Unemployed couple live in garage

Spanish898

SingleSue wrote: »

Just a few simple questions....have you ever lost your job (for more than a few months)? Or had a house repossessed because of it?

In those last few months before you are finally moved out of your house, you are literally using every single penny you have to save yourself from reposession. There would be no chance to have any savings put by....it would have all gone in your quest.

I usually say this in sporting terms but it is apt here too, some people are designed for the top, some for the middle and some for the bottom (I usually say heatleader, middle order and reserve), they are all equally as important because without the ones nearer the bottom, the ones at the top would not be able to function, without the ones at the top, the ones at the bottom would be pretty much beggered and the middle order ones help support both the top and the bottom.

Nothing to do with ambition or wasting your life..I have oodles of ambition, lots of brains and have put the effort in but am still classed as being at the bottom due to my circumstances.

Yes i have been unemployed for more than a few months,
have gone from eing an extremely high earner to physcially only being bale to earn extremely low, and everyday was risking being homeless by the end of the day due to the nature of my previous career.


But so i also know that i will only buy my flat once i know that im a career secure enough that i wouldnt have to worry about being made redundant or anything like that,
AND,
that tht job i had meant that i was earning enough + had builtup enough savings as a deposit so that i would be able to get a low enough interest rate so that even if i did lose my job that i could stull get by on just JSA till i got another job.

SingleSue

But not everyone is as lucky to be able to do that.....it is still not right to call people lazy because they may not have had more than minimum wage jobs in their lives, even on minimum wage, people work extremely hard for their money.

I don't personally know the mindset of someone in minimum wage employment as when working, my salary was always nearer to the higher tax bracket but one thing I do know....they are not lazy.

savermonkey

(At the end of the day its their lives and so if they want to starve and sleep on a floor just to avoid what they think is the ''shame''

Make it sound like the third world living in a garage!

Yes i have been unemployed for more than a few months,
have gone from eing an extremely high earner to physcially only being bale to earn extremely low, and everyday was risking being homeless by the end of the day due to the nature of my previous career.


But so i also know that i will only buy my flat once i know that im a career secure enough that i wouldnt have to worry about being made redundant or anything like that,
AND,
that tht job i had meant that i was earning enough + had builtup enough savings as a deposit so that i would be able to get a low enough interest rate so that even if i did lose my job that i could stull get by on just JSA till i got another job.

If you were a 'extremely high earner' then I would have expected you to have purchased a flat already. You mentioned that people should improve their skills etc to find better jobs, but at the end of the day they lost jobs and you've lost jobs. When it boils down, its the same situation regardless of the job.

We don't know all the facts, they might be good at managing money, they might not be. I can't imagine when they calculated their mortgage payments they percieved both losing their jobs at the same time.

lily76

Feel sad and best wishes for their new-job-hunting.

P.S. sympathy is never too much or old fashioned.

lily76

Even we can not help them at least we CAN lock all the mean words in our minds and this LOCK UP is totally free!!!

jago25_98

I'd like to own a garage. Not necessarily to live in, but to have some sort of place to call my own in a small way. That way, at least I have somewhere to go to should everything go tits up

temba

Aaah. It's nice that they get to go out for dinner everyday.... and ... imagine being able to go to the pub EVERY day? That'd be nice too. It's also a good job that they've got the money to go to the swimming pool every day. It must be cheaper than mine.

I'm struggling to find sympathy here....

LizzieS_2

Is it me, or did those 2 explain their typical day of doing anything but job/house hunting?

jago25_98

Get a house. Get a job. How boring.

Next time you feel like life is an open prison stuck in the same lifestyle now you know where it comes from. The same place as the phrase `gypsy scum` comes from.
Don't complain when you try to retire to NewZealand and people whisper winging Pom under their breath.

Perhaps neighborhood culture has helped create what we have now. Perhaps.
It's certainly interesting when the culture you've been raised in seems as odd as practices abroad like arranged marriages.