The question is, do they love Joe Biden or Pork more?
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Warning. Word salad ahead.
The pork, of course
I hate Joe Biden with every fiber of my being.
But the extended unemployment will keep me alive until I go off to the UK and start a professorship position at a university there in September (report date is June), £68K/annum isn’t bad.
There are absolutely no jobs in Colorado available to me except minimum wage, manual labor jobs. And I will not do that. Period. Full stop.
I don’t plan on living in my car - rents in most places are far more than what minimum wage pays, even at $12.32/ hr.
Having a 25% wage garnishment from a debt collector/ property management company - AMCRent LLC, demanding rent from April 2020 to August 2020 and late fees, about $15,000 in total (although I ended my lease and vacated the apartment in March 2020 at the lease expiry) doesn’t help matters.
For context, I’ve been in Airbnbs April to July and in the Philippines since July until coming back to the US in January.
My Airbnb I’m staying at is $1200/ month for a room and that’s in the middle of bumfuck Weld County. $500 a month car payment (including insurance) will leave just few hundred for food/gas. (I still have my wife and kids in the Philippines I have to send for expenses every month, about $600/ month)
To break even with Unemployment benefits, I need a job that pays $24/hr.
Impossible with my skill set in Colorado.
Indians absolutely dominate software engineering, and most positions go through Indian recruitment contracting companies, including the weekly list I get from Connecting Colorado or available at the local county Workforce Center.
In almost 1 year, I got perhaps ten American recruiters calling/emailing me with positions, vs. thousands of Indian recruiters (who go straight to spam or deleted).
So yeah, I’ll be a leach off the government until I’m off to Merry Old England.
Nice rant, 4 out of 5 stars. Just wait until you deal with the cost of living in the UK, your £68k/yr will be actually £34k/yr after taxes. But look on the bright side, after you have 34k, you still have to pay insane rent, travel taxes if you go into London. Not to mention $4.70/gal fuel, that is if you can pay the licensing for your car. My advice when you move to the UK, dont get hurt or get sick, those 12-18 month waiting times for medical attention could be detrimental to your health.