Reply #40: I didn't "choose" anything!

[mbperrin]

The company I worked for seven years went under due to fraud at the top; I was a middle-manager who had just bought a new house with our accumulated savings the year before. With a pretty good job, two college degrees and seven years in, things looked pretty OK. They weren't.

Both my parents were dead, no aunts, uncles or other living relatives, living 600 miles from where I grew up - beginning of the big oil bust in Texas - no jobs to be had.

Sure wouldn't have gone in anybody's backyard - lived on a vacant lot in the Gulfton area of Houston for nearly a year, finally got a job cleaning apartments, which is hard work.

Ten years later, I'll be finishing my third degree in December, with the same firm eight years now, and so on.

Be any kind of Dem you want. My point was that you had no personal reference for this kind of stress and therefore had no firsthand knowledge. As I said, you are comfortable, fine! Glad! Wish the rest could be! Will try to make it so!

See, that's all I wanted to show. Thanks.