John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
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John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
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Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#2I had no idea he had a blog. For those who aren't aware: he's a very entertaining sci-fi writer, if not necessarily as cerebral as others.
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#3I had no idea he had a blog. For those who aren't aware: he's a very entertaining sci-fi writer, if not necessarily as cerebral as others.
ha ha ha
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#4I'm fairly certain I'm not poor but a few of these apply to me.
Not enough room for all the people in the house. Driving an $800 car - although it works very reliably - maybe it is $1200 US. Living next to the freeway - well a 5 lane highway and a many many lane motorway around the corner.
It is incredibly hard to break the cycle when living from paycheck to paycheck unfortunately.
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#5I had no idea he had a blog. For those who aren't aware: he's a very entertaining sci-fi writer, if not necessarily as cerebral as others.
Also, for those who want to sample his writing https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51964.Old_Man_s_War is a very good read.
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#6I had no idea he had a blog. For those who aren't aware: he's a very entertaining sci-fi writer, if not necessarily as cerebral as others.
Both John Scalzi and Charles Stross have been blogging since before they were called "blogs" :)
Charlie is even a regular here, user cstross.
FWIW, I find Charlie's blog [1] more interesting, because his schtick of taking random ideas and mashing them together to see what sticks makes him come up with insightful perspectives.
Also as an ex-programmer (and ex-pharmacist), he speaks our language ;)
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#7I had no idea he had a blog. For those who aren't aware: he's a very entertaining sci-fi writer, if not necessarily as cerebral as others.
Much of what he blogs will be triggering for shitlords.
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#8Things have only gotten more expensive 12 years later...
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#9Being poor must in part be not knowing how not to be poor or having felonies or depression holding you back. I failed out of college and barely scraped one month of rent for an apartment. I got a shit job working the dock in a light bulb warehouse. I made friends with the truck driver who picked up orders who told me about an opening on their better paying dock. After half a year my hard work caught the eye of HR who put me through driving school. And a few months later I was making $45k/year driving trucks and working the dock. I had rough times and missed a day or two of food every once in a while, But working your way up in trades is doable and straightforward. After paying back my $18k in school debt and seeing much of the country while driving, I went back to the cheapest college I could find and got a degree, from which it was all downhill from there.
Re: John Scalzi: Being Poor (2005)
#10I'm fairly certain I'm not poor but a few of these apply to me. Not enough room for all the people in the house. Driving an $800 car - although it works very reliably - maybe it is $1200 US. Living next to the freeway - well a 5 lane highway and a many many lane motorway around the corner. It is incredibly hard to break the cycle when living from paycheck to paycheck unfortunately.
The "funny" thing is people who aren't poor but who have experienced one or more of these things once or twice tend to sort of double down on the "being poor is people wondering why you chose to be" item. They don't "get it" long or hard enough to understand how for most it's not a choice.