A Country Boy Can Survive

[Gunny376]

Well it turned out things aren't so bad.

 

Granted, I'm not living the life of a millionaire's son ~ and from what I've experienced and dealt with them haven't any use for the bastards.

 

For the better part of my life I've worked most weekends, most holidays, split ****s, second shifts, third shifts, forty, fifty, sixty even seventy to eighty hour weeks.

 

For the last going on six years (Come Oct), I worked every weekend and holiday (unless I took vacation)

 

The job I had you won't find at the state employment office, nor listed in the newspapers ~ because they don't won't to hire women nor blacks nor Hispanics. (We're talking rural Alabama here)

 

To do the job you don't have to have a college degree, but you do have to have a little more than a high school diploma. (Basic HS chemistry and math and such)

 

The population of the country that I live in? 33,000 of which 52% are women and 37% are African American ~ automatically disqualified from the job. Only 70% of the total population even have a HS degree.

 

The town in which I live in? Population ~ 15,000 of which 5,000 or more are college students.

 

The whelp of a middle son of the owner that got me fired? Doesn't even have a HS degree. Yet his ticket got punched the day he was born.

 

Joke is on them. I filed for un-employment ~ maybe I'll get it? Maybe I won't? 50/50 chance. I got two write up over six years ~ one for calling a manager at home over having problems calibrating an SO2 (Sulfuric Dioxide Monitor) that I should have known how to handled and dealt with after years of experience ~ which cost $10 of thousands of dollars to professionally calibrate every six months) ~ the other for not doing something I was never trained to do to begin with.

 

The third and final strike was I wrote a certification form for Bismuth as .090 instead of .009

 

A typo?

 

And I got fired for that!

 

But the joke is on them! Because I f**ked and did something right in my life? I retired from the United States Marine Corps!

 

Good luck finding some Joker that's willing to work every single damn weekend and holiday for the last six years!

 

My medical premium is only $19.17 a month, with a $12 co-pay. I've had to had some extensive dental work (mostly cleaning, couple of fillings, and some bridges) to the cost of a couple a thousand ~ paid nothing out of pocket.

 

I called the State Personal office and they confirmed that if I got a state job ~ any state job ~ paid into 20,000 into the State Retirement System? I could retire in five years.

 

I've got everything I need ~ not everything I want? But everything I need ~ and more.

 

Thank God I did my twenty in the Corps!

 

Thank God I went through Jungle Warfare Training.

 

Thank God I went through Mountain Warfare Training

 

Thank God I went through Desert Warfare Training.

 

A country boy can survie!

[tojaz]

Head Up, Shoulders Back! Your going to be just fine Gunny, bigger and better things my man. Your not just gonna survive, your gonna thrive Guaran-dam-teed! Besides you sure as heck aint the average country boy. 'Bama twang or not.

 

TOJAZ

[Gunny376]

There's parts of me that just want to lay down and die?

 

But there are stronger parts of ~ I guess the Marine part of me that say "F**k you and die!"

 

Not that I wish that on my own my XHEX? She cannot help herself for being dumb, ignorant and stupid. She is what she is!

 

For me a mistake of my youth.

[You Go Girl]

A country girl can survive too. I'm working on it. Something's wrong with the pressurization of the holding tank for my well pump, so the pressure is low. I haven't turned the gas back on yet so I take cold showers. At least it's summer!

stbx makes 6 figures and I am taking cold showers.

Not to the point of eating ramen noodles for dinner yet, and hopefully it won't get that bad.

A common problem in the US, I am another that has not figured out how to get affordable health insurance. I caught a summer cold this week, probably from stress and being run-down. If I needed antibiotics, I am still covered, but what about in a month when I'm not?

If you're going through hell, keep on going! Like that country song too.

[Gunny376]

Head Up, Shoulders Back! Your going to be just fine Gunny, bigger and better things my man. Your not just gonna survive, your gonna thrive Guaran-dam-teed! Besides you sure as heck aint the average country boy. 'Bama twang or not.

 

TOJAZ

 

 

Thanks Bro ~ and yea I'll do just fine.

 

I did something right for an old boy from rural Alabama?

 

I did my "twenty in the Corps!"

 

It was one Hell of a Mother ~ I'm here to tell you ~ and we could sit and drink whisky and spit in the fire all night long talking about it!

 

I'm glad I did it ~ proud I did it!

 

And just as damn proud that its done, did, and overwith.

 

Most of my adult life? I've worked my @zz off!

 

Weekends, holidays, second shift, third shift?

 

You know what?

 

Forget that! As I understand it? I can get a job with the State of Alabama (Whatever) invest $20K into of my own money into the retirement system and retire from the State of Alabama within five years

[Gunny376]

A country girl can survive too. I'm working on it. Something's wrong with the pressurization of the holding tank for my well pump, so the pressure is low. I haven't turned the gas back on yet so I take cold showers. At least it's summer!

stbx makes 6 figures and I am taking cold showers.

Not to the point of eating ramen noodles for dinner yet, and hopefully it won't get that bad.

A common problem in the US, I am another that has not figured out how to get affordable health insurance. I caught a summer cold this week, probably from stress and being run-down. If I needed antibiotics, I am still covered, but what about in a month when I'm not?

If you're going through hell, keep on going! Like that country song too.

 

 

I don't know which country song you're referring to but the actual quote was attributed Whiston Churchill.