Had to lowbuck it

[Hookeye]

Ugh, it gets worse.

My lease is up 7-5 and the landlord (rented a condo to stay flexible due to employment opps) just called the old lady, wants us to commit to a 1 yr lease for $100 more a month.......tomorrow, or she's gonna post signs for sale/lease and we have a 30 day notice whenever somebody else signs.

No big deal there, but the price increase, and pressure tactic, well that kinda honks me off.

She's upside down on the place, it's nice, but with the job losses here, and not being in a bussing zone for the HS......it's pretty much a retirement kind of place......and all those folks have split to FL.

I think we'll be moving in a week or so, get stuck with 1 month of inflated rent. Middle kid is a wuss, and we're in that walk-in zone for HS, so we have to move just to keep the kid on a bus, allow mom and dad to work their low pay jobs to stay afloat.

On a slight plus, it appears that I have to pay 1/2 of what I would for my oldest's college tuition this fall.

That and somebody nice here gave me some info on a possible job opportunity. It's out of state, but that might just be the best thing that ever happened. After eveything else I've learned that it's best to not freak out, just roll with it.......and not be afraid of change.

Next week or so is gonna suck, what with the added stress of finding (or not finding) a place, and then moving.

I'm about ready for some easy stretch.

Good thing my new bow will be lighter in poundage, that moving crap sucks more as one gets older!

[varmint101]

What part of Indiana are you from?  I know there are several automotive manufacturing places hiring in or near Columbus/Seymour.

[twitchstick]

It seems like that I remember to tough times more that the gravy times,they seem memorable than the easy times. I don't know if it is me filling more gradification for working through hard times or if they are truly the good times. I always have a good laugh about it years later. At leased you are not out buying new bows and starving you family. I do understand your pain I am stocking shelves at night part time since my job went sour last fall and not putting in on moose and deer hunts I know I would have probably drawn easy. No big travel plans for me but I have a full quiver and lots of game close by so I'm lucky to have that.

[Arkansaslongbow]

My prayers to all who are laid off and looking for work; hope this helps, but while some of you are off, it may be good to look around for a vo-tech school that offers truck-driving classes; having a class A CDL drivers license has been good to me for over 25+ years now; you DO NOT have to drive "over the road" to have a job and if one looks at a sunday paper job listings, truck drivers are in HIGH demand; and a CDL will get you a job no matter where you live; just thought I would pass that along; hope all gets better for all.....  

[Hookeye]

FWIW I worked for an automotive electronics manufacturer north of Indy. Advanced development of materials/packaging/process plus supported production.......was a salaried engineering tech.

Worked with some great people and made great progress and products, it was a good gig for a long while.

Got stuck with an animal rights wacko manager, so those yrs were tough. Escaped and things got better, but then my coworker and dear friend, of 20 yrs .........self exited.

I met him when I started there, and he was about the only guy who really understood me.

That loss, well it still affects me (2 yr anniversary coming up). The place lost much of it's shine when he left.

So the job loss sucked, but not as much as it might have. Now it's strictly financial, what I miss, the career aspect there........eh who cares.

Pension gone, other injustice.......it just is what it is.

If I can start over fine, if I can't well screw it. A guy can only try.

[Hookeye]

The ex (yes, after yrs apart she came back- be careful what you pray for- you might just get it)
wants to move more south, so Seymour area sounds OK.

I'll check into it.

Dunno what wages/jobs there are, do know that lots of places are severely lowbucking jobs. Drive 1.5hrs one way, for a $15 an hr job with no benefits......that's pretty tough to justify.

Heck some are only offering $10.

My landlady changed stuff on us today, thought we had a month or so to find a new place......not. At 8 pm tonight I found a decent place for same rent, my current place was to increase $100 a month.

So some luck has come our way, not without stress.......I gotta pack and have all my stuff moved in 2 days. Gonna be Ibuprofin for lunch and dinner!

If I land a gig elsewhere I'll commute, or get a 1rm apt and come home on weekends until we move.

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

Sorry to hear about your friend.  I lost a friend last year to cancer and can only imagine how you felt.  I know about all the time sending emails, phone calls, filling out resume's and job apps and I have only got 1 phone interview that went nowhere and 1 face to face interview that went nowhere because someone else offered to work for 2 bucks less an hour than they were offering the rest of us.  Good luck with all your struggles right now.

[Hookeye]

Thanks CIC, Joe was a good dude, had an illness that left and came back with a vengeance, so he just left (always said if it came to that, he'd leave while others would remember him as he was).

Not part of my belief system, but it was in context with his. Upsetting for sure, but understandable.

He died mid July, I got laid off in Oct. Close enough together to minimize the shock and other of losing my job.

Wasn't much shock, worked in scrap reduction and we saved millions for out assigned areas.....so when it gets that good, all processes documented, made robust to the point of minimal scrap.......it's pretty obvious we literally worked outselves out of a job.

No new products in our areas, management outsourced close to 50% of the product (since we "packaged it and gave it to them on a silver platter".

I understand the ruthlessness of business, what gets me is the lying.

There's no need to lie.

Another item that sat wrong with me: they said they found a loophole in the union contract to outsource part of the product, to make it "strike proof" (if anybody went on strike production at another place could still go on).

What they didn't tell us: there was no loophole.

They used the fake deal to justify engineering cuts, and then after they lost all that support.......again with no loophole, they then justified the move of some of the product due to not having support.

It was a game from the start, and my boss knew it.

Problem there: if he knew, why didn't he let me transfer to another group (one doing well, tried to get me for a YEAR)?

He said no, and then after I got my 2 months until gone notice, then he tries to be my bud and says he can "try" to get me into that group (truth is at that point they had a freeze-so he couldn't).

So I just let him rattle, did my production support, made custom parts for another group (worked over for free to get that done- made schedule, which was done half way through my last day).

I did my job and just split.

Of course some other coworkers didn't take it so well, cried like kids when they found out they were going to get axed. Some were pretty bad about it.......and a couple are still there.

How HR kept them in their jobs, after all the drama and whining.......man if that doesn't speak volumes for the "system".

It's cost me a LOT of money, my job loss, but I still pee standing up.

I'd rather be broke than be a B.

OK, off to sign the new lease and start moving. Of course my washer at current place messed up last night...........it's always something. I'll get my junk moved out and then fix it.

My Jeep's hatch is stuck so I gotta work on that first. Too funny.

Nothing is ever smooth or easy.

[COMPOUNDLESS IN CONCRETE]

I was a custom cabinet maker for the last 11 years and even though the boss and others got to me at times and I didn't always liked my job, I never wanted to lose it.  I wanted to leave on my own terms to something better but it never materialized over the years due to the fact I was making good money and other job offers were always 65% of my pay at best.  
The position my company had been in for the last several years was that we could no longer compete for the local jobs that filled in between the big jobs we did in Hawaii due to the fact we couldn't outbid other shops that paid $8 an hour and no benefits.  We done work for Bill Gates, Microsoft, the new Trump Tower in Hawaii built by the Donald and many other high dollar custom jobs.  
It seems everybody now is just going to the local Home Depot or Lowes and buying chinese cabinets off the shelf for the fact you can redo a kitchen for under $3000.  I have chosen to not be bitter about losing my job or the struggle to find a new one because I will go crazy if I let myself dwell on the negative.  I am just putting my faith in the lord and know that he will bring me a job in his time.  
I have looked at this as an opportunity to do something I have always wanted to do which is to get into law enforcement.  I am starting school in sept to get my ATA in criminal justice.  Even in my situation of job loss and having a family to support, I still didn't even qualify for enough financial aid to even cover the cost of text books for the year and I know people who are making a lot more than us right now and are getting a full govt. ride to college and getting grants that pay a living wage while in school.  :mad:  Doesn't even have to worry about working while in school.  Frustrating the way our govt. caters to "certain" people.  I will leave it at that.  You are exactly right, nothing is ever smooth or easy.