http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100222\/ap_on_re_us\/us_the1000_mile_commute<\/p>\n
What I found saddest about this was the comment by the wife about ‘no sympathy’ “They say at least he’s working.”<\/p>\n
Well I’m not working.<\/p>\n
I haven’t had a steady job since October 2005, when I was fired by a boss who had disliked me from the minute SHE was hired (two weeks after I was hired by someone else, he got promoted, she got hired, shortly thereafter my life went to hades in a handbasket).<\/p>\n
My unemployment benefits (extended numerous times) run out next week–not that $104.00 a week stretches very far.<\/p>\n
I’ve drained 2 IRA’s and 3 online savings accounts already plus sold numerous guns and pieces of jewelry to pay my bills.<\/p>\n
I’m 2 months behind on my space rent.<\/p>\n
I eat only because I get $200.00 a month in food stamps.<\/p>\n
I’m paying $50.00 a month towards my property taxes to prevent the county from putting a lien against my manufactured home, which I couldn’t sell if I wanted to.\u00a0 There are homes in this park that have been for sale for literally YEARS with no action.<\/p>\n
In June the house insurance comes due and I haven’t a clue how I’m going to pay for that.<\/p>\n
I have no family support at all, not even emotional support as I’m estranged from most of my extended family and have been for years–mostly THEIR choice and IMHO THEIR LOSS.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, I own my own home, taxes and space rent be damned. The park manager does all my yard work because he was SO pleased that I had the place repainted and reroofed in 2008 (after my dad passed away).<\/p>\n
He was also pleased that I put in a yard and sprinkler system to replace the dirt and rocks that were here before (he lives across the street from me and I am sure he was as tired of looking at peeling paint and dirt\/rocks as I was)<\/p>\n
I got 1 1\/4 cords of wood on Friday due to getting energy assistance (energy assistance is also going to pay my electricity bill) and I had another 1\/4 cord left of the last cord I purchased last spring.<\/p>\n
I am current on all monthly bills other than the space rent.<\/p>\n
I have antiques (furniture, glassware, memorabilia) that I can sell if it comes right down to the nitty gritty.<\/p>\n
And still, I have sympathy for the people in the story referenced above.\u00a0 The thought of a 500 mile commute puts my problems in perspective……for me at least.<\/p>\n
Is a 500 mile commute (one way) worse than my situation? I DON’T THINK SO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100222\/ap_on_re_us\/us_the1000_mile_commute What I found saddest about this was the comment by the wife about ‘no sympathy’ “They say at least he’s working.” Well I’m not working. I haven’t had a steady job since October 2005, when I was fired by a boss who had disliked me from the minute SHE was hired (two weeks after… Continue reading Being unemployed …….. or a 500 mile commute????<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[690,805,1038,1764,1969],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evils","tag-energy-assistance","tag-food-stamps","tag-insurance","tag-space-rent","tag-unemployment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-dont-think-so.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}