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Originally Posted by flyguy81
Working. 50% pay doesn’t work on 1 income.
When one factors in all the other losses in "total pay" that we've been used to getting if we wanted it, like premium trips, extra trips, extra premium trips, selling back vacation, profit sharing, it's roughly 25% pay... for some of us anyways. Never the less, I'll be the LAST one back.
It's shocking what some of us are doing actually. I've talked to quite a few that are selling the house in the burbs and moving out to the sticks like I did a long time ago. Simplify while still increasing the quality of life. The real estate agents out here are running their butts off with people relocating. It's not just the "Rona" that is going on right now, the suburbs are being invaded and burned down too,
I wonder how many people from all backgrounds never end up sending their kids back to the joke that we call "public education." I have a 10 year old who took the final exams of an intermediate tract (college bound but not gifted) student at the local high school and passed. them all with a 92% average. We're sending her to to public school from 6th grade on so that she can participate in sports, but they are going to find ways to challenge her and allow her to spend the bulk of her day mentoring other students. We (mostly my wife) have never spent more than 2-3 hrs per day home schooling.
My wife is Israeli, grew up dirt poor on the west bank. Many kids shared a text book and her school had no walls. She also has a degree in teaching, and I provide the "class clown" aspect to their education. I'm convinced these times we live in are happening for a reason. This is the era of regular people finding themselves and ending their slavery. Firing the government and totally writing off the main stream media and entertainment industry.
Sorry for being so dramatic.