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ChadTower:

I have always wondered - do bartenders really declare all of their tips and pay tax on them?

myntik1:
that would be a no.  But one of the places I worked at got audited.  So my name appears on some  department of revenue list.  Evey year or two I get a letter stating that they think I under-reported my income in year xx.  I can either pay a fine or I can fight it.  If I fight it and lose then I owe interest, penalties and fees from the original date.  I paid one last month for 250.  It sucks, but you have to take the good with the bad.  Fortunately my day job provides me with money on paper.

Wade:
I agree with the short commute thing entirely.  When buying our house, my wife and I were tempted to buy further from town because we get get more house for less money.  Every time we tried to look at a house outside of town, we got stuck in traffic.  We made the smart choice and spent more in a nice, established neighborhood with great schools, and I have a 5 minute commute to work, most on curvey roads and only a couple of lights at the end.  I go home for lunch and see my wife and daughter fairly often.  Sometimes they come to my work and we have lunch, go for a walk in the park, etc.

I know a lot of people who keep moving further outside of town, and in the direction of all the traffic.  The extra cost of the vehicles, trouble, and time is simply not worth it - it's false economy.

Don't even get me started on the working moms when the husband already makes a comfortable income and the wife makes significantly less.  There's a similar false economy there, when her income is used to get unneeded things - a fancier house, fancy new cars loaded with options and gulping fuel, day care, private schools.

Wade

shmokes:
Yeah . . . and someone mentioned it, but there's a difference between cruising along at 70 MPH and stop-and-go traffic.  I love driving.  At my last job I commuted at least 12-hours per week.  We had multiple offices spread out over five counties and I ran the networks in all of them.  LOVED.  IT.

I live in Miami now.  I want to smash my head through the window if I have to spend fifteen minutes on the road in rush hour.

Wade:
Yeah.  If I've learned anything about interviewing, it's that you can't judge whether you'll get an offer or how good of an offer it will be, by how you felt the interview went.  I've had great offers when I felt I flunked the interview, and horrible (or no) offers when I felt I "hit it out of the park."

Wade

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