Drat! There's a Reason Why WORK is Four Letters!

[NoMadYesHappy]

I have to say, I was really excited about this year's (2018) RTR, but as luck (or rather it's antithesis) might have it, I cannot get the time off to come, and for the moment, I need the job.

I was SO looking forward to the seminars, getting a feel for the reality of tiny living, meeting folks, you know the list.

On the up side, I just signed docs to list my house for sale.  The market here has been moving very fast.  A home in my community sold in just 3 days!  If sold, this will be one of the largest hurdles toward getting me (and as it turns out, my oldest daughter is coming with me) on the road. 

And, just for the record, I don't mind work.  I work hard.  I am just looking forward to work that is of my own choosing and more like fun with a schedule that I decide, not someone else.

If not there in person, I will be there in spirit!

 

[Txjaybird]

Good Luck On Your House Sale.

From what I've been seeing and hearing now is a good time to have a job.  There are businesses near me that have recently closed without notifying their employees.  They just went to work one day and there was a closed sign.

I had this happen to me years ago in TX.  We just had a big chain and padlock on the doors on a payday.  Talk about a sinking feeling in your gut!  Luckily I knew where the new place was so I took a van load of coworkers and we crashed the opening night of our employers new and very upscale restauraunt and club in Addison TX.  I couldn't believe it when some people accepted checks from the scumbags.  I stayed for the cash owed me.   You'd think Mz Edna of Chicken Ranch fame could afford to pay the bar & kitchen help that worked for her. 

 My son has said more than once " I'm the only person I know who has a Mama that people will pay to go away" I take that as a complement.  I  look at it like this.......most of us work and then get paid for our labors, trusting that the $$$$ will be there when they are supposed to be.  We don't go to work and say " O.K. pay me 2 weeks in advance and don't forget the week you hold back either....I"ll be in tomorrow and start working, see you then.  I would get VERY upset when my paychecks were incorrect.

Everytime I hear that some county, state, or federal agency are over budget/out of funds I start to worry.

I realized years ago that there are many very smart people that know how to earn a lot of $$$$.  However if they had a tear in their pants, a hole in a sock and the stores were out of food........they'd be walking around hungry with their butts hanging out and a blister on their foot if there was no one that could help them.  That's why I try to learn about a wide range of skills.  Collect and read books on different ways to do things like gardening, water cachement, processing foods, debri shelters and many others.  This is multi-generational in my family.  My 14yr old Grandson killed and processed his 1st buck this year working with friends up in KY.

Have a Happy New Year

Jewellann

 

[NoMadYesHappy]

Thanks for the thoughts, Jewellann. Perhaps 2018 will move in a direction better suited to both our needs and wants! Happy New Year!

 

[tx2sturgis]

I realized years ago that there are many very smart people that know how to earn a lot of $$$$.  However if they had a tear in their pants, a hole in a sock and the stores were out of food........they'd be walking around hungry with their butts hanging out and a blister on their foot if there was no one that could help them.  That's why I try to learn about a wide range of skills.  Collect and read books on different ways to do things like gardening, water cachement, processing foods, debri shelters and many others.  This is multi-generational in my family.  My 14yr old Grandson killed and processed his 1st buck this year working with friends up in KY.

By any chance, did you help Hank Williams Jr write this song?

 

[Charlotte's Web]

By any chance, did you help Hank Williams Jr write this song?

No help from me, Boss.  But here's the one I wish I'd written:
Hey good lookin'
Whatcha got cookin'?
How's about cookin' something up with me.
Hey sweet baby
Don't you think maybe
We can find us a real good recipe
I've got a hot rod car and a two dollar bill
There's a dancin' spot right over the hill...

 

[NoMadYesHappy]

Suddenly, my foot is tapping.

 

[Txjaybird]

By any chance, did you help Hank Williams Jr write this song?

 No however it's one of my favorites along with Longhaired Country Boy,  Hillbilly Bone,  Rough and Ready, & A Man Of Constant Sorrow.  Many of my sons lullabies were from the soundtrack of Your Cheatin' Heart.  While working at a dude ranch in '78 & '79  I was able to watch, while working, live performances by folks like Tom T Hall,  Boxcar Willie,  The Kendals, Kenney Rogers and many more country music artists of that era.  I watched shows like The Wilburn Bros. and the Porter Wagoner Show with my Grandparents on a black and white TV.
Olden Times as my grandkids call 'em.

Jewellann