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Not surprised to see nothing has changed since I last posted in this thread. Game, I really wish you well and hope you turn things around. If you are truly going to be without a roof over your head then you need to do a quick fire sale on your remaining comics. You got bigger problems than buy and trading comic books right now. Thanks for the concern but I got this it's not my first time being homeless and I'm in a better position then last time.

Don't assume that I'm a rude person, I have manners however this decision is something I stand by. The "decision" you seem to have made is to open your mouth at the wrong time, to the wrong people. The RESULT of your decision is your parents decided to pull your meal ticket and show you the door. I'm curious, as someone who has followed this thread from the beginning, what kind of "plan" you have that you are going to implement in 8 days? While a few months ago I would have said that this was probably the best thing that could happen to you, in that it might force you to grow up, your posts since then have convinced me that you are very likley not capable of living on your own. Being on your own can be tough, even for someone with a good, full time job, reliable transportation and plenty of time to find a decent place to live. You have NONE of these. So what, exactly, is your plan? Nothing is my plan. Sadly, I believe you. What happens when January 1st rolls around? Haha in reality I do have a plan but I'm pissed at what my parents want me to do.

Don't assume that I'm a rude person, I have manners however this decision is something I stand by. The "decision" you seem to have made is to open your mouth at the wrong time, to the wrong people. The RESULT of your decision is your parents decided to pull your meal ticket and show you the door. I'm curious, as someone who has followed this thread from the beginning, what kind of "plan" you have that you are going to implement in 8 days? While a few months ago I would have said that this was probably the best thing that could happen to you, in that it might force you to grow up, your posts since then have convinced me that you are very likley not capable of living on your own. Being on your own can be tough, even for someone with a good, full time job, reliable transportation and plenty of time to find a decent place to live. You have NONE of these. So what, exactly, is your plan? Nothing is my plan.

Not in the sense like they are. Christians believe in Christ, as do Catholics. Both are Christians, but please try again. Jim Wrong. Catholics are a sub-set of Christianity and that also means not all Christians are Catholics.

Don't assume that I'm a rude person, I have manners however this decision is something I stand by. You ARE rude. You posted that the Pope is a POS on your Facebook Page and your parents, who you say are Catholic, and whom have been doing the CHRISTIAN thing by giving you shelter are basically insulting their faith. I can only IMAGINE what it is like at your home with your attitude as we have seen hints of this "I don't care" attitude of yours before. I stand by what I said and I don't care the roman catholic church isn't what you think it is and over 2000 years killed over 50 million people and history is going to repeat itself.

Don't assume that I'm a rude person, I have manners however this decision is something I stand by.

Thanks Jason. This is something I have to do and I'm standing firm, I'm in a better situation then I was when I was at the homeless shelter last time. This time I have money, a job, 8 days and a plan so fear not but thanks for caring.

I'm standing firm with what I said and I won't change my mind. This will force me to become more serious about how and what I do but yes it will be a good learning experience.

Long term? Not that I know of.

First will be to find a shelter which I can stay at. Second would be focusing on my income. Third will be food.

This will definitely be another personal growth opportunity but I'll be thinking of a plan. The first thing will be to find shelter, then to work on the income part of it.

sigh Gabe perhaps someday, somehow you'll think before you act or speak. Until then you're gonna face the harsh consequences of your choices. I did think it through and I knew this might happen, but I don't care I'm standing firm for what I believe in.

No Canada has a pretty good welfare situation. So I would look into that if I were you. Yeah it's on my to do list

I've only met one boardie.

No

Is it your choice to move out? No Well good luck to you. Is this move #3 for you in less than a year? Is this going to impact your job as well? Thanks and yes this will be move #3 this year and yes it's going to impact my job.

Not in the sense like they are.

Thanks

Is it your choice to move out? No

Religious differences? Yes my family is Catholic and I just became a Christian so I'm just going to leave it at that.

Moving update This is one of the biggest updates I've ever done. Due to religious differences I'm moving out at the end of the month.

That thought has crossed my mind many times.

The hours thing again right? Not necessarily, just illustrating a point, that even if you pulled off 4 of these $50-$60 profit flips per week, you earned $5.90 per hour. Not even minimum wage. That's true but this isn't my job right now it's something I'm doing on the side with the hopes of it becoming an eventual job. x 1,000,000 Again why not focus on getting a *real* job? How many jobs have you actually applied for in the last 60 days? Of those jobs, how many did you do any follow up with? Around the holidays, many employers are/were looking for extra staff. Did you look into any of that? Did your current employer offer you any additional hours? In the last 60 days how many hours have you spent researching "real jobs" you think you may like to do and what education/skills you would need? That's great that you made a $50 profit on a sale of a book, even with that Animosity book, good for you but can you LIVE on that? Did those sales in any shape or form improve your standard of living? No. You are still earning at the bottom 20% of Canadians for an unattached individual. Your situation would be even more dire if you were not living with your parents. To not work that additional 20 hours per week at minimum wage, you would have to be able to to do "deals" like that about 200 - 250 times a year to rank in the bottom percent of the lower-middle class for an unattached individual (about $23,000 per year). To earn a lower-middle wage for an unattached individual purely by selling comics, you would need to sell 460 per year at an average of $50 profit. To make, say $30,000 per year (a decent unattached individual middle-middle income range for Canada) you would have to sell 600 books at at an average profit of $50. To make $35,000 per year, you would have to sell 700 books per year with an average profit of $50. Realistically, can you sell 460, 600 or 700 books per year and average a $50 profit per book to have a decent standard of living? Does this seem likely to turn into a job where you can fully support yourself? There is hope and then there is false hope. Gabe, your "hope" for this to turn into an eventual job or means to fully support yourself is definitely the latter. Again, if not for your parents, you would be living in poverty. "False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them." The "real threat" to you if you continue down this path is that you will continue to live with your parents and live at or below the poverty line with zero resources, other than government assistance. Your station in life won't be improved. Finding a good job will only get harder and harder the longer you wait and put it off. Something to think about? How many jobs have I applied for in the last 60 days? None. As for who I followed up with none of them didn't contact me so I didn't bother. I see you mention making 30,000 is the average a person makes on the lower end but to be honest 20,000 would be ok as well. No sell up to 700 comics a year doesn't seem something realistic to me yet and like I said this is something that I'm doing on the side so right now I'm learning to make a profit on these comics and so far I'm satisfied with my progress. I don't have false hope I would like to turn this into a job if I can and I've been happy with how the last comics have played out which is a good sign, I haven't bought anything and I've also made budgets and followed them with the exception I made which is if I have comic book money I buy comic books, if I don't then I buy nothing. You are completely disconnected from reality. You are a 20 something young man with zero motivation to be a productive member of society because you are content to live at home as mommy and daddy cover your broke . You are serious? Last 60 days no job applications? No one is going to follow up with you - You have to go "get it". Ok, in the last 120 days (4 months) how many jobs have you applied for? How many hours have you dedicated to researching other potential viable career paths for yourself? When you are not working full time, you should not have something "on the side" - Your job should be finding a job and everything else should be a distant second. You think earning $20,000 is "Ok"? Well have you even done the math? You may be "fine with it' because you don't comprehend how much of a struggle that would actually be because you are "covered" by mommy and daddy. The average rent in Niagara Falls is just shy of $1,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment. That is $12,000 per year. You are down to $8,000. Rent often does not include utilities such as hydro and/or phone and internet. If it does, your rent will likely be higher. No car right? Don't drive? A yearly bus pass in Niagara is about $1,000/year. Down to $7,000 per year. Average cost of groceries for one person per month: $200 - $300 or let's go at the low end, $2,400 per year. You are down to $4,600 for the year. For the year! That is a mere $383 a month left over for other monthly expenses like any insurance (renters insurance), clothing costs,debt repayment (from that student loan), internet/telephone, utilities (hydro, gas) and any smidgen of entertainment you may have. Certainly not a lot of cash to be able to buy any books. Honestly if mom and dad decided they have had enough and wanted you out in a month, what would you do? Where are you getting all these ridiculous numbers from? I'll start with the rent. Nothing that I would get is 1000 dollars a month, there are places here that are for 350-600 a month with everything included. Bus Passes cost 70 dollars so 70x12 =$840 Like I said there are many places here that include everything here and I only buy clothes if I really need to. Ok I just checked on your right bus passes are more expensive now so that was my mistake. They are now 130 per month which is a crazy jump. So 130x12 =$1560 Yes the rent and what they offer is still the same thing. I didn't add food since I didn't know what I'd be spending.

The hours thing again right? Not necessarily, just illustrating a point, that even if you pulled off 4 of these $50-$60 profit flips per week, you earned $5.90 per hour. Not even minimum wage. That's true but this isn't my job right now it's something I'm doing on the side with the hopes of it becoming an eventual job. x 1,000,000 Again why not focus on getting a *real* job? How many jobs have you actually applied for in the last 60 days? Of those jobs, how many did you do any follow up with? Around the holidays, many employers are/were looking for extra staff. Did you look into any of that? Did your current employer offer you any additional hours? In the last 60 days how many hours have you spent researching "real jobs" you think you may like to do and what education/skills you would need? That's great that you made a $50 profit on a sale of a book, even with that Animosity book, good for you but can you LIVE on that? Did those sales in any shape or form improve your standard of living? No. You are still earning at the bottom 20% of Canadians for an unattached individual. Your situation would be even more dire if you were not living with your parents. To not work that additional 20 hours per week at minimum wage, you would have to be able to to do "deals" like that about 200 - 250 times a year to rank in the bottom percent of the lower-middle class for an unattached individual (about $23,000 per year). To earn a lower-middle wage for an unattached individual purely by selling comics, you would need to sell 460 per year at an average of $50 profit. To make, say $30,000 per year (a decent unattached individual middle-middle income range for Canada) you would have to sell 600 books at at an average profit of $50. To make $35,000 per year, you would have to sell 700 books per year with an average profit of $50. Realistically, can you sell 460, 600 or 700 books per year and average a $50 profit per book to have a decent standard of living? Does this seem likely to turn into a job where you can fully support yourself? There is hope and then there is false hope. Gabe, your "hope" for this to turn into an eventual job or means to fully support yourself is definitely the latter. Again, if not for your parents, you would be living in poverty. "False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them." The "real threat" to you if you continue down this path is that you will continue to live with your parents and live at or below the poverty line with zero resources, other than government assistance. Your station in life won't be improved. Finding a good job will only get harder and harder the longer you wait and put it off. Something to think about? How many jobs have I applied for in the last 60 days? None. As for who I followed up with none of them didn't contact me so I didn't bother. I see you mention making 30,000 is the average a person makes on the lower end but to be honest 20,000 would be ok as well. No sell up to 700 comics a year doesn't seem something realistic to me yet and like I said this is something that I'm doing on the side so right now I'm learning to make a profit on these comics and so far I'm satisfied with my progress. I don't have false hope I would like to turn this into a job if I can and I've been happy with how the last comics have played out which is a good sign, I haven't bought anything and I've also made budgets and followed them with the exception I made which is if I have comic book money I buy comic books, if I don't then I buy nothing. You are completely disconnected from reality. You are a 20 something young man with zero motivation to be a productive member of society because you are content to live at home as mommy and daddy cover your broke . You are serious? Last 60 days no job applications? No one is going to follow up with you - You have to go "get it". Ok, in the last 120 days (4 months) how many jobs have you applied for? How many hours have you dedicated to researching other potential viable career paths for yourself? When you are not working full time, you should not have something "on the side" - Your job should be finding a job and everything else should be a distant second. You think earning $20,000 is "Ok"? Well have you even done the math? You may be "fine with it' because you don't comprehend how much of a struggle that would actually be because you are "covered" by mommy and daddy. The average rent in Niagara Falls is just shy of $1,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment. That is $12,000 per year. You are down to $8,000. Rent often does not include utilities such as hydro and/or phone and internet. If it does, your rent will likely be higher. No car right? Don't drive? A yearly bus pass in Niagara is about $1,000/year. Down to $7,000 per year. Average cost of groceries for one person per month: $200 - $300 or let's go at the low end, $2,400 per year. You are down to $4,600 for the year. For the year! That is a mere $383 a month left over for other monthly expenses like any insurance (renters insurance), clothing costs,debt repayment (from that student loan), internet/telephone, utilities (hydro, gas) and any smidgen of entertainment you may have. Certainly not a lot of cash to be able to buy any books. Honestly if mom and dad decided they have had enough and wanted you out in a month, what would you do? Where are you getting all these ridiculous numbers from? I'll start with the rent. Nothing that I would get is 1000 dollars a month, there are places here that are for 350-600 a month with everything included. Bus Passes cost 70 dollars so 70x12 =$840 Like I said there are many places here that include everything here and I only buy clothes if I really need to.

The hours thing again right? Not necessarily, just illustrating a point, that even if you pulled off 4 of these $50-$60 profit flips per week, you earned $5.90 per hour. Not even minimum wage. That's true but this isn't my job right now it's something I'm doing on the side with the hopes of it becoming an eventual job. x 1,000,000 Again why not focus on getting a *real* job? How many jobs have you actually applied for in the last 60 days? Of those jobs, how many did you do any follow up with? Around the holidays, many employers are/were looking for extra staff. Did you look into any of that? Did your current employer offer you any additional hours? In the last 60 days how many hours have you spent researching "real jobs" you think you may like to do and what education/skills you would need? That's great that you made a $50 profit on a sale of a book, even with that Animosity book, good for you but can you LIVE on that? Did those sales in any shape or form improve your standard of living? No. You are still earning at the bottom 20% of Canadians for an unattached individual. Your situation would be even more dire if you were not living with your parents. To not work that additional 20 hours per week at minimum wage, you would have to be able to to do "deals" like that about 200 - 250 times a year to rank in the bottom percent of the lower-middle class for an unattached individual (about $23,000 per year). To earn a lower-middle wage for an unattached individual purely by selling comics, you would need to sell 460 per year at an average of $50 profit. To make, say $30,000 per year (a decent unattached individual middle-middle income range for Canada) you would have to sell 600 books at at an average profit of $50. To make $35,000 per year, you would have to sell 700 books per year with an average profit of $50. Realistically, can you sell 460, 600 or 700 books per year and average a $50 profit per book to have a decent standard of living? Does this seem likely to turn into a job where you can fully support yourself? There is hope and then there is false hope. Gabe, your "hope" for this to turn into an eventual job or means to fully support yourself is definitely the latter. Again, if not for your parents, you would be living in poverty. "False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them." The "real threat" to you if you continue down this path is that you will continue to live with your parents and live at or below the poverty line with zero resources, other than government assistance. Your station in life won't be improved. Finding a good job will only get harder and harder the longer you wait and put it off. Something to think about? How many jobs have I applied for in the last 60 days? None. As for who I followed up with none of them didn't contact me so I didn't bother. I see you mention making 30,000 is the average a person makes on the lower end but to be honest 20,000 would be ok as well. No sell up to 700 comics a year doesn't seem something realistic to me yet and like I said this is something that I'm doing on the side so right now I'm learning to make a profit on these comics and so far I'm satisfied with my progress. I don't have false hope I would like to turn this into a job if I can and I've been happy with how the last comics have played out which is a good sign, I haven't bought anything and I've also made budgets and followed them with the exception I made which is if I have comic book money I buy comic books, if I don't then I buy nothing. You are completely disconnected from reality. You are a 20 something young man with zero motivation to be a productive member of society because you are content to live at home as mommy and daddy cover your broke . You are serious? Last 60 days no job applications? No one is going to follow up with you - You have to go "get it". Ok, in the last 120 days (4 months) how many jobs have you applied for? How many hours have you dedicated to researching other potential viable career paths for yourself? When you are not working full time, you should not have something "on the side" - Your job should be finding a job and everything else should be a distant second. You think earning $20,000 is "Ok"? Well have you even done the math? You may be "fine with it' because you don't comprehend how much of a struggle that would actually be because you are "covered" by mommy and daddy. The average rent in Niagara Falls is just shy of $1,000 a month for a one bedroom apartment. That is $12,000 per year. You are down to $8,000. Rent often does not include utilities such as hydro and/or phone and internet. If it does, your rent will likely be higher. No car right? Don't drive? A yearly bus pass in Niagara is about $1,000/year. Down to $7,000 per year. Average cost of groceries for one person per month: $200 - $300 or let's go at the low end, $2,400 per year. You are down to $4,600 for the year. For the year! That is a mere $383 a month left over for other monthly expenses like any insurance (renters insurance), clothing costs,debt repayment (from that student loan), internet/telephone, utilities (hydro, gas) and any smidgen of entertainment you may have. Certainly not a lot of cash to be able to buy any books. Honestly if mom and dad decided they have had enough and wanted you out in a month, what would you do? No income taxes in Canada? More... Much more taxes in Canada than the usa. He'd clear around 16kish after taxes on 20k I don't know it right of the bat but I think for me it's 15%