It's so obvious that I'm chagrined. Who has been there every time I moved to mark a moving on?
Q.
He's gonna hear the sob story like only he can - we always want the last decade back so we can refuck it. 💞
A frustrating amount of time has been spent waiting on that magical job. And the Priest did/does want me, as did the dean, which is validation of my work. They just can't get funding bc nobody can, including med schools. I told him I'd wait another month. March. Not 1 day more will I sit still.
Higher ed as a profession is fucked. Healthcare, on which my industry relies, is also fucked. I am smack dab in the middle of the "medical corridor" at the crossroads of fucked. Everyone says there will be 10k+ more jobs in healthcare to be filled here. It's been said so many times that it feels true. But it is not true. We may need 10k more providers, that doesn't mean that people want those jobs or that the funding to pay them will be there or that the schools that make providers will be able to keep doing that - all of those assumptions are simply wrong. STEM is not bullet proof; quite the contrary, it's a prime target.
That will mean many houses will be foreclosed upon in places like this, college towns who bet the farm on false assumptions.
Answer: assume you're fucked. THAT is the right bet.
But I'm pretty hard to kill. A difficult strategy environment feels like home, that way.
So.
1. I want REAL, something to put my hands on, a lot, in every life category. To move on means to move physically, for me. It always has.
2. And, I want out of the banking system entirely, my next primary res owned outright.
Q's situation assessment concurs with mine, especially about owning outright as good strategy despite my insanely low interest rate. I didn't think of this but Blowhard understands REAL ESTATE, and can arrange the banking system such that individuals won't be able to buy foreclosed properties. That is already difficult to do, and going forward it will be impossible in the chaos. Which means lien holders will have to sell in bulk. To people like Blowhard.
That is going to happen.
Q gives it 2 years at the outside before academics, the people who are the market for a house like this, realize they are not what they thought they were (secure). Sell it before any more of them get a clue. While the STEMs still think they're the smartest people in the world.
Card of the day
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