Do you have a "fallback" plan?

[refujiunderground]

I have a college degree on a field which I could get into that could be used to my advantage if I play my cards right. With that said, I'm looking to make some serious changes especially with my living situation. It's beginning to feel like it's time to leave the nest and do my own thing. In other words, it's time to be independent and move out. I don't plan on staying in jersey though. 26 years of this shit. It's time to leave. I'm ready to move out of here and am weighing my job options. Never leave a job first before having one. I'm going to use my degree to snag a possible career gig even if it may be some wild shit. I think it might be something I want to do though. An office job is cool but I need stimulation.

Let's just say right now, I am planning and am determined. Regardless, I would say the past few years have been more of a preparation of what's to come in the future. It's like I'm finally growing up even though it took a long ass time. Things are slowly falling in place. I think I know what's coming or at least I believe I do. This year is going to be life changing and one of the best ever for me.

 

[Harke the Boeotarch]

How about you? If you were to lose your job for any reason next week? Do you have a backup/fallback plan?

I've been living with my mother for three years. (Long story).
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I suppose I could apply for welfare and have them pay for a bunk bed at the Salvation Army.

 

[FPNY]

I have a great pension which pretty much covers all of my expenses. Any do rey me i make is pin money. My hubby does very very well so, my back up plan at the moment is to continue working toward our retirement some place warm. If he lost his job tomorrow we would be just fine without ever working again.

 

[Willie Boy]

I've been retired for a number of years now and it has recently been brought to my attention that I quickly lose track of time. Days, weeks, months, years...... They no longer have the meaning that they once held. I go where I want when I want, money is not an issue. I have no need of a "fallback" plan.

 

[peeonme]

As you get older your back up plan changes, you plan out how to adjust your life style to your retirement income.
That for me was easy, the hard part is not financial... it's the "what ifs".

I can take care of my wife, unless she falls... I can no longer pick her up as my joints just won't take it, my shoulders are worn out, if I should have a major medical problem she can't be on her own.

You find that you can't cover all of the bases all of the time, something I had been doing since the age of 16.

 

[NotHardUp1]

In other words, it's time to be independent and move out. I don't plan on staying in jersey though. 26 years of this shit. It's time to leave. I'm ready to move out of here and am weighing my job options. . . . It's like I'm finally growing up even though it took a long ass time. Things are slowly falling in place. I think I know what's coming or at least I believe I do. This year is going to be life changing and one of the best ever for me.

Sometimes we gain more clarity about what we don't want as what we do want.

 

[peeonme]

If I ever end up in the ER with something lost up my ass, I will tell them I fell back on it...
(ok, I tried not to post this) (really tried)

 

[Willie Boy]

As you get older your back up plan changes...

This is true. When I was younger I used to just glance behind me and check the mirrors. These days I check behind the vehicle before getting into it, then I check the mirrors. And once I start to back up, I actually look out the rear window. I must say, following this back-up plan I have never hit/run over anything(one) I didn't intend to.

 

[Latimer]

With help from my parents (since paid back with interest) about thirteen years ago my partner and I started buying income property; it now provides income for both of us beyond what we earn professionally. Moreover, since I started earning "real money" about ten years ago I've banked and invested a large portion of my yearly income in a "Defined Benefit" retirement plan. At the time, my primary reason for doing so was not so much to plan for retirement (I don't imagine myself ever retiring) but to save taxes; in an emergency I can access these funds.

But earlier: I began escorting the summer after my sophomore year in college, and continued to do so during holidays and school vacations, but never while I was actually in school. I did so out of desire rather than need, but always thought that if my finances went south, I could always fall back on sex, and would happily do so. So when I went off to grad school and promptly lost the money my parents had given me for food and housing in foolish stock market investments, I had an excuse and incentive to pick up escorting again, which proved to be an excellent decision, and a successful and "fallback plan" as I had thought it would.

 

[spooky]

My current life is my fall back plan... I had dreams but I had to put them aside to be a caregiver, now that is done with. I suppose I could try for branching out a bit I suppose, I just never have the time though.

 

[luckynumbah7]

My current life is my fall back plan... I had dreams but I had to put them aside to be a caregiver, now that is done with. I suppose I could try for branching out a bit I suppose, I just never have the time though.

Yeeeeeeeep, current life is the fallback plan here as well. I keep getting this urge to go to college, though. I should try and figure out how but I've no idea where to start or how the hell to pay for it - god knows I don't want them yanking the house for back payments due.