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Originally Posted by 911pcars
If you've been laid off and can't find a job or the job doesn't pay much, where/how do you live? Possible low and no-rent locations include: car, tent, storage facility, under a freeway overpass, homeless shelter, park/bus bench, alley, street.
And many of these are regular folks. It's not pretty. More so if there are kids involved.
Sherwood
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Nowadays it wouldn't be a problem cause I have savings, but there was a time in my youth I was faced with that kind of situation.
My daughter was very young and we had just spent almost every penny we had on our house when the company I worked for unexpectedly closed down and laid everyone off.
Within a week I took a job I hated because it was laborious, dirty work and I had to travel constantly. If I was lucky I could spend one day per weekend at home. But it paid around $20/hr plus overtime was available so I could pay my bills, it would just take longer days.
I did that for about 6 months and then opened my own small consulting business (just me and one other person), which I sold about a year later for around $60k net after all expenses when I found a good steady job where I wouldn't have to travel.
It was a tough period and I missed part of my daughter's first few years but I did what I had to and there were no excuses made.
Lots of folks out there think they're too good to take a crappy job, that it's beneath them. They'd rather sit on unemployment and make excuses as their situation worsens than do something about it. Thank God I wasn't one of those.
When faced with adversity you either man up or give up.