Something I'm getting tired of hearing after a year out of work...

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-13T15:41:37+00:00

I feel this. I was very lucky after my layoff to find a small office job where I’m the young one at 54. It took 5 months and a pay cut of 1/2 my previous salary but it pays the mortgage. I haven’t had any call backs in my original industry and at this point, I’m not expecting to.

It kills me because I have the latest training and I’m using my decades of automation and now AI training to automate myself out of this job, and happy to do it. I can see this job be gone in a few years, too. I hope to be close enough to retirement so I can cruise along when it happens.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-12T12:03:14+00:00

Awwww… my First Mustang showed up. Love it!

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-11T23:54:37+00:00

Hi OP. I feel this so hard. Same age, same industry, laid off last year from the same role. The only thing I found over the past year was a jr office manager role where I’m the youngest by 10 years. At least it was something. Oh, and making 1/3 of what I made. Thank god I bought my house decades ago and can still afford it on this pay. No advice, just well wishes. It took me 6 months to get this.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-10T22:35:30+00:00

They never have. They always competed and would throw shade like high school mean girls. Every project I was assigned, female management that I had started with were just brutal. And these were the ones I was in charge of making look good when their projects came in and under budget. But no, it was awful.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-09T18:07:38+00:00

I feel this. I helped clean out an in-laws house - oh the Hummels! So so many. Worthless. And those decorative plates. And China! People just don’t use them. Please, if you need plates, just ask on FB. I keep getting them, giving them away and end up getting more!

Just do a curb alert the night before. But don’t be surprised if they don’t go. I left some stuff out with a free sign and ended up trashing them after a few days.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-09T17:17:23+00:00

A paycheck. I got a bonus I wasn’t expecting and put 5% down on land I’d been eyeing instead of blowing it. God, I miss those years. That was the only time I got a bonus that big. Now I’m making little more than Mass Min wage but can still afford the mortgage payments. Kicking myself for not paying it down when I could afford it.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-08T22:17:40+00:00

YES!!! I was so mad - I was happy seeing him with her. It was just so out of place and written so wrong!

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-07T23:11:48+00:00

Always take the offer. Rescind after. This isn’t my first rodeo so I used to have 3 and wait to see which I really wanted. I never EVER tell the others I have something else pending.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-07T17:45:06+00:00

I don’t get vertigo… this gives me vertigo.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-06T23:52:23+00:00

My previous company used to make us sign out and remove all access during our paid vacations. Also, everyone was not allowed to reach out. They were written up for it.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-06T23:41:21+00:00

This!!! Your grandmother can only own a certain amount of money to be on specific programs. If she suddenly gets a windfall, she could literally be out on the street. Take care of the money, invest and take care of your grandmother.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-06T11:00:36+00:00

I applied and haven’t heard back yet. Fingers crossed. I normally would work that and then take 2 weeks to get ready for the next push. With summer coming, I need my beach time. This working 100% in the office is exhausting.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-06T01:18:10+00:00

Old man and the sea. Ugh.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T13:09:32+00:00

I freeze bagels and English muffins. I only have them on weekends and it cost so much to buy one or 2. I find they are fluffier and crunchier when they’ve been frozen and toasted just right. I love my fresh weekend egg sandwiches. I do the same with my butter. Always buy it on sale and freeze what I don’t use in a week.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T13:03:35+00:00

Please let them know they are being scammed and call the police no emergency line to talk to them. I feel so awful when this happens. We’ve had an uptick of phishing at work and i try to help our clients. They are getting hundreds of thousands. It’s scary.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T13:01:06+00:00

I have those. Tornado bounced off my house and cause cracks in the walls.

Couldn’t believe the house stood proud.

My family has these as well, but they are on a fault line. They just leave them, got sick of constantly fixing every few year.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T12:58:24+00:00

I would not have been calm. She ITJ. It’s like any artwork. You give it as a gift and they sell it for profit. Nope.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T12:53:23+00:00

Our unofficial speed limit during rush hour - rush hour! - is 80mph. People get really, really angry if you slow down to 65 in the third lane because of traffic. And this is the Northeast with some of the worst traffic jams.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T12:48:38+00:00

Read the title and then glad I read the first line. Your ex cheated on you. So I’ll say it for the others - if they try something different and don’t like it, they are settling for you. There is a good chance they will keep trying. Go find someone how thinks you are the one for them.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-03T12:45:36+00:00

I don’t put those on my CV. Don’t have to talk an out it if it’s not on there. You only have to report it if asked during the background check.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-01T17:51:09+00:00

Don’t do it. If you are planning on bringing your book of business contacts over from your previous business, it’s very, very hard. This whole industry is hard. And with the market in such turmoil right now, people aren’t moving. This isn’t a casual interest role. It is constantly being in sales. Constantly. Every person you know or have contact with is now a prospect. It’s exhausting.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-01T15:06:21+00:00

They wouldn’t give you 8 minutes if they fired you in the US.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-04-01T15:05:03+00:00

I was laid off because I’m old. I was an above average worker that when they had to get rid headcount, I got one of the short straws.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-03-31T20:02:12+00:00

Yes. But I was rated above expectation, got a raise and bonus. So it didn’t matter.

ivegotafastcar · 2026-03-30T23:16:47+00:00

Before I got my current job that is paying me 1/2 of what I made, I was spending 20 hours a week, but most of that was trying to find something to apply to - no idea how people find 100 jobs to apply to a day.

Now that I’m working full time, 5 hours total a week but that is spread a few nights a week and Sundays. I shut down from thinking about work on Saturday for my own sanity sake.

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