Archive for September, 2019

Trading to Pay Medical Bills

Sunday, September 29th, 2019

An unfortunate fall this year left me with a dislocated shoulder. I had to have surgery to get it fixed, which set me back a bit financially. Although I had health insurance, it only covered so much and I was left paying the rest of the surgery costs out of pocket. Faced with the high hospital bill, I looked at alternative sources of income. I downloaded a bitcoin trader app and bought and sold enough bitcoin until I had enough funds to pay off the hospital bill. I only needed one hand to use the app, which meant that I could use it while recovering from the surgery.

Even though my medical bills were paid off, I continued to trade bitcoin on the app. (more…)

We Want More Parties Like This

Thursday, September 5th, 2019

The Christmas parties that we used to have here at the office were quite dull. The only reason people even showed up was that we knew we would be in hot water with the boss if we didn’t. When he hired a new general manager, none of us realized that even our parties were going to change. When we went to our last one, the Christmas entertainment that was provided shocked all of us. We were expecting to go into a plain hall with no decorations, basic food to be served, and a couple of speeches to be made.

Instead, when we walked into the doors of the hall, we were faced with a Christmas wonderland. To say that all of us were speechless is an understatement. The hall looked gorgeous, and the spread of food was amazing too. It was the Christmas entertainment that took us all by surprise though because we had never even had recorded music at any of our other parties. (more…)