Posted on 09/07/2017 9:33:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin
I just checked. It said I wasn’t affected and I have credit.
This is the site to check to see if you were affected and if you were you have the option of getting a free year of identity theft protection. Actually, the way it reads, even if you aren’t affected you can still get the free year.
https://www.equifaxsecurity2017.com/enroll/
There are a lot of ways to come back.
Parlaying experience into wisdom is one of those ways. Many of the richest men in the world have gone bust before. A failure may be an almost success but for one thing. He who never gambles never learns. You might be able to ease into a supervisory role, guiding others past pitfalls.
There’s some psychological scarring to overcome, I’m beginning to completely understand why my older relatives who lived through the Great Depression were so very overly cautious with financial matters to the point of being detrimental. I kept my S-Corp active through the whole period, hoping for better days and am actually generating enough income to support myself through it now, so that’s progress. I built it from nothing to a fair amount of something originally from 1997 to 2007, so given an equally favorable economic environment it’s certainly feasible to get myself back to where I once was. I’m considerably older now, though, so the very long hours will take more of a toll, it won’t be as easy as it was before.
If you can chalk it up to experience without wallowing in shame and blame, you might be surprised where the grace of God may lead. Contracting is a very hot job niche today.
No shame or blame here, I brought it on myself to some extent, and to some extent it was a confluence of events outside my control. If I have to muddle on through just as I am in the very first house I ever bought with ten year old cars, I’m actually OK with that. I’d rather not, though. Money can’t buy happiness, that’s true, but no money doesn’t buy anything at all.
The shame and blame can rumble on in the background. It’s an expected part of world think. People have other terms for it such as the one you used, “psychological scarring.” But suppose God declared that this didn’t matter anymore? That you had the rights, claimed by faith in Him, for a chutzpah that would astonish the world? Where the only apology you’d owe would be for having been too timid?
Panic attacks have been an issue off and on, that’s what I was referencing. My beloved Labrador Retriever died in the middle of my business going down the tubes, and then my dad died. All that happened over a six month period, it was pretty rough. Don’t ever say “it can’t get any worse” because it certainly can. I thought I was dying myself, at the time.
I have the panic attacks under control now, through prayer, breathing exercises (which are just mechanical but oddly effective by the way) and a fairly inexpensive herbal “stress formula” with L-Theanine, which I no longer use or need.
There are others who have had it far worse I realize, and for that I’m grateful. Simply giving thanks for what you do have in prayer is probably the single best thing you can do in such a circumstance.
I’m just suggesting that you look behind it all for that rumbling background of shame and blame. Once burned twice shy and other worldly truisms. But what if you could put on an immortal mind? And realize that you may have been bumping into the devil? And that Jesus will be your best friend to the end? It begins to open your mind in freedom. Even your sins become less and less as the love given by God finds more and more room in your soul.
Thank you for your concern over the state of my soul, seriously, but I actually am Christian already.
Oh, you can be “Christian already” and yet do next to nothing with it.
Or, conversely, you could have an issue with boundaries and do more harm than good with a sometimes misguided online attempt at ministry.
Oh, maybe the only relevant boundaries are in your own head, taught by the world rather than God. (Christian psychology is one of the worst culprits here. It uses worldspeak just like you do.)
Ditto! Equifax manages ACA exchange verifications and ACA compliance for employers. My guess is they have expanded well beyond the scope of managing credit reports and can't manage all those systems.
I’m attempting to gently indicate to you that you’re crossing the line into offensive, here. Apparently it’s not being effective. So, back off. I should have known better than to engage in an exchange with you, it’s all about twisted wordplay and trying to one-up others on Godliness for you, or so it appears.
Have a good morning.
I’d sure be curious what failed though. Data dumps like this are supposed to live in the inner sanctum. And access carefully circumscribed.
Don’t forget bad old “social engineering.” Sometimes the inner sanctum gets too self confident. I saw another inner sanctum at a different business where the main Oracle password was going out in random status emails.
Pearls before you know what on my part, apparently. But modern “Christianity” is way too polite. It cannot exhort its way out of a paper bag. It won’t risk offending someone. Even if it is to turn them off of their bum back onto their feet.
I’m grateful to have survived a pretty major economic setback while managing to hold onto my first house and while honoring all my financial obligations in a timely manner. If that’s me being “on my bum” then how would you describe your own circumstance? Can you not see how you’re sounding, here? Motes and logs, Bible, read it, get back to me. OK?
Evidently this information isn’t in the inner sanctum.. If it was, you wouldn’t be able to get your free annual credit report or signup for Obamacare.
And yet with all this outward diligence here you are singing the blues. Poor you, only 20 years to go, 10 year old car. Cue the Stradivariuses.
How about not straining out gnats while swallowing camels? The bible, read it. Then get back to God.
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