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I'm in Texas. I applied for unemployment the day I got fired. I waited to sign the severance papers as long as possible and got a lump sum this past Monday.
Whatever you got in lump sum, divide this by your weekly gross pay. This number will yield the number of weeks (from this past Monday) you will go [b]without[b] UI benefits. The only exception I would see in this instance is if your weekly gross pay is less than what you would be eligible for in weekly UI benefits. Good luck...
I just re-did my resume this afternoon to try to make it more general, since jobs in my field or related fields are scarce and I'm getting no response. I had started becoming more flexible but now I'm really trying to be. The only positive to all this is I've gotten a chance to try to think about what I'd really like to do, not what I fell into after college...seeing as I can't get a job in my field anymore anyway.
Have you considered going back to school? Have you thought about substitute teaching? I am in the same boat. I had to go back to school. I just can not wait around for a job in my field. I can't move back in with my parents. My parents live out in the middle of nowhere. I don't think I would be able to find a job there.
I guess this is just to vent. I have been searching for a job for almost 2 months now with NO response. My resume is good, my networking is good, I even created a website for myself to help me stand out. NOTHING! I was wrongfully terminated from my previous employer but I can't sue because they bought my silence with a meager severance package (I had bills to pay, I was stuck). I feel like I have no hope of finding a job anytime soon, based on what has happened so far. And there just AREN'T MANY JOBS to apply for. I still don't know if I'm getting unemployment, they are still "investigating". I'm losing my apartment soon and having to move to a new city, and in with my parents. Which I've accepted by now. But what I can't accept is not even getting a call or an interview! I'm a writer, and even the freelance jobs have HUNDREDS of applicants and people willing to write an article for $5.
How do you keep going when you just want to give up?
So why don't you write the next best seller with them all wanting to make a film about it. I'm from Ireland and Ceila Ahern lives a few miles up the road from me and look what she is achieving with no writing experience. So cmon, why cant you do it? you could call it P.S I HATE YOU or something. We all find ourselves in a frame of mind where we seem to loose our way a bit and worry about the immediate issue's and loose so much time waiting for the end result to occur, kinda like this "I'll do that as soon as I get my finances in order or when this happens or when that happens" but it never works out as we planed it to and we end up with so much wasted opportunity. I believe in YOU and see absolutely no reason why you cant achieve the success that is rightfully yours.
goodturn..
2 months and you're almost giving up already? Really?
I'm a graduate and started looking before graduating. It's been near 9 months and all I have is an unpaid internship.
The AVERAGE is 1 in 3 are unemployment for 27 weeks for more. If you find something before than statistically you're lucky. Welcome to the world of 16% - 20% unemployment and where Uncle Sam doesn't give a rats ass because you're not "too big too fail"
Have you considered going back to school? Have you thought about substitute teaching? I am in the same boat. I had to go back to school. I just can not wait around for a job in my field. I can't move back in with my parents. My parents live out in the middle of nowhere. I don't think I would be able to find a job there.
Most substitute teaching jobs are done by retired teachers or student teachers. In some districts, they can take someone who has a college education and give them certs to do subbing. I wouldn't try to make a career out of it.
The best thing the government could do is appeal to the corporate business community and ask them to bring manufacturing back here. Everything else would follow, like puppies on a leash. What worked long ago would work now. When you have manufacturing, everything else is needed and it snowballs in a good direction.
Apply for temp jobs, start saving your check stubs, you can re-qualify for unemployment, and work while collecting. Don't look for the job you want, just find a job, because after you have been fired from a place, even if it was a layoff, it is hard to get a job in the same field again. So, you need to re-build your reference base.
Been there, and it was painful. I have a masters degree, and was checking groceries at the store after 9/11. Have built my way back, but had some really tough times.
you can draw unemployment and receive a severance package at the same time. I did this so I know from personal experience and it is not illegal. If you don't file right away you could actually lose benefits as they count the unemployed period where you were drawing severance against you!
I researched this and researched this. Just file unemployment, if you are getting severance package - don't even refer to it, all they want to know is are you working. Also, if the company is giving you severance pay, that says that you were let go on good terms. They would have out and out fired you and not given you a package if they had grounds otherwise.
Severance pay is considered wages, you have to report it. The unemployment will start after the severance pay runs out.
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Your a writer ??
