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Etennuly
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2011 - 04:51 pm: | 
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Sounds like we all need a hug.....I know I do. So let's hug and get on with 2011! Unlike last year's hug and see how bad things might get.
This is my third fall/winter of laying off good employees and figuring out how to survive through this looming economic dead period of "wait and see".
It is all about attitude, for me, for us, for those who we depend on and those who they depend on all the way up to the top. This thing will actually be fixed when the middle can trust the top to pay for what they have ordered so the bottom can get busy making the middle go again.
My business of nearly nineteen years is hanging off the edge where it has been for over two years now. I don't know how many times I can pick my self up, hire and train new recruits only to be dumped in the ditch again at the end of summer where I lay them off in the fall for me to again suffer through the stagnate winter. There is no new business to find, old business has dropped off, and some outside constraints have stopped me from morphing my company into what I know would work.
So I have had to look into tacking another direction. The hard part is finding that you cannot hang on to what has been so good for a long time, the business that you have spent so many years building and nurturing. Perhaps the biggest annoyance is that there is still a sputtering heart beat, and a promise of a work load into this first month.....but it was the same for last year, and the year before that, to run wide open to mediocre, and spiral downward from there into the year end doldrums.
A difficult time for decisions for sure. |
Ratbuell
| | Posted on Saturday, January 01, 2011 - 08:49 pm: |
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So it's not just me.
Amen to that.
To quote Nigel Tufnel: "These go to '11".
Can't wait to see what's next. It may be better; it may not; at least, it'll be different. And right now...that's a good thing in itself. |
Bigdaddy
| | Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 - 12:06 pm: |
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Financially speaking '09 was bad...'10 was worse.
Simplifying, bigger garden, more laying hens, more time with family, less time on the Internet, screw the news as it numbs the mind (it numbs my mind anyway as the human condition can only take so much bad news).
Wagons are circled, family is healthy, the church is strong, The Church is stronger, family is everything.
I can empathize with your pain Jeremy...feel you and praying for you/us/all of us. |
Zane
| | Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 - 01:27 pm: |
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Been a tough time of late...
2009 saw the end of my 27 year marriage. Force out of my home with not much more than the clothes on my back and crushing alimony/child support payments plus still paying for my incompetent lawyer.
2010 saw the job I wanted to retire from move to India without me. Was out of work for almost 2 months. I find out this week how much longer the contract gig I've got will last.
Found out in the divorce that ex-wife didn't file our taxes for several years. She needed the money to pay for her "necessities". I’m on the hook to the IRS for a double ton of cash.
Lady I met and held high hopes for was revealed to be a great disappointment. Discovering why she has 3 marriages and several "longer term" relationships under her belt.
Still, not all was bad.
Ex-wife got all the "stuff" but I have both my son's hearts. Got the better end of that deal by far.
Had several good friends prove over and over they are good friends.
Setting myself up for a possible move to a new part of the country. Close to good friends and much closer to by older brother.
2 major health scares turned out ok.
My dog still loves me.
Live is good!
Yesterday’s over my shoulder
So I can’t look backward to long.
There’s too much to see waiting in front of me
And I know that I just can’t go wrong…
Jimmy Buffet |
Swordsman
| | Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 - 04:04 pm: |
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Found out in the divorce that ex-wife didn't file our taxes for several years.
What's up with that? My uncle's ex did the same thing... must be a prerequisite to trashing a marriage. Took him over a decade to recover (had his own business, and in Cali, so it was an utterly catastrophic fine).
~SM |
Zane
| | Posted on Monday, January 03, 2011 - 04:13 pm: |
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Swordsman,
My ex wife lives at the corner of Passive and Aggressive.
She took care of our taxes for the entire marriage and I never gave it a second thought. I hadn't signed a tax return in 15 years. She'd sign my name to it and send it off. I'd ask every year and she'd say "everything is file, don't worry about it."
I should have worried about it. |
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