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Posted by Karl Townsend on March 17, 2008, 11:57 am
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"The Kid" got laid off Thursday. Last day of work on Friday. He's got a ton
o' payments - house, car, student loan, credit cards.
It took him till 10:00 A.M. today to get another good job. He's lead man -
programmer, setup, order tooling etc. in a five man shop. Quite a change
from the large corporation. Pay is close to the same at $25 but little OT,
vs. 10 - 20 hours before.
Biggest issue, he needs a crash course in SurfCam. He's done mastercam for
years and had one shop with Gibbs. The owner was just barely able to turn
the 'puter on. Where should he go for help?
Karl
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Posted by Wes on March 17, 2008, 12:27 pm
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>"The Kid" got laid off Thursday. Last day of work on Friday. He's got a ton
>o' payments - house, car, student loan, credit cards.
>
>It took him till 10:00 A.M. today to get another good job. He's lead man -
>programmer, setup, order tooling etc. in a five man shop. Quite a change
>from the large corporation. Pay is close to the same at $25 but little OT,
>vs. 10 - 20 hours before.
Glad that your son was able to rapidly gain another job. I hope he took
reflection on how his choices and obligations require a fairly constant
stream of income.
Ask him how long he could have lasted if the economy was totally down and he
had to rely on unemployement and savings.
Your son has good marketable skills but he needs to always keep in mind what
would happen if... If you get hurt outside of work, most places don't keep
you on for long and poof goes the health insurance unless you can make the
cobra payments.
He needs to have a reserve fund in liquid funds. Hopefully he has it but I
bet he doesn't.
Wes
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Posted by Karl Townsend on March 17, 2008, 1:48 pm
Please log in for more thread options > Ask him how long he could have lasted if the economy was totally down and
> he
> had to rely on unemployement and savings.
He would have been in trouble by Wednesday. (day after tommorrow)
>
> Your son has good marketable skills but he needs to always keep in mind
> what
> would happen if... If you get hurt outside of work, most places don't
> keep
> you on for long and poof goes the health insurance unless you can make the
> cobra payments.
>
> He needs to have a reserve fund in liquid funds. Hopefully he has it but
> I
> bet he doesn't.
I tells him and tells him. He don't listen. I didn't listen to my dad either
when I was a young buck. What goes around comes around.
Karl
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Posted by Wes on March 17, 2008, 3:30 pm
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>I tells him and tells him. He don't listen. I didn't listen to my dad either
>when I was a young buck. What goes around comes around.
We do seem to get our smarts after we tried the other way a few times first.
Wes
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Posted by Charlie Gary on March 17, 2008, 12:40 pm
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> "The Kid" got laid off Thursday. Last day of work on Friday. He's got a ton
> o' payments - house, car, student loan, credit cards.
>
> It took him till 10:00 A.M. today to get another good job. He's lead man -
> programmer, setup, order tooling etc. in a five man shop. Quite a change
> from the large corporation. Pay is close to the same at $25 but little OT,
> vs. 10 - 20 hours before.
>
> Biggest issue, he needs a crash course in SurfCam. He's done mastercam for
> years and had one shop with Gibbs. The owner was just barely able to turn
> the 'puter on. Where should he go for help?
>
> Karl
He should press the F1 key A LOT. If he's proficient in Mastercam, it
will take him just a couple of weeks to learn Surfcam well enough to
function. F1 accesses the online manual, and it is context-
sensitive. If I were closer he would be welcome to stop over for some
one-on-one pointers, but it's about a 26 hour haul from me to
Minnesota.
Later,
Charlie
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>o' payments - house, car, student loan, credit cards.
>
>It took him till 10:00 A.M. today to get another good job. He's lead man -
>programmer, setup, order tooling etc. in a five man shop. Quite a change
>from the large corporation. Pay is close to the same at $25 but little OT,
>vs. 10 - 20 hours before.