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Originally Posted by olstyn

Fair enough - I don't smoke, so I was just throwing out some numbers to make a point. Apparently it's an even stronger point than I realized. :)

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Oh yea i wasnt saying you were wrong. I was just adding some to help enhance it. It IS a VERY expensive habit lol. :)

Thanks everyone and yes here is new York cigarettes are very expensive. I quite over a year ago cold turkey and haven't touch them since. I do have urges everyday but I try to distract myself. A coworker asked me to get her some yesterday when I went to pickup everyone's lunch at the deli nearby (which I never buy at, I'll starve before ordering food when I'm working) and a pack of Marlboro red shorts was over $10....I can't imagine what newports are these days and that's what I smoked when I was!

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Originally Posted by kevinb

Thanks everyone and yes here is new York cigarettes are very expensive. I quite over a year ago cold turkey and haven't touch them since. I do have urges everyday but I try to distract myself. A coworker asked me to get her some yesterday when I went to pickup everyone's lunch at the deli nearby (which I never buy at, I'll starve before ordering food when I'm working) and a pack of Marlboro red shorts was over $10....I can't imagine what newports are these days and that's what I smoked when I was!

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Do you not eat at work? Thats not good. Then when youre on your way home you'll be more likely to buy gas station snacks or something lol.

I only work 20 minutes away from my job and we don't get an actual lunch break, even when I sit down for a second to have a sandwich or snack I brought he stares me down because I'm sitting and not working. Anyways being that I only live a short distance away....the drive through towns is why it's so long it's only 11 miles. My girlfriend will bring me something, but she also babysits near my work and can easily drop it off since she works almost 7 days a week there. I hardly ever by snacks from convenience stores. Just soda for the most part...or red bull, I only drink one or two a month but even that's to much since they cost a small fortune.

Just a note on your boss, If you're working more than 5 hours you are required by law to take minimum 30 minute unpaid break. Most places round it off to an hour and pull a 9 hour shift out of you of they can help it. What he's doing is illegal if you are working more than 5 hours consecutively.

I'm pretty bad about money too. I have so many "wants" as my wife puts it. Like, right now I want a pair of cinnys to breed, I want a wine cooler to convert into an incubator, I want a really good thermostat and run flexwatt for my cages, and I want Pokemon red yellow and blue and the special pikachu edition game boy color.

So, for me it's a matter of I just "want" too much. Which, is a personal thing I have to get under control. I've always known that I should save and saving gets you better things but I've never done it. It's only recently that I make the commitment to put 10 percent of each check back into savings. And I want to do that each check, for the next 20 years if possible. I imagine whatever money is saved will go to a house when that time comes, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there.

The basics of it really come down to self control. Yeah, a tattoo would be nice but it'd be nice to have those new tires too. Especially here where I live where it doesn't really snow in the winter, just large freezes, haha.



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I "want" wayyyy to much. That's pretty much the only word out of my mouth. So yes I need to restrain and save.

As for my boss, he's a crook. He owns this clinic and a thoroughbred horse farm with stud fees in the 20 of thousands. He's an outstanding veterinarian but a horrible person. Everyone walks on eggshells when he's in the clinic. I was promised a raise at 6 months...that was over a year ago and I asked him about it and he said at my pay grade he was already paying me to much. He even got mad when I bought a new car and said he should cut my pay because I obviously make to much.

No one gets overtime. Whatever hours that are over 40 get rolled to the next weeks pay which is nice sometimes when you have only 20 hours one week, but this also means you hit a wall with the amount your paycheck is a week when you get over 40.

There are no lunch breaks whatsoever, which everyone knows is illegal. Or breaks even. I work between 8-10 hour shifts a day 5-7 a week. Even when I'm having a quick lunch I get asked and told to help do stuff.

I love my lady coworkers but everything else sucks here.

Hence why I went and got my CNA. I applied to a couple jobs and had an interview last Friday. It is a 4 day a week job for 11:15pm-7:15am in the ER. I really hope to hear from them this week.

Other than that all I can do is suck up the bull here and hope I get hired as a CNA somewhere.

I'll post now and read the thread after.

I have a system that is very effective for helping me save a bit.

When I 'balance my checkbook' (I use an excel sheet for bills and cost of living) I round up to the nearest $5 for spending and down to the nearest $5 for deposits. It makes the math simple so I don't mind keeping track and it leaves me with 50-100 bucks in savings at the end of each paycheck.

Dep. $52 = $50
Spend $2.50 at gas station = $45
Bill for $31 = $10
Spend 7.50 at gas station = $0

Then when I hit $0 I transfer the balance of my checking account to savings and don't look at it again.

Just saved $11 of $50, or 20%

Voila

http://www.labor.ny.gov/home/

http://labor.ny.gov/workerprotection...rds/faq.shtm#4

http://labor.ny.gov/workerprotection...yer/meals.shtm

Contact someone from the NY Dept. of Labor. It is confidential. It happened at a place I worked at in NY several years ago. The employer was forced to make payments for unpaid overtime. There were guys who were written checks clearing over $20,000.

Thanks Cecil I've wanted to for so long, but I was scared, still kinda am that he would find out who told them about it.

Read the post and had this further comment to contribute:

Damn my generation for earning the title of the 'entitlement generation.' I'll leave it at that so I don't derail the thread.


Also, don't declaw that cat. Anyone who understands it WILL NOT advocate it. My sister is a vet and her practice, like many others who have integrity and morals, does not declaw. Anyone who doesn't understand it but ignores the advice of people who do encompasses a quality that will be harmful across many areas of life, including financially. Maybe that's why you're at where you're at. Learn to be wrong and take advice, even if the immediate outcome is not your preference.

Anyone who understands declawing and still chooses to follow through simply shouldn't be keeping any animal captive as a pet. It's one thing to be selfish and mistreat inanimate objects for your own enjoyment. It's another thing to strip a living thing of its defense and stress coping mechanism and keep it imprisoned for your amusement.

Harsh? Prob. Oh well. Not here to make friends, just engage in discussion.