Staying optimistic on the job search
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Pssh what ever. They just make stuff up. Everyone is saying how terrible the economy is. What is so terrible about it.
Here is what I think. If they can get us to say the economy is bad then we think it really is bad.
Here is what I think. If they can get us to say the economy is bad then we think it really is bad.
I'm thinking you haven't been trying to find a decent job.
Spoken like a true 18 year old.
I feel your pain ... and IMO, a more realistic number is around 15-16%.
Lots of people have given up looking for jobs, have run out of benefits, or are working part time.
I've seen a recent uptick in job postings here in the south Bay Area, but that is most likely due to college kids returning to school and ending internships.
Well even if the economy is good bad stuff will happen.
I do not have a job but I am working for my aunt at 15 dollars an hour. And that includes housing with everything with the house paid for living their by my self. I just have to pay for gas for my car. So you guys are all wrong.
jk jk I am just yanking your guys chain(although I am not lying about what I said). Just trying to get you to speculate. The way I see things is we all watch the news and they tell us stuff and we believe it even though there is no proof in your life of it being real.
It is like when you read the symptoms to a disease and when you are done reading them you think you have that disease.
~Brett:chat:
I do not have a job but I am working for my aunt at 15 dollars an hour. And that includes housing with everything with the house paid for living their by my self. I just have to pay for gas for my car. So you guys are all wrong.
jk jk I am just yanking your guys chain(although I am not lying about what I said). Just trying to get you to speculate. The way I see things is we all watch the news and they tell us stuff and we believe it even though there is no proof in your life of it being real.
It is like when you read the symptoms to a disease and when you are done reading them you think you have that disease.
~Brett:chat:
njstone
BoM January 2010
Stay positive!
If you have to take something else short term, no big deal. The job market will pick up again soon enough and you can always switch back to your career when more positions become available.
If you have to take something else short term, no big deal. The job market will pick up again soon enough and you can always switch back to your career when more positions become available.
So unemployment rates are always at 12-15%? I'm confused.
What do you do for $15 / hr?
Michigan's unemployment agency has extended their hours because of the increase in the number of people filing. I see 4-5 people every day with cardboard signs on the way to school looking for work. I have a class full of men who get their unemployment papers signed at the end by the instructor.
Proof enough?
Either that, or it's not seeing the symptoms and assuming there is no disease.
cash,
Plenty of people have proof in their life that the job market sucks.
From your perspective it may not be that bad...18, no family, small responsibilities, can easily change career paths, whole life in front of you.
For the rest of us, getting laid off is a big deal. We cannot just change careers, go back to school. We have family's, mortgages, car payments, etc. to worry about. Not to mention being "overqualified" for the jobs that may be available.
The job market is cyclical and will rebound, but it does not mean it does not hurt those in the middle of the wash cycle!
Josh K
And everyone else.
I am not answering any questions this will go on forever like a 2 year old asking why? at everything. This is too political for me I should have left it at.
"pssh what ever"
And everyone else.
I am not answering any questions this will go on forever like a 2 year old asking why? at everything. This is too political for me I should have left it at.
"pssh what ever"
Talk is cheap ... statistics are even cheaper. Neither one pays my mortgage.
I wish you kids all the best . When you are in your 40's / 50's, unemployed and looking at an economy like this one perhaps you will "get it".
I wish you kids all the best . When you are in your 40's / 50's, unemployed and looking at an economy like this one perhaps you will "get it".
No worries Cash. Everyone here understands that Different people are affected in different ways by the economy. Some not as much as others..
But please, think about what is said here and maybe use it to your advantage in the future. I am sure that if those of us could have seen this coming many years ago, we would have prepared ourselves for the possibility.
You have the time to live and learn so to speak. Use it to you advantage as you mold your life.
To the OP. Man, I hope things get better for you sooner than later. I have found that with every bad turn, comes a nice surprise. Hopefully you will look back on this in a few years and say "Man that sucked, it hurt to go through, but look where I am at now" and be much better off than you would have been had you stayed in a job that did not see any benefit in keeping you.....
Stay Positive. If you run low on smokes while you are looking, the kind folks here will take care of you. Enjoy the fine things in life: Friends, Family, and Cigars...
Unemployment is 12% in florida as well.
Im on 2 furlough days a month and 5% cut in pay right now, and the wife got laid off and cant find a job. Fortunately I got another job part time at school as a Graduate Research Assistant so Im making that up now.
I graduated in December and cant find a job, so I stayed in school. Im gonna be 30 when I graduate with my masters though.
Im on 2 furlough days a month and 5% cut in pay right now, and the wife got laid off and cant find a job. Fortunately I got another job part time at school as a Graduate Research Assistant so Im making that up now.
I graduated in December and cant find a job, so I stayed in school. Im gonna be 30 when I graduate with my masters though.
This may not even apply to you, but don't be too proud to get a lesser paying job to at least do something while in search of a job as good as the one you had. A little work is better than no work at all. Hold your head high, Brother, they can't continue to screw this stuff up forever...