Scrappers control the Currency of the future! Hold your Copper, Silver, GOLD FINGERS

**ScrapmanIndustries** · 06-09-2017, 03:48 AM

Originally Posted by Libertytow

if we had our youth excited to buy starter homes that were affordable that would get $$$ flowing back into a already stagnant realestate system thus moving the economy forward

Buy a home? Not unless prices fall drastically. Or unless employers feel like actually paying us more. Once the oil fields went under i couldn't even afford to live in some crappy rv I had parked in some crappy rv park. Most of the jobs I was able to get were only around $10 an hour even after having spent 3 years in the Army. Meanwhile we would have meetings in the beginning of the day where the boss would tell us the numbers game. While the company was claiming record profits in the millions, their production force was making $8-$10 an hour no matter how much work we did. And they were still trying to find ways to not pay us as much.

**miked** · 06-09-2017, 04:49 AM

Originally Posted by ScrapmanIndustries

Buy a home? Not unless prices fall drastically. Or unless employers feel like actually paying us more. Once the oil fields went under i couldn't even afford to live in some crappy rv I had parked in some crappy rv park. Most of the jobs I was able to get were only around $10 an hour even after having spent 3 years in the Army. Meanwhile we would have meetings in the beginning of the day where the boss would tell us the numbers game. While the company was claiming record profits in the millions, their production force was making $8-$10 an hour no matter how much work we did. And they were still trying to find ways to not pay us as much.

Unsolicited old guy advise. Managing your money, Go on line and find Dave Ramsey's web site. If you follow his advise you will love yourself for it, so will your family.

Ready yourself for the job market. Find a job you can see yourself doing that you will make a good living at and get yourself qualified.

Not all good paying jobs require a college education. My friend is a front load garbage truck driver and gets paid in the 70k area. Like most jobs its hard work and takes lots of practice to get good at it. The really big negative is you have to go to work at O Dark Thirty.

Locally we have a community college that has some great training in HVac and facilities maintenance and the costs are covered by the Pell Grant program. The lowest medical lab tech should get paid more than you are talking about it.

We live in a Capitalist economic system, thank god and the founders, which allows you and I freedoms that others don't have. I can buy my goods and services from whom ever I want. I can take my labor and work for who ever I want.

You will find that as the economy gets better wages go up, why because qualified employees are valuable. If there are less jobs then the pay is lower and benefits are less.

I'll say one other thing that I have advised to my own grown children(they ignored me): Consider Tx, Tn or some other growth state. For some this is scary to do the big move but for me its always been just another challenge.

Never rely on others to make your life better. Enough with the sermon. 73 Mike