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Are you more successful now than you were in 2008?

Are you more successful now than you were in 2008 or less successful?

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What is success?

Am I happier?

Am I healthier?

Am I more compassionate, less selfish?

Would people who know me say I am a better person?

Do I laugh more?

On the whole I would say yes. But, there remains much to be done.
 
What is success?

Am I happier?

Am I healthier?

Am I more compassionate, less selfish?

Would people who know me say I am a better person?

Do I laugh more?

On the whole I would say yes. But, there remains much to be done.

I'm about the same - I'm probably a bit worse health wise but that's just age. My salary has been stagnant since 2008. I'm probably a more well rounded person. I've broadened my personal views instead of restricted them. I don't laugh more or less... same. To me success in the last 6 years is staying employed, keeping the wife happy, keeping my house and enjoy breathing (as opposed to the alternative).
 
The funny thing is my concentration was in organic chemistry and whenever I tell people that the conversation inevitably goes towards discussing the synthesis of meth. Clearly there is some interest......but I don't think I have the guts to do it ;) (friend and classmate of mine got expelled for doing that :p )


Lol....

No, please don't.

I don't think its as glamorous as the show makes it seem.

Actually, the show makes it seem like a huge mistake.

Lets see if I can sum it up. Cook Meth, and EVERYONE but Jesse dies. Yea, there.

And although I dont have a degree in Organic Chemistry something tells me cooking Meth wouldn't be much of a challenge for someone like yourself anyway.
 
Lol....

No, please don't.

I don't think its as glamorous as the show makes it seem.

Actually, the show makes it seem like a huge mistake.

Lets see if I can sum it up. Cook Meth, and EVERYONE but Jesse dies. Yea, there.

And although I dont have a degree in Organic Chemistry something tells me cooking Meth wouldn't be much of a challenge for someone like yourself anyway.

Lol I would never actually do it, but I gotta admit that the show sure does a good job of making it look cool :D, minus the whole dying part.
 
Notice how this thread is getting a lot of short answers, LOL, when the same folks are doing better under a President they don't like, it's ok whatever, but when the Unemployment rate goes higher those same repukes, tea baggers, are quick to blame the Black guy, LOL, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ANYONE???

2008, WAS THE YEAR BUSH CRASHED THE ECONOMY, i don't see many Republicons, admitting to that BULL****..
 
Strength to strength. 15 years to dominion.

Dress warm.
 
I'm in significantly better shape.

Since 2008 I've paid off about $60,000 in student loans, gotten a promotion and a raise at work, bought a house, built up a good-sized emergency fund, and started saving for retirement.
 
Of course I am. I keep getting better all the time, regardless of who is in power. But that's because the things that are really meaningful to me, are independent of who is in political or economic power. And if someone is living a life where that is not the case, I would strong advise you to make adjustments such that it is the case.

Do you have lots of money?
 
I'm in significantly better shape.

Since 2008 I've paid off about $60,000 in student loans, gotten a promotion and a raise at work, bought a house, built up a good-sized emergency fund, and started saving for retirement.

Way to go, man! That sounds like you're a Ramsey-ite.
 
It depends on how you define success. If you define it based strictly on salary, then I am far less successful. However, that's not because I was fired or demoted or anything like that; it's because I chose to leave the corporate world behind to pursue things that matter more than money to me.
 
It depends on how you define success. If you define it based strictly on salary, then I am far less successful. However, that's not because I was fired or demoted or anything like that; it's because I chose to leave the corporate world behind to pursue things that matter more than money to me.

Which means that you're wealthy in a way that many people don't understand.
 
Nope, and neither is Charleston.

Every time I turn around, it seems like another store I used to frequent is closing down. There are whole strip malls around here that are completely deserted.

I thought that Nikki Haley brought prosperity to Charleston with the Boeing plant.

I also thought that she brought prosperity to Greenville/Spartanburg with the BMW expansion and the Amazon distribution center, but I noticed that the unemployment rate in my county has gone up three months in a row.

Now I'm reading how the state has a $300 million dollar surplus that they want to invest in Wall Street, but can't find the money to repair our roads without a tax increase.

Guess I was wrong about her, will have to vote for the democrat next time.
 
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I'm not really much better or worse off than in 2008. My business had a record year that year, despite a dramatic downturn in late fall. Sales have never recovered. However, we hunkered down and cut our staff, so I'm making just as much or maybe even a tad bit more, although I am working longer and harder to do it.

The one think that I am better of in is the fear factor. By the fall of 2008 I was afraid that everything was going to collapse. I no longer have that fear, I just expect years more of stagnation - unless the far right wins the POTUS and both houses of congress in 2016, in which case I may become fearful again.
 
Are you more successful now than you were in 2008 or less successful?
About the same, though that's kind of misleading. Saying that doesn't take into account the HUGE dip between then and now. I had to work to get back up to where I was in 2008.



Seeing as how I don't really do much work these days, YES!!!!!!
We can tell by the sheer volume of your posts. ;)
 
Like so many others, I lost 40% of my retirement fund in the fall of 2008. Some of that loss has been recouped now. But I entered into a profession that isn't about the money anyway, so I have never expected very much.
 
I'm significantly better off but IMO it has very little to do with the current POTUS or congress. During that time all 3 kids have started college, 2 have earned their degrees (and are employed) last will graduate this May all without student loans, I've paid off all business debt and maxed out my retirement contributions and have $100k sitting in liquid funds for a rainy day. The plan to get here (and I've stuck to it) started long, long time ago.
 
I was retired in 2008 and I'm still retired so I guess that I'm doing about the same.

On the plus side I have one more grandson now.
 
I thought that Nikki Haley brought prosperity to Charleston with the Boeing plant.

I also thought that she brought prosperity to Greenville/Spartanburg with the BMW expansion and the Amazon distribution center, but I noticed that the unemployment rate in my county has gone up three months in a row.

Now I'm reading how the state has a $300 million dollar surplus that they want to invest in Wall Street, but can't find the money to repair our roads without a tax increase.

Guess I was wrong about her, will have to vote for the democrat next time.

Supposedly, the Chas area is projected to experience somewhere around 800% growth in the next decade.

You sure as Hell could have fooled me. I'm not seeing any evidence of it. :shrug:

Sure. The Boeing plant is nice (I might wind up working security there myself shortly), but the consumer market around here doesn't seem to really be responding to it one way or the other.

I don't think that is Haley's fault per se, so much as it is the economy in general. That doesn't change the fact that it sucks, however.
 
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