You just described middle class males everywhere. You've given me the line I could finish all my life stories with: "...so I have some hobbies and I drink."
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Exactly you put the safety of your children above all else. being jobles for a while in one place is better than moving around every 1-3 years and STILL living off goverment benefits and being effectively homeless anyway
You nailed it. I've toiled in a weird little niche industry at a job that holds virtually no interest for me for almost 25 years. I fell into it, and because it's not that hard and I'm pretty smart I've done well for myself. I've ranged from tolerating to hating it, and I've long since given up on the hope of doing…
Trying to grab all the comments about kids. I'm going with a minimum of five kids, max of six. Regardless, this was not an environment that they should have kept bringing children into. Clearly it wasn't stable. If they wanted a big family they should have rethought their career choices after the second layoff,…
Right? I'm self-employed (primarily web dev, with some other creative stuff) and am the 95% the only bread-winner in my house, and my wife and I have a toddler. If she got pregnant again tomorrow, I'd be all "who's hiring full-time now?" in about 5 seconds. I wouldn't enjoy it, but if it's necessary it's necessary.
I completely agree. Know when to pack it in and find different work, and also start using condoms.
In this situation, I'd argue they had a kid in between layoffs... it's just the nature of it and they were well into that cycle to realize their choices. There's absolutely zero justification for what I would consider devaluing their current family's lifestyle by introducing another in this situation. The…
I get all of that. And I'm not posting here telling them what they should have done. I was simply speculating on why that seemed like an unwise series of decisions. As others have noted, there are a lot of other options to get out of a situation like that.
No I agree. The story lost me there too. They started with three kids (although the oldest sounds like they were from a previous marriage, per the custody threatening later on), had 4 around the first or second relocation. Go into how the kids have relocated to new schools 5+ times. Her husband has been laid off at…
Probably, but at least I don't breed creatures into a shit life and make other beings suffer due to my choices.
I understand that too. But I see it like this:
Buy a single car and treat it nice, rebuild it, etc. (having 1-3 kids, managable size)
or
Buy a dozen junk cars and have them rotting in your front lawn. (having half a dozen kids)
or
a third option analogous with not having kids at all but doesn't sound creepy like "ride…
You can afford pulling out with or without a job for christs sake.
Yeah, thanks, I didn't miss that part. If he were really determined to stop putting his family through that, he could find something, ANYTHING. There are options, especially for a trained programmer. Accept a job from a video game company and immediately start looking for another position while you're working. Fucking…
A year and a half later, we were told he would be laid off in two months. I was seven months pregnant. Our insurance would end two weeks before the baby was due.
That last story makes me wonder how, as a father, this guy could keep doing this to his children and family for a decade or more. I cannot imagine putting my family through all of that, and for what reason? No job is worth that instability.
A year and a half later, we were told he would be laid off in two months. I was seven months pregnant. Our insurance would end two weeks before the baby was due.
For having 7 kids, yeah?
Bad things happen, but it seemed like they did their darndest to make it worse. My dad was in the military, sometimes he moved months before we did. So that we could finish the school year. There were only two of us, kids. They don't cancel cable until he gets laid off, but have no savings?…
Look having kids is fine. But after the husbands like 5th layoff, you continue to have MORE kids and then cry foul? The layoffs weren't their fault, by the predicament was. If they had stayed steady at 2 or 3 kids their lives would have been much easier and sustaining all these layoffs would have been much easier to…
Yeah maybe they should have invested in a little birth control and not 7 kids. It is so easy to avoid a pregnancy (there are literally apps that tell you when you're good to go) there is no excuse for the kind of negligence that gets you into a 5+ kid situation.
Kind of seems like most of the stress of the LucasArts story is from choosing to work in an industry known for precarity while also having a boatload of kids.