Michigan Economy

[Homicidalheathen]

Things are tight around here, we had to take out loans to help pay for things while the kids are in college...one of them learned the hard way how much its costing because she failed a class and had to repeat it, any repeats SHE pays for. Also, they cut back her hours at work.....she appreciates Salvation army now.

Medical bills continue to kick our ass.

Now my best friend has just been layed off by Ford. He may move and wants me to do this commune/gypsy thing with him but we cant leave till the kids are done with college.

I work p/t at home but buisness is so slow I have had no work for 2 months. (sales)

We are still fighting to get our money out of an ex buisness partner who ripped us off......

And the guy I know who got laid off, well they cancelled his insurance right away....I thought they had to give you 60 days?

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I'm doing fine. I left.

[Destroit]

I'm doing better now because Jadnifer moved in, as in I'm not reflexively pulling out hair and I can now sleep at night.

We were destitute for awhile there. Couldn't even leave the house and do anything 'cause even gas would put us over.

[Hellion]

I'm doing ok,since our company mfg's parts for the aerospace industry/military ,we are still getting some orders,and possible new ones as well.no Big Three automotive anything.

Let alone I only go out once a week.

[odims_sphere]

I, (we), seem to make just enough to stay broke, but not fall any more in debt.

[TygerLili]

You know what? I'm broke, but this is the happiest I've been in a really long time.

[Ice Queen (1)]

I'd been broke my entire life, until I graduated nursing school. Thank goodness I finally decided to go back to school, and for one of the few things that there are actually good paying jobs available. I feel fortunate to have a good job and good benefits when so many don't. I know so many who have moved, planning to move, or just been without a steady job for a really long time. It is making selling my house virtually impossible. I need more bedrooms, another bathroom, and to get out of this hicktown! Hopefully, for everyone, it will turn around soon.

[Steven]

big time upside down in my house.

just a few credit cards - but mixed with the house it was / is bigger than us and no amount of math was gogin to save me and nobody was gogin to make me a millionaire just cause Im chubby, balding, and pretty.

We'll be moving by the end of summer. My daily sanity is worth too much to me.....as is Laura's (worth even more)

[Hellion]

J.O.B.-just over broke,credit card bills will be gone by the end of the summer.I'll stick with my Master Card debit,No monthly bill.which is fine with me.

[creatureofthenyte]

I continue to read and or hear about what's goin on out there.

I feel bad for those who are having to go thru what's happening out there.

It's almost totally different out here.

There has been some job loss out here, but not any real gigantic amount.

The 2 casinos we have here will both be hiring 2000+ people due to expansion plans.

I am just continually dumbfounded by your economy out there.

[Hellion]

Actually California is now number one on having a poor economy.but they also said that the whole nation is going into a recession.

[Kit Kat P]

Yeah it's reeeaaaaallll fun here on the left side

[SuZQZ]

I am fortunate that I have a good job with good benefits. If it wasn't for some credit card debt and medical bills I'd be in much better shape, but we're doing ok so far. I can afford to put clothing and shoes on my kid and stuff like that, and that's good enough for now. I know too many people who are struggling much worse than I.

[Rev.Reverence]

I am getting a sinking suspicion; that someone, somewhere, is orchestrating an economic cover-up, of dynamic proportions.

Bare with me now; friends of mine have moved away to different places; always with the 'better tomorrows' plan; but are never REALLY doing any better off whenever we catch-up.

This has led me to the thought that perhaps, 'THEY' tell people separately, in different locations, that, "Things aren't this bad all over, WE seem to be taking the brunt of it HERE." When really, the economy is F.U.B.A.R. everywhere.

...or I only know slack-ass S.O.B.'s....

...and so what if I'm schizophrenic, maybe I'm not paranoid after all.....

The wife finally got our family out of the red, mostly, like, we can goto Club once in a while now, and we finally have a computer.

[Homicidalheathen]

My kids are in college for nursing. Although its a SUCKY ASS THANKLESS JOB (my grandma and great aunt and sister are/were nurses)

its estimated that by the year 2012 the country will be short 340,000 nurses (or something like that)

The health insurance crisis though......where is the money to pay them suppose to come from?

They find every reason in the book and then some to cancel your insurance these days.

I'd been broke my entire life, until I graduated nursing school. Thank goodness I finally decided to go back to school, and for one of the few things that there are actually good paying jobs available. I feel fortunate to have a good job and good benefits when so many don't. I know so many who have moved, planning to move, or just been without a steady job for a really long time. It is making selling my house virtually impossible. I need more bedrooms, another bathroom, and to get out of this hicktown! Hopefully, for everyone, it will turn around soon.

[Ice Queen (1)]

My kids are in college for nursing. Although its a SUCKY ASS THANKLESS JOB (my grandma and great aunt and sister are/were nurses)

its estimated that by the year 2012 the country will be short 340,000 nurses (or something like that)

The health insurance crisis though......where is the money to pay them suppose to come from?

They find every reason in the book and then some to cancel your insurance these days.

The insurance issue really sucks. As you well know, they can never pay us nurses enough. I do worry about the future of our pay scale with all of the insurance and political crap going on. But, I don't see how they can lower our wages when there is such a shortage. For some, pay is the reason they go into nursing in the first place. Yes, some days it is a sucky ass thankless job. But, luckily, most days I find it very rewarding. Maybe it's the type of unit I work in, I don't know. I never worked another unit. Hearing from others makes me think I am never going to want to leave it for another.

From my experience in the area I live in, the union hospitals have much better pay and benefits, and their nurse to patient ratios limits are strictly followed, unlike the non-union hospitals I have been at. Just something for your kids to think about checking into if they haven't already.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

As you well know, they can never pay us nurses enough.

I got that impression when the Nurses Union tried to push that law through a few years ago to redirect all the Tobacco settlement money away from the patients and education programs and into their pockets.

[freydis]

We need out of here.

*Only* making bills, and barely. And we *both* hate our jobs.

I've been looking at internal company transfers to better jobs out of state.

We'll see how that goes.

[Ice Queen (1)]

I got that impression when the Nurses Union tried to push that law through a few years ago to redirect all the Tobacco settlement money away from the patients and education programs and into their pockets.

I didn't hear about that. I wonder which union that was. That sounds horrible, not what my idea of nursing is all about, anyway. One of the most important aspects, besides not letting people die, is patient advocate, seems contradictory to me. In the unit I work in, especially, we have to know as much or more then the doctors some days it seems. We often "suggest" things or medications. It's the only way it gets done, sometimes. And then there's the way the docs treat us sometimes, and the patients sometimes. It can be extremely demanding physically and emotionally. I am happy with what I make, but sometimes, given the responsibilities we carry, and the emotional toll it takes, it doesn't seem like we are valued enough, monetarily or otherwise. That said, I am still perfectly content to do what I do for the paycheck I get.

[Hellion]

This State will probably be 100% unpopulated, give it time.I guess then it will be one hell of a landfill.

[CandyQuackenbush]

Things will be tight here til I get out of school.

Odims and I fell into some funds, but they need to stay where they are at right now. It sucks, I'm at a job I hate, but doing something at school I love. And THANKFULLY, and I say that with a huge sigh of relief, I am able to work AT my school doing massages. Granted it's cash only, *naughty sounding* but with that cash, I can use that, and save all my paychecks that I get from the Gov and my Civilan job and keep them in the bank where they belong.

[sass_in_the_pants]

We're doing all right...as I mentioned in another post, I'll be going down to part-time soon to spend more time with the babies and I can only do this because Guy got a better job this year. He does very bad things to mice now.

And, I'm in accounting. One of th ereasons I chose accounting is because there generally are accounting jobs - in New York City, in Iowa, even in Detroit, there's accounting jobs. When companies go bankrupt, the accountants stay until the bitter end, and when the company is going gangbusters, the accountants stay til the very end.

Still, every time I see a foreclosed house my heart breaks. That was someone's home...

[jadnifer]

You know what? I'm broke, but this is the happiest I've been in a really long time.

I quite agree with you. I have enough money to pay rent, my phone bill, some food, save for school, and maybe a little extra to go out and fun with.

The reason that I'm so happy though is because I am finally with someone that I love and actually treats me well, getting along with my family and friends (for the most part) LOL!!, finally enjoy where I'm living and I don't have as much stress. Those things you simply cannot buy with money.

But, I digress, the basic point here. Michigan's economy SUCKS!!!

[Homicidalheathen]

This is sad, my buddy just lost the love of his life because she couldn't find work here. I set them up too.....it was my good deed for the year and they are so cute together.

He has to stay because his mom is bad off so he lives with her to save money and take care of her as her insurance DOESN'T COVER hospice......which is BS since she cant even get down the stairs by herself.

And his job doesn't pay much...so.....

She moved out of state to work and the long distance thing wasn't working for them. This makes me so sad. They were purrfect for each other.

She looked for a year for a decent job.

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

I am helping a friend move down here right now. he cant deal with itup there anymore