I have no clue how to talk to normal people, let alone ghosts.
I do know a little about the person that died there last though. It was a depressed woman, not from the area, who overdosed on something on purpose.
Ok... but is this a one time deal or a recurring job? It doesn’t specify and that would matter. Also- the hours listed are only 7 hours. Is this “above the table” part time, or is this “under the table” cash? It matters for a few reasons- one being wether you get a lunch and breaks or not. But- wether this is “cash tax free” or not SIGNIFICANTLY influences the take home pay. Let’s assume it is recurring job since the fact the reply states he’d drive a Bentley- and if this was one time only you’d have nowhere near the earnings to support that.
In that case- $80/hr, 7 hours a day. We do not know how many days a week it is? Is it 5 days a week 7 hours a day for a 35 hour week? 6 days? 7? Is it part time and is 2 days? Let’s just stick to assuming a pretty standard set up and say 5 days?
So if we assume you get a paid 30 minute lunch (laws vary by state- I’ll use the ones I know best..) you earn $560 a day. That’s $2800 a week and $145,000 a year. Hardly enough to be “rich,” but you could certainly live comfortably (more so some places than others.) After FICA, estimated taxes based on no special circumstances etc- you’d take home about $8,000 a month in actual earnings.
Equipped with this information.... the hours would allow a person to work this and another job in theory. I could keep my job and work this one as well. However I wouldn’t get much sleep and would not be home much (even less than already!) so that could be very stressful on top of regular work stress and the stress of multiple jobs. Would I do it? Probably. At least for a little while. Most people can put up with working themselves ragged for a year or so- and in that year this job wouldn’t put a down payment on a house or anything like that- but it could finance a couple years of vacations, or buy a new car, or be a nice booster to savings- or likely I’d use it on some combination of those things.
An extra $8k a month wouldn’t hurt, and if I was able to manage it I could stay longer and maybe save up for something significant. At an extra $80k a year though it would take more than 10 years of working round the clock to bank enough for a decent down on property so I may not stay that long- and I wouldn’t want to endanger or hurt my primary job over a side job like this- in the end I would have to actually try to see how long I’d stay because after not too long it could be untenable with my present job or I could decide the extra cash isn’t worth giving up having a life. If this was 7 days a week instead of 5 I think I’d pass because then I wouldn’t even have weekends.
I’m not so sure one can over think most things- or at the very least the dangers of overthinking usually amount to possibly wasting time (which coincidentally is one of the main reasons I’m on a meme site- I have time to waste, or I’d be somewhere else at the moment); or missing a deadline. But if there is no time limit then the advantage of thinking a thing out generally outweigh the cons, and at the least it can be good practice or mental exercise. Now under thinking- the dangers of that tend to be more catastrophic. In the end I suppose over/under thinking are relative concepts to the amount of thinking one is capable of, I was able to set up 2 meetings and attend a teleconference while typing that out- amongst other things, so it didn’t take so much thought as to prevent me from being able to do my work.
It was apparently a soon-to-be grandmother. I was actually awake at the time, but I had no clue what was happening. I think about it sometimes. It's horrifying to know someone killed themselves so close.
I do know a little about the person that died there last though. It was a depressed woman, not from the area, who overdosed on something on purpose.