Well, then, you're earning significantly below the median salary, which was $58,662 in 2006: [link]
Those are professors. I'm a lecturer.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Hil R. - Sep 20, 2013 4:46:22 am PDT #5817 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Sep 20, 2013 4:47:57 am PDT #5818 of 30000
Because books.
Good god, I make less than all of those.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 20, 2013 4:52:00 am PDT #5819 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
He'll probably be hiding most of the time. I bet he won't go wild. Just leave some water out.
Done, and the neighbor's can of tuna that lured him into the building in the first place. I've wadded up a dustcover in an empty box in the corner and put an old sheet down in a corner of the bathroom, so hopefully he will demonstrate any displeasure with the situation on those and not on my good furniture. (Very glad that hardwood floors were my one absolute necessity when scouting apartments...)
Pix - Sep 20, 2013 5:07:40 am PDT #5820 of 30000
The status is NOT quo.
I make more but have 17 years experience and live in one of the most expensive cities in the country. It's so sad, though, because I went far enough in debt when I made less than all of those that most of my income still goes to that. Ah well.
Jessica - Sep 20, 2013 5:19:54 am PDT #5821 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The mantra here is "Yes, but the benefits are amazing!" Which, you know, they are, but it doesn't quite make up for the shitty salaries.
Theodosia - Sep 20, 2013 5:29:36 am PDT #5822 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
My unemployment benefits have been cut by 12% because of the sequester.
Steph L. - Sep 20, 2013 5:34:48 am PDT #5823 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
My unemployment benefits have been cut by 12% because of the sequester.
Like, just now? Or do you mean the earlier cut?
As a fellow unemployed person, I need to know this. (If my company had been sold just a little sooner, we would have made it in under the cutoff where the sequester cuts kicked in. Kind of crazy to wish I had lost my job sooner.)
msbelle - Sep 20, 2013 5:36:51 am PDT #5824 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
the war on the poor and the shaming and criminalization of poverty in this country is atrocious. I am so deeply bothered. I want to see widespread anger and yet, nsm.
erikaj - Sep 20, 2013 5:42:41 am PDT #5825 of 30000
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, probably the people most affected feel too slammed to think about striking back.
brenda m - Sep 20, 2013 5:45:54 am PDT #5826 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Matt, I think you've got yourself a cat. And a cute one.
I expect he'll be fine for the day.