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I think in this present climate, it's become more important than ever to make sure you have a 'life' outside work. Join a book club, take a walk in the park, take a cooking/pottery/knitting class, whatever floats your boat.
I don't like my job at present either, but I have to provide for my family. As it is, I consider myself a husband and father foremost; that's my occupation. My job is a means for me to make money to do the things I like to do: travel, going to dinner and movies, taking classes. We need to get to a point where we start defining ourselves by 'who we are', not 'what we do' ( for work).
I think in this present climate, it's become more important than ever to make sure you have a 'life' outside work. Join a book club, take a walk in the park, take a cooking/pottery/knitting class, whatever floats your boat.
I don't like my job at present either, but I have to provide for my family. As it is, I consider myself a husband and father foremost; that's my occupation. My job is a means for me to make money to do the things I like to do: travel, going to dinner and movies, taking classes. We need to get to a point where we start defining ourselves by 'who we are', not 'what we do' ( for work).
Great Post. My job is not my dream job but it's not a fast food joint with low wages and it allows me to pay bils, save money, and enjoy the things I like to do outside work
Well I'm not going to create a big list. Use google and you will find plenty. I will give one example from where I live. Over the past two years they have added nearly 7000 jobs. Our housing prices gained in value this year and our unemployment rate is expected to drop 2-3% this year. Our home prices are expected to gain again as well. They are adding around 1500 more jobs this year already. And yes this is all private sector.
I know in many cities it is bad but it does not mean its bad everywhere like you seem to want to say.
I Googled it. Unemployment claims rose by an “Unexpected” 25,000 last month.
Exactly lots of people on here want to make themselves feel better and say it's bad everywhere.
There are also lots of People who chose to burry their heads in the sand. They convince themselves that although the housing market is worse than the great depression, while everyone else’s home is depreciating theirs is going up in value.
People are settling. McDonalds recently turned away 938,000 eager job applicants.
And yes,the job market IS bad everywhere. If you have a job, be grateful. But don’t kid yourself into thinking you have job security. Nobody does.
There are also lots of People who chose to burry their heads in the sand. They convince themselves that although the housing market is worse than the great depression, while everyone else’s home is depreciating theirs is going up in value.
People are settling. McDonalds recently turned away 938,000 eager job applicants.
And yes,the job market IS bad everywhere. If you have a job, be grateful. But don’t kid yourself into thinking you have job security. Nobody does.
If I lost my job tomorrow I know where I'm not going..........McDonald;s
There are also lots of People who chose to burry their heads in the sand. They convince themselves that although the housing market is worse than the great depression, while everyone else’s home is depreciating theirs is going up in value.
People are settling. McDonalds recently turned away 938,000 eager job applicants.
And yes,the job market IS bad everywhere. If you have a job, be grateful. But don’t kid yourself into thinking you have job security. Nobody does.
I can say the exact same thing about people who claim the sky is falling. No the job market is not bad everywhere.
I'm not going to argue with a person who can't even admit it's not bad everywhere. Talk about your head in the sand.
I'm willing to admit it's very bad in many cities just not all.
There are many companIes hiring for good paying jobs. Some People fail to recognize this and continue with their doom and gloom attitude. Is it harder, yes, is it impossible, no.
No one is saying its impossible but I think you are underestimating how much harder things really are.
There are good jobs out there but because there are something like 150-200 job applicants for every open "good job" position it drives even thoes wages down. Plus it can create a tense work situation once you finally do land a "good job" because you are expendible.
Again no one is saying things are impossible but it really is pretty doom and gloom, however, just because it is doom and gloom does not mean you should give up but im not going to be intellectually dishonest about it either. All the solutions are at the national level regarding outsourcing and nafta, etc.
Now more than ever a family support structure is nessicary, I wish we had an extra bedroom to help people, we have let people live in our office on an air mat for several months because it really is that bad, I guess if anything this should drive us to more charity because its not just drunk bums that are falling on hard times these days.
I can say the exact same thing about people who claim the sky is falling. No the job market is not bad everywhere.
I'm not going to argue with a person who can't even admit it's not bad everywhere. Talk about your head in the sand.
I'm willing to admit it's very bad in many cities just not all.
Also another problem in our economy is the time between employment, because of how onerous it is to get a new "real job" it creates huge gaps in unemployment which then makes you less employable. It can take an employer 2-3 months to sort through the 100's or even possibly 1000's of applications to actually find a set of people to interview.
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