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Unemployment rates are actually quite good for many jobs. However if they can bring in illegals to do the job, then watch out. Some job have unemployment rates below 3%, others are over 20%.
I'd be happy to find out that "actors" aren't eligible for unemployment compensation. I'd be more than willing to discriminate against this segment of the population, no questions asked.
I'd be happy to find out that "actors" aren't eligible for unemployment compensation. I'd be more than willing to discriminate against this segment of the population, no questions asked.
Aren't you sweet. As an aspiring actor, that number is a bit misleading. Acting, for most people isn't their full time job. Most actors have periods of not working in acting while they are auditioning or between shows. They have backup jobs that they are working while not acting. That unemployment number most likely refers strictly to not working in acting for a period of time, not to actually being unemployed sitting on the couch.
I'm surprised that lawyers are only 2.1%. That was one of the hardest hit industries, and many new graduates are ending up at Starbucks because they can't get a legal job.
I'm surprised that lawyers are only 2.1%. That was one of the hardest hit industries, and many new graduates are ending up at Starbucks because they can't get a legal job.
Did you ever consider the possibility that many of those new graduates aren't really lawyers?
In other words, they suck.
Either you were born to be a leader, teacher, cop, lawyer, musician, athlete, warrior, carpenter, brick-layer or engineer, or you weren't, and no amount of education, training, retreats, self-help books, motivational seminars or anything will ever change that fact.
So just because the State waves a magic wand and says someone is a teacher or a lawyer, doesn't mean they really are. My cousin went to law school. Is he an attorney? Hell, no. He thinks he is. He works part-time earning $15/hour as a debt collection attorney for a really nasty debt collection law firm that had their asses handed to them by the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Did you ever consider the possibility that many of those new graduates aren't really lawyers?
In other words, they suck.
If you graduate with a JD, you're a lawyer. I'm well aware of how the legal industry works seeing as I was preparing to go to Law school. I'm not talking about the bottom of the barrel graduates, they are complete idiots for taking on massive student debt going to a poorly ranked school with absolutely no job prospects. Law school is all about prestige. I'm talking about Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, even lower ranked Harvard graduates struggling with jobs these days because the legal market is so ridiculously saturated. I mean, sure, if you want to work in some podunk town in Montana doing personal injury law you might be able to get a job. But corporate law in NYC or big government public interest work is few and far between, and that's what most law students who go to the big name schools strive for.
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As an aspiring actor, that number is a bit misleading. Acting, for most people isn't their full time job. Most actors have periods of not working in acting while they are auditioning or between shows. They have backup jobs that they are working while not acting. That unemployment number most likely refers strictly to not working in acting for a period of time, not to actually being unemployed sitting on the couch.
