Is the job market in Orange County that bad right now? (Irvine: real estate, house)

[CelticViking]

A lot of people claim that it is so hard to find a job in Orange County...is it that bad?

[EscapeCalifornia]

Pretty much no one is hiring and many have laid people off. My wife's employer normally has a few hundred job postings. There's maybe 20 now. Not that this is specific to OC. Its a national and global thing called a recession.

[CelticViking]

yea i realize that...when i was last out, i was basically offered a job at a 24 hr fitness(im into strongman, weightlifting etc...) this was in huntington beach...

it was a decent position too...

[EscapeCalifornia]

Originally Posted by CelticViking

yea i realize that...when i was last out, i was basically offered a job at a 24 hr fitness(im into strongman, weightlifting etc...) this was in huntington beach...

it was a decent position too...

How long ago was this. Was it the 24 hour fitness right off the 405 at Beach Blvd? They just opened within the last year. Unless the turnover a really high, I doubt they'd be hiring now. Very few companies are expanding payroll. Everybody's just hunkering down and hoping to survive right now.

[tew]

Its everywhere. From where I am at in CO to where my family lives in CA and where Im inlaw is in FL.

[CelticViking]

no escape it was the one near the beach...

[OC Investor2]

Work is very hard to find. Unless you are at either extremes of the spectrum - Highly sought after expert w/ valuable skill or will do anything for dirt cheap wages this is a very difficult place to get work right now.

The current national enviroment is magnified here & will only get worse as CA continues to spiral into the ground.

[killer2021]

yup, even where I work they have a hiring freeze until Jan. The employer is in the top 5 LARGEST employers in the OC as well. Turn over used to be high but not anymore haha. People don't have options anymore. You've gotta take what you can get!

Anyone looking for work- Good luck!

[Charles]

It's getting scary out there in SoCal (slightly deviating from the original post of jobs in OC).

Talked to an old buddy who just got laid off from Northrop Grumman in Azusa.

Got an email from a buddy who expects to get laid off at Kavlico in Moorpark. Here is some very sobering text from an email he sent me:

"We are going through massive layoffs at my work. I probably won't make it through next year:<(
When people came back from the Thanksgiving week vacation (we got half off paid and half unpaid), everybody was in a festive mood
until security and managers started whisking people off to a termination station. No one was spared. I lost many good friends.
150 out of 900 were terminated. In the last 1-1/2 to 2 years an additional 1000 have already been let go in small increments, but this was the biggest wave of all.
I have lost half of my 401K, most of my stocks are worthless, and my house has depreciated to less than half of the peak value, and 2 of my rooms are vacant...."

Affordable places to ride out the downturn - Real estate- msnbc.com

I dutifully point them to things like this:

"...found 1629 engineering jobs in the Huntsville area..."

Huntsville Engineering Jobs for Engineers Careers Employment Search

[hsw]

Nearly every industry is subject to the business cycle to varying extents...been that way for decades and likely to remain as such

Much of the immense wealth created in CA's SiliconValley and LA regions over past 20-30yrs is product of smart, industrious engineers (and financiers) who started own businesses, often in ugly times like early '90s or early '80s...e.g., the many ex-LA aerospace guys who migrated to chips in Irvine corridor

Boston is a great example of region w/many, perhaps smart engineers who clearly lack ability to start valuable, innovative companies and depend upon employment by some lethargic company w/low-IQ executives....no surprise why Bos region, despite MIT, is economically (and intellectually) dwarfed by SiliconValley