Well gang, I'm just getting back into the working world, and where-as my days of being TOTALLY dead-ass broke are coming to a close (I hope forever this time... bein' broke sucks)... I'm still reminded what being broke has taught me...

TOP TEN: SIGNS YO' ASS IS PO'!

NOTE: I've done every single one of these...

1. You can afford food... or gas for your car... not both. and that's not a full tank of gas...

2. Five bucks seems like a fortune.

3. When you open your wallet, you get all happy you have what looks like a half-dollar, but then it's only a condom.

4.The only reason your bank account has five dollars left in it, is that's how much you have to keep in there to keep the account open.

5. You've come up with whole new recipies mixing the crap you never thought you'd eat out of the cupboards.

6. You tend to hold bills until you know they're going to send the first warning (usually they cross in the mail).

7. You never go to the movies... then... you stop getting rentals... then you cancel your cable... so... the odds of seeing a new movie are one in ten they'll have it as commercial TV...

8. You remember having an "Allowance" as a kid... almost wistfully... even though it paid 2 bucks a week, at least those two bucks were YOURS.

9. When you tear your jeans, you either sew them, or just wear them.

10. If most of the things broken in your life have been fixed with super glue, duct tape or clamps...

I can remember when my wife and I lived through about each and every one of those. I was on active duty stationed in Texas, yet the only way I could survive and feed a new baby was to use WIC and go on foodstamps. I bought a motorcycle cause we couldn't afford a second car and rode that sucker year round.

wow i thought i ws broke lol well im only 17 and a half ive been trying like since sptember to gt a job nuttin not even shamack donalds hehe luckly my mom will buy my gas

Dude, pick an industry you want to work... then send a resume' to every damn place in the phone book...

Also... I've learned to not lock my mind in on just one industry...

Hell, right now, I'm painting commercial buildings, houses, warehouses and today I spent outside painting posts for an 8 million dollar apartment project (6 friggin' HUGE buildings)... Today my boss won a bid to paint out a friggin' Costco (BIG place if you've never been there... it's like Sam's Club). I've gone from hacking code, fixin' PCs (which I'm still doing on the side) and networking to getting a sunburn (I'm a deep red color... hurts like hell), wearing a hard-hat (stupid OSHA rules) and walking around covered in paint. Oddly, I don't really mind the job...

OMG... Its that prom time of year... and i'm sooo money screwed... the worst thing is... i already asked and she already said yes.

DarkSamurai - you have just described my life.. I was reading and praying to find one that wasn't true. ALL of them have happened to me, well other than the condom one - allergic to latex.

Quote: Originally posted by Darksamurai Also... I've learned to not lock my mind in on just one industry...

It's good advice... I couldn't get a job anywhere, so I went to my father's mate who's a builder, so I've been working as a laborer for him over the school hols... so the hours are pretty bad (7:30-5:00), but the parts for my new computer are coming Monday (yes, I'm retiring the trusty K6-2, its served me well).

But before that, haha I knew #2 oh so well, $5, man; and if I had a $10 note.... lol

dude when you said bud I was thinking you were talkinga bout joints. I guess 5 joints would be a fortune to a poor person.

Quote: Originally posted by V4mpiro dude when you said bud I was thinking you were talkinga bout joints. I guess 5 joints would be a fortune to a poor person.

As Confucious says, "Dope will get you through a time of no money better than money will get you through a time of no dope".

You've never known poverty until you've got to the point where it's either buy a tin of Spam for yourself, or a tin of food for the cat .... and ended up buying cat food as the cat won't eat spam, but you can eat cat food.

You know your poor when natural lite is brand name beer

LMAO.. i'm living all of them

on the bright sifde, i started a asecond job and should be getting my first paycheck from there this week (i hope) so it'll be nice.roughly 70 hours/wk working now SHOULD be roughly $150-$200/wk worth of "disposable income" !! I"M RICH!!!

of course, that means no time to SPEND it,. but hey...

Dark,
...with your knowledge and insite, you will always be wealthy
because riches are measured by a mans willingness to share
his wisdom...thank you for sharing...ZENNZZO

Quote: Originally posted by ZENNZZO Dark, ...with your knowledge and insite, you will always be wealthy because riches are measured by a mans willingness to share his wisdom...thank you for sharing...ZENNZZO

I can see it now - 'Sam loads up his trolley to the gunwales with cold ones, cigarettes & doritos ... the bill comes to three top 10's, a 500 word essay on the absurdity of modern life, 5 puns and a one liner.

Jon... LOL!

I don't smoke... only way I'd collect cigarettes would be if I hit prison, and needed to "buy" somethin'.

Still... a cold Cherry Coke and some Doritos sound pretty damn good.

Zenzzo: A man's wisdom and his willingingness to share don't make him physically rich (It may make him rich in spirit)... unless he's a spy of course