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Originally Posted by houstoncougar  am awful about money. Never had a lick of sense what to do with it or how to earn it. Never had a real job if you know what I mean until I got out of college,. I didn't go to college until I was 32 before that I traveled around the USA and partied just living life. I got married, got pregnant on my honeymoon and my husband died five years later leaving me a widow without an income and still in school with only a social security check to live on. Raising a child on your own is hard and a lot of people put their life on hold while their children are growing up. After another abandonment issue I stopped dating for ten years yep, ten years. Almost my entire 40's which in hindsight was not a good move so, don't totally neglect your social life it might make you a little weird you know kind of like me. 
oh and btw awesome job on the house I can't even hang a curtain rod right and that's with a laser level, a drill and me hyperventilating. |
oh well my chick left me with my kid not to long ago. about when she was 8 months old.
Heh I've never set a foot inside a "insitution". Never saw the point in spending 80,000$ to get ready for a 350$ test that i already knew how to pass. so i just bought the vouchers and took my certification tests out right. So far i've got my A+,Network+,IBM PoS,Dell PoS,NCR NetBoS,Soft POS, Yum Foods Service Tech Lvl 1,2,3 (about to get the 4th and final)
if you don't know what PoS is. its not piece of S@#$... Point Of Sales. All i do is fix cash registers thermal printers and stuff like those self check out centers and mall kiosks. I actually do all the check in kiosks at will rogers airport. (lol man they hate my tool bag)
I was going to be like every other dumb ass and focus in on consumer based PC's and programming.
glad i didn't ass all those jobs went over to india as im sure any programmer can tell you.
No matter how much Hijad would like to repair your register over the phone from 15,000 miles away in india. You have to call me if you want a physical repair for your machine.
which works out brilliantly. I'm always on call. but i never field calls, I don't have to talk to customers, All I deal with is managers and big wigs. and repairs are always pretty simple. Alot of technitions will sit at a restaraunt and try and repair the unit on site.
People around here love me because i'll go out and get a fresh piece of hardware and intergrate that then take the broken hardware back to my house and fix it then return it at a later date and exchange it back out.
That gives them maximum up time and a quick recovery so they dont loose those daily sales. On top of that it's cheaper for the company because they don't have to pay them to have me out there for 6 hours harassing there set ups.
So i get alot of business. for a period of time i worked exclusively for Dell, But dell didn't treat me right, they consistantly tried to swindle me out of over time and there " code of ethics" was a complete crock of ****.
Even though they paid boo-coos amount of money for me at the time. after i've been with YUM foods (KFC,long john silvers,pizza hut,taco bell,A&W roots, jack in the box) for 5 years. i'm making almost double what dell paid me.
47,000$ a year after taxes ain't to bad for someone who has a G.E.D.
Heh i constantly rass my buddys friends ass that he spent 5 years in a university, spent a quarter million dollars to be a lawyer and wound up working at the F.A.A for 10.75 an hour.
oh he gets ****ed everytime i break out my wallet and ask where his is at.
I don't know. I guess there are two main types of people when people go looking for a education.
There are the people who go for the jobs that would in "theory" make the most cash and have the best lifestyle and respect.
Then there are the people who understand while a specific line of work may not start out with a fat pay check (i started at my company earning mimimum wage 5.15$ an hour) but if you actually take your time and excell in your field...you'll end up doing ok for yourself.
And im almost 100% postive, If people didn't try and spend what they don't make (ex buying a BMW when your in your 20's, or putting a 7,800$ television on credit) and instead saved up for what they wanted, america wouldn't be in this cluster f$% it currently resides in.
I'm lol'n hard at the people getting kicked out of there house by the bank. wtf did you think was going to happen?!!
I also dont really spend money on BS. like expensive clothes or designer shoes or that sort of ****.
I'll spend 400$ on a R/C car or a video card. But thats my entertainment. and that 400$ in fun tends to last two or three years before i run it into the ground.
But i guess at the same time i try and be nice and follow a good set of ethics. All my bad ass computer parts i hand down to other people i know that would love to have them.
yesterday i took a 24" LCD (like a 2002 LG) over to my buddies house and hooked his grandma up with it. She'd been using a 15" glass screen that looked all fuzzy. i knew it had to be a pain in the ass for her to read the words on that small of a screen. shes like 85 or something. But she seems pretty appreciative. Man those words are extremely clear and big. but she kept complaining about headaches after using the computer so i guess thats what gave me the idea, i had it in the bedroom as my TV. but i hardly ever sleep in my bed since i can't hear my kiddo in the morning at the gate and baby monitors don't seem to work on me.
So i gave that to her for free. I guess if i see something i have and i'm not really having any fun with it. and i see someone that could really have fun with it, use it and appreciate it more then i have, i just hand it out.
for the longest when i was still going to church. I'd take all the Re-praps (old computers that we took back from places and gave them new(er) computers) re-furbish them install windows then donate them to the local schools and churches for them to use. it was pretty successful. but i stopped going to church and all that so now those stacks just get sent over to india for there tech centers to use. (lmao if your talking to a indian tech center chances are they are using a computer we built)
Anyways enough of the massive wall of text. I wont be offended if you just take cliff notes off of that book for responses lol.
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