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There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
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Not much apparently. Thanks to 3 snow days and a teacher only day - I don't get paid for any of them - my check today for the past two weeks was a whopping $8.29. Help me figure out where I should put it all because I just have no idea what to do with it . Should I put it towards my extra mortgage payments or my always short grocery budget? My car needs a new exhaust so it could go for that too. Maybe I should just throw caution to the wind and put my whole check towards Disney.
I suppose I shouldn't complain too much - at least I got paid something. My next check in 2 weeks won't even be enough to cover our health insurance (thanks to a snow day on Monday) so instead of a pay stub I'll be given an IOU instead.
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UGH. I recall a few military pay days DH got like that. After insurance & tax came out there was next to nothing left. I'd throw that whole check towards Disney - why not live on the wild side
I understand. When I injured my knee, it took so long for my worker's comp. to take effect (due to you know, they had to have some Christmas parties, and then the holidays, and all that) - that I was not paid the entire month of December. December.
Then, they sent me a bill for insurance.
Hope things start looking up and you have a reprieve (stop) in the snow days.
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I am self employed so how much I earn depends on how much I work. I understand your frustration, but I also do not earn money if I do not do work do to storms, although I can always do some from home.
I think the solution is to keep some money on hand for emergencies, Before Disney, an emergency fund is set up. I was ill and out of work for a year. I leanred to live on little to no income. It was in many ways a blessing. You can see how much you waste and how much less you can do with.
Don't you make up the days at the end of the year, so you will get paiud more in June than you usually would.
My DD works at a school and needs so many hours to get a bonus. She has to leave to go to officers training school in late June and the military doesn't change their schedule. She may lose part of the bonus, even though she has never taken a day (or even part of a day) off work.
You work hard to have a job and to feel good about the job you do. If pay is your only motivation, look for something else.
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You work hard to have a job and to feel good about the job you do. If pay is your only motivation, look for something else.
I know what you're saying and money isn't the only motivation for me to work there. I like my job now that I have a staff that works with me instead of against me and I like the kids. Things like snow days are just frustrating because it seems like they come at a time my checks will already be short for some reason or another (this week is February vacation and we don't get paid for it). Last week there was a teachers only day. Next month we have a bunch of half days (and we don't serve lunches at the elementaries) due to conferences. The days I know about, I can and do plan for. It's just the stupid snow days.
WOW! Darlene as the manager you should be on salary.
That would be nice but to tell you the truth, I am so glad I'm not. By being hourly, any time they want me to put in extra, they have to pay me for it. The new Food Services Director has made sure she hired me people with enough hours to leave me time during my regular hours to do things like paperwork and any extra things like providing refreshments for principal meetings she prefers the lesser paid people to do and will ask me only as a last resort. So it's a win-win situation. They don't have to pay me extra and I don't have to do these extra assignments that I don't like in the first place. I'd rather serve the kids, not the adults who eat next to nothing of what we prepare for them.
I'm a teacher, so working for a school on salary. We don't get smaller checks because of snow days, but we could end up not getting a check for those days added on in June, depending on the way we choose to have our salary divided. I choose to get smaller weekly checks so I can get more of them (and cover myself for the summer) but others who choose checks only through the school year will be making up these snow days in June without seeing a paycheck for them because they already got it.
It is frustrating to not get a check when you had planned on it. Hope things work out for you.
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. Should I put it towards my extra mortgage payments or my always short grocery budget? My car needs a new exhaust so it could go for that too. Maybe I should just throw caution to the wind and put my whole check towards Disney. 
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