How Much Are You Worth

How much are you worth? How much do you sell yourself out for?

I look down and ask myself how much am I worth on a regular basis.. right now, the average adult in southern Illinois is worth about $8.25 per hour.. thats minimum wage. some factory workers get paid between $14-16 per hour and an average wal mart employee makes $10 per hour.

Now this being said full time used to be considered 40 hours per week but ever since Obama and his "infinite Wisdom" created the medical reformation act, full time has now become 30 hours per week, which means not only do you get forced to buy insurance at an over priced rate but you also now earn a lot less money than you used to make. so that person that was originally making $330 per week is now making $247.50, that is $82.50 in lost wages per week or $4290 a year that has been lost.

now knowing this, a single person with one income makes about $990 before taxes and fica (social security which supposedly will run out before I get it, which is another story in itself) which ends up as being $721.77based on http://www.payrollforamerica.com/calculators/Illinois-payroll-calculator.php .
Now shall we add in costs of living? an average apartment in my town runs anywhere from about $400-$500 per month utilities from what I hear are similar as follows: average water starts at about $40-$60, electric about $175-$250, then there is food so look what has already been spent so far with even the cheapest 400+40+175=615 so lets hope you don't have a car payment or paying on anything else cause we still haven't included the cost of gas (locally $2.39 / gal when I wrote this), food, phone, consumables such as personal hygiene products, or anything like TV or Internet either oh and don't forget that insurance that is mandated by Obama. Right now as we are calculating you are seeing that this person working full time and is single only has $106.77 left from paying these bills.

now has any money been put back and saved at this point? probably not. By all rights we should be only paying out and living on 50% of our earnings or less, but as it turns out, the majority are living on about 75% or more.

So I ask you again, how much are you worth? you see this was just me trying to show you what average people around me are dealing with, how they struggle and how we as a community of people struggle daily to just exist. I myself am sick of just existing. I want to make more than that  little amount I quoted above, I am sick of being the man on the low end of the totem pole that every one craps on, on a regular basis. I know for a fact that I am not the only one that feels this way. But I tell you what in December of last year I met some people that gave me a small glimmer of hope, a star to steer by that I am trying to make work. Yes, it is hard work. Yes, you have to spend money to make money... But you know what? I see it working with so many people. I have met people over the last several months who have shown me so much that can come of this, and it is a way to escape from this living that isn't even a living. One man named Orrin Woodward call it the Matrix.. Its not hard to believe either because it does resemble it a lot.

So once more. HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH???
I know I am worth more than that $106 that was left over from those bills listed above, and so are you!

If you are interested to find out more information about what I am talking about, please feel free to contact me at 618.241.0328 or you can message me via hang outs or Google plus of even here by leaving a comment. I will get back with you I promises.

Write you again soon
~B

Pondering of the Things That Can Be or Something to Think About

I lately have been pondering on a job situation that I can take right now.. I really and at a battle within myself as to if I want to take this situation or not. There are many reasons to take this job and number one is the money that is possible to be made.. the down side is that I will have to be available 24/7/365 and will be attached to a phone at all times and will have to be next to an internet access at all times.... I dont really know if I am up to being a prisoner to something so dedicated... I would have to give up sooo much in order to take this job.. including my life... there would no longer be any fishing or camping or going somewhere just to get away for even just an hour.... I remember back when  was truck driving there was a magazine that came out and gave an equation for your time vs job prison... it went something to the effect of 24 x wage = daily amount.. for me that would only be minimum wage... but there is also another part of this equation... and that is family time, which to me is worth more than minimum wage as is personal time as well. so in doing so lets see what we have right now.... 24 x 8.25 = 198 / day. Now lets put this per month.. 198 x 30 = 5,940 hmm doesn't sound too bad for a wage.. now this is with out sleep mind you and that is gonna be 1/3 of your time so lets divide by 3 just to see what you are missing.. 5940 / 3 = 1980  Our total of your worth per day now has dropped to 3,960 and that is only sleep and work.... now at least when I was truck driving I always had off at least 24 hours that I got to spend with family... I wont even have this when I work for this company cause what if I am called in the middle of the night? I have to be available right? Now what about that personal and family time that I said was worth double of minimum wage or of my wage? that would be another 3rd at double?? so 1980 x 2 = 3960 now add the 1980 which is another 1/3 which would be 8 hrs of work... so 3960 + 1980 =5940 which is the same amount that we started with minus 8 hours of sleep which of course is still 1/3 which is 1980 ...
So how much is your time worth??
Me mine is worth 7920 / month which now once again is equal to 264 / day or 11 / hour
Yeah I know I am easily worth $11/hr so how much are you worth??

I greatly got off topic on this but to an effect of how much this job is worth
350 per week / 7 days = $50 / day which is $2.08 / hr...
This isnt looking very good to me, but then again I have been wrong in the past...
Take care cause I am going out and gonna get wet walking a dog, have a good night every one...
~Brad