Boston Gal's Open Wallet

Im sorry your not feeling well. I cant tell you how well coldfx works. being a nurse in canada, it doesnt prevent a cold but shortens the life of it. just a suggestion. I must say i havent seen a winter like this...ever! Thinking wishfully of sunshine! o yes and paying off the mortgage. (that is why I brushed off my car and plow down snow covered roads every day!)

 

You are correct that once you pay off the mortgage, you still have to work!! Our mortgage is paid off but there are still property taxes, homeowner's insurance, home repairs, power bills, etc to pay. And then, of course, there is saving for retirement.

Hope you feel better soon!

 

I just need to fund my assisted living fund...

I know this sucks -- I am NOT living for today, I am living for what I'm afraid my tomorrow might be like.

 

I don't know if "paying the mortgage" really holds up as a defense for doing immoral things. It is true everyone has to make a living to put a roof over their heads - but what kind of roof justifies this? Does the poor inner city kid get to use this defense for dealing drugs? Or is it just the upper-middle-class suburban whiteman dabbling in white collar-esque crime?

 

I hope you feel better!

I'd still have to work to pay all the stuff Wendy mentioned, but mostly I'd need to work for the health insurance. (Unless one of our esteemed candidates can solve that problem in '09...)

 

Hey BG - I was not feeling great either this weekend - "Bridget Jones" was my movie of choice ...

At this point, I'm just working to pay off the bills but I'm lucky in that, for today, I love my job. Still going to build that fund so that, should the day come that I no longer love my job, I have options.

 

"I'm just paying off my law school loans."

 

Am I allowed to use the Yuppie Nuremberg Defense?

I work for a health insurance company- but I am one of the good guys there. I am a case management nurse-- I get to occasionally allow for coverage of service or items not usually covered with reasonable justification.

My defense would be something like: "I need regular working hours due to my kids and as a nurse, the choices become limited."

 

I just accepted another ad for my blog from a payday loan company. Both of my current direct sponsors are cash advance companies.

I was thinking of writing a post with what you're calling a Nuremberg defense--I need to take money from companies I hope my readers won't use because I need to pay the bills.

But I decided, what the hell. Some PF blogger, I forget who, once said she accepts ads from all comers because she's "not a babysitter" and her readers can think for themselves. I guess I like that logic, rather than making it all about why I need the money.

 

I guess mine is:

student loans (though I could have chosen NOT to do the MBA of course)

retirement

supporting my looking-for-work husband

and saving to help take care of my family (Dad is retiring soon and I have one brother still in college, and one who never went--so is working 'odd' jobs.)

Feel better, Boston Gal!!

 

Everyone has their reasons and motivations to do what they do. The best of us actually live our lives according to the morals we say we have. The rest of us hope that talking about being moral and having values is enough to overshadow our actions.

At some point you have to realize that either you are part of the solution, or part of the problem. I believe a great deal of us, because of the actions we choose to execute of our own free will (sorry, no one "needs" a mortgage) on daily basis...are a majority of the problem. And it's easier to ignore it, make excuses, and maintain the status quo than actually do something about it. It's a conflict and apathy I believe a lot of us are stuck in.

 

The hip jobs arms race has gone too far if someone feels like she has to claim the "Nuremberg Defense" for working as a nurse for a health-care company, even in jest!

Does the world really need another marginally talented graphic designer?