are you better off than you were 4 years ago?

wrong thread

And why do you think that's OK?

Even if it's true?

OK, no, this will just make me a screaming ball of fury if I carry on, and I'm not doing it at quarter to 5. Just... no.

Nobody said it was OK.

for the last 2+ years i have actually been working on recovery act grants and am in a much better place job-wise and salary-wise.

hey hey, me too! same story. so my answer is yes, financially. and personally? yes. falling in love helps A LOT.

surprised at the overwhelming number of yes votes. this is the rare poll i'm interested in seeing the numbers.

All contributions from 'bank of mum and/or dad' - e.g. towards mortgage deposits - should be declared in your assessments.

we bailed out that fuckin bank tbph

lol

you carry on lollin, i'll type out my latest entry in the family probs thread ;_;

Deposit for our flat came from my father-in-law.

after 3 years acting up in a role, it is the only one being abolished in a restructure that has been "pending" for 4 years, fu darraghjinx

I mean congrats

I was just doing my accounts and I'm almost exactly the same as I was four years ago. Which is disappointing because I changed my job and took a big hit to my earnings about six years ago in the hope that I'd be able to build them back rapidly, and more, but it hasn't happened. I can't blame the government or anyone, except myself for being fearful and lacking hustle. I'm about a third down on my peak, so thanks America for not having six-year terms. Even though I'm older, happier, etc that's still pretty rubbish I feel.

Don't self-analyse; don't look back.

That's one for 'only non-economically' I guess.

my bad sic ;_;

I was going to answer no to this because my wife's been unemployed for just over a year and money is a bit tight, but 4 years ago my wife was also out of work, and that was because she had TB instead of lack of employment opportunities, and I was earning less, so actually we are quite a bit better off.

Financially and in terms of relationships with friends, etc.: much better off. However my health has worsened dramatically so...it's a tossup.

for the last 2+ years i have actually been working on recovery act grants and am in a much better place job-wise and salary-wise.

hey hey, me too! same story. so my answer is yes, financially. and personally? yes. falling in love helps A LOT.

surprised at the overwhelming number of yes votes. this is the rare poll i'm interested in seeing the numbers.

― ou th (anky), Tuesday, September 4, 2012 5:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey anky, what projects are you working on? i'm working on "communities putting prevention to work" which is public health funding. our city had a visit from biden's office where he toured a bunch of the different successful projects across the city and it was pretty cool.

anyways - personally, it's a toss up for me because things could be better but i am not unhappy and feel like i've grown a lot as a person (not to be overly sincere).

i am in basically the same exact place as i was 4 years ago, only i don't really feel as energetic all the time. but not worse off, and content.

i will note that my politically-induced stress/rage/paranoia has been reduced substantially now that we don't have bush years wtf shit happening all the time. i do still wonder whether anyone in the white house will ever talk frankly about how much of the federal budget is being used on private security contractors around the world and why, but that's another story.

me, i'm fine 4 years later.

I'm better off. I have an MA now, and no more student debt. Healthier and less stressed-out all the time. Things are okay.

I'm way better off economically, but only as a couple - I still earn less at my US job after 4 years than what the minimum wage now is in NZ. But Ytth is earning twice as much, working for a young company that maybe wouldn't have survived the recession under a republican president.

nothing has been done about climate change, so we are all worse off, esp you crazy ppl who have just had kids.

YES, I'm living my lifelong dream!

Morbs (miserably) otm

guilty lol

Absolutely doing better now than four years ago. Better job, no longer living with my father-in-law, published a novel. Of course, my diabetes hasn't gone away, and we're no longer living with the FIL because he died, but still, things are looking up.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

still curious about the results of this

that's because they're not out yet

The ilxor demographic is likely to skew more toward "better off" than the USA at large, so it will be hard to read much into it.

Plus as individuals we're all four years further up the ladder - not true of the economy as a whole.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/the-47-percent-may-struggle-but-the-top-20-percent-are-feeling-flush/