You all are gonna think I'm retarded

[gaboonviper85]

I make $15.42 an hour plus time and a half after 40 hours....I work all the overtime I'm aloud which i can only work 52hours a week.....I racked up alot of fines after Xmas because I lost my car and ended up haveing to drive my old toyota truck to work after I found a job and the truck couldn't pass PA inspection or emissions there for couldnt be registered so I was sporting 2 years expired plates....I just finished paying those fines....

While laid off I lost my insurance and luck have it I ended up haveing to go to the hospital and racked up a hefty bill....I don't really want to talk about why.

Bottom line in my mind is I gotta rebuild this motor sometime soon and I won't be able too if I have too many bills.....so I may as well build a turbo motor......and I'll be able to save a substantial ammount for a down payment for an appartment closer to work.

 

[TurboFreak]

This doesn't make any sense at all.

~$3200 a month isn't enough to live on plus have a little to tinker with the car?!

Uhhhhhhh.... WTF?

 

[gaboonviper85]

Dude, sell your snakes. You can make a good amount of money off of them, use that money to fix your car, and later down the road, get new snakes. That's what I have done, and just recently did.

LOL you don't get it......I sold all $6000 worth of snakes for $700 to pay my last months rent cause I had NO money.....my neighbor was cooking me food cause he found out I didn't eat for two days at a time cause I only had $200 and had to make it last.....now I have a Surinam boa that was given to me from my friend who I got into surinams...and my gaboon viper...together they are worth $600! My appartment was wall to wall snake cages.... I had only 4 days to get rid of them.....took them all to the hamberg PA reptile show and basicly gave away everything I worked for!

Now the only thing I have is my ultimate dream car that I can't even take on the highway cause it needs repairs.....

 

[gaboonviper85]

This doesn't make any sense at all.

~$3200 a month isn't enough to live on plus have a little to tinker with the car?!

Uhhhhhhh.... WTF?

Nope!!! And I don't even do drugs LOL!

 

[Brewster]

Forget about the snakes; forget about modding cars. Find a cheap place to live, sell your bucket and get a cheap reliable car (civic, corolla, etc). Don't buy shit you don't need. Work your ass off, save your money and put it towards getting an education.

This is the path to success. Stop being a fool.

 

[gaboonviper85]

how much more hours does one work to be considered working their ass off? I work 52 hours a week.....

I have an education....not a collage one but no sense in going to school when I'm already doing what I want for a liveing....I'm only 22 years old...an education won't make a difference in a machine shop they only care if you can do the job!

 

[Jeff Lange]

Sounds like a sad state of affairs then, if you actually have a certificate to be a machinist you'll make a lot more money than someone without, even if you're doing the same job. Qualifications count for something; around here at least. Apparently they don't in PA.

 

[Brewster]

how much more hours does one work to be considered working their ass off? I work 52 hours a week.....

I have an education....not a collage one but no sense in going to school when I'm already doing what I want for a liveing....I'm only 22 years old...an education won't make a difference in a machine shop they only care if you can do the job!

52 hours a week @ over $15/hr is $45,000 per year pretax. Manage your finances better.

 

[GotBoost?]

I'm not going to insult you and call you names, young man, but your priorities are messed up. Seems like some choices you've made didn't pan out and you've lost a lot as a consequence. Trading a safe roof over your head, regardless of how unappealing it is, just so you can build a car is a very bad choice. Most of us had it rough in our late teens/early twenties, but everybody's gotta put in their time. Besides, what's going to happen once you have built the car of your dreams? Have a nice ride and sleep in the car? That way it won't stay nice for too long, assuming you did stick with it and invested lots of cash. Also, chicks don't dig dudes who live in cars (just an fyi . Whatever time/cash you invest on this project should be invested on your future. Also, it's awful easy to be a crime victim while sleeping in a car. So be patient, work hard, invest your cash wisely (I don't need to tell you the country's financial picture is quite gloomy) and your time will come. I'm speaking from personal experience. I'm doing well, but i went thru rough times as a young guy. So I still daily drive my humble little economy Honda that I bought cash, which allows me to do with my dough as I wish, not to mention to play around with my Supras Turbo's all paid for in cash (more accurately, by bank check), and have other toys and indulge a bit. I'm not bragging, just pointing out that your time will come. Trust me on this. I suggest, if I may and if you're still reading, that you decide needs from wants; get rid of stuff you don't absolutely need, and get your priorities straight. You're not going to be 20 something forever, you know. So plan your future now. I just read about your income. You sure are working your ass off, no question about it, which makes it more surprising you're thinking of sleeping in your car. So start managing your income and planning things better. I know it sucks to wait, but you gotta look way down the road. Good luck.

 

[johnathan1]

I don't even know how to respond to this thread...

Giving up your home for a fucking CAR is the stupidest thing i've ever heard. Honestly. Get your life in order now! There will be PLENTY of time for your car later on.

 

[gaboonviper85]

I too think its foolish.....but I think i think its worth it while don't have any ties...no way I would do this if I had to get rid of stuff but thats not the case....it will free up some needed car money and in the end get me back in my own place....I think thats worth a sore back for a few months.

I suppose that you really don't know my past that you would wonder why I would do this....I've had to move alot as a kid....never stayed in one place more then two years....been to 14 different schools....lived in 4 different provinces, 4 different states, and some of those I lived more then once in....not by my choice mostly but because of my mom....so because of all this im socially retarded for the most part cause I really don't find things very important that most do cause I know things get better but not before they get worse....this time I want to make it worse on my terms instead of someone else's....I've developed the aaa fck it attitude over the years and I really don't care. LOL

It will suck but I feel it will be worth it!

 

[gaboonviper85]

Sounds like a sad state of affairs then, if you actually have a certificate to be a machinist you'll make a lot more money than someone without, even if you're doing the same job. Qualifications count for something; around here at least. Apparently they don't in PA.

the only way to be certified is to apprentice....to apprentice you must work in a machine shop.....which is what I'm doing....and you only get paid what your worth....that paper doesn't meant shit if you can't do the job at hand! I make more money then my moms x husband and he has that bullshit paper.

 

[LilMissMkIII]

I too think its foolish.....but I think i think its worth it while don't have any ties...no way I would do this if I had to get rid of stuff but thats not the case....it will free up some needed car money and in the end get me back in my own place....I think thats worth a sore back for a few months.

I suppose that you really don't know my past that you would wonder why I would do this....I've had to move alot as a kid....never stayed in one place more then two years....been to 14 different schools....lived in 4 different provinces, 4 different states, and some of those I lived more then once in....not by my choice mostly but because of my mom....so because of all this im socially retarded for the most part cause I really don't find things very important that most do cause I know things get better but not before they get worse....this time I want to make it worse on my terms instead of someone else's....I've developed the aaa fck it attitude over the years and I really don't care. LOL

It will suck but I feel it will be worth it!

Um, seriously mate, I've lived in more places than you, and had a fucked up childhood too... It's no excuse for fucked up priorities.

If you weren't thinking twice about how stupid an idea it was, you wouldn't be posting about it on a public forum.

You posted, and we have all replied that you're an idiot for thinking being homeless is a good way to get a built car...

$45,000 a year is a hell of alot of money to live on (especially in the US), so you must have some serious problems in not being able to live off it, let alone save some of it for a rainy day. Hell, i'm sure there are a few people on here that would kill to make that much money!!!!

You really need to have a long hard think about this before you make any stupid decisions, and READ the advice you have been given... As someone said, alot of us have been there, done that... Sacrifices need to be made sometimes, as sucky as they may be.

 

[gaboonviper85]

Um, seriously mate, I've lived in more places than you, and had a fucked up childhood too... It's no excuse for fucked up priorities.

If you weren't thinking twice about how stupid an idea it was, you wouldn't be posting about it on a public forum.

You posted, and we have all replied that you're an idiot for thinking being homeless is a good way to get a built car...

$45,000 a year is a hell of alot of money to live on (especially in the US), so you must have some serious problems in not being able to live off it, let alone save some of it for a rainy day. Hell, i'm sure there are a few people on here that would kill to make that much money!!!!

You really need to have a long hard think about this before you make any stupid decisions, and READ the advice you have been given... As someone said, alot of us have been there, done that... Sacrifices need to be made sometimes, as sucky as they may be.

No need to insult or call names....what I do doesn't effect you....ofcourse you have had a hard life I could only expect some chick to pull the I've had a bad childhood....now I sit back and wait for the rape card....I've had it tuff sure but that doesn't bother me I just don't find things that important cause I'm used to loseing it....and if compairing childhoods is what your into then I'll play, I was taken from my mother twice from social services.

This whole thing has nothing to do with my up bringing....moreless to justify to myself that this will be nothing I can't pull off...just trying to convince myself it will be fine..

 

[LilMissMkIII]

Mate, there is no need to post up how hard a life you've had and have a go at me like you did... Yes I was harsh, but I am speaking to you from experience.... I know for a fact that there are quite a few of us that have had it just as tough, or tougher... Yet I'm not on here having a whinge about it... You need to learn from these experiences, suck it up, and move on to bigger and better things with a good head on your shoulders. I'm not here to have a go at you, just to try and point out that maybe you should try and think about things from a few more angles before making a decision you may live to regret... We are a community here, and are here to help you, even if it means offering brutal advice

 

[suprarx7nut]

I really dont mean to be an ass, but where the FUCK is all that money going?!?!?!?!

TELL US WHAT YOU SPEND ALLLLLLL THAT MONEY ON.

Never mind your reasoning for thinking homelessness is better than a regular beater car.... WHERE IS ALL THE MONEY YOU MAKE?!?!?!?!

 

[gaboonviper85]

advice is appreciated....but the moment you disrespect me for no other reason but to just get your own rocks off then me and you have a problem.....

to normal people sure i can see this being crazy.....but my living situation blows to begin with...sure i have a roof over my head but thats it....hell i sleep on a couch that is in my room.....i only come here to sleep....i come home and go to bed then wake up and immediately go to my friends tattoo parlor or his apartment....so what is the difference....i can only see benefits doing what i have planned...it may get a little hot at times but ive lived in Orlando florid without ac and i was just fine.....

i haven't always made this money that i make now....I just started with this company about 5 months ago but i already knew majority of the people there includeing the higher ups but they never had room for me till recently....im not worried about this job and i know i wont get laid off from this place cause there are so few shops that can do the type of stuff we do....im set as far as that goes.....and you basicly have to have connections to get into this shop....hell they offered me two more dollars and hour then what i was asking for....

i posted this to be kinda funny....crazyish....informing yall of my plans for the summer to get my supra within the ball park of where i want it and then to finally get into my own place which i know can happen but not if i keep paying rent for this effing place im at now....renting a damn room and its costing me damn near as much as my whole apartment cost me and thats just nuts!!!! Im definetly not going to just sit and listen to you put me down....i havent disrespected you in anyway and i expect the same!!!!

Mate, there is no need to post up how hard a life you've had and have a go at me like you did.

only reason i did is cause if one can go threw all that and still make a liveing and come out on top then how bad could it possibly be for a summer to someone who has already delt with such situations???? sure if one never did such a thing then i would highly recomend not doing it....but if you went that road before and managed to benefit from it then hell it worked once and why not work again....i know what im planning on getting into and atleast this time im waiting till summer lol....last time was while i was in North carolina in the middle of winter...damn was that cold lol!

Yes I was harsh

is that your way of beating around the bush..... i would just say your being a bitch....for not much reason.

if you can dish it....you better take it.....you may think your perfect....but i know im NOT perfect....so im just gonna do my best to make a dream come true.....if you cant respect that then remove yourself from this thread.....

even if it means offering brutal advice

so far not much advice...atleast not helpful advice has been mentioned....i was doing my best to get cought up from the lay off...and fines....and im basicly done catching up....but i still need to get the car in good running order and i want to get the HELL out of this place asap so ill suffer a little while to make that happen....

Also, chicks don't dig dudes who live in cars (just an fyi

chicks dont dig dudes who rent rooms either........and right now in this point in my life i cant deal with chicks as far as dateing.......im too focused on bills and paying shit off to worry about some retarded chick.....i never bring chicks to this place anyway....like i said...women are the last thing on my mind.

Giving up your home for a fucking CAR is the stupidest thing i've ever heard.

speaking from experience......your fuckin right!!!!! my truck saved my ass....and without haveing that transportation i could have never gotten to work or even got a job....id much rather be homeless with a car then haveing a place to stay but then get fired cause i cant make it to work.....think of the big picture....without a car you FAIL.

 

[gaboonviper85]

TELL US WHAT YOU SPEND ALLLLLLL THAT MONEY ON.

after taxes on my check i ruffly get $640 a week

$640x4=2560
$2560 a month give or take

2540-200 car payment=2360
2360-500 month rent=1860
1860-$250 month on gas=1610
1610-200 month car insurance=1410
1410-127 cell phone month=1283
1283-300 month on cigeretts (two packs a day)=983
983-400 month of food (lady wont let me use her fridge so i eat out)=583
583-whatever alcohol ends up costing per month...after that there isnt much left over=broke

thats honestly where most of that money goes....yeah i have some bad habbits....i hope i can make them end shortly.....hopefully by summer...nobody to blame but myself...

now that gas wouldnt cost me near as much if i didnt have to go so far out my way to work....no rent....pay the car off asap and get rid of that payment also....

dont even waist your e talk on telling me to stop smokeing...or drinking....cause right now liveing here its probably not gonna stop lol.

 

[LilMissMkIII]

You can honestly tell us you have no public transportation where you live, and that you cannot survive without a car?

You can continue to hurl all your negativity at me all you want, as well as make assumptions... It is clear you have a huge issue with females, and I have no problem with that at all... I'm a big girl, and I'm not here to make friends (Funny though that you pick and choose the sections of my post to respond to, and take the comments out of context )

You can say all you want to try and justify this ridiculous idea you call "making a dream come true", but it really is a very silly thing to do when there are so many other options and ways around this.

 

[gaboonviper85]

You can honestly tell us you have no public transportation where you live, and that you cannot survive without a car?

You can continue to hurl all your negativity at me all you want, as well as make assumptions... It is clear you have a huge issue with females, and I have no problem with that at all... I'm a big girl, and I'm not here to make friends

You can say all you want to try and justify this ridiculous idea you call "making a dream come true", but it really is a very silly thing to do when there are so many other options and ways around this.

i dont have a PROBLEM with women...i just dont trust them....and i dont have time for the bullshit that goes along with with them.....got my own shit to worry about....i just dont have patience for them.....usually i do but not in the past year...

but i do have a problem with you.....i didnt untill you decided to take it upon yourself to put me down......at that point your not human to me......i dont deal well with people who go out of there way to put people down.....but i will dish it out once its been started.

You can honestly tell us you have no public transportation where you live, and that you cannot survive without a car?

if i want an appartment i can afford....and if i want to lower my cost of liveing i need to get the HELL away from philly!!!! the closer to philly you are the higher the cost of liveing! I want to move back to the town i lived in before i got laid off....shit was simple over there....i never got hassled by the cops....didnt have to lock my doors at night....utility bills are much much cheaper....and to make that happen there is no way i can take a bus....and if i was to take a bus from where i live now to work it would take damn near an hour and a half to get there!!!! bus is out the question....the city transit in Philly isn't like it is over seas!!!!

and i dont work in philly.....so it would be just super to move closer to work or to move back to the town i lived in before....appartments around my work for a single bedroom run around $7-800 a month not includeing utilities....or move to hatfield pa where rent is ruffly $5-600 a month and then just have a 20 min drive to work and have my insurance drop about $30