I have only known recession, when do I get to experience something else?
plan a: don’t be poor
plan b: kill myself
The same thing we do every recession, Pinky. Try to spend as little as possible on only the essentials and hope we don’t end up homeless.
Probably getting a divorce, losing the kids and the dog, and getting blown up by a drone being piloted by a furry in the coming resource wars.
I pictured you from a battlefield camera drone POV and you are lugging a 5 gallon bucket of water through the rubble that used to be your neighborhood and suddenly a seeker death drone with furry cat ears whizzes overhead and drops a grenade. BLAM. Giant smoke cloud. A stream of water flows out from behind the dust cloud. Another brutal casualty of a filthy water hoarder. Serves you right for wanting to have drinking water.
Made me laugh, good one thanks. 😂
None, I am already running on the existential minimum.
And I don’t see that changing in the next few years.
Do not spend money unless you really need those things. Live as a minimalist. It means some sort of isolation, but it is better than being homeless!
Probably The Winchester.
same way we live now? ( m and f couple)
debt free
electricity cost is near $0 (have a solar systems that grid feeds surplus electricity we’re paid for)
have an ecar and ebike we charge of said solar, so make our own fuel
live in a small rural community, lots of people DIY and grow their own food and swap/sell
have a free bus once a day to the nearby bigger city, use it on occasion for dentist/doctors appointments, or a day out in town
have a small acreage on the edge of town and get as much free beef as we want for letting the local farmer use it
have dozens of fruit trees around our house
my gf is a Chef who loves growing her own veg and fruit and cooks superb meals
have three years of expenses as cash
pay for water and local government taxes which is fine, get clean drinking water and the roads etc are repaired and we get a “free” library and “free” swimming pool out of it
Plant more root vegetables.
Yep, that’s the whole plan.
same as last one. die.
you failed last time, didn’t you
Failed successfully
failed at something. not sure which counts as the failure tho
Plans? Sir, you’ve misjudged me.
Self-employed tradesman, ill probably have to get a normal job. Which sucks for everyone, I keep my costs way lower for customers but digging up business and doing the work is a real challenge. And obviously ill miss my freedom. But at least ill just have to pull my 40hrs.
Maybe dumb question: are there loose trade groups that could share advertising / business digging? Or are you basically in competition with everyone else in your field?
Not the person you’re asking, but I’d guess the answer is, it depends. When I had a lawn care service I’d send work to other guys who did what I wouldn’t and they would reciprocate. Did the same with my PC fixing side hustle. “I don’t fix phone screens, but I know a guy.”
Kinda, sure. I know some people and we help each other when we can. And there’s networking stuff you can do, local small business meetings where you can hand out some cards.
But competition is spiking. Lots of people are starting in trades like mine now.
interesting, likely people from degrees arent seeing jobs and moving into trades because of reliability.
Jerking dudes off behind a dumpster is recession proof employment.
And then you pay another dude to jerk you off, and he pays the guy you jerked off to jerk him off. That’s 3x GDP right there. Recession solved.
Doing that tech bro math.
I’ve had friends in the strip club business that have complained about how they make less money when the economy is down. Idk if your plan would be affected in the same way.
Totally different business I actually give the people what they want.
Until you sell out to private equity.
Those guys have real money. You will be paid very well… or end up with an axe in your taint.
that makes sense, people have less money for strippers when you have no jobs.
OF material, you can make some money.
HJ? BJ? ZJ?
ZJ?
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
If this recession hits enough people as hard as it seems, I’m going to have to invest in a prosthetic just to make sure folks like you can have the pride of earning money with your hand
jobs instead of accepting handouts.You’re weird go to the end of the line.
I like when the hand is pre-lubed.
I like an economy where I need to jerk off less dudes . Get used to disappointment.
plan? the last 2 people barely made it out or dint, jobs were getting scarcer in some industries for the last decade and the increasing reliance on jobs sites.
