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From: ort@netcom.com (David Oertel)
Subject: Re: No employment available for mathematician/genius/programmer(LISP)
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In article <psyclerD35t8F.LDK@netcom.com>, Psycler <psycler@netcom.com> wrote:
>Robert Elton Maas (rem@BTR.Com) wrote:
>
>: Will I have to be forever unemployed because of this terrible job
>: market?? Won't anybody give me a chance to earn some money any more??
>: Will my two little children (born 1990.Mar and 1991.Dec) and I have to
>: rely on welfare for part of our living expenses and "incur debt" for
>: the rest, until my ability to go deeper into debt reaches its limit (we
>: are currently over $25,000 in debt, and have unused MasterCard&VISA
>: credit limit of another $30,000, but eventually even that might run
>: out) and we can no longer pay the rent so we all have to vacate a
>: decent residence and live in the streets begging for handouts from
>: passersby? Can't some generous employer, or just somebody with some
>: extra money to spend on special information services, give a chance to
>: the person who compiled the toplevel meta-index to the InterNet,
>: recently converted to HTML format to be part of the WWW?
>
>Okay. I have an idea that might just work for you. You have
>$30k unused credit on credit cards, right?  Most credit cards will
>provide you checks that draw off of your credit limit but 
>function like checks from a regular checking account. Now,
>assuming you have more than one credit account (you say visa
>*and* mastercard), what you do is start using those checks to pay your
>bills, including your credit card bills. Each month, you pay
	[rest of credit card scheme]

	robert should leverage off of his strong intellect and his dedication
	to his kids and leave marginal financial schemes to those who have
	no other options.

	dave
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