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How did World $ Crisis affected u?

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Rus_Brain
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Russian Federation1894 Posts
March 15 2009 12:04 GMT
#1
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Poll: How did World $ Crisis affected u?
(Vote): Big LOSS !!!1
(Vote): Big PROFIT $$$ !!!!1
(Vote): Nothing for now... expecting losses
(Vote): No affect / Don't care



patyrykin.net
snowbird
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Germany2044 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 12:17:00
March 15 2009 12:16 GMT
#2
1 Euro is about 1900Won right now. It even went up to 2000Won a week ago or so.

Last year when I was in Korea it was like 1 Euro 1250Won if I remember correctly.
So yeah, bad for the Koreans, but good for me : D
@riotsnowbird
NotSupporting
Profile Joined February 2008
Sweden1998 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 12:33:11
March 15 2009 12:32 GMT
#3
I was thinking about ordering a new computer because the one I have right now is really getting old. Went to the cheapest and best site I know and soon noticed that more or less ALL prices had gone UP. Re buying the one and a half year old computer I have now would cost more atm compared to when I bought it.
Pholon
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Netherlands6142 Posts
March 15 2009 12:38 GMT
#4
The government cut the number of government-funded PhD positions in my area of expertise so it's hard finding a job for me at the mo -_-
Moderator@TLPholon // "I need a third hand to facepalm right now"
Boblion
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
France8043 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 12:40:00
March 15 2009 12:39 GMT
#5
On March 15 2009 21:32 NotSupporting wrote:
I was thinking about ordering a new computer because the one I have right now is really getting old. Went to the cheapest and best site I know and soon noticed that more or less ALL prices had gone UP. Re buying the one and a half year old computer I have now would cost more atm compared to when I bought it.

o,o are you kidding ?
fuck all those elitists brb watching streams of elite players.
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
March 15 2009 12:41 GMT
#6
not expecting much for my birthday
jello_biafra
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
United Kingdom6639 Posts
March 15 2009 12:48 GMT
#7
Hasn't really affected me at all so far, but this is potentially just the beginning of something that will get far far worse.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions | aka Probert[PaiN] @ iccup / godlikeparagon @ twitch | my BW stream: http://www.teamliquid.net/video/streams/jello_biafra
meathook
Profile Joined December 2007
1289 Posts
March 15 2009 12:50 GMT
#8
Elevated paranoia.

Playing Iccup more.
An ugly planet. A bug planet.
XythOs
Profile Blog Joined February 2005
Germany520 Posts
March 15 2009 13:00 GMT
#9
Didn't affect me at all, maybe because I'm still going to school.
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 15 2009 13:13 GMT
#10
A whole department in my company got sacked but some how noobs like me stayed lol.

didn't get any raise but wasn't really expecting any.

prices gone up heaps. a few planned upgrades went to the shits.

aussie dollar is pathetic at the moment. that rules out any travelling plan.

oh yeah, job job job, good luck to me for trying to find a new one now (Which was my original plan)
Rillanon.au
haduken
Profile Blog Joined April 2003
Australia8267 Posts
March 15 2009 13:16 GMT
#11
I don't think that young people are affected as much. You are young, you can always get a job, you can even go do some menial work to not starve.

older folks who can't re-skill easily are fucked. when they get sacked, no where else to go, they cost too much.
Rillanon.au
talismania
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States2364 Posts
March 15 2009 13:17 GMT
#12
A whole lot more people applied to grad school, making competition tougher. I still got in though.
H
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
New Zealand6138 Posts
March 15 2009 14:13 GMT
#13
My dollar is now half a US dollar. It's probably going to get worse before it gets better due to exports, too. So much for changing it into USD anytime soon..
[iHs]HCO | のヮの | pachi & plexa ownz | RIP _
Nazarene
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
Denmark996 Posts
March 15 2009 14:47 GMT
#14
It has had no affect on me thus far. In the long run it might get harder for me to get a job when I'm done studying, but that's only speculation.
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
March 15 2009 15:10 GMT
#15
Huge loss....
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
miseiler
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States1389 Posts
March 15 2009 15:29 GMT
#16
Obama raised NIH grant money, so there are more grants to fund research. My outlook for funding is actually much higher now (don't have to teach, yay!)

Also, I spend a lot of time in the UK, and the GBP->USD exchange rate has just plummeted. Basically, I spend half as much overseas as I used to.

So all in all, huge plus.
"Jinro soo manly wearing only a T-Shirt while the Koreans freeze in their jackets" -- Double_O
"He's from Sweden, man. We have to fight polar bears on our way to school." -- Yusername
Dave[9]
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
United States2365 Posts
March 15 2009 15:34 GMT
#17
for people who have jobs===>recession

for people who dont have jobs==>depression
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=104154&currentpage=316#6317
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
March 15 2009 15:44 GMT
#18
Huge loss. I lost all the money I saved up for my education. I had enough to get me entirely through undergrad and more. I should have spent it all on a RX-8 or something.
rkarhu
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
Finland570 Posts
March 15 2009 15:54 GMT
#19
On March 15 2009 21:50 meathook wrote:
Elevated paranoia.

Playing Iccup more.


el ou el.
Equinox_kr
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States7395 Posts
March 15 2009 16:00 GMT
#20
Parents are considering taking me out of school because our family business isn't going well. My father owns and teaches at an academy and recently people have stopped coming. Before we had about .. 40 people coming, which was pretty good. Now we're down to like 10.
^-^
lxginverse
Profile Joined May 2008
Monaco1506 Posts
March 15 2009 16:17 GMT
#21
it didnt affect me at all...

although there are some layoffs and companies closing down here...
fromis_9 enjoyer
JeeJee
Profile Blog Joined July 2003
Canada5652 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-15 18:05:13
March 15 2009 18:02 GMT
#22
harder to find jobs u_u ..
hiring freezes pretty much everywhere (well i'm looking at insurance companies, banks, etc. lollll not a great time. maybe i'll have to go work at AMD or something =\)

personally i didn't lose much in terms of $$, although my parents did. thankfully they withdrew a hefty sum in august or so, so that mitigated the loss somewhat

also i can't buy a laptop because the us dollar hasn't tanked like i predicted yet (to be fair i think it will hit rock bottom end of the summer.. so there's still quite a wait). although that's pretty minor. 0.785 FTL. i want a 1:1 dammit!

oh yeah and where the hell is the big 2009 price correction? did i miss something..?
(\o/)  If you want it, you find a way. Otherwise you find excuses. No exceptions.
 /_\   aka Shinbi (requesting a name change since 27/05/09 ☺)
Valentir
Profile Joined May 2008
Norway266 Posts
March 15 2009 18:26 GMT
#23
I haven't noticed anything myself, but where my girlfriend is from their are being hit quite hard, alot of factories closed down and its harder to get a job.
frakkin hell.
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
March 15 2009 19:50 GMT
#24
Small loss in stocks, but still employed.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
Krohm
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada1857 Posts
March 15 2009 20:20 GMT
#25
I got laid off because my company shut down. Finding a good job is fairly difficult in my area now too. So I'd say its a big loss.
Not bad for a cat toy.
KOFgokuon
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States14903 Posts
March 15 2009 20:36 GMT
#26
still a student, lost 40-50% of my investments
triangle
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
United States3803 Posts
March 15 2009 20:40 GMT
#27
Well, my father no longer has a job, so paying for college just got a bit more interesting...
Also known as waterfall / w4terfall
SK.Testie
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Canada11084 Posts
March 15 2009 21:46 GMT
#28
BIG MONEY!!!
BIG PRIZES!!!
IIIII LOVE IT
Social Justice is a fools errand. May all the adherents at its church be thwarted. Of all the religions I have come across, it is by far the most detestable.
Rus_Brain
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Russian Federation1894 Posts
March 18 2009 02:43 GMT
#29
Tesite for the profit! ^^ <3
patyrykin.net
Sunhay
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Canada303 Posts
March 18 2009 05:19 GMT
#30
hmm, my city has a high unemployment rate due to a major steel mill closing down, luckily our family buisness isnt too greatly affected by all of it so far.
www.sunhay.net
QuanticHawk
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States32117 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-18 17:07:19
March 18 2009 17:07 GMT
#31
On March 16 2009 06:46 MYM.Testie wrote:
BIG MONEY!!!
BIG PRIZES!!!
IIIII LOVE IT


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Such an awesome game. NES still rockssss
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vGl-CoW
Profile Blog Joined December 2002
Belgium8305 Posts
March 18 2009 17:45 GMT
#32
the world crisis came into my house and beat my dog and it died
Moderatorfollow me on twitter if u think ur so tough @BooyaCow
MoltkeWarding
Profile Joined November 2003
5195 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-18 19:39:08
March 18 2009 19:38 GMT
#33
No effect, eyeing potential profits.
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-18 19:40:59
March 18 2009 19:40 GMT
#34
vGl-CoW post more than 3 times as verbose as Moltke post in the same thread....my mind just asploded.

Edit: Damn you moltke, you ninja'd in another word and threw off my math.
KlaCkoN
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Sweden1661 Posts
March 18 2009 20:19 GMT
#35
Lost about ~20% of my savings the last year due to stock market falling, otherwise no effect at all really, still studying.
"Voice or no voice the people can always be brought to the bidding of their leaders ... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Savio
Profile Joined April 2008
United States1850 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-21 07:06:36
March 21 2009 07:05 GMT
#36
I am better off because of it.

1. In school, and getting a fixed amount of guaranteed money from the military.
2. I have no debt (at least no unsubsizied debt).
3. Prices have gone down on consumer products but my income is the same
4. Gas has gone down
5. House prices have fallen and I am more likely to be a buyer than a seller anytime soon.
6. Credit crisis is no problem. I have great credit.
7. Stimulus package even though I am already better off. Fat child credit and i have a kid and my wife is pregnant again (I got $8,000 dollars BACK on my tax return)

So ya. Recession for da win!
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
fight_or_flight
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States3988 Posts
March 21 2009 07:17 GMT
#37
Rumor going around at my work is that there will be a pretty big layoff next friday.

For anyone not familiar with how layoffs work, it is not announced until the day it occurs. Then, that day, usually a friday, people go around to individuals and tell them they are one of the ones being laid off. They are supervised while they pack their things, and escorted out of the building. Many times, people who have worked there for 20+ years get it.

So you can work at a place for 20 years, then on a random friday, you can find out you've lost your job and in an hour you have packed your stuff and are gone.
Do you really want chat rooms?
poilord
Profile Blog Joined January 2007
Germany3252 Posts
March 22 2009 14:58 GMT
#38
Luckily I haven't been affected at all, but the situation over here can hardly be compared to that in the U.S. ...
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