Fear of Poverty

[LiddyRules]

On the show this week, Opie was talking about how despite being a highly successful radiohost, he still has a fear of being unemployed and having no money.

Does anyone else have this? That even if things are ok, you have a decent living, a good financial base and even a good job, you still live in a constant fear of losing all your money.

[Glenn Dandy]

I just dont care anymore... Im almost to the point ,
I think i might be happier homeless . I work to stay out of jail basicly.

[yellowstonesteve]

I've always been poor, so stick your question up your ass :action-sm


actually, I make a decent living, but now I'm ****** rich, so I still never have any money. trying to break myself of that

[Hudson]

I am poorer than dirt. I came from what most would call "money", I never saw it. Class, or as my grandma put it, "Upbringing" was always paramount.

[WhiskeyWhispers]

It's absolutely my biggest fear.
I have been chronically unemployed for most of my adult life, and I'm scared shitless of remaining broke (although that fear does nothing to motivate me). For instance, whenever I watch COPS, I think I would rather be dead than live in an area like that (ghettos or trailer parks). You see how people live that are poor and it's scary.
It's weird to think that something as simple as a decent paying job that you don't hate is so hard to come by, and that alone can seal your fate.

[Hudson]

It's absolutely my biggest fear.
I have been chronically unemployed for most of my adult life, and I'm scared shitless of remaining broke (although that fear does nothing to motivate me). For instance, whenever I watch COPS, I think I would rather be dead than live in an area like that (ghettos or trailer parks). You see how people live that are poor and it's scary.
It's weird to think that something as simple as a decent paying job that you don't hate is so hard to come by, and that alone can seal your fate.
If you are unwilling to work, and work hard, I hold no sympathy for you

[WhiskeyWhispers]

If you are unwilling to work, and work hard, I hold no sympathy for you

Not looking for any, I freely admit I have the ambition of a rock.

[HummerTuesdays]

I don't worry. I am willing to work and if I got in a bind, I think my family would do their best to help me out. I don't have a huge nest egg but I don't live paycheck to paycheck either.

[Dopie Opie]

It is not a fear, but rather a reality. Most of us are one tragedy or a few small set backs away from financial ruin.

For me I feel that I can always earn a good buck because I can talk and for the most part I can convince people to like me and do business with me.

To a point it is a driving factor. That and not wanting to see my kids starve to death are enough to keep me rolling though.

[Budyzir]

I have a comfortable living, not rich but not wanting much. But yeah, poverty scares me and keeps me working hard.

[d0uche_n0zzle]

I've been broke (due to extended injuries,) but never felt "poor" even though I had nothing.

Guess it's just your mindset that will see you through whatever trouble you face if you're strong enough mentally.

[wes mantooth]

Not really, although I do have a fear of people that perpetuately live in poverty.

[NortonsGravyLeg]

If you are unwilling to work, and work hard, I hold no sympathy for you

Agreed

My girlfriend and I despite how much we work we can't seem to eek out not being broke on a regular basis. We are however leaps and bounds from where we were, at least we're not literally wondering where tommorow nights dinner is coming from anymore which was a reality for a while. However even at our worst I think we've had it pretty good. We've always worked, had a roof over our heads and most times had food to eat. We're a little better now in the last year and hopefully we will continue to succeed and god forbid get a house some day soon.

[YourAmishDaddy]

I've worked since I was 9 years in one capacity or another. It's one thing to be "rich" and quite another to be "wealthy." When one can grasp the difference then you lose the fear of "losing it all"

My only worry is what to do to pass time when I retire at 45.

[THE FEZ MAN]

im not poor, and i do work as much as i can, even though lately ive been slacking off my "side work" and just sticking to my "day job" i make decent money at that, my wife is a nurse, so she makes decent money. our problem is we have NO savings, we are one "incident" away from loosing every thing, but since we have a lot, i could start selling stuff to get me buy for a while. thats part of my problem if i want something i buy it, or do it. as a matter of fact recently ive considered selling off some of my prized stuff to try and get ahead a little

[YourAmishDaddy]

Saving is a major factor. In making a living you have to be aggressive. Almost to a fault. That's hard to do if you don't have something there to insure your risks.

Do what you have to do to have something to fall back on. Disasters seem to only come along at the worst times, like when you don't have the money to deal with them. Murphy's Law is real.

[tstlkevanilla]

Guess it's just your mindset that will see you through whatever trouble you face if you're strong enough mentally.
qft

[WMB]

I always have my hand to fall back on if sales tank in my business. I've always been a hustler and work my ass off to afford my life.

[VMS]

Savings is bullshit. INVESTMENT is key.

I've got money that I can't immediately get to if my life depended on it, and that's a GOOD thing. It means I can't fuck it up.

I've managed to get to a point where I live off what I make, have a small nest egg/savings that'll help me get through a minor emergency, and everything else is making me money.

Rich is bullshit. Like Chris Rock said, Rick James was rich. Rich is one crazy summer and a coke habit away from being in a homeless shelter. WEALTHY is the key.

There are "wealthy" people out there with a hell of a lot less total worth than some "rich" people out there, but what makes them wealthy is between their ears.

[LiddyRules]

Guess it's just your mindset that will see you through whatever trouble you face if you're strong enough mentally. I am so fucked.

[Plunkies]

*shrug*

I have a backup plan. It's called mooching.

[Angelfuck]

I live pretty much check to check, no stable career, no degree yet but I have enough to buy whatever food I need and live comfortably which is more than I can say for growing up, Ive always been scared of ending up homeless but Im more scared of never getting past the point Im at now

[abudabit]

I went from poor to middle class to poor to middle class. No big deal to me, but I don't have kids. But I really doubt I would become poor again anyways, my head wasn't on straight the first time I was middle class which is why I lost it all.

[distortion9]

Voted "Mere bag of shells/easy come easy go".

Things ever get REAL bad, I'll just turn to a life of crime...fuck it.

[fkornre]

yea...easy come easy go...there are so many ways to makeup for things you lose in this country so I have no fear of it...

[tonypop]

I only fear being poor because I don't want my kids growing up poor. I enjoy having a decent house to live in and paying all my bills on time but if it was just me minus my family then I couldn't give a shit if I was poor or not. I was poor most of my life so I'm pretty used to it.

[SatansCheerledr]

I've been broke (due to extended injuries,) but never felt "poor" even though I had nothing.

Guess it's just your mindset that will see you through whatever trouble you face if you're strong enough mentally.

Excelent point. I have had nothing but the clothes on my back before but I don't ever remember thinking of myself as a, "poor person". I never really thought of it that way till you pointed it out.

[Voss's Tumor]

Man, I'm so fucking petrified of being poor I can't describe it.

I'm in the middle of a divorce and our house isn't selling. I got laid off a month or two ago and our mortgage just went up. I'm seriously freaking the hell out, I mean, that movie The Pursuit of Happiness scared the hell out of me on a seriously personal level.

It's one of those things, my dad grew up poor as hell, he made my life a little more comfortable, and I plan to make my children's life better than mine was. It's frustrating when the shit hits the fan.

[CaraC]

It is probably one of my biggest fears, though Ive never really had ample amounts of money... growing up I would say my family was on the high scale of lower to lower-middle class, and thats where I'm at now, so part of me wants to say I've always been poor... but I do manage to live paycheck to paycheck and get my bills paid on time for the most part, and even though I don't have ANY money that could help me in case of emergency, I have all of my necessities... there are times when it is more difficult and I have ACTUAL anxiety attacks about it, but I have learned that I will always HAVE to work insane amounts of overtime and a part time job to survive, so thats what I do... I still constantly fear losing it all though, and LONG for the day that my entire paycheck doesn't go to student loans and bills... money is a CONSTANT worry of mine

[alt130]

I wouldn't say I live in a constant state of fear over it, but I do have a lingering concern from time to time about what I would do if I lost my job or had some sort of huge emergency that nuked my finances. My job is stable, pays well, and I enjoy it... and I don't have any dependents to drain money, so I could be worse. I used to worry a lot more when I had less money.