So far no drastic changes for my wife and I. We both work for police agencies, I'm an investigator for the sheriff's office and she is a dispatcher for the municipal police department. Good thing is they can't shut us down and can't relocate us so that helps, on the other hand, bad economic times means less tax revenues for our local government which in turn pays my salary. So with bad times come cutbacks and that is always a possibility if things get really bad but on that they can only cut so deep.
I do work a second job and have for the past four years. It hasn't been so much out of necessity as it has been a desire to help others. A small village here in my county decided to start their own police department and since it was close to where I grew up I didn't want to see them hire a bunch of flunkie substandard officers. Two of us took on the task and have built a nice little department out of it and now have 4 officers. I have since been promoted to Chief for that small department and do my best to keep it running as it should, all in my spare time of course. This is what has allowed me to buy my busa this year, it pays all the busa bills and leaves some for mods.
We have cut back on purchases, it would be nice to buy a new car and a few other things but instead have chosen to just do with what we have because of so many uncertainties with the economy. On that we have worked to pay off more of what we do have and that will be an ongoing process.
