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03-23-2009, 08:05 AM
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I am not a Florida basher and I love it here, but like so so many places, jobs are scarce. I would recommend to anyone, but especially someone with dependents, to find a job before moving anywhere. It only makes sense. My job is portable, but we still waited almost 2 years until dh had a job down here before we moved. I can't imagine doing otherwise.
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03-23-2009, 09:37 AM
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Location: America
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Originally Posted by grapico
I have been looking for ANY, yes ANY job in Florida for 5 months now and have not found one. I am getting out of here in 3 months. I also have a pretty stellar resume...so don't think this is a only uneducated people can't find jobs thing... uneducated people are actually probably better off and able to get a minimum wage thing here where as educated people are gonna be told they are overqualified... got this 3 times, I assume about 10 other times for putting my resume out to retail/ chains etc. I was going to get one job, then was told the position had been eliminated due to budget (was a state of fl job)
I have another one waiting on a month now to get if the job ever gets "approval"
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I completely agree with this. My wife, who has no degree and few marketable skills, has a much easier time getting a job than I do with my skill set. I am either told I am overqualified, or not even called back at all. |
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03-23-2009, 10:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Purple_Princess
Hubby and I moved here in Feb without jobs waiting for us. But we're both nurses. Both had one in a week.
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My wife and I are planning/hoping to move down to S FL around June-August. I am in the final phases of the hiring process with a Police Dept in the area. My wife is a RN in Michigan and is currently working on getting her license endorsed in FL. Do you have any advise for her as far as jobs/licensing/particular hospitals or anything that could help out? Thanks in advance!! |
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03-23-2009, 10:24 AM
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03-23-2009, 10:47 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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Originally Posted by jojajn
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good post, if you guys do not believe us posters here about the job situation and think we are all just "bashers" how about read the article...
I've never EVER not been able to find a job within a few weeks search and apply and have held at least a part time job since I was 14. I'll be 29 soon, so that is about half my life.
Hey, I have plenty of family here, I am a 20+ year Florida resident, but can't afford to stay here any longer, gotta get into a better job market where there are at least "A" job, even if it isn't what I want to do. I WISH I could get a job at Subway or Blockbuster Video or something right about now.
I left before because of the reasons of not being able to find a decent paying job in my field after I was done with University, but I could have got a crap job no problem, and I did for a bit til I got fed up with trying to find a real one...This was in 2002-2003 Now I am leaving because there are no good jobs AND no crap jobs just to generate a basic income.
I didn't exactly move here w/o a job entirely though... The plan was to move here, work on masters part time and stay at one of my parents houses for awhile while looking for a job and then get a place of our own. So I could be closer to my family and help my parents the next few years transition into retirement. We've given it 5 months time. This was supposed to take less than a month... Never got passed the find a job part for either me OR my girlfriend. I also have no debt, but definitely burned through my bank account over the past year. I would feel really bad for somebody who moved here got a house and actually had bills to pay. Soon as this semester is over, then about a month of wrapping stuff up, we are outta here.
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03-23-2009, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by grapico
good post, if you guys do not believe us posters here about the job situation and think we are all just "bashers" how about read the article...
I've never EVER not been able to find a job within a few weeks search and apply and have held at least a part time job since I was 14.
Hey, I have plenty of family here, I am a 20+ year Florida resident, but can't afford to stay here any longer, gotta get into a better job market where there are at least "A" job, even if it isn't what I want to do. I WISH I could get a job at Subway or Blockbuster Video or something right about now.
I left before because of the reasons of not being able to find a decent paying job in my field after I was done with University, but I could have got a crap job no problem, and I did for a bit til I got fed up with trying to find a real one...This was in 2002-2003 Now I am leaving because there are no good jobs AND no crap jobs just to generate a basic income.
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It is mind boggling to me that there are still people out there who are of working age, in need of a job to survive, and still have a dated/outdated perspective that they can pack their bags, move to Florida, and bingo, find a job.
Hello, let's all read the papers, watch the news...and learn that the economic situation is a national one and that some states like Florida are hit severley. What one could well do successfully in the past does not obtain today. Please, guys and gals, think hard and long before giving up a job and moving to Florida or elsewhere in the hopes of finding something to do.....unless you have lots of cash or nothing to lose because you're unemployed and in bad shape already where you presently are.....even then make sure that a bad situation doesn't turn to a worse situation.
Best.
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03-23-2009, 11:14 AM
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The ocean, sunshine, and warm weather do not pay the bills! I lived in FL from 2004 till 2009 and I could tell that it was going downhill year by year. Anyone would be crazy to move there without a job lined up FIRST! Unemployment has reached 10% there.
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03-23-2009, 11:47 AM
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Location: Sonoma County, CA
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Originally Posted by Moderate Guy
It is mind boggling to me that there are still people out there who are of working age, in need of a job to survive, and still have a dated/outdated perspective that they can pack their bags, move to Florida, and bingo, find a job.
Hello, let's all read the papers, watch the news...and learn that the economic situation is a national one and that some states like Florida are hit severley. What one could well do successfully in the past does not obtain today. Please, guys and gals, think hard and long before giving up a job and moving to Florida or elsewhere in the hopes of finding something to do.....unless you have lots of cash or nothing to lose because you're unemployed and in bad shape already where you presently are.....even then make sure that a bad situation doesn't turn to a worse situation.
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Hrrmm I am not sure if that was a shot at me or what, but I left my job for a humanatarian trip in Africa, THEN ended up in Florida. This was in June 2008, and had started planning it a year advance working on a project back in Summer of 2007 when things were fine, I got back here on December 15, 2008...just in time for Christmas when s|-|it hit the fan. lol, there was no "news" of this for me. There were riots and massacre and had to get out of the country on evacuation insurance.
Check it out...
http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2008/1...sacred-in-jos/
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec...lashes,00.html
Just because I complain about it doesn't mean I can't "handle" it.
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03-23-2009, 12:25 PM
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Wow, my friend, no one is casting stones at anyone here; just responding to the OP's concerns/trying to prevent people out there from making life changing mistakes.
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03-23-2009, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by laurasrn
The ocean, sunshine, and warm weather do not pay the bills! I lived in FL from 2004 till 2009 and I could tell that it was going downhill year by year. Anyone would be crazy to move there without a job lined up FIRST! Unemployment has reached 10% there.
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to add to that, Florida doesn't have a very diverse, or advanced economy
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Originally Posted by Moderate Guy
Wow, my friend, no one is casting stones at anyone here; just responding to the OP's concerns/trying to prevent people out there from making life changing mistakes.
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haha no worries, I have had a few others be like, u need to go sell some hot dogs son! :/
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