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I'm really hating the modern world right now. I just got a new job that pays triple my old one, but is 70 miles away. And of course my car blew up today. I cannot afford to get it fixed and there is no one I can commute with. If this was 15 years ago I would have been able to get a cheep runner for 2 or 3 hundred. Why have they made living life so G D expensive in the last 10 years. I would have totally been able to wing this situation in the 1990s but not today. This Su cks. Why must it be so expensive and a total hassle to just live life in peace.
A relative just told me she had to have work done on two cars, so she went to a place called Checkpoint that I think must be owned by Goodyear? She said she applied for a Goodyear credit card and has time to pay it off without interest as long as it's paid up on time.
I wanted to make sure I got the name right so I did a search and see their website is checkpointtire.com but they work on cars and not just tires.
I'm really hating the modern world right now. I just got a new job that pays triple my old one, but is 70 miles away. And of course my car blew up today.
Sorry that happened to you!
Our repair shop extends credit & gives us a loaner when our cars are being repaired... does yours?
Any chance of moving closer? That's a heck of a commute!
That really sucks. Is there any family nearby who can help you out? Its not like youre just sitting around asking for handouts. In the meantime you may have to use a cab service and pay with a credit card if they offer that. Or ask around with your neighbors and pay them to drive you to work until you can secure financing.
Guess I don't, but then again I'm used to hiring high-performers. Oh, correction: definitely frustrating. Frustrating to hire someone who can't get to the job site, that is, assuming that's where this is going.
"Cannot afford to get it fixed" is the wrong answer. If OP's tripled the salary, time to get a good runner for 140 mile/day R/T expenses. Probably means taking out a note for a Prius or whatever else gets great mileage and won't break down all the time. Buying "cheap runner" cars is what high school and college kids working at the liquor store part-time do (I was one such kid, nursing a POS car...a series of them, actually). Not adults in the working world.
I went through this with a woman I hired as a business analyst, seven years ago. I was paying her $55K, on salary with good benefits, and she could barely get to the job site due to driving some jalopy that blew up about every third Thursday. I actually had a sit-down conversation, with subsequent letter in her file, some months in when it became a problem. This was a person with a Ph.D. in some abstruse subject, who was theoretically smarter than me and two of my friends duct taped together. In terms of "street smarts," however...
Yes, living life is G D expensive anymore. If you're in the working world. Always some (fill in favorite expletive) out there with their hand out. Agreed. "But..."
"Living life in peace" means a hippie commune on the Big Island (HI), moving to Panama, etc. Not much of that left anymore as a viable option to get by. OP's chosen to work; time to take the good with the bad.
Guess I don't, but then again I'm used to hiring high-performers. Oh, correction: definitely frustrating. Frustrating to hire someone who can't get to the job site, that is, assuming that's where this is going.
"Cannot afford to get it fixed" is the wrong answer. If OP's tripled the salary, time to get a good runner for 140 mile/day R/T expenses. Probably means taking out a note for a Prius or whatever else gets great mileage and won't break down all the time. Buying "cheap runner" cars is what high school and college kids working at the liquor store part-time do (I was one such kid, nursing a POS car...a series of them, actually). Not adults in the working world.
I went through this with a woman I hired as a business analyst, seven years ago. I was paying her $55K, on salary with good benefits, and she could barely get to the job site due to driving some jalopy that blew up about every third Thursday. I actually had a sit-down conversation, with subsequent letter in her file, some months in when it became a problem. This was a person with a Ph.D. in some abstruse subject, who was theoretically smarter than me and two of my friends duct taped together. In terms of "street smarts," however...
Yes, living life is G D expensive anymore. If you're in the working world. Always some (fill in favorite expletive) out there with their hand out. Agreed. "But..."
"Living life in peace" means a hippie commune on the Big Island (HI), moving to Panama, etc. Not much of that left anymore as a viable option to get by. OP's chosen to work; time to take the good with the bad.
Im assuming the OP is just now getting a good income and can afford a new car. However you generally need to provide a few pay stubs to the financing people when you apply. They cant do this if they just got the new higher paying job. Now perhaps they could provide a document from HR showing their new salary and that would suffice? No idea.
I hope you at least have a credit card for emergencies. Find a way to get as close to your job as possible (cab, hire a friend etc..), get a hotel and then walk to work until you can secure a loan for a car. For a job this good I would make it work.
Most everyone has a credit card these days. OP has to do what he/she has to do to keep the job. Use a repair shop with that provides a loner car, or rent a car while it's being repaired. Take a couple says off (tell them some sob story or fake illness) and beg the repair place to make the repairs fast. Put it on credit and pay it off with your swanky new salary.
I don't know, I feel like this could be worked out.
I hope you at least have a credit card for emergencies. Find a way to get as close to your job as possible (cab, hire a friend etc..), get a hotel and then walk to work until you can secure a loan for a car. For a job this good I would make it work.
I was just going to suggest this.
A hotel would cost less money than driving back and forth with the price of gas. I would seriously consider moving.
How is your credit? If your credit is not good, many of these answers won't apply.
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