What goes around, comes around! You generally get the sort of friends that you are.
I've only worked for about 3 months in my life since I left school 46 years ago if you define work as doing something that you don't *want* to do but are doing it because you need the money. I was RAF aircrew for 30-odd years - OK, some tours were better than others but there was only one I actively dis-liked, and even that had some good points. After that I was a mixture of self-employed and working as an IT contractor on very good money and learning lots every day. Now I just do what is needful in the winter and spend the summer cruising the canals of England - magic! Sure beats working for a living <g>. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > So, yep, irresponsible me. For nearly 16 years I have been at this game, > and full time with commercial applications my clients rely on since 2001. > As it turns out the tenants in the S California home have had a real tough > time of it financially over the past year. The wife (36 years old) has > cervical cancer, and it looks bad. She has not been able to work > for over a > year, and her treatments have not been helping much lately. They are not > able to keep up with their rent. Luckily I have "a job" that provides me > enough revenue to be able to cut them a lot of slack. I really > do not want > to boot a family of 5, with 2 young children, out into the street > when they > are already getting kicked in the chops with one of life's > cruelties. They > have no safety net with either set of parents, and the rental price is > substantially below market value - so moving to a smaller place > will end up > costing them more than renting our house out there. Lord, if I > had a "job" > where I had to beg for a 4% increase each year, instead of hustling a bit > more and picking up additional revenue, I would have had no > choice but have > them leave long ago. Sure, it is not my responsibility to support them in > this manner, but I do have a conscience, the ability to help, and can only > hope someone would be so kind to others I care about if they are so > challenged in the future. It makes things a bit tight for Lynda > and I, but > we feel good that we are able to help. > > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
