Also, I don't know why, but I just saw who started this thread and honestly, I was surprised it wasn't Angie.
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Nope, I went to mens warehouse and had bubu I think is her name touch my junk in my trunk to get it all nice and tailored. I ended up getting a charcoal colored suit. looks slick
Define nice new clothes. I know people that would call my dress pants/polo nice. Hell I know people that think I am dressed up when I wear khaki shorts.
The next suit I buy I am going to get tailored. The last time I wore a suit was for a job interview a year and a half ago. I just can't justify to myself spending a few hundred bucks on a suit/tailoring to wear it that often.
The next suit I buy I am going to get tailored. The last time I wore a suit was for a job interview a year and a half ago. I just can't justify to myself spending a few hundred bucks on a suit/tailoring to wear it that often.
I, too, have broad shoulders. Body size/body shape, I could fit into large size shirts, but because the shoulders don't fit into large shirts, I have to bump everything up to XL shirts.
I have a $40 suit jacket from JC Penny I bought when I was a student. I need to get it fitted.
In Marshalltown there is nowhere to get good men's clothes. I go to Des Moines. And I'll be a suit snob and say buying a polyester blend suit from Kohl's does not count as nice. It better be 100% wool except in summer when a linen blend will do.
I have every shirt I buy tailored (which sucks when you put 13 pounds back on after an unhealthy summer) but all coats off-the-rack for me are way too long in the arms and the shoulders are always funky. The best coats I have are Byron with a floating canvas top (that's a type on construction - not coat material).
I don't mind spending a decent chunk of money on something but it better look good when it's all said and done.
A problem I have is all my shirt sleeve lengths seems to be slightly different so I can never get a uniform 1/3 inch sticking out from my sport coats. Oh well...
I have every shirt I buy tailored (which sucks when you put 13 pounds back on after an unhealthy summer) but all coats off-the-rack for me are way too long in the arms and the shoulders are always funky. The best coats I have are Byron with a floating canvas top (that's a type on construction - not coat material).
I don't mind spending a decent chunk of money on something but it better look good when it's all said and done.
A problem I have is all my shirt sleeve lengths seems to be slightly different so I can never get a uniform 1/3 inch sticking out from my sport coats. Oh well...
Boy, I know this struggle. Having a mild form of cerebral palsy, my left arm is a full two inches shorter than my right.
Someone put a sign on the bathroom door at work saying "toilet broken". Multiple people have gone in there to use the sink/urinal since then. I just went in there a few minutes ago.
The water was continuously running....that's it. I adjusted the float and fixed it in about 30 seconds. Not only had multiple people not even tried to look at a simple problem, but NOBODY bothered to shut the water off to the stool.
Not my problem, right? Damn, people are so lazy sometimes.
The water was continuously running....that's it. I adjusted the float and fixed it in about 30 seconds. Not only had multiple people not even tried to look at a simple problem, but NOBODY bothered to shut the water off to the stool.
Not my problem, right? Damn, people are so lazy sometimes.
Depending on your work environment, you may be over estimating people's ability to identify how to shut off the water. I'm constantly amazed how some people get thru their daily life not knowing how simple things work.
I feel sad when I see people on Facebook asking about where to work that pays well and others respond with jobs that are maybe $10/hour. One woman said Casey's gives quarter raises every year.
I know but it still make me sad. get your insurance license, real estate license, financial planning license, start a business, etc. when people think $10/hour is a great wage our system is screwed up.
We had a plumber come to our house a few years back to fix a leak. He asked if we could go ahead and shut the water off. My wife surprisingly chimed in and said she would do it. She ran downstairs and then shouted, "It's off."
The plumber loosened the valve and got blasted with a jet of cold water.
I know it wasn't hot water since my wife turned off the valve to the hot water heater instead of the main.
I might still give her **** about that.
Sad truth. These days in the job market, having a bachelors is the equivelant of what having a high school diploma was 30 years ago, so those people with just their high school diploma are generally working the jobs the high school dropouts took decades ago. 10 an hour is sadly a good wage to start at in those circumstances.
*note that this is just in general terms. There are obviously people without college degrees that make good money as there are people with college degrees that don't. In case anyone wants to get their panties in a bunch over a handful of exceptions to the rule.
*Well I know this one guy that never went to college and now he owns 5 car dealerships
*message board disclaimer ignored
Same % raise that my "high paying" office job got me. Managers and above at my company got no raises this year.
There is this jerk who owns a local business (not going to say who or what because we have a court case coming up )who makes money hand over fist and has millions in debt-free equipment. He has been arrested multiple times and is really just a huge pain-in-the-***. He doesn't think the rules apply to him. It's people like this that grind my gears because in the karma of life we've got good people making $10/hour and .25 raises while he makes well over six figures every year.
edit - forgot to add he has a GED and no degree.
then I look at people like my sister - my parents offered to pay for community college and she turned it down flat.
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