I tend to agree with the OP. I have to say I am guilty to some degree of what he says. Before I was laid off, I made almost $40,000.00 a year after Health insurance was taken out before taxes. I have been out of college for three years, so I am relatively new to my career. Now, lasted three waves of cutoffs at my workplace. in most cases people who had been working at my job longer, and had been working in the field longer, were thrown out the door before me. Why? I worked hard to give myself a skill set that rivaled and even surpassed many of my coworkers, I also worked my butt off and showed myself to be independent when necessary. So I disagree with the assessment that you cannot control your circumstances. However, I did eventually get laid off because the company had cut all the fat they could, and the people left were far superior to me in skill level, they would have been stupid to lay one of them off. Literally a month before I got laid off, I started renting an apt under the guise that things were as slow as they could get at work, I also bought myself a nice 42" HDTV. Now that I am on unemployment, I don't go out and buy things, I brought back my TV because I needed the money, and I am looking for somebody to take over my lease. There are people who would not do that...I LIVE in the same apartment building with people who have no job, and have very little income and yet, they are able to afford that new truck, or that HDTV, or the Iphone. I wonder how this is possible?
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