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<blockquote>Take this job - or shove it
Jarrod Posner - 70% pay cut
Old Job: Mortgage lender - $110,000
New Job: Enrollment counselor - $33,000
Hardest thing to give up: I miss the luxury of comfort, knowing we had financial security at all times. I wish I had been smarter.
Posner, 34, was a mortgage lender for home builder D.R. Horton making $110,000 a year until he was laid off last May. Despite applying for many jobs through job-search sites, he received only one offer through a contact at the University of Phoenix in September.
The position, as an enrollment counselor, paid $33,000 a year.
"I was actually thankful because I was getting a job but at the same time my wife and I realized we had to make a lot of lifestyle changes," he said.
Since then, the Posners, who have two children, foreclosed on their home, moved into a rental property, downgraded from two cars to one and learned how to budget.
But despite the hardship, Posner says he is content with his job and happy to be employed. "Through foreclosure and possible bankruptcy, we've realized as a family what's important." - Jessica Dickler</blockquote>
I was shopping at the Spectrum the other day and went into a shop looking for a belt. I figured a store selling nothing but jeans would be a good place to pick one up. Do they have any belts? No, of course not! But they had racks and racks of $150-$200 jeans. I guess when you blow that kind of cash on a pair of jeans, they must levitate on your cheeks...
Now that the US economy is nose diving--there were 2.4 million jobs lost in 2008--who is going to buy this crap? When will the OC lifestyle end?
I should note that the jeans store was completely vacant except for three sales clerks chatting amongst each other.
<blockquote>Take this job - or shove it
Jarrod Posner - 70% pay cut
Old Job: Mortgage lender - $110,000
New Job: Enrollment counselor - $33,000
Hardest thing to give up: I miss the luxury of comfort, knowing we had financial security at all times. I wish I had been smarter.
Posner, 34, was a mortgage lender for home builder D.R. Horton making $110,000 a year until he was laid off last May. Despite applying for many jobs through job-search sites, he received only one offer through a contact at the University of Phoenix in September.
The position, as an enrollment counselor, paid $33,000 a year.
"I was actually thankful because I was getting a job but at the same time my wife and I realized we had to make a lot of lifestyle changes," he said.
Since then, the Posners, who have two children, foreclosed on their home, moved into a rental property, downgraded from two cars to one and learned how to budget.
But despite the hardship, Posner says he is content with his job and happy to be employed. "Through foreclosure and possible bankruptcy, we've realized as a family what's important." - Jessica Dickler</blockquote>
I was shopping at the Spectrum the other day and went into a shop looking for a belt. I figured a store selling nothing but jeans would be a good place to pick one up. Do they have any belts? No, of course not! But they had racks and racks of $150-$200 jeans. I guess when you blow that kind of cash on a pair of jeans, they must levitate on your cheeks...
Now that the US economy is nose diving--there were 2.4 million jobs lost in 2008--who is going to buy this crap? When will the OC lifestyle end?
I should note that the jeans store was completely vacant except for three sales clerks chatting amongst each other.
