I agree, I don't think anyone losing their job is funny. Think about me though, I'm self employeed so "losing my job" , per se, isn't a problem. Thing is if you work for someone else and half their customers leave your still most likely drawing full pay (unless they let you go) so the number of customers just doesn't matter. You still pay the same for insurance, etc, basically nothing changes for you unless they lay you off. Then you can probably get unemployment, etc so your still "OK" to some degree for a time. On the other hand when your self employeed and half of your customers (or your one BIG customer) have no work then your work is basically in half too as a result of their lack of work. So not only do you have no work, your pay is cut in half too. Thing is the insurance still costs the same, the bills still cost the same, etc, etc., you just have half the money to pay for them, and this fact remains no matter how frugal you were or are with your money. Believe me I know about hard financial times now and in years past and it ain't "funny" funny, but you still don't see me on here touting gloom and doom because things are tight right at the moment. My point was that no matter what happens, it may get worse it may get better, in the end it's all gonna work out wether we worry about it or not. So why worry and make ourseles miserable, why not find something else to do to make ends meet, or whatever instead o setting around feeling miserable. I've found numerous places online for people looking to have this or that done for a few dollars or more cash and if the bottom dropped completely out for me tomorrow there is always somebody needing something done that has the money to pay me.
The more things you can do, are willing to do, or learn to do, the better off you are. One of the problems with this country right now is that few people really want to work, or when they do they want to do "one thing" and get paid alot of money for it and don't care to learn to do anything else. It's fine to be able to do one job and be the best but it never hurts to learn how to do many other, different things also. Myself I work on heavy equipment but I am also 'licensed' for mobile A/C, and can also weld and do fabrication, do manual machine work (portable and shop), carpentry, plumbing, both residential and industrial maintenance (including both single and three phase electrical), minor bodywork, sand blasting and painting, and just about anything else I put my mind to and really want to learn how to do. True I worry some about the bottom falling completely out, that's just human nature. If it does, personally I've got alot to fall back on. In the end, hard times or not I'm still happy and looking forward to things clearing back up just as they've done many, many, many times in the past.
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