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Out here, there are so many people out of work & struggling I must find another job...I have been sustaining as an artist, but it has been getting harder and harder to sell my work with so many around me in debt. I am fine with doing jobs here and there when times get tough, it is nothing new to me... what IS new to me is not finding something immediate when I need to...I have always gotten jobs very easily, and now it is a different story. I was told by one employer that she would love to hire me...in April.
There was a comic named Sam Kinison who use to start out talking softly and by the time he was to the punch line, he was yelling at the top of his lungs.
One of the lines he did one time started out about all the starving and hungry people dying in Africa, and how much food we were sending them...
Then screaming, he said we shouldn't be sending them food, we should be sending them Suitcases, so they could move to where the food it at. WE have deserts in America, but people don't live in them to starve, they move to where the food is.
Course it was a lot more entertaining when he did it.
Having said that, not all the places in America have poor economies and sometimes one might consider moving to the places that can sustain one and the talents they have. Moving is sometimes scary, but the rewards can be a lot too.
The poll question doesn't match the title of your thread, and it is poorly worded.
I have lost a job. But not recently. Many yeas ago. I could answer "yes" to your poll question.
I am presently self employed, and have been for the last 16 years. I don't plan on laying myself off. I'm not going to participate in the Obama recession.
The poll question doesn't match the title of your thread, and it is poorly worded.
I have lost a job. But not recently. Many yeas ago. I could answer "yes" to your poll question.
I am presently self employed, and have been for the last 16 years. I don't plan on laying myself off. I'm not going to participate in the Obama recession.
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Well, i know a lot of people who work for Circuit City who will be unemployed. I have one friend who got laid off from his blue-collar job in favor of illegals and hasn't found steady employment since.
The poll question doesn't match the title of your thread, and it is poorly worded.
I have lost a job. But not recently. Many yeas ago. I could answer "yes" to your poll question.
I am presently self employed, and have been for the last 16 years. I don't plan on laying myself off. I'm not going to participate in the Obama recession.
If I wish to edit my own posting, I can change the wording of the thread, but not of the poll. This is a shortcoming of City-Data.
I was laid off this year along with over 80% of the people in my company. Fortunately I found another job within 3 weeks, but it is at a lower pay rate than the job I had before, which was already at a lower pay rate than the job I had before that. I will soon have more opportunity for commission and "side work" than I did before, so it's probably a wash pretty soon.
Over 200 people applied for the job I got. I was fortunate that this job is virtually the same one I had a few years ago, and I was therefore a very good fit for my new employer. There are more than 200 other people that were not so fortunate.
BTW, I'm a flaming liberal and I did not take one dime of unemployment while I was looking for a new job (even though I had every right to it), as I have savings and spousal income that could temporarily sustain us.
Bravo! Nicely put! So many people are bred with the teachings of entitlement.
My back yard neighbor worked 21 years for the same company (which was sold about 3 yrs ago) and was laid off in July. He is 58 yrs old. He is still unemployed though looking. He has a master's in physics. Another guy down the street, also with an MS in physics, was laid off in Sept. He is looking, has had lots of interveiws, no new job yet. What a sense of entitlement these guys have, yeah!
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