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Re: life as a poor person (most of you), is it really worth it?
« Reply #25 on: April 16, 2014, 02:38:03 PM »
I'm upside down in bills? lol.. how do you figure that?

at least I take care of my kids, which is more than we can say for you "deadbeat dad".
it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out

mortgage/insurange/upkeep - $2500
car payments - $800
car insurance - $200
food - $300
eating out - $400
gas - $500
hair/nails/tooth stuff/soap/ect - $100
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i'm sure i'm missing stuff.. phones, tv/net, ect.. figure another $500

that's $5300/month... just over $60k/year, fairly easy between two people, even if one works only part-time.

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« Reply #26 on: April 16, 2014, 02:43:32 PM »
it doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure that out


that's what you call upside down in bills? lol

that shows me 100% that you're fucking broke and have never made more than 15k a year working a part time job.

there's high school dropouts, married with 2 kids who can afford that.... and you can't? (and they actually take care of their children)

maybe you should spend less time here, and more time getting some education so you can make some more money and afford some friends and social life.... maybe get on disability and take up a hobby.

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« Reply #27 on: April 16, 2014, 02:45:03 PM »
that's what you call upside down in bills? lol

that shows me 100% that you're fucking broke and have never made more than 15k a year working a part time job.

there's high school dropouts, married with 2 kids who can afford that.... and you can't? (and they actually take care of their children)

maybe you should spend less time here, and more time getting some education so you can make some more money and afford some friends and social life.... maybe get on disability and take up a hobby.

maybe you should knock over another liquor store and go back where you came from, convict

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« Reply #28 on: April 16, 2014, 02:45:17 PM »
that's what you call upside down in bills? lol

that shows me 100% that you're fucking broke and have never made more than 15k a year working a part time job.

there's high school dropouts, married with 2 kids who can afford that.... and you can't? (and they actually take care of their children)

maybe you should spend less time here, and more time getting some education so you can make some more money and afford some friends and social life.... maybe get on disability and take up a hobby.


either that or hold up a convenience store?

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« Reply #29 on: April 16, 2014, 02:47:44 PM »
either that or hold up a convenience store?

that, or dealing steroids (6grams per week is the sweet spot, kids ;) )

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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2014, 02:49:14 PM »
either that or hold up a convenience store?

or you can read up on what really happened and why I was there in the first place.

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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2014, 02:51:26 PM »
or you can read up on what really happened and why I was there in the first place.
I just did, what a remarkable life story

he was an underground world fighting champion

he was betrayed by his grand master

and framed for a murder he didn't commit

inside the corrupt prison guards had set up a fight to the death full contact championship

esf fought them all before clearing his name when some sympathetic lawyers

read the manuscript of his life

titles 6 grams a week then kung fu mother fuckers

and fought to have his name cleared

on release from prosin to remind himself of the hell he went through esf posted all his worst pics on his new website for personal training

those pics are a constant reminder that the 300 lb with abs killing machine was once humbled by life

true story

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« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2014, 02:53:08 PM »
or you can read up on what really happened and why I was there in the first place.
You went back with a gun after you were carded?

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« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2014, 02:59:28 PM »
Not sure why but humans have had the idea pounded into them that if they don't work that they cannot be defined.  Total bullshit.  The smartest people are the ones that accumulate enough wealth to then retire early and enjoy life.  Being a billionaire and working until your dead is total bullshit.  You can't spend that money in death.



I agree with you in a way, but some of us like working. I do something I love doing, so I don't call it work. It keeps me busy and gives me purpose. I don't want to get up at 9am, go to the gym, roll back into bed and spend the rest of the day drinking and doing nothing. I'll get depressed. Equally, I won't work a job I hate. I'll rather go on welfare and retrain before I do that. I've just applied for a much better job (won't mention the salary as everyone will spend the day crying and squealing) and it looks like I'm going to get it. I might be shit at it and get fired after 3 months but it would've been fun, given me purpose and made me a bit of money along the way.

How else would I have spent this time? Drinking, training, sleeping and playing games the whole day? Again, I'll get depressed.

People think 'Life' is this horrible thing to go through. Spend a week going after a job you think you might enjoy. You might just end up changing your life for the better.
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« Reply #34 on: April 16, 2014, 03:00:25 PM »
Once a year I get together for a weekend with the other people I work with (on my level and above) for our annual retreat at a luxury hotel. We all hate each other but it is unsaid and we all smile and pretend that we are all collegial and friendly. Also unsaid is that our biggest competitors in our business are not at other businesses but within our own business as we would all steal each other's clients at the first opportunity. As soon as we get back to our offices on Monday it's back to the usual backstabbing, double dealing, etc. None of us are billionaires by any stretch but most everyone at our level is doing pretty well, relatively speaking.

It is a miserable life.  

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« Reply #35 on: April 16, 2014, 03:02:32 PM »
I agree with you in a way, but some of us like working. I do something I love doing, so I don't call it work. It keeps me busy and gives me purpose. I don't want to get up at 9am, go to the gym, roll back into bed and spend the rest of the day drinking and doing nothing. I'll get depressed. Equally, I won't work a job I hate. I'll rather go on welfare and retrain before I do that. I've just applied for a much better job (won't mention the salary as everyone will spend the day crying and squealing) and it looks like I'm going to get it. I might be shit at it and get fired after 3 months but it would've been fun, given me purpose and made me a bit of money along the way.

How else would I have spent this time? Drinking, training, sleeping and playing games the whole day? Again, I'll get depressed.

People think 'Life' is this horrible thing to go through. Spend a week going after a job you think you might enjoy. You might just end up changing your life for the better.
this would be ideal

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« Reply #36 on: April 16, 2014, 03:04:55 PM »
this would be ideal

I can't do it my friend.

Saying that, nor could I work as a factory worker or checkout assistant or whatever shit job.

You could really spend the rest of your life chilling in bed, going to the gym and doing nothing whatsoever?
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« Reply #37 on: April 16, 2014, 03:09:53 PM »
I can't do it my friend.

Saying that, nor could I work as a factory worker or checkout assistant or whatever shit job.

You could really spend the rest of your life chilling in bed, going to the gym and doing nothing whatsoever?
sure been doing this for 2 and a half months now and it's the best time of my life

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« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2014, 03:11:57 PM »
You went back with a gun after you were carded?

I was there to collect a supposed debt for a friend who owned, or who's father and uncle owned a payday loan/check cashing biz. I'd already spoken with the owner of the grocery store (who was a sports bookie and it was football season) and when I went to pay for what I was buying (which was two bags of Chinese sausage and meatballs and a pack of Dunhill ciggerettes) he started giving me a hard time about my id, so I went out to my car to get it. if I was robbing him, do you think I would've shown him my fucking id? lol think about it, genius. I had the gun in my holster the whole time and only put my hand on it when he lifted up a mini-bat/club like he was gonna swing at me, which he didn't. even gave a guy a jumpstart outside the biz when I left (it was January and cold in the Midwest). sound like I was 'robbing' of 'sticking up' a liquor store to you? lol

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« Reply #39 on: April 16, 2014, 03:12:46 PM »
convicts always have a story about what "really happened" ::) ::) ::)

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« Reply #40 on: April 16, 2014, 03:15:56 PM »
In an ideal world. However, extraordinarily difficult to find something that pays comparable or better and I have many expenses tied to current level of income.

Yep, that's the nature of the high-income beast.

If you're in management, a lot of management 'skills' are transferable into other industries.
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« Reply #41 on: April 16, 2014, 03:16:04 PM »
How says that those making, say $500K, don't spend most of that in their free time enjoying that cash

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« Reply #42 on: April 16, 2014, 03:17:02 PM »
Yep, that's the nature of the high-income beast.

If you're in management, a lot of management 'skills' are transferable into other industries.
doesnt have to be

i know people who make fuckload of money and pinch every penny

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« Reply #43 on: April 16, 2014, 03:20:57 PM »
convicts always have a story about what "really happened" ::) ::) ::)
Prisons are full of innocent people.

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« Reply #44 on: April 16, 2014, 03:21:38 PM »
They must not be married or divorced or have a subservient African or Asian wife.
some men dont take shit from their wife and let their children eat spoiled food just to save pennies

i know someone like this, he's a millionaire and retired at 45

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« Reply #45 on: April 16, 2014, 03:22:39 PM »
I was there to collect a supposed debt for a friend who owned, or who's father and uncle owned a payday loan/check cashing biz. I'd already spoken with the owner of the grocery store (who was a sports bookie and it was football season) and when I went to pay for what I was buying (which was two bags of Chinese sausage and meatballs and a pack of Dunhill ciggerettes) he started giving me a hard time about my id, so I went out to my car to get it. if I was robbing him, do you think I would've shown him my fucking id? lol think about it, genius. I had the gun in my holster the whole time and only put my hand on it when he lifted up a mini-bat/club like he was gonna swing at me, which he didn't. even gave a guy a jumpstart outside the biz when I left (it was January and cold in the Midwest). sound like I was 'robbing' of 'sticking up' a liquor store to you? lol

That story has as many holes in as your glutes.

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« Reply #46 on: April 16, 2014, 03:24:09 PM »
That story has as many holes in as your glutes.
in his head it seems flawless, years upon years of reinforcing these lies untill he starts believing his own story


typical convict

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« Reply #47 on: April 16, 2014, 04:15:31 PM »
True story.

I knew this person who was a panhandler, lived like a bum, pinched every penny was cheap as fuck.  Saved up every penny because they were afraid to be poor which was ironic because she lived like she was a vagrant.  She died when hit by a bus, her sister was cleaning out her apartment and found a little over $200K in cash.  So this person saved the money to not be poor but lived like they were poor.  Fucked mindset

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« Reply #48 on: April 16, 2014, 04:25:36 PM »
Really, if you die old and have lots of money isnt that doing it wrong?
A pound sitting doing nothing is a pound wasted.
You cant take it with you. I'll never be rich, whatever your defination of rich is, but I'd just like to be confortable when I'm older. Work is tough on my body and at 36, I can see the direction it's going. I'll always work just dont wanna be jamming when I'm 50-60 unless it's in a ownership capacity. Which is def the plan, owned my own business once already. No fear of striking out again if the oportunity is there

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« Reply #49 on: April 16, 2014, 04:31:04 PM »
But if you work all your life and die old and  poor, you're doing something wrong.

Seen people work same job in same old factory for 40 yrs....do they not think at one point to move up?
Some people just arent that smart, or maybe a better way to put it is arent that talented. Dont excel at anything or have the passion and know how to move up in a given field. There's a 17yr old from a Tech School working with us and I can tell from the way he works that he just doesnt have it in him to do the job.