"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> A starting salary of $40K seems good to me. I imagine after a decade or
>> so, it is twice that. Many doctors and lawyers do not start making the
>> big money until after many years of drudgery in the trenches.
>>
> $40K/year is NOT a good salary, when rent on a small, cheap apartment is
> $10K/year, college tuition, fees, books and housing exceed $20K/year at
a
> state school, the grocery bill for a healthy diet (without luxury item
or
> eating out) is $3K+/year, etc.
>
> $40K/year is NOT enough to pay off student loans early or to buy a
single
> bedroom condominium in today's market, even with a frugal lifestyle.
Mr. Sherman does not know the meaning of frugality. He is and always has
been a big spender and given to riotous living. That is why he can't live
on
$40K a year, even though unmarried and no children. He needed to take a
vow
of poverty right out of college at least for a few years. Instead he
elected
to live like a plutocrat. After all, he was was entitled by virtue of his
degree to live above his station in life, was he not?
[...]
>>>> Mr. Sherman needs to seek out a county engineering job in a rural
area.
>>>> Such jobs seem to be about streets and roads mostly. County engineers
>>>> are like kings and are deferred to by one and all since no one else
>>>> ever knows what they are talking about.
>>>>
>>> To get a job as a county engineer, one needs to be related to someone
>>> currently in the department or on the county board. Most public sector
>>> jobs are filled in a similar manner.
>>
>> I am sure the above is not true.
>>
> Since Mr. Ed Dolan has not looked for employment since the Johnson
> administration, what would he know?
Ed Dolan the Great would not be caught dead looking, let alone working, at
ANY kind of job. That is for worker bees like Mr. Sherman. Why he can't
manage his finances better even though making the ungodly amount of $40K a
year is proof positive that he is indeed condemned to be forever a worker
bee. That is a fate worse than death. Ugh!
But don't get me wrong. Ed Dolan the Great actually likes WORK! He can sit
around and watch others do it all day long.
>> The secret to the Ed Dolan way of life is not to earn more, but to
spend
>> less. Unless and until you learn to do that, you will always be in a
>> struggle for your place in the sun. Ed Dolan the Great leads a life of
>> poverty and Saint Edward the Great leads a life of asceticism. Who
cares!
>> We are all going to be dead soon enough.
>>
> Easy to say for the person who lives off assets earned by others.
It is easy to say for someone who knows how manage his resources, no
matter
how limited. Mr. Sherman has elected to live the luxurious life even
though
he can't afford it. Ed Dolan the Great has elected to live the kind of
life
he can afford no matter how much he has to do without. Ed Dolan the Great
has chosen leisure and asceticism; Mr. Sherman has chosen la dolce vita
and
hedonism, riotous living and squandering his patrimony. He needs to read
the
fable of the Prodigal Son.
I urge Mr. Sherman to give up his spendthrift ways and his riotous living.
He needs to examine the pure and holy life and then live it like Ed Dolan
the Great, aka Saint Edward the Great. He is a Great Saint and took vows
of
poverty and chastity while in his youth. Saint Edward the Great however
took
no vow of obedience and so a life in the Church was out of the question.
Yea, He is a Great Saint without a religion!
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
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