Belly up to the Bar (aka The Post Whorin' Thread)

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

I really don't care about money like that. I value my time off and my life more than cash. That's just me though. I get where you're coming from.

I'm with Marko. Time off is infinitely more valuable to me than being at work. I minimize my purchases and sacrifice comforts to make sure I can afford not working more than my 40.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Trip

I'm with Marko. Time off is infinitely more valuable to me than being at work. I minimize my purchases and sacrifice comforts to make sure I can afford not working more than my 40.

I leave early nearly every Friday. I don't work a single weekend ever and never a holiday. I do get comp time on the occasional stint that we work past 5pm.

My job often sucks as far as subject goes. I mean I do shoot video of politicians but I took the job because of what I wrote above. I gotta live my life.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by marko138

I leave early nearly every Friday. I don't work a single weekend ever and never a holiday. I do get comp time on the occasional stint that we work past 5pm.

My job often sucks as far as subject goes. I mean I do shoot video of politicians but I took the job because of what I wrote above. I gotta live my life.

I wish I could say the same, but my job does require overtime and some call in work. Especially when the plant is in an outage or something bad happens on my equipment. I believe when I transfer to Hydro, most of this will disappear since I will be on projects/new modifications side of the house and not as much deadline pressure.

My job currently sucks hard as far as stress and subject. It's incredibly detailed and regulation oriented. Way too much paperwork. The job I have is hardly engineering, more like data clerk with a little engineering thrown in. Definitely not what I want to do, the new job should be much more interesting and getting back into true electrical engineering.

[Mr Lefty]

Originally Posted by Trip

I'm with Marko. Time off is infinitely more valuable to me than being at work. I minimize my purchases and sacrifice comforts to make sure I can afford not working more than my 40.

and yet you still own a home, have a paid off bike, just bought a new truck, wife has a newer car...

you make good money. it makes it easy to not work overtime when your base pay is nice, and it's easy to say that when you're time off isn't tainted with the stress of being in debt.

I know that a lot of it is personal responsibility with your credit, and my debit is my own fault. but trust me no one values their off time more than I do, I just have to pay this debt off so that I can afford to enjoy it.

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Mr Lefty

and yet you still own a home, have a paid off bike, just bought a new truck, wife has a newer car...

you make good money. it makes it easy to not work overtime when your base pay is nice, and it's easy to say that when you're time off isn't tainted with the stress of being in debt.

I know that a lot of it is personal responsibility with your credit, and my debit is my own fault. but trust me no one values their off time more than I do, I just have to pay this debt off so that I can afford to enjoy it.

That's true, but I also keep older things til I can afford stuff outright without putting it on credit. If my pay was a lot less, I would be the same way. I wouldn't purchase things til I could afford them outright. I didn't purchase anything extravagant til after all my college debt was paid off. I lived in a cheap apartment to build a back up savings faster before I moved into a nice one. I had the same old used civic to save money I used in college til I upgraded to a base model used toyota tacoma instead of going for a really nice truck. Motorcycles have been my one vice where I spent a little more than I needed.

The house is Andrea's, lol, I am scaling us back when we sell it and move to Chattanooga. Although we did save a lot going the foreclosure route.

I could definitely spend a lot more money than I do, but I choose to live well within my means. My means aren't the same as anyone elses though.

[marko138]

Originally Posted by Mr Lefty

and yet you still own a home, have a paid off bike, just bought a new truck, wife has a newer car...

you make good money. it makes it easy to not work overtime when your base pay is nice, and it's easy to say that when you're time off isn't tainted with the stress of being in debt.

I know that a lot of it is personal responsibility with your credit, and my debit is my own fault. but trust me no one values their off time more than I do, I just have to pay this debt off so that I can afford to enjoy it.

I don't make that good of money. Honestly I don't. My wife is good with finances. I spend all our money. We are looking to buy a new house soon.

[Gas Man]

Originally Posted by Mr Lefty

and yet you still own a home, have a paid off bike, just bought a new truck, wife has a newer car...

you make good money. it makes it easy to not work overtime when your base pay is nice, and it's easy to say that when you're time off isn't tainted with the stress of being in debt.

I know that a lot of it is personal responsibility with your credit, and my debit is my own fault. but trust me no one values their off time more than I do, I just have to pay this debt off so that I can afford to enjoy it.

I couldn't have said it better. I make good money but when I transferred jobs to keep a job & also get a better job I lost $35k on the condo sale. That was a $450 loan every month for 5 years. Plus buying a new house.