[Lilred]

Virginia..Lord do i love my home state..cept fer the fact that everythin has gone up but the wages. Thanks to all them wonderful folks (yeah..right) movin down here at a rate of too-dam-many a day.
We are a werkin household, I werk 50+ hours a week, my hubby 45. I am a firm believer in the wife stayin home ( well, at least more than an hour a friggin day like me ) , takin care of the kids and cookin. I caint do that. Hubby will be takin a big promotion soon, and when he does, my butt is steppin down from the position I'm in, and at LEAST goin to 40 hours..if not part time, which I would much rather do. My average day is gone by 4:45am and comin home at 7:00 pm. Insane aint it? But, you do what you gotta do sometimes...but I tell ya..Id rather be as poor as a man sellin bags of sand in the desert, than to be rich and my child dont even know me.

But, every dern thing has gone up so bad here..I dont git it. Meanwhile we're pluckin along with 2 or 3% raises each year, and just a gallon of gas in 1 yr went from 1.39$ to 2.09$ a gallon. A dam gallon of milk went from 2.25 to 4.75 a gallon. It's insane.

It will hurt us when I step down, Lowes generally takes a HUGE cut in pay when you do that..20% is the average plus all bonuses and commissions will be lost..but it dern sure wont be the first time I ever ate a can of potted meat..and it dern sure wont be the last. At least I can be eatin that potted meat sittin on the back porch watchin my kid play in the yard w/ the dogs instead of eatin steak behind a desk in a store.

Anyways..Wolvie, my advice to you..did yer folks ever tell ya you gotta crawl fore you can walk? You aint gonna git no high-payin job and the world be perfect right offa the bat. Find what yer good at, take that God ferbid entry level position, and take the next couple of years to prove yerself and git that high payin job.
Stick with it and be patient..you'll git there.