JesseN

I am working 74.5 hours a week right now so I can pay off my bills in a timely manner. How is it possible for me to eat healthy, nonGMO, high protein foods when I really don't have the time to cook? I have a couple hours on tuesday and thursday (free until 2pm then I go to work) that I use to clean up my house, do my laundry, and catch up on sleep. I want to gain weight really badly so I want lots of calories, and both my jobs are fairly physically demanding, so lots of protein would be nice. I just don't know how I can swing that kind of a diet when working 74.5 hours a week. HALP MEH!

So I'm a skrawny wreck right now. My food bills are getting expensive, but my income is getting less. I'm exercising 3 times a week for now. Not doing a whole lot besides push ups, squats, lundges, and a few other exercizes that I don't know the name of. I'd like to gain 5-10 pounds of muscle eventually, but I'm not sure if that is realistic while juicing? I mean hardcore juicing...as in juice only. I feel tired and sick pretty much all day every day. I lack energy, drive, confidence, and most everything else that is commonly associated with healthy people. I don't know that I want to make juicing a long term lifestyle, but I definately want to give it a try for a month or so, just to see if I start at least feeling healthier. Is it even remotely reasonable to expect muscle gain, aswell as weight gain, with body weight exercizes and juicing? What about adding protein suppliments to the juice? If nothing else, the juicing might get some much needed cleansing done.

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Well it looks like the bank job might not pan out. My only guess is that someone with a degree applied and they were given the job instead of me. I'm going to call again on monday to see where my application stands. SuperToga...you'll be gettin g a jingle in the next couple hours.

What I got out of that was, drop the beer and pick up whiskey instead...I can do that

Is beer really as bad as it's made out to be? Are there healthier beers that'll not really mess with my diet or exercise as much as people tell me it will? I mean...I'll give it up if that's what it takes (I only have one left in the fridge anywho), but is it something that I'll likely end up giving up anyways down the road?

So right now I've got an iPhone 4S. My plan is costing me $60/mo and the phone is $40 a month. I completely forgot that I had to pay for the phone and not just the plan *bonk*

An update - Okay, so two days ago I had an interview at a local bank for a teller position. It'll only be 30 hours a week, but I'll be starting out at at least $11/hr. Since it's only a 30/hr a week job, I'll still be able to get a second evening job if I'm lucky. The interview went very well and I made sure to send a thank you letter and some chocolate (who doesn't like chocolate?) on friday. I'll know by next friday at the latest if I have the job or not. On my next day off I'm going to have a drive down to the Department of Labor and see what I can get rolling there. I'm definately a people person, typically my interviews go really well, the problem I've got is actually being able to GET the interview. I've cut all the expenses that I can think of. I'm not paying for my internet, I changed my phone plan so that'll save me about $50 a month...though it's still going to run me $100 a month and I don't know exactly why it's so expensive...I need to go back and take another look. Unfortunately, since I have NO cash at all...I had to put about $1,200 onto a 26% interest credit card because of the car accident I was in...that is going to hurt me alot. Right now the only things keeping me afloat are my credit cards, though if I can't find a decent job soon, they'll ultimately be my undoing. So far my favorite idea is to make more money than I spend...I'm working on it

My advice, get a job lined up before you even start packing. I moved from San Diego to Rapid City, I had around $6,000 from a leftover loan. Due to some seriously idiotic family drama, I just picked up and moved. Didn't have a job or a place to stay. I got a job at a hotel pretty quickly (it was minimum wage), but I had to go back to SoCal for an entire month to deal with a very serious problem with my best friend and her ex-boyfriend...giving up a month's pay and spending around $2,000 altogether. So I guess I really only had about $3,000 to work with. While I can't say that I regret moving, it's helped me grow as an individual and I've made some really good friends, I am currently in an extremely difficult situation. Been having a harder time here than I've ever had in San Diego. It's been 10 months since I moved and things are more difficult than ever for me. Personally, I say that you need to find a decent job before you move. Money goes VERY fast. Sell everything you own that you don't need. Pay off credit cards/loans first.

I've looked around some at rig jobs, all the ones I've found online required a few years experience. Truth be told, I'm a scrawny guy...roughnecking seems like something that would get me killed because I simply lack the strength to work those hours in a highly physical job. A problem with welding/fabrication jobs is that I don't have any welding certificates (honestly, there are about fifty billion different welding certificates) and they generally charge a few hundred bucks to get one so far as I can tell. I can't afford a certificate right now; this month I'll have about $1000 more in bills than I usually have due to my car being smashed up and needing a rental car. I've filled out close to 40 job applications in the past few weeks now, and I've only received 1 call back from an business that turned out not to be what was advertized. I just don't get it, I have been constantly employed since the age of 15..never more than a week or two without a job of some kind. I will have friday and saturday off from work and I'm wondering if it might be worthwhile to drive up to North Dakota somewhere and physically look for work? I'm not having much luck online. Right now, joining the military really does seem to be my best bet...and I've got alot of issues with military and authority.

Okay, so when I say NO time, I almost literally mean it. Currently I work from 6am to 2pm. I am, hopefully, soon going to have a second job working from 3:30pm to 10:30pm. Most weeks I'll probably have 2 days off of work at absolute most, and I highly doubt I'll ever have an ENTIRE day off where I won't be working at least one of the two jobs. My days off even with my one current job are fairly inconsistent, I doubt it'll get much better when adding a second full-time job ontop of it. Most of my time off will likely be spent doing things like paying bills, washing cloths, fixing my car, grocery shopping (assuming it's even worthwhile trying to eat healthy when I have no time to cook my own food). So, all that being said...is it still a very realistic goal to try and gain 5 pounds of muscle in a month or 2 using only body weight exercises? Has anybody ever worked two full time jobs and still been able to eat healthy, exercise regularly, and most importantly in my case...gain muscle mass? Any advise and reccomendations would be welcome.

My two cents. Career path, that's a term I've heard used a lot and while it sounds all nice, I don't buy it. I don't personally know anybody who wants to do what they are doing. I don't know anybody who grew up wanting to be a claims agent, who wanted to be a loan officer, who wanted to be exactly what they are. If you ask me, life isn't about having a satisfying career, it's about having a career that is able to reward you with a satisfying life. Some people can live their life working at a gas station and be just as happy as can be. Other people need a higher income for various reasons. Still others are never happy with their lives, so it doesn't matter where they work. IMO, don't go around asking yourself what you want to do for a career, instead you should be asking yourself what career will allow you to live the life you want to live. Do you like to travel? Then that narrows down a TON of jobs for you. Do you like working with your hands or would you rather wear a suit? Again, that narrows things down a bunch. Instead of asking yourself what you want your job to be, ask yourself what kind of person you are. Then, once you have that answered, start looking for jobs that can accomodate YOU.

Adding insult to injury....this morning I get a call from a friend of mine, she's having contractions just a couple minutes apart so she needs a ride to the hospital. I fly out the door and start driving to her place. I was pushing my car a little harder than I should have, given the snowy road condition...long story short, I hit a curb and practically ripped my front left wheel off. There's fender damage and a 6 inch chunk of steel missing from my rim. Gonna cost me $500 out of pocket and my insurance will cover the rest. Now I need to go rent a car for the next however long. Fortunately, my friend was able to get a ride to the hospital with someone else.

I miscalculated. With my current job, i'm probably going to make around $11,300/yr. My current debts not including gas and food is around $14,000. I was hoping that I could get a $15,000 loan which would allow me to completely pay off all my other higher interest debts. Doing so would, yes technically, put me into more debt...however, the monthly payments on that loan would be much smaller than the amount i'm currently paying for me various other debts. If I remember correctly, it'd save me about $200/mo. That'd give me the ability to at least keep my noggin just slightly above water.

So I'm in a very difficult situation right now. I have $14,000 a year in bills (not counting food, gas, or car repairs), and I'm currently working a "full time" job that is going to put me around $12,500 for the year. In the past couple weeks I've put in 28 job applications, none of which are looking very promising...I made sure they were hiring before I put in the applications. Right now I'm a working minimum wage at Sears, and for those who don't know, mega-corporations don't EVER give raises...I was even told as much when they hired me. I tried looking into a personal $15,000 loan do consolidate all my debts into one smaller payment made directly to the bank, it would have ended up saving me around $200 a month if I were approved. When I talked to the loan officer (who was an awesome guy), I told him my situation straight up and asked him to give me a straight up answer in return. What he told me was "basically, unless you have very high income, you are not going to get a personal loan of that size." From a business risk perspective it's completely understandable that I wouldn't qualify, but I would have been able to pay off ALL my debts, and have a little extra to help me actually better my situation in a hurry, so I was wicked bummed out Anyways, I'm here living in Rapid City South Dakota. Moved out from San Diego for a number of reasons, but unless I can get a second job within the next month or two I'll be left with either living out of my car/storage unit or moving back to San Diego. Quite honestly, living out of my car/storage unit is far more appealing than going back to SoCal. The bulk of my work history is pretty much useless, I mean that in a literal sense. I worked for 11 years at an auto repair shop, but I would never be able to get a job at another one...long, sad story. It doesn't have anything to do with crime or anything illegal, but I simply would never be able to work at another one. Aside from auto repair I've got 2 months at a golf course, 3 months at Sears, and 5 months housekeeping at a hotel. No degrees, no certificates. I am basically starting out at square 1 at twenty eight years old. Ideally I'd get work in a fabrication shop somewhere, that's something I am very good at. I'm a really creative guy, I just lack the experience that shows it. I guess my question in all this is if anybody knows of any legitimate home-based income systems that don't require you to sell useless crap to people who can't afford/don't need it? I only need a couple hundred a month...but I'd happily take more! Preferably I'd like to start my own small business, but I just don't have the money to invest in a MIG Welder, grinders, and a shop...unless, I put that all on what remains of my credit cards. It'd be a huge risk with a potential of wrecking me for the next good long while, but if it pays off it might save me!