I cant even find side jobs to save up extra cash.

Discuss your issues related to the Economy/Stunting dilemna

 

cost of gas effects pretty much everybody

 

Sell yourself

I have a 9-5 and teach guitar at $50-$75 an hour. No probs here

 

lol very much so....

the economy sucks so nobody wants to build anything, so in turn theres no a/c install jobs i.e. im fucked....

 

I just bought a house, and thats taking a toll on my stunting. $$ is fine still.

 

I hardly ride anymore cuz I can't afford to drive to the spots

 

Ya, the economy is definitely in a shitty place, and it's only getting worse. I owned a mortgage company until a few months ago, I closed the doors. So, I am directly affected. Once the Lending industry & real estate market took a **** everything else was soon to follow. Everyone was living off their equity, constantly doing Cash-Out Refi's and once that ceased they didn't have that extra cash for all the luxuries of life. Add increasing gas prices and then people really start hurting.

With all that said, I felt it real hard when I shout the co. doors, but I shortly found another job and now I'm chill'n again. Regardless the state of the economy, if you want it bad enough you can make it happen.

 

Gas a lot. A lot of the racers I know haven't even been going to different staes to compete in AHRMA and CCS.my spot isn't that far for me stunting buh in all we're suffering

 

when your country is in a war no **** the economy will be harder on people..gas prices are up because of the war,so everything goes up..

 

the economy is a little tuff, i just cut down where i can so i can go do what i love....killit:YEAH:YEAH

 

hmmm well i got laid off recently and am riding the best of my life......im golden grams! kinda sucks not being able to party as much but **** it just ride and lay low

 

no problems with the economy here

 

naaaaw

 

yeah, come to the US.....

 

not affecting me terribly...my full time job is civil service soim not affected at all there, andi work part time when i can doin landscaping, misc side job...as far as riding its not that bad on me...my spot is about 20 miles from my house so its not THAT bad...only thing affected was i didnt travel all that much cuz of gas prices and the fact my truck only gets 8mpg pullin my trailer....if i had a desiel truck i woulda traveled alot more....


hopefully next year gets better

 

I sell less mortgages cause the media makes people think that the economy is bad. People read threads like this and think the economy is bad. Really if you have good credit have a job and pay your bills like you should then it's pretty easy to get a loan. So yes the image of the economy going to hell is effecting me.

 

I have been off work for a year and been looking for a job that long and the county I live in has the highest unemployment rate of the state. I have travled up to 40 miles to find a job and there are no jobs around here.My bike has been broke all summer and I dont have the extra funds to fix that **** not to mention got a kid on the way. Could be worse tho.

 

I dunno, I have bought more bikes this year then last year! I just got the 05 RR and am pickin up that 954 and RC51. I guess it all depends on how you manage your $?

 

I ride the bike more to work that's for sure. It's geared a bit low for it but it still gets almost twice the gas mileage my truck does.
And as stated b/4, a lot of people are just making it seem like the economy is bad. And I am tired of everything being blamed on gas prices. Everytime I go to a McDonalds and the price has gone up I ask why. They keep saying gas went up. The drinks in the machine at work went up $.15 a month ago. I asked why, they said gas prices. Let's do the math. How many of those ******* drinks fit on that truck? I bet it's at least 1000. That's an extra $150 to cover gas? Didn't you make enough profit in the first 50 years you were in business? Gotta keeps those quarterly figures up though right? And you know they have more drinks on 1 truck than that. And we let you use our electricity to run that machine at our place of business?
USPS goes up on postage. Not just a little bit but a lot. All of a sudden it costs $1 more to ship the same package across the same state? C'mon now.
In our area they say unemployment is up. It is that's for sure but not b/c employers can't afford the help. It's b/c they are lowballing everyone that applies. My g/f made about $16/hr and got let go. It's been over 2 months and no job although she applies for at least 5 a week. And she was applying b/4 she left that job. She has had a couple of offers but who the hell wants to drive a 40 mile round trip to make $8/hr. Guess what? Your first hour of every day pays for you to get to and from work that day. God forbid your car break down and you have to fix it. These jobs should pay at least $13/hr but they offer $8 for people that have the experience and know how they need. Then, what happens next? You get some dipshit in there that doesn't know what they are doing and b/4 you know it you are going bankrupt. Not one person in the business will cause bankruptcy but if you start replacing 1/2 your staff w/ people making 1/2 the money they should then you get a half-*** finished product. Then this makes the economy look even worse b/c all of a sudden businesses are shutting down. Not b/c they can't make money. It's b/c they don't want to spend the money it takes to make money.
Sorry, got off subject but once I started I couldn't stop. I am just tired of hearing unemployments up, gas prices are up, pay is down, mortgage rates are up, blah, blah, blah.