Its a tough sled out there. Have any of you been successful with landing something, either in this industry or elsewhere?
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Bad drivers: No one in the USA is even close to being winners. My vote goes to either rawalpindi (islamabad) Pakistan or Jakarta Indonesia ... but there are a lot of strong competitors!
Well, I have lived in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas and consequently, have seen plenty of drivers, especially when going on vacation. I agree, Louisiana has the worst drivers I have experienced in The South. Not sure about elsewhere.
Well, I have lived in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Arkansas and consequently, have seen plenty of drivers, especially when going on vacation. I agree, Mississippi has the worst drivers I have experienced in The South. Not sure about elsewhere.
Well, I have lived in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and consequently, have seen plenty of Arkansas drivers, especially when going on vacation. I agree, Arkansas has the worst drivers I have experienced in The South. Not sure about elsewhere.
Well, I have lived in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi and consequently, have seen plenty of Texas drivers, especially when going on vacation. I agree, Texas has the worst drivers in The South. Not sure about elsewhere.
No, the worst drivers drivers in any State, hands down, have got to be the Chinese. Damn these people can't go faster than 55 on the highway.
Well, I have lived in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and consequently, have seen plenty of Alabama drivers, especially when going on vacation. I agree, these are the worst drivers I. The South. Not sure about elsewhere.
-jjis, Wow. If I only had a dollar for every time I have heard that comment for every state in the union. Seriously. New York. Texas, Florida, Louisiana, California, Georgia, Tennessee, Penn., Jersey, Maine, Nevada, Arizona, OK., Miss., name your state, All Have the worse drivers in the US. And if they don't live there the worse drivers are visiting while you are there on vacation too.
Only problem with Alabama is it is home to the worst drivers in the USA. Hands down.
Good Idea. I love Alabama's gulf coast area, Perdido Key. Vacation there often. Very beautiful area.
I EOI'ed from Chevron pipeline company effective September 1. I will permanently retire after the 60 days of WARN period payroll wages are paid up and I subsequently collect my 6 months of unemployment benefits and subsidized cobra medical. I'm going to sell my home in The Woodlands, TX next summer and move to Alabama to be close to family.
Weirdo.
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Still ignoring the Troll, thanks for the advice. Happy that he hasn't posted.
It won't help anyway, I mean ignoring. If you understand the real basics of this world and know true history, you will clearly see that it is coming on you. INEVITABLY!!!
Don't feed the anti-American Pederastic Hilter love-child pathetic attention-craving Troll with no life.
He hates it when you ignore him.
Thanks
-ikja : it looks like you the first one to get my free advice!!! What advice do you want? Iraqi people can tell you a lot how to live in the absence of basic needs. Or you can ask Libia people, or people from Vietnam, or people from Afghanistan and on and on and on. You have a lot of choices
-icls, No need to keeping cutting and pasting the same pathetic meaningless stupid post, prickhead. If that's your idea of comedy, try a different hobby.
Great strategy to prepare to be poor, get experience to eat once per two days, go to toilet once per week and washing yourself once per month. No need for clothes and underwear if you live in Houston. Also, good advice to start preparing to live without air conditioning in Texas. If you need any other advice how to survive in all kind of conditions, please let me know!!!
Annuity, since I have plenty at risk in the market already and also the annuity is a better value than you can get on the open market, if you wanted one, which many retirees do as they get older to simplify expenses. There has been many threads here on that. They have been said to be actuarially equivalent. You can ultimately come out ahead if you take the lump sum and invest it luckily/prudently/expertly enough and IF the market cooperates. That's a lot of IF's. Young people come on here and frown upon the annuity because they feel that they can always beat the market and/or the equivalent ROR of the annuity.(I was young and invincible too once, aaaahhh how sweet it was) What they miss is that you cannot compare a guaranteed return to a typical investment risk. You would have to compare it to CD's or the like which are govt. backed. The annuity has a guarantee backer too, the PBGC.
Great strategy to prepare to be poor, get experience to eat once per two days, go to toilet once per week and washing yourself once per month. No need for clothes and underwear if you live in Houston. Also, good advice to start preparing to live without air conditioning in Texas. If you need any other advice how to survive in all kind of conditions, please let me know
Thanks to -ihdi and -ipei for your feedback. I too never got caught up in the over consumerism of today's society. I was always a good saver and was pretty much lucky in my investments. I'm fortunate for having worked hard to pay off my home last year. That's one large monthly obligation off my back. If I'm unsuccessful in finding a meaningful job over the next 6 months, I may try something else like starting a small business based from home. If either of you have taken your pension already, can you share here which way you went? Annuity or Lump Doem still undecided.
You will live through very terrible times soon when you lose all your savings, pension money, property, stocks etc. No good medical providers available for what you have, empty grocery stores, criminal gangs on the streets and knocking your doors and breaking your windows, no jobs, delayed salaries, broken city infrastructure, no water supply and sewage working, bad roads never repaired... You will go through all these and much more...
Yes, I feel all you you guy's pain, I was laid off as well and forced to retire early with maybe enough, maybe not enough funds, depending. I have been very frugal to say the least and I find that I can do fine on less and without the stress of work I can enjoy the little things and do things that don't cost much, biking, walking, etc. You need a lot less than most Chevron Employees earn to live a well organized and budgeted lifestyle. In fact, I forgot how little I lived on in college but even in today's dollars it was much less than I spend now. It's amazing how many people are trapped into the consumerism lifestyle. I abandoned it several years ago in the hopes of early retirement, fortunately, but did not expect to be cut as early as I was. I suppose no one does. That's like basing the future of the stock market on the last 6 year or so bull run. Most experienced people who are not trying to sell you a product are convinced that it's not likely to continue. Hope they are wrong!
To hczc, your comment is much more a reflection of the current reality than all of those who claim how fast they were able to find new employment with a better company at a higher salary. Layoffs are still happening at Chevron, but in small numbers that don't draw attention. ConocoPhillips canned over 300 people this week. Apache was able to lease 307000 contiguous acres and drill a major discovery under Chevron's nose. WTI is down again today to $43.75, a 5 week low. Yes, times are tough now for professional and field work in the oil industry. I, too, was laid of in April of this year and will just apply for early social security and call it quits. Good luck to you. I feel your pain.
I was laid off from Chevron Upstream in April 2016. I had hoped to work another 10 years before finally calling it quits, but I'm doing okay for now. Despite having applied to some 45 companies and only called for two interviews, no job yet. Still plugging away at it. Once my unemployment benefits and subsidized cobra medical all run out in December, I might have a reason to be nervous.
Very true what you say, @hdmc. But so is the claim made by @hiyy.
Nonetheless, this message is being typed by a real person, and what I did post is what I meant. What I say here, I stand by and will back up. If @hiyy is under the impression that showing up in person would make me change by mind or sing another tune, he'd be on the losing side of that argument. BTW, don't take my words out of context. I'm not threatening anyone here, just asserting my commentary. Either way, we all know both I and @hiyy are anonymous and will remain so.
@J85z1IO-hnfy, That's fine, but no one knows who you are or if you have even have made any posts at all, or if you are lying or not, since these posts are anonymous, so the comment is meaningless.
@hiyy, if you met me in person, I guarantee my tone would not change.
I guess there is a lot of built up stress for folks and some struggle to deal with it. It will all work out but it will take time.
Yes it's easy for these guys to insult people from home anonymously. I wish that I could meet some of these cowards in person. Let's just say that their tone would magically change. This site is full of cowards with no gonads. I've never seen anything like it. To start with, if you are not saying something in a post that you wouldn't to a persons face you shouldn't be posting it at all unless you are a coward. Because you would not tell that to the person in real life. And I promise you that type of thing is never said to me but only because of my size and appearance. Not that I would harm a flea. But, just sayiing, a lot of you guys are cowards and have no nuts. There's no way that you would call the other guys to their face the same things that you are posting, so saying it online just makes you more pathetic and a total joke.
@J85z1IO-hcdm, Feel free to elaborate on any topic or present a counter argument, Worthless Coward Piece of Sh-- douche-bag idiot imbecile with nothing to add but insults from the safety of your PC.
Say something new and different, hdjw. Christ, you're a stuck record and very annoying. POS.
Well I did the EOI and now I'm living off my severance, pension and vacation pay. Plenty to do some travel and I spend time catching up on tasks I put off while working. The days fly by. Hope to catch up o less than a year and do even more travel. There is a good life after Chevron. Hope some of you can join me. For those who want to keep working, I wish you good luck.
@J85z1IO-hvvw, Thanks for feeding us your hilariously pathetic BS success story and if you are a tax evader that's even more pathetic. What a loser. You're not embarrassed about that? What a pathetic loser without a life or any prospects. Either way, it's totally pitiful and pathetic and I would be embarrassed if:
1 - You are a such a loser that you need to make up BS about success or:
2 - You are such a desperate loser that you can't even pay taxes in a very low tax bracket,so you resort to a life of crime and risk criminal prosecution and losing it all(I can't believe anyone's that stupid, BTW), either way you are a miserable loser and a bottom-feeder.
LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER LOSER PATHETIC POS LOSER LOSER LOSER
That's right, I'm like a minnow swimming among sharks. Like I said, the IRS doesn't have the resources to be pursuing the likes of me. If they tried, they would be wasting their time. I'm way too careful. If you think $2820 free and clear for 5 days of cash income is small, then okay. It's pretty good for me. I've been clearing an average of $2800 per week or $11,200 per month for just over a year. Best of all, I earn all this from the comfort of my living room or my air conditioned F250. Thanks, Chevron for retiring me early and for the one year severance bonus. It helped me finance my new gig and I'm doing better than expected.
Guys, please don't let this thread turn into a butthead, beavis, d---beat, deadwood, who can commit the most tax evasion or come up with the most BS about it thread. This site is becoming a cesspool of ridiculous drivel and I'm sure most of it is just fiction. Stick to the topic - How is everyone doing, Not how much white-collar crime are you getting away with. The IP addresses on this site are easily identified, blocked and tracked, I have verified that. It's not anonymous. Watch what you post.
Thanks.
@J85z1IO-gduv, No, the IRS needs to catch the Greedy Parasite sponge Liberals like you too, LOL! Most of the rich republicans are not criminals and pay their taxes, most of the greedy pseudo-compassionate, pseudo-intellectual liberal sponges are hypocrites, self-important and stuck-up idiots. I am so glad you are not MY neighbor! and Thanks for admitting your identity as the pathetic parasite hypocrite sponge liberal without a life. $2820? Dude. I hate to criticize but you're breaking the law for that? That's pretty desperate. Aren't liberals in favor of taxes? OH - that's only for OTHER PEOPLE - LOL!!! Didn't you get a decent severance or pension? Obviously not, if you are having to commit tax fraud just to stay afloat. Poor guy! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! You know, a crime is a crime, though. There are plenty in jail for much less. But you are right, you are a VERY small fish. Like a little minnow criminal trying to swim with the sharks !! That's pretty pathetic!!!!! ROTFLMAOBOAY!!
Gduv: you will sleep good tonight because you've been on this board all day and must be tired making up all your fantasy stories. Maybe in your dreams tonight you will get a job and be able to support yourself.
And while you "holier-than-thou" jealous types toil at your desks and forcefully obligated to pay way too much in taxes, my little ledger book says I cleared $2820 in tax free cash for the week thus far. I will sleep great tonight knowing there's still Friday and Saturday left to go before tallying my haul for the week. Cha-ching people. The IRS are out pursuing bigger fish to fry or out witch hunting rich Republicans.