Of course it could happen to me, but I have the education, experience and the money to do other things with my life. I also network and make sure I have contacts in case of a job loss. I also have the ability to move anywhere in the country if I need to do so, although I’d rather stay in Chicago. Internal Auditors are in demand all over the country. If there’s a point where there’s not, I can do other things.
That’s where I differ from guys like Chris and Al. These guys have no marketable skills outside of music which is why they have limited options in terms of what they can do to make money.
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I know plenty of people who’ve found themselves thrown for a loop and are now working retail in their 40s or over, many of whom are actual hourly employees who make minimum wage or just above, as opposed to managers. Did all of them make bad decisions in their lives? Maybe, maybe not, but I’m not going to laugh at them, either way.
Obviously, you seem to feel differently and that’s cool. For some reason, the knowledge that you’re doing better financially than two aging musicians is a source of great joy to you. I don’t know why you feel that way unless you knew them personally at some point and they stole your lunch money and called you a nerd for getting a college degree, but whatever.
Thank you for bumping this thread. It reminds me of why my signature is so great. It really touched a nerve with Chris.
Maybe he was annoyed that you kept poking about him making minimum wage when the average retail manager makes somewhere between 40-60k a year. Not a lot, but it’s not minimum wage, either.
Plus, it was kind of dull that you constantly ripped on him for nothing but his job and his boring-as-hell solo albums once or twice. when there’s plenty of other topics you could have broached, like his gigantic freaking head and ears, the fact that he keeps crawling back to Martin Atkins only to act surprised when Martin fucks him over again, his incredibly obvious infatuation with William Tucker (although I suppose it could have been mutual; perhaps we can bust out a Ouija board to find out), or that photo of him onstage with Al about to get fucked up the ass. And it’s obvious that you like hitting below the belt, so you could have even mocked the fact that Chris’ father drowned when he was a kid. You know. Insinuate that he has daddy issues, or something.
Plus, Chris and Angie just need to fuck each other already and get it over with, because it’s plain as day that they both really, really want to. Now that Al and Angie are divorced, perhaps they can live out their dream: she can make him her bitch by repeatedly pegging him with a strap-on.
Instead it was all minimum wage jokes all the time. Booooring.
