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Just sold my car to pay the rent

  • 04-11-2013 11:48PM
    #1
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    As title says.. just sold my car to pay the rent. Pretty much everything I own is also up for sale to pay for other little luxuries, like food.

    I work for a couple of different companies on zero hour contracts, or what used to be known as casual labour. I've gotten 3 days work in the last two months.

    Anyone else think that things are getting worse? I feel a little like a serf in the old feudal system.. things have never been better for those who are in positions of power or wealth, and never, in modern society , been worse for the working man.

    Am I right or am I wrong?


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Comments

  • #2
    SV
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    You're right, things will get better. Keep the head up!


  • #3
    Corkbah
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,666 ✭✭✭Corkbah


    not another social welfare thread !!!

    why haven't you applied to your local office for unemployment benefit ?


  • #4
    Lisha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭Lisha


    Best of luck op I really hope things get better for you.


  • #5
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    Corkbah wrote: »
    not another social welfare thread !!!

    why haven't you applied to your local office for unemployment benefit ?

    What did I say about social welfare?

    I'm talking about society.


  • #6
    TomCleverly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 66 ✭✭TomCleverly


    Pretty ****ty buzz, but at least your trying to get some work done. I suppose whether things are getting better is relative, for myself at the moment things are picking up, and as a country I'd say things are picking up, but someone could just as easily say the oppisite


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  • #7
    FurQyou
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭FurQyou


    Working 40 hours a week at an unpaid internship that I walk 3 miles to and from.


    Sold a guitar last week for the same reason.

    Couldn't buy lunch today and still have to pay my share of the esb.


    You're not alone chief! ;)


  • #8
    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    Before things got this bad you should have started claiming.
    Its easier to get a few days labouring than it is to get casual retail work on zero hour contracts these days.


  • #9
    Femme_Fatale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,628 ✭✭✭Femme_Fatale


    billysweeney wrote: »
    What did I say about social welfare?

    I'm talking about society.
    Society in what sense?


  • #10
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    billysweeney wrote: »
    I've gotten 3 days work in the last two months.and never, in modern society , been worse for the working man.

    Am I right or am I wrong?

    You're about as working now as the public sector. Dole, rent allowance? Until you can find something more suitable than zero hours.


  • #11
    SouthTippBass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,286 ✭✭✭SouthTippBass


    Its times like this I turn to the good book for support, but I cant even do that any more...


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  • #12
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    FurQyou wrote: »
    Working 40 hours a week at an unpaid internship that I walk 3 miles to and from.


    Sold a guitar last week for the same reason.

    Couldn't buy lunch today and still have to pay my share of the esb.


    You're not alone chief! ;)

    Ah I guess I just felt like having a bit of a moan. It just seems to get tougher to get ahead.. the really ****ty thing is that it needed a little bit of work to pass the nct, work that I could do myself but I din't have 55 euro to put it back through the test.. I'd have got twice as much. Plus with this new tax rule I'm still going to have to pay the tax for the time it was off the road as I didn't get it declared off the road.


  • #13
    razorgil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,880 ✭✭✭razorgil


    it's like déja vu, in this place we call home. i recall a certain minister for finance (r.i.p) telling us that we had turned the corner, back in........whenever. in the real world however, things continue on a downward spiral. whoever came up with the old adage that "time flies when you're having fun"!! the reverse seems to be happenin to me. since 2008, things have gotten progressively worse, but in a strange way, that time has flown. maybe i'm too busy being stressed out about financial matters to see the calendar fritting away, but where have the last five years gone......


  • #14
    Nabber
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,855 ✭✭✭Nabber


    I hate Jobsbridge.
    Good luck OP, twill work for you I'm sure.


  • #15
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    billysweeney wrote: »
    I feel a little like a serf in the old feudal system..

    I'd say you're in much better shape, what with improvements in health and diet and workers not being beaten and killed and all. That said, if you wanted to go a bit peasanty, growing vegetables and mending things is always handy.


  • #16
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    Femme_Fatale wrote: »
    Society in what sense?

    Well it seems to me that if you step back and look at things from a macro perspective, then society is slowly moving away from the ideals espoused over the last 100 years or so, of fairness and a modicum of equality..

    i think there was some form of unspoken social contract where the wealthy maintained their status in general, in return for a somewhat fairer deal for those in the lower social echelons.

    Now the bastards are giving up all pretense of fairness and grabbing as much as they can as fast as they can.. read somewhere recently that the richest 300 people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 3 billion..


  • #17
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    billysweeney wrote: »
    What did I say about social welfare?

    I'm talking about society.

    Have you investigated what support you might be eligible for from social welfare?

    If not, why not?


  • #18
    meoklmrk91
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,083 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    billysweeney wrote: »
    Ah I guess I just felt like having a bit of a moan. It just seems to get tougher to get ahead.. the really ****ty thing is that it needed a little bit of work to pass the nct, work that I could do myself but I din't have 55 euro to put it back through the test.. I'd have got twice as much. Plus with this new tax rule I'm still going to have to pay the tax for the time it was off the road as I didn't get it declared off the road.

    Moan away, it's a tough situation to be in, I know what it's like to have money being a constant worry and for things to be really tight. Things will get better, it just takes time. Plenty in the same boat as you and there will be for many years to come, it's just the way things are now, but that doesn't make it fair.


  • #19
    seanie_c
    Closed Accounts Posts: 295 ✭✭seanie_c


    billysweeney wrote: »
    As title says.. just sold my car to pay the rent. Pretty much everything I own is also up for sale to pay for other little luxuries, like food.

    I work for a couple of different companies on zero hour contracts, or what used to be known as casual labour. I've gotten 3 days work in the last two months.

    Anyone else think that things are getting worse? I feel a little like a serf in the old feudal system.. things have never been better for those who are in positions of power or wealth, and never, in modern society , been worse for the working man.

    Am I right or am I wrong?


    No, you're absolutely right.

    The financial sector has basically stripped away all the capital from people in countries like Ireland and we're now heading towards a neo-feudal system where more and more people will depend on the land in order to survive.

    We see it happening in East European nations like Latvia and Poland.

    The bankruptcy of Ireland was by design just like it's been in African, South American and Asian countries before.

    The same people destroyed East Europe and Russia after the collapse of Soviet Union.

    The financial sector is just full of criminals. In my opinion, they're largely narcissistic, lack empathy and reason.
    Just sick in the fckin head.


  • #20
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    This is exactly what the austerity agenda is about, zero hour contracts and citizenship rolled back to the status of indentured servant

    and most people in Ireland think its a great idea, hopefully they'll get theirs in the end


  • #21
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Wow... scary things are this bad for some people!

    Wish you the best!


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  • #22
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    SouthTippBass wrote: »
    Its times like this I turn to the good book for support, but I cant even do that any more...

    What's changed?


  • #23
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    What's changed?

    he burnt it to keep warm. Holy smoke, 'twas cold last night!


  • #24
    illeagles_mcc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 117 ✭✭illeagles_mcc


    Rekop dog wrote: »
    What's changed?


    he sold it to pay the rent :pac:


  • #25
    pharmaton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,192 ✭✭✭pharmaton


    SouthTippBass wrote: »
    Its times like this I turn to the good book for support, but I cant even do that any more...
    wat, did you sell it? That'll be fifty hail mary's and an our father for you


  • #26
    Frosty McSnowballs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,396 ✭✭✭Frosty McSnowballs


    You could have used your car to do take away deliveries...


  • #27
    scudzilla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,065 ✭✭✭✭scudzilla


    I was going to post something like "Got any cheap PS3 games", tryin to be funnY then i realised, this aint that funny and it's a LONG time since i did that.

    Good luck OP


  • #28
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    What else have you got for sale?


  • #29
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    Senor Fancy Pants wrote: »
    You could have used your car to do take away deliveries...


    I thought of that.. but I had no tax or NCT.. plus I would probably have delivered half of them to the wrong houses.. I have a ****e sense of direction!


  • #30
    billysweeney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36 ✭billysweeney


    Johnny Electricity wrote: »
    What else have you got for sale?

    Well, this being AH and all that I should probably say 'your sister':D


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  • #31
    KKkitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,537 ✭✭✭KKkitty


    I know how you feel OP. I know people can say it will get better but you need things to improve now not some way down the line. This country is gone to the dogs for a lot of people and they don't see it improving for a long time yet.


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