Ridiculous. First off, at the current $4.00 per gallon price of fuel oil here you have to consider I'd use 5-8 gallons a day. That's $20-32.00 a day. Then you have to add in getting to work at this phantom job in my 10mpg Burb. Even if it was in my closest town there's at least $20.00 a day in gas. Then there's taxes on the money I earn, so that minumum wage job that might pay $8.00 an hour (min wage here) becomes more like $6.00@ hour. And then there's the amount of hours I worked- lets say it's 40, which isn't going to happen. Take home might be $250-275 a week. Fuel oil is costing me $140-224.00 a week PLUS $100.00 in gas which just ate up my whole paycheck even IF I could find this phantom 40 @ week job. FYI- I put in at a bunch of places locally and I didn't even get a call- OVERQUALIFIED! And then there's the other costs you forget- whose gonna do all the work here on the farm while I'm off paying for fuel oil? It would be just like before I retired, ME, working from the minute I got home till I couldn't take it any longer and half of what I needed would never get done.
If I sat on my butt in a little house in town getting that other job might make sense. Otherwise your premise is totally flawed.
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