We can also kiss good bye the idea a trad man should try and make six figure, upper middle class type income, so he can have a wife at home w a large family living abundantly the American dream (which is hereby dead). We can expect less jobs, less pay, less opportunity, more oppression of workers, the dollar to keep going down, the cost of everything to go up. Going forward men need to hussle hard core so their wife can stay at home, and both the man and woman need to expect at best a minimalist lifestyle with some relative stability. But still devoted to magnanimity and being as abundant as possible but w lower expectations what that’ll look like. Less and less about financial status and more about managing your own property, self-sufficiency, building things yourself, maintaining what you can yourself, hunting/gardening.
I just started two days ago a new home health rural PT job (local company owned by a huge national corporation monopoly) promised a certain full time caseload, and travel radius: after 2 days orienting w the head PT, she told me the hiring manager basically lied about the position. From what I was told in the second interview, I can expect to fit all my patients (6 average a day x 5 days) in 4 days (7-8/day x 4 days, to work an extra day or two Grubhub in the city to make 10-15k more a year) making on average 50k/year after travel reimbursement. Turns out that won’t even be close, based on their business in the last year or more. Her words “I cringed when I heard them promising you that money, Expect it to be slow for a few months, and then hopefully you’ll get 4-5 a day, 4 days a week.” While conplaining how she almost quit and still might. That works out to maybe 25k/yr, and I wouldn’t even be able to make a weekly Grubhub schedule not trusting what my case load will be. They screwed me over. Turns out with the more realistic pay, still committing to 4 days a week, 3 hour round trip to the assigned area (another lie was they would have patients for me closer to Tulsa), I’d make even less than my present “gig” job working M-Sa 48 hours. I texted the hiring manager (who has had almost no contact w me directly since offering me the position) I can’t continue unless they give me a salary and contract, because of what the head PT told me about a realistic caseload, who has worked at that location for 25 years (I trust her estimate of what the job really is). This after 3 weeks prepping for this job, onboarding, life planning etc etc. Her response “Ok thanks for letting me know. Please return the tablet and supplies ASAP.”
So it’s going to be Grubhub 48 hours a week, working on my online CEU business idea, renew my teaching license, maybe do some side PT work long term. And prepare for Dystopia. Clear Creek style. The end is near.
