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I'm on a day-to-day layoff with my company. They're currently trying to get rid of about 40,000 of their workers, so they're offering severance packages.

And where I'm stuck is, do I wait the four to five years for potentially get full-time work or do I take the severance package

and attempt to start an entrepreneurship either buying a house outright and collecting that cash flow

and starting my own company or should I invest that into like stock markets, dividends,

that kind of their mutual fund. So I'm just, I'm just looking for some advice on what you guys would do in my shoes and where you would go.

Okay.

So it's fair to say the company you work for is not financially healthy if they're laying off 40,000 people, right?

So the future there is not very bright?

Yeah, yeah.

I've been there for eight years since I was 18, a single father or four.

So it's hard to kind of step out onto that limb.

Yeah, I don't care.

They're pushing you out on the limb because they're not doing well.

So four to five years from now is not looking bright.

I'm getting about a day or two per week.

Are you hearing me? Stop, stop, stop. I don't feel like you're listening to me.

Okay. I'm saying your company sucks, so the future there sucks. Do you agree with that?

I agree. It's hard to pat and, you know, give up on that $100,000 a year.

Well, I know, but you're going to have to give up on it because they don't want you there anymore.

Right?

Yeah, I hear, yeah. There's a few guys that are getting ready to retire, so.

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