What Would You Do With Disposable Income?

[popsjumper 2]

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Disposable income? WTF is that??

ALL income is disposable...isn't it?
Am I missing something?

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[countzero 7]

franchise a wind tunnel from sky ventures. texas badly needs a tunnel.

then hire santiago calatrava to design a house for me, and comission works by robert williams, alex grey and chet zar to decorate it with.

diamonds are a dawgs best friend

[JENNR8R 0]

ALL income is disposable...isn't it?
Am I missing something?

[yamtx73 0]

Who has money to sit in the bank... my bank account is just a temporary resting place... what doesn't go for bills goes for fun...

The only naturals in this sport shit thru feathers...

[JerryBaumchen 1,364]

I was in that situation; bought an expensive car.

Jerry

[NlghtJumper 0]

I had a very nice little bit of disposable income coming my way for a short while. Of course for me, "nice little bit" was a couple hundred a month. So I bought a car, and blew the rest on random whims. That was a fun year!

And do you guys really only get 2 weeks vacation a year?

A man will do anything for the right woman,
and when that woman destroys him,
that man will become a hunk of meat with the common sense of a rodeo clown! ~ Christopher Titus

[popsjumper 2]

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...And do you guys really only get 2 weeks vacation a year?

and we don't get:
free medical
free dental
free lodging
free meals
free bullet-proof vests
free all the ammo we can fire
free surrogate Daddy yelling at us all the time

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

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free bullet-proof vests
free all the ammo we can fire
free surrogate Daddy yelling at us all the time

they gave me a Flack vest... they're kind of useless against bullets... its a good thing I didn't deploy...

and ammo is expensive... my weapon is my brain... and I was issued a 9 mm... but... no bullets...

oh... nobodies ever yelled at me... well at least not in the service...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[JENNR8R 0]

And do you guys really only get 2 weeks vacation a year?

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I've worked at my day job for 24 years. We only received two weeks of vacation a year until last September. Anyone with five years of service was increased to three weeks a year at that time. It was never an issue before I started skydiving. I had never been on more than three commercial flights before then.

My weekend job, that I've done for 11 years, doesn't have any vacation at all since it's only part time.

What do you call a beautiful, sunny day that comes after two cloudy, rainy
ones? -- Monday.

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[yamtx73 0]

Three weeks vacation? Hell I only get 1... that sucks, I need a better job...

The only naturals in this sport shit thru feathers...

[Icon134 0]

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Three weeks vacation? Hell I only get 1... that sucks, I need a better job...

you're not going to want to hear that I get a full month a year then...

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[popsjumper 2]

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...I was issued a 9 mm... but... no bullets...

Air Force? That sounds more like what the Army would do.
I was Army Signal Corps...we got nothing. They didn't trust us with weapons.

Good thing, too!

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

[wingnut 0]

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oh... nobodies ever yelled at me... well at least not in the service

that's cuz you be an "O".... try being an"E" and it happens everyday.... we always like the phrase... "don't be that guy".. when telling our troops what not to do...

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[popsjumper 2]

good point 'nut.

oh, and welcome back.

My reality and yours are quite different.
I think we're all Bozos on this bus.
Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239

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oh... nobodies ever yelled at me... well at least not in the service

that's cuz you be an "O".... try being an"E" and it happens everyday.... we always like the phrase... "don't be that guy".. when telling our troops what not to do...

I know the reason... and... I've never (and can't imagine ever... yelling at an enlisted troop...

of course... that's because I'm an engineer...

oh... and its not unheard of for "O"s to occasionally get yelled at... its just since I commissioned via OTS I was always treated like an adult.

Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife...

[kenneth21441 0]

Thats an easy one.

invest some of the funds into real estate and travel to jump.

Since Ive already been all over maybe retire at 37 in the Philippines or in Asia area in general./// Why due to you can live real cheap and the money will last alot longer..... Not that I am greedy but you have to think about that one...

Why real estate so i have some funds still coming in from rent and selling if needed. But generally the value should go up if the property is taken care of.

Kenneth Potter
FAA Senior Parachute Rigger
Tactical Delivery Instructor (Jeddah, KSA)
FFL Gunsmith

[NlghtJumper 0]

Thats because unless your a cdr, or just got really disrespected, you dont yell at the troop, you call his sgm and start at the top. That way you piss of more people and by the time it reaches the E-3 who accidentally took the very last of the coffee and had no means of making more for you... he was pulling extra duty, rank striped, pay taken, and was hit with an Article 15. Yeah, we all know the story...



*yes i tend to exaggerate from time to time...

A man will do anything for the right woman,
and when that woman destroys him,
that man will become a hunk of meat with the common sense of a rodeo clown! ~ Christopher Titus

[bob.dino 1]

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I'm not talking about the lottery here...

You are debt free, have every kind of insurance needed, a fully-funded retirement account, and there is still some money left over from your earnings.

What would you do with it?

I'm kind of puzzled by this.... we're skydivers. We throw ourselves out of airplanes, and that's what we spend our disposable income on.

Or is everyone here using debt to fund their jumping?

[Broke 0]

Duh skydive

Divot your source for all things Hillbilly.
Anvil Brother 84
SCR 14192

[JENNR8R 0]

I'm kind of puzzled by this.... we're skydivers. We throw ourselves out of airplanes, and that's what we spend our disposable income on.

Or is everyone here using debt to fund their jumping?

[FFlyer 0]

More money = more skydives. Simple as that
Well actually, depending on how much spare I had I would go skydiving overseas again. Id make travelling skydiving holidays more of a regular thing.

[Programmer 0]

Boy is this a hypothetical question .. Since we're dreaming, I'd rent the Goodyear blimp for the weekend and bring it to the drop zone. Does anybody have a blimp jump in their logbook?

[JohnRich 4]

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You are debt free, have every kind of insurance needed, a fully-funded retirement account, and there is still some money left over from your earnings. What would you do with it?

I wasn't sitting as pretty as that scenario, above, but a company buy-out left me with some good money in the bank. So I took a year and a half off of work after the shut-down, and spent it traveling around the country, hiking and camping.

I wish I could do that the rest of my life...

[JENNR8R 0]

...a company buy-out left me with some good money in the bank. So I took a year and a half off of work after the shut-down, and spent it traveling around the country, hiking and camping.

I wish I could do that the rest of my life...

[normiss 801]

what?
All the bars are gone too????