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armchair_warrior
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My business is slow, so i took a job with para transit. my training pay for the whole week is only about 300 bucks!!! after all the taxes and dues. only about 230 bucks!

so how the hell do people live on minimum wage? i get 8 bucks training pay, it is slightly better than min. wage.

god can't wait till spring to do my own thing full time. letting my bro do my job for now. not enough jobs or two vans.

for 230 bucks thats not even freaking 3 nice dinners. hell i could eat like mc d's or chinese take out with that budget and save a ton. but still that stuff it gets old.

well it sucks being poor oh wells.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
raw
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Do you have children? If not, imagine if you did? I hear stories about Walmart employees who can't afford to shop at Walmart on their minimum wage salaries.

I hope your business picks soon.

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# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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plus i'm in it till i get some dental work :p. like atleast 3 months from now hehe. i get dental and heath care while working there. even if the pay is shitting. unless with overtime.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
doctorj
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When I was poor, I swapped between all-you-can-eat Chinese buffets for about $3 and all-you-can-eat Hare Krsna buffets for free. One meal a day was plenty, and it was all reasonably healthy food. Do they have that kind of thing in NY?
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
alafairnadia
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there are apparently places my broke ass in an extreme degree in chinatown where you can get a load of food for $1.50. I'm also a big fan of the 6 dumplings for $1. I was pretty broke when I first moved to NYC and knew exactly where to get $1 slices of pizza, $2 overstuffed egg salad sandwiches, $1 styrofoam containers of noodles in chinatown, etc. one or two meals like that a day got me through it. cheaper than mcdonalds, frankly.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
alafairnadia
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oh, and when I was feeling spendy, I'd go to panpan in harlem and get a cup of soup and blt for $3.50. but then I had to tip, so it was really $4.50. as I said - spendy.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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yeah in chinatown there is alot of those cheap eat things :). hehe i used to eat that stuff alot :p.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
Carnivore
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Oh, yeah?

Well take THAT!!!!

# Posted 6 yrs ago
quijibo
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ohmygawdisthatforreals!!!?!?!

the only way that awful thing could be awfuller is if it were deep fried and coated in mayo. chocolate chip WTF?!!!!!

if you look reaaaaaaaal close you'll see an "organic" label....
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
alafairnadia
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that's so disgusting. I think I might have to shoot myself.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
Drano
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Now I'm toying with the idea of making those tomorrow, minus the stick. I can only imagine what the Nutrition Action Health Letter write up would be for those babies:

Food Porn: Want to die? After you've called the coroner, Try Jimmy Dean Pancakes and Sausage on a stick. Although 125 calories per serving sounds reasonable, closer inspection reveals that the serving size is listed as 1/10th of a stick. Need we mention that in addition to the 1000+ calories, each stick comes 57 grams of artery coating sludge? Anyway, we just did. That's almost two Big Macs if you need a frame of reference. Don't take our word for it, waddle on over to your computer (God, we just know you use a PC, don't you? Enjoy your blue screens.) and Google it. Oh, don't bother - it's probably too difficult for your Arby's addled mind and you'll eat it anyway, won't you? This is like talking to a trans-fat sweating brick wall. You sicken us.

# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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wow instant death eating that stuff carni posted :O.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
Boygabriel
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Subject: Re: how can people live on minimum wage?
armchair_warrior » so how the hell do people live on minimum wage?

On this very subject, has anyone read Nickle And Dimed?
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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actually i can live on minimum wage :p. i just hate going back to that level.

once you reach a point. you really don't want to go back down.

I have no problems eating cheap stuff :p. I just enjoy my meals at nice places hehe.

I could buy clothes at low end places too etc.... or hell use clothes(before it wasn't so cool lol)
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
alafairnadia
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Subject: Re: how can people live on minimum wage?
Boygabriel » [quote="armchair_warrior"]so how the hell do people live on minimum wage?

On this very subject, has anyone read Nickle And Dimed?[/quote]

yeah. basically, if you "live" on minimum wage, you're homeless.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
escap
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That is, unless like the vast majority of people who work for minimum wage, you are not the primary earner in your household. There are far, far more teenagers than homeless people making minimum wage.

...but I digress...

For cheap eats, eat at home!! That's by far the cheapest way to go (and usually healthier too).

# Posted 6 yrs ago
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armchair_warrior » actually i can live on minimum wage :p. i just hate going back to that level.

once you reach a point. you really don't want to go back down.

I have no problems eating cheap stuff :p. I just enjoy my meals at nice places hehe.

I could buy clothes at low end places too etc.... or hell use clothes(before it wasn't so cool lol)

If you'd learn to raise the rent once in a blue moon you'd be able to eat at La Gamin instead of buying the "cat of the day" at New Hing Ling.
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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its dogs man, dogs! not cats at least try to get the stereotype right!
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
Anon
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Well actually I know people who have eaten cat.

# Posted 6 yrs ago
alafairnadia
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no one is eating my cats. don't care how poor you are - I'll give you some ramen. just keep away from my cats!
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
stacey
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Anon » Well actually I know people who have eaten cat.

ewww I would rather eat the cat food than the cat

# Posted 6 yrs ago
doctorj
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stacey » [quote="Anon"]Well actually I know people who have eaten cat.

ewww I would rather eat the cat food than the cat[/quote]

I really think it depends who's preparing the cat and/or catfood. A good chef could present either in an appetizing fashion. Howabout flame-grilled catkebabs with a salad of roquette, cherry tomatoes, virgin olive oil, and Solid Gold Gourmet Blended Tuna Canned Catfood, topped with the crunchy goodness of Eukanuba Kitten Complete?
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
pitu
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I am never looking at this thread again.

# Posted 6 yrs ago
WhyFi
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doctorj » Invite people round and cook for them. Or go to their place. It's cheaper, I get to pick the music, we can make an evening of it without pushy NY waitrers/esses wanting us out on the street. Only downside is the washing up.

I believe this is what everyone used to do.

doctorj » I really think it depends who's preparing the cat and/or catfood. A good chef could present either in an appetizing fashion. Howabout flame-grilled catkebabs with a salad of roquette, cherry tomatoes, virgin olive oil, and Solid Gold Gourmet Blended Tuna Canned Catfood, topped with the crunchy goodness of Eukanuba Kitten Complete?

Note to self - politely decline invites from doctorj...
...not that there's anything wrong with that.

# Posted 6 yrs ago
Idlewild
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Take my cats. Please!
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
armchair_warrior
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*prepares his bbq to grill the thread hi-jackers.
Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure).

# Posted 6 yrs ago
quijibo
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best cat-on-a-stick -- roosevelt avenue in corona, queens
only $2
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# Posted 6 yrs ago
whynot_31
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AW-

As a result of Obama's recent State of the Union address, Minimum wage is back in the news!

Here's some jabbering:

http://www.cityandstateny.com/would-minimum-wage-increase-lock-the-poor-into-poverty/

For better or worse, the change on Nostrand is going to make the change on Franklin look minor.

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