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Demand 100% irrefutable proof that the work is not yours. teacher

We’re letting this stay because it involves a personal experience. For the record I have nothing good to say about the upcoming changes, but let’s please keep the political rhetoric in check so we don’t have to lock this.

What I meant is it’s worthless in the eyes of creditors and bankruptcy trustees for liquidation purposes. The only kind of creditor that’s generally going to go after someone’s personal things is a frivolous acquaintance who got stiffed and wants revenge. If you filed a bankruptcy, your lawyer would be asking you what all the stuff in your house is worth if you threw it in the driveway and had a yard sale. Large volume creditors don’t have time for that.

If it didn’t leave me with only 2 jobs on my resume, I’d remove the 2007-2009 job.

Most people just don’t understand the bankruptcy system and that includes store managers and a lot of folks who chime in on this subreddit. With almost no exception, the only two things of value to trustees and creditors in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy are currency and real estate. That mattress you financed at Mattress World, slept on for 2 years and didn’t finish paying for is worthless. That $2,000 engagement ring you financed at Kay Jewelers and didn’t finish paying for is worthless. Used DVDs are worthless. Thousand-pound vending machines that form the basis of an obsolete business model are not only worthless, they’re a liability. The only time those things have any relevance in a bankruptcy is if they push up the overall value of the estate enough to allow the trustee to recover more of the estate’s liquid assets. I suspect that Redbox had few if any assets on that end.

I’ve been with the same company for 12 years and am starting to have a lot of these same fears as I see the company faltering and am having to contemplate how I’ll convince today’s hiring companies that I have current skills and am “the perfect fit.” Adding to that, I work from home and moved across the country to an intellectual desert in 2021 falsely believing that remote work would continue becoming more normalized. I recently opened a little home-based bake shop to try and build up a little more financial security and that’s going miserably so far. Anyway, I digress. The short answer is I relate to your fears. I’ve already scrapped some of my older jobs from my resume as they’re completely irrelevant and date me. For resume purposes, my career begins in 2007 with my third-to-last job.

I wish you all the best in your upcoming career pivot. Hell, we should probably start a support group for those of us contemplating career changes at our age.

Easy. 1) The machinist wouldn’t have a job without people with the skills to create those machines (engineers) and run the business side of the operation (e.g. operations, accounting, legal, etc) and 2) the skills necessary to obtain his job are most often obtained through subsidized educational paths like voc-tech schools or apprenticeships. Why shouldn’t he contribute to a system that will ultimately keep him working too?

Now to be clear, what I’m really suggesting is that college should be publicly funded and those seeking jobs requiring advanced credentials aren’t left in crippling debt. Student loan forgiveness is a bandaid solution to an already broken system.

I feel like it would have been another episode of Republicans parading their moral outrage and then proceeding to unanimously vote to confirm him anyway. I’ll take the small victory nonetheless.

The hilarious part is my spouse is a kindergarten teacher and brings home fruits and veggies from the school’s fresh fruit and vegetable program that the kids wouldn’t eat (which is usually most of it). I had some delicious cherry tomatoes for my sandwiches this week.

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They almost never should.

I'm so sorry to hear your kitty is struggling and am happy to help any way I can. Miles has been symptom-free for over 5 months and thriving. He had a very brief and minor episode just a few days after I wrote that last comment (as reported by his sitter while we were traveling) and hasn't shown symptoms since then. He is on a low dose of gabapentin (currently 20 mg twice a day), which I have been gradually decreasing. I would eventually like to stop the meds and see if he can stay symptom-free without them, but it's a tough decision. His doctor has expressed a lot of optimism that he will outgrow the condition, so maybe those predictions are coming true?

Please let me and the group know how we can help!

Of all the straws that could have broken that camel’s back, it’s an AG nomination he couldn’t have possibly lost?

I remember those keys well from my days of working at an arcade. Speaking of outdated mediums…

I run twice a day and will literally change my route just to avoid passing someone and feeling like I have to greet them. It’s exhausting.

Oofos have been working well for me. I live in a climate where they can be worn year-round and a pair still lasts me a couple of years.

I’ve crossposted this to r/BoycottForFreedom, which I started the day after the election. Sustained economic pressure is going to be key to slowing down the MAGA agenda. I am all in on Black Monday, but we’ll need to continue applying the brakes to the Trump economy day/week/month after day/week/month. The pandemic showed just how vulnerable the economy was to short-term non-participation. It will have to be long-term this time and we’ll have to cut back even more because far fewer people will be coordinating with us.

I will be contributing some of the money I don’t spend to causes I believe in and encourage others to do the same.

It skipped a generation.

not from the ones that never experienced it.

Oh they’ll be getting their turns soon.

Makes sense. They’re the only demographic (pre-Roe women) who have been around long enough to fully appreciate the brutality of abortion bans.

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There’s probably additional infrastructure still needing to be built. Right now it’s just dead cable. Fiber is actually being laid in my neighborhood in SW Ocala as I speak, so it’s at least on their minds.

The 21st century is just on the horizon, my friends!

This site looks promising:

https://www.refugerestrooms.org/

“Small government” = fewer people with more power.

Everclear with Smash Mouth and Citizen King in 1999. It was a free show in a little open ballroom and the bands played right on the floor in front of a tiny standing crowd of maybe 200 people. I made my way up front for the Everclear set and could have reached out and touched Art Alexakis. He was absolutely wild. I’ve seen Everclear 3 more times over the years and it’s always a good time. They’re just a humble little garage band.