Isn't it funny how affected a person can be by the current economic downturn? I mean, I have never really paid much attention to the financial markets. Although I recognized the power of it all, the financial community always seemed too enigmatic and arcane for a layperson such as myself to take more than a periphery interest in it. Now it seems that this otherwise foreign world has engulfed my thinking and emotions in a strangely tolerable, yet invasive, way. I seem to gauge life subconsciously through the DOW, or the most current augmentation of the stimulus saga. If the DOW is up, my worldview is up. If the DOW is down, then...well, life seems a lot harder. If money is given to the Big Three in some misfangled bull-crap-ridden bail-out designed to do nothing than assuage idiotic shareholders who decided to invest their money in a product that hasn't produced for forty years, then I also get down a little bit. Today the DOW is down, and it looks like our friends in Detroit are getting theirs, but I am not too down. I think that I am getting used to this mess. How has the financial crisis affected your psyche?
posted by timothykoide at 10:53 午前
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I am not affected nor am I effected by the this economic downturn, because Josh still has a job, my groceries cost the same, gas prices are better, and we can still save money at the end of the month. I feel fine.
p.s. got the toys and Asher loves them.
my husband is losing his job in a little over a month, and we're not sure that he will get much of a severance. we will probably have to collect unemployment, which is nothing and will only last for a short while. we're grateful that he has been accepted into a couple of grad schools already, but there is still some uncertainty. pete is not as freaked out as i am on the inside. i worry about whether or not we will have medical insurance when we really need it. i have had instances in the past where i have not had it and been terribly sick, so i am torn by the idea of going willy-nilly for a short time esp. with a baby. all we can do is pray and be hopeful, i guess.
Amanda, I am sorry to hear the news. Life throws curve balls sometimes, doesn't it? I think that prayer and hope, faith and devotion, are pretty much the only options. Things will work out. (That doesn't mean that we will be spared from trial, just that things will be ok.) Well, hang in there.
Oh, I feel like a jerk. I meant to say that things haven't reached me to the point of stressing over the economy, but it doesn't meant it won't.
Amanda, when we first moved to Chicago, I was pregnant and Josh had three part time jobs. I also had a part time job at the apple store. Like Tim said, the only thing we could do was pray and hope that something would work out and eventually it did. Not right away, but it did. I can understand with a child in the mix, things seem so much more grandiose. Really, things will work out.
mo, don't worry. i wasn't offended. we're lucky his parents live in minneapolis too, cuz we can at least get free dinner on sundays and the pleasure of their company in hard times such as these. things are looking up for us, so i am not too put out.
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