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Old 10-08-2010, 10:09 AM
 
Location: Fort Myers FL/ Ottawa ON
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Jobs in SWF - The most dangerous thing you could do would be to give up your lease or sell your house and move to Florida on the HOPE that you might find a job within a few weeks or months. Locals with many connections are having trouble and hundreds of people apply for a minimum wage job when it comes up. Moving down with kids in tow who are relying on you to find work would compound your danger. IF you are determined to move to the sunshine and are prepared to scrape by on wages for much less than the north for the rest of your life (IF you find work at all), it is essential that you come down and find the job BEFORE pulling up stakes up north. Better, if you want to raise a family, especially on unskilled wages, study this information and move to where there are better prospects, at least to more northerly Florida, or better yet, Texas and the midwest.

http://www.bls.gov/lau/maps/aacnrt.gif
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Old 10-08-2010, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Cape Coral, FL
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I don't think it could be said any more concisely or clearly....



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Jobs in SWF - The most dangerous thing you could do would be to give up your lease or sell your house and move to Florida on the HOPE that you might find a job within a few weeks or months. Locals with many connections are having trouble and hundreds of people apply for a minimum wage job when it comes up. Moving down with kids in tow who are relying on you to find work would compound your danger. IF you are determined to move to the sunshine and are prepared to scrape by on wages for much less than the north for the rest of your life (IF you find work at all), it is essential that you come down and find the job BEFORE pulling up stakes up north. Better, if you want to raise a family, especially on unskilled wages, study this information and move to where there are better prospects, at least to more northerly Florida, or better yet, Texas and the midwest.

http://www.bls.gov/lau/maps/aacnrt.gif
Unemployment Rates for Metropolitan Areas
Labor Market Statistics
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Old 10-08-2010, 05:00 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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That's fine, but this link will have the precise unemployment rate for Fort Myers/Cape Coral as well as numerous other areas of Florida and across the country. It has the most information and is always accurate.

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area
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Old 10-08-2010, 06:33 PM
 
Location: Fort Myers FL/ Ottawa ON
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OK - hopefully this is done

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Jobs in SWF - The most dangerous thing you could do would be to give up your lease or sell your house and move to Florida on the HOPE that you might find a job within a few weeks or months. Locals with many connections are having trouble and hundreds of people apply for a minimum wage job when it comes up. Moving down with kids in tow who are relying on you to find work would compound your danger. IF you are determined to move to the sunshine and are prepared to scrape by on wages for much less than the north for the rest of your life (IF you find work at all), it is essential that you come down and find the job BEFORE pulling up stakes up north. Better, if you want to raise a family, especially on unskilled wages, study this information and move to where there are better prospects, at least to more northerly Florida, or better yet, Texas and the midwest.

Table 1. Civilian labor force and unemployment by state and metropolitan area (Alphabetical)
Unemployment Rates for Metropolitan Areas (Ranked by lowest unemployment)
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Old 10-10-2010, 06:10 AM
 
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Job market is a tough one! I did find a good job in the waitress field last week. Even got days, which I thought was going to be impossible. My husband just started looking. Hope he has some luck too.
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Old 10-10-2010, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Fort Myers FL/ Ottawa ON
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Job market is a tough one! I did find a good job in the waitress field last week. Even got days, which I thought was going to be impossible. My husband just started looking. Hope he has some luck too.
how many places did you apply to...
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Old 10-10-2010, 02:04 PM
 
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how many places did you apply to...
About 10 apps online. I don't like that way of doing it at all----don't know if they were even hiring. This was my 3rd application I took in. Had a interview the next day and got hired. ; I consider myself VERY LUCKY!!!!! We were one of the people that sold up north to come down for the cheap house market and no more winters. We were fortunate to pay cash for a house but our car insurance alone is 300 a month so we needed jobs.
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Old 10-10-2010, 03:28 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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About 10 apps online. I don't like that way of doing it at all----don't know if they were even hiring. This was my 3rd application I took in. Had a interview the next day and got hired. ; I consider myself VERY LUCKY!!!!! We were one of the people that sold up north to come down for the cheap house market and no more winters. We were fortunate to pay cash for a house but our car insurance alone is 300 a month so we needed jobs.
That's not bad at all. Waitressing, though, at $2+ a hour, though, right?
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Old 10-10-2010, 03:44 PM
 
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That's not bad at all. Waitressing, though, at $2+ a hour, though, right?
think it's like 4.23. Far cry from what I've made in the past-thinking tips will be alot better though. Got in a very busy rest. chain. I'm just glad I got a job. I was worried. I was willing to take anything and any shift-but with kids and sports was estatic to get days. I love waitressing, it's a fun job and decent money.

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Old 10-10-2010, 05:18 PM
 
Location: The Conterminous United States
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think it's like 4.23. Far cry from what I've made in the past-thinking tips will be alot better though. Got in a very busy rest. chain. I'm just glad I got a job. I was worried. I was willing to take anything and any shift-but with kids and sports was estatic to get days. I love waitressing, it's a fun job and decent money.
Oh, boy. I hope so. Florida tips can be rough: transients, vacationers and tight retirees. If you get regulars it might help. I waited tables in Orlando and Fort Myers. Fort Myers was a bit better but it was an upscale restaurant. Younger professionals. That was years ago, though.

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