at it!!
Another poster here told me to consider an EKG Technician course. Of course, I would move.. I don't trust NJ with my livelihood. Trying to work as much as I can now, unless I land a business opportunity. I don't limit myself.
I feel Democrats make ceilings, not floors.
I'm using my forklift skill.. gonna finish my mac and cheese, will read your post when I get home. Your posts are always welcome in my book. (You're the opposite of, shall we say, less serious posters. Thank you for that.)
You're welcome.
Hopefully you will find something to get some kind of career going. I just worry you won't have money in retirement. The future doesn't look good for people your age. I'm thankful my son has made some great job decisions since he left high school so he has a 401k set up and good health benefits.
Hopefully you will find something to get some kind of career going. I just worry you won't have money in retirement. The future doesn't look good for people your age. I'm thankful my son has made some great job decisions since he left high school so he has a 401k set up and good health benefits.
I've been seriously thinking of setting up an interview with Toyota Indiana.
Presently working "at a warehouse" but wondering if they gonna let everyone "extra" go 12/26 or 1/2. Merry Christmas, and a Happy New Year, a week later.. about 80 more days..
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indiana, Incorporated insights
Based on 23 survey responses What people like
Feeling of personal appreciation
Clear sense of purpose
Fair pay for job Areas for improvement
Time and location flexibility
Support from manager
Sense of belonging
I am presently working but.. What if I could live like a king somewhere in Indiana.
The reviews make it sound like a nightmare to work for. Think long and hard before making the trek out there. They will probably start you on the night shift, is that something you'd like?
The other thing that stands out is it sounds like managers are petty, especially if they don't like you.
I have a friend who lives in Indiana but I'm not sure where there. She just relocated back from Vegas. She's a librarian/ school teacher. I'll send her a text to see if she has any input with knowing someone that works there. I know it's cheaper to live in than Vegas.
The reviews make it sound like a nightmare to work for. Think long and hard before making the trek out there. They will probably start you on the night shift, is that something you'd like?
The other thing that stands out is it sounds like managers are petty, especially if they don't like you.
I have a friend who lives in Indiana but I'm not sure where there. She just relocated back from Vegas. She's a librarian/ school teacher. I'll send her a text to see if she has any input with knowing someone that works there. I know it's cheaper to live in than Vegas.
Thank you! Please do.. That place is in "Southern Indiana" so. From what I know about people.. Yes, it's true, "If they like you they like you, and if they don't, they don't.." Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, and to some extent Indiana have the RUDEST people (to Northerners) I've ever seen, deppending on the person.. Apparently, I have a twin in North Carolina.. I have the "Jersey accent" which is really an Upstate NY accent.. New Yorkers do not talk like Fran Drescher, the most annoying voice in the world.... I have found that it is like 70/30 that "people like me" because my experience with those that act like I am the Devil eating babies tend to be Progressive loonies. And I'm not making that up. People that vote for the rights of pregnant men. (to be given ... I mean, do you know what I'm saying? They can "be" whatever they want but hey.. ok.) That level. But okay...
My *present conclusion* is:
It looks like I got a job out here.
I am about to leave in 20 minutes to go drive 10 minutes to go make $17.50 an hour.
Roommate scams seem abundant on Craigslist. Meth heads, squatters, people running scams, people running Communes, the "convincing" types. They always are super authoritarian about their keys and you get one if you give them money.....
The Indiana opportunity, I can't get it out of my head, Indiana is beautiful and has only one license plate. One of my dreams in life is to live somewhere with one license plate. Liberals are authoritarian a******s.
So, while I AM prepared to work and have little life, (not different that what I do..) I know that giving up my job here, even to get hired.. I wish I could take the "Production Readyness test" on a weekend but I would have to walk away from a job I know I have.
Oh, and that's the thing about scam artists: They are REAL nice to you if you are giving them money. (Don't want to give them money? That's usually okay too.. They are REAL nice to you if you are financing their lifestyle, somehow.)
Figure out something is not right, (usually takes a couple weeks to maybe a month or so) and call them out on it? They get REAL nasty to you, Jeckyl and Hyde, try to turn it around on you.. and that is when you know you have exposed them, and then you walk. **** them, when that happens.
In October 2020, I was scammed. Hard. By a "squatter." Lost a lot, and it hurt, but that was a startover point as well. That was somewhere in Ohio.
Side note: In late May 2021, I again tried it again, somewhere in Illinois.. I ALWAYS get the job, there isn't issue with the job, it's the roommate situation. It was like living with Bernie Sanders, the 20 years sober dude that drank in the morning and you could tell had a drinking problem. Sure acted like that was his house, but I keep getting the standard story, "We pay like $2400 to $3000 a month to keep it from the bank so if there are 4 roommates.." Oh there were just red flags everywhere. I told the truth and let him know he was giving me 2020 Ohio vibes. As a result, he was only able to scam $150 out of me, not more................ maybe a little more, through "food shaming," but, ultimately, I showed him my unit, and left. That guy was armed, by the way. So the scam was probably more with use of the house/property than with the government/law issues.......
That would have to be a hurdle cleared for Indiana. Craigslist room. But.
It could........
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