Good thing they're so cute or we'd really get mad at them!

• OT: Cat vent! - diddles
  • My cat just shredded a box - darn cat!
    • sounds like you need a child-proof lock - me
  • Awwww. She just loves you and wants some attention. sm - T
  • Now that things are settled down... - diddles
  • fur-balls! - nowRNwasMT
  • Good thing they're so cute or we'd really get mad at them! - Kitty lover
  • LOL I can relate. I have a naughty little kitty, too. - silly cat, silly cat
  • Count Your Blessings - Alicia
  • Let's negotiate sm - mlstoo

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I've noticed that in those types of posts that they rarely say where or how they're doing this.  It's usually more so of a rubbing-it-in-your-face type of statement responding to someone else who is distressed about what's going on in this profession. 

I strongly suspect that even if those particular posters are indeed telling the truth that their situations are the exception because they're certainly not the general rule from what I'm hearing from MT's both all over the Internet and offline.   

I've found over the years that it's not just skill and experience that helps you reap the financial rewards in this industry.  A good bit of the time it's also influenced by the luck of the draw in the types of accounts and dictators you get in addition to a myriad of other factors.  And I'm in no way demeaning those who are highly skilled and experienced.  In fact, I have the highest respect for those MT's who have mastered their craft.  All I'm saying is if you're in that high income boat don't try to make the rest of us believe that your ability and work ethic was the only thing that got you there.  Most of us have been around long enough to know that in the majority of the cases that's simply not true. 

I know many, many highly-skilled MT's who crank out perfect charts every day and have the highest work ethic who are working their way right into the poor house. 

Finally, the animals win one.  Every time some "little darling" mangles a dog or a cat and they get bitten, scratched, it is always the "mean dog's fault".  I'm glad you had your camera on for proof.  I had two collies that were behind TWO locked fences and one of my neighbors called me up, screaming that my female had bitten her 2 yo toddler.  I asked what her 2 yo toddler was doing running around loose outside without supervision and what he was doing on my property in the first place.  I told her about the two locked gates and chain link fences, and she said he managed to stick his hand between the posts and the gates and was bitten.  She thought I was going to "come apart", but instead I went on the attack.  I told her she needed to watch her kids and keep them out of my property and she wouldn't have a problem.  Her 2 yo was trespassing on my property and I wanted him kept off of it from now on!  She backed down in a big hurry.  People make me crazy!

would end up making you look bad......

move forward - for every door that shuts, another one opens, I promise....*S*

you treat it like a business - learn the law, get everything in writing, charge enough rent to cover the hidden costs.  I've been landlording for several years now and I highly recommend nolo.com a site with good legal information for non-lawyers, especially a book that outlines the landlord-tenant laws in each state in layperson language - It's been very useful to me, kept me out of trouble at least once. 

Or just call a realtor and let them handle it and add their fee to the rental as mentioned above. 

you said you'd wait until you become financially secure before getting married so you could then could leave him and be okay $$-wise.

I left after 13 years of marriage and we pretty much had nothing....my sanity being numero uno.  The stats are this....that after 5 years of divorce, women are in better shape than men financially and emotionally.  That's what I've read and that's how it also happened for me.  I was in better shape than him 5 years later.  So, don't undercut yourself.  We can make it on our own whether we have a man in our life or not!!!!  It's an old wives tale from post WWII I do believe that women are not *complete* without a man and that is a total crock of s**t.....in my mind/heart/soul. 

the police got to the school so quickly that he was unable to carry out the *rest of his plan* thank God...those poor children suffered enough, thankfully he didn't have the chance to inflict any more harm on them...if you know what I'm talking about...I can't write it...it makes me sick to my stomach!

What is this world coming to when parents feel afraid to send their children to SCHOOL? We don't even let our 7 YO son play outside for 1 second alone, and we live in a quiet subdivision, and know all our neighbors...guess that's just it though, we THINK we KNOW them...anyway, it just breaks my heart and scares me to death...WE NEED TO BRING GOD BACK INTO THE SCHOOLS...we've *kicked* Him out...time to bring Him back...

I've been there but had to work outside the home. I had a slug of an ex who paid child support when "he had the money." I learned how to shop and ate whatever the kids left over in their dinner bowls. To this day I will not touch a Spaghetti-O. :)

First and most important is be a parent to your kids. Have fun with them,  but set limits with them and be a mom and not a friend. That's what they need. And NEVER, EVER, say a bad word about their father, no matter what, even if he bad mouths you.  My kids figured out what a slug their dad was on their own. They are both adults with kids of their own and I still refuse to bad mouth their father after nearly 20 years.

nm