Absolutely!
I did up a budget about a year ago to see exactly how much we need to live off each week….once every single thing was added it was mind blowing 🤯
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It's bonkers.
And we put a lot into savings and then five weird things, like car accidents or the washing machine flooding the basement, happen, and savings all gone.
When you have multiple people in the house, that is more people with more things, who make weird things happen. 😂
And then someone loses their job or a family business has a bad year... but you still have all those people and your running costs are relatively fixed, so yay. 🤷♀️
Yes and when lockdowns happen here it was devastating for us.
All funds depleted as our business closed down for over a year, however the expenses didn’t! We cut back on whatever wasn’t necessary but it was still an incredible struggle of not knowing if the business would ever recover.
Thankfully it did and even more successful so I guess every cloud does have a silver lining.
You are truly blessed! 🥰
My husband got laid off during lockdowns, which was nerve-wracking.
People think it's weird that I'm always working, when he earns so much income, but they don't see all the layoffs he's been through. His industry is always in flux. Been laid off 4 times and his current employer is now also downsizing... 😬
My income isn't as high as his, but it tends to be more stable and I get jobs faster because I'm not as expensive to hire.
Oh my goodness I’m so sorry this happened.
I sincerely pray that he survives the layoff, and to think I cannot get staff here!
The majority of unemployed people in my region just want to surf and smoke dope and sit around.
I’m not the only one losing a huge amount of work due to staff shortages, many are in the same boat, the government makes it way too easy to NOT work here.
Staff shortages are bad here, too, but the big industrial conglomerates are always moving factories overseas or "rightsizing" and some engineering jobs inevitably go with it.
I quit my job, to finish my college degree, last month and I've already had 3 serious job offers. People find out that I'm unemployed and are like 🤩.
But taking a new job would defeat the purpose of quitting the other one. 😂 Tempting, tho. I already miss having a salary.