same job i've had since 2006. no real possibility if layoff, i'll be here till i retire...
Posted on 11/07/2009 1:06:00 PM PST by SouthWall
Trying to see what Freeper employment numbers are.
How do they compare to SNObama's numbers.
I got laid off at the end of the year. I spent months on unemployment. Then I got a new job at a lower salary. We’re paying the bills and the mortgage, but it’s definitely a lot harder than it used to be. It’s a good thing my wife didn’t lose her job, or our home would have been foreclosed and our cars repossessed.
Exactly how are you planning on calculating this?
Our opinion of what we think the numbers are?
You counting family members or just FReepers?
I am U-3 employed and U-6 unemployed, so I have to answer “both.”
Your Employment Status
Does Fox News tilt further right than CNN tilts to the left?
Employed
Unemployed - Receiving Benefits
Unemployed - Not Receiving Benefits
Current Results
Your poll title is wrong. Duplicated from the CNN/Fox leaning poll. Options are correct though.
By the way, our savings were wiped out. We managed to keep our hands off the kids’ college funds, but those were next on the chopping block at the time I got my new job. When you make a substantial wage and get laid off, unemployment doesn’t begin to cover it. I thought it was going to be half of my salary, but there’s a statutory cap of $365 a week. That’s a lot less than half.
Since I am a white male, I am not the type that our pResident wants to see employed and satisfied, but that is really too bad. He can go out and smoke a cigarette and have some ice cream while celebrating jihad, for all I care!
And are you going on a regional or national focus?
On a national basis, going by the broadest unemployment and underemployment figures, the U.S. is not in a depression (yet), but I can wager you that some regions of the U.S. are experiencing depression conditions already.
Freepers only
Me and you both brother
See Current Result at poll.
Thanks
voted
Whoops.
Now it is fixed
Thats great.
Want to contribute to Keep GeronL from Dying of Poverty Fund?
lol
Good.
Prayers for those who are looking.
Gone Galt for a couple of years.
I’ve been lucky. I’ve been employed ever since I got my first full-time job back in 1984. Never been unemployed or laid off in that whole time.
I do have to say that I have never seen the business environment as bad as it’s been in the last year. It’s bad - very bad. I’m just hoping for the best right now.
I’m employed full time and just picked up a 2 year contract with a company in europe. I’m planning to hire a couple of hard-working Americans in January.
Good for you.
Glad to see someone in Europe is planning ahead. Wish America would.
At least you will add a couple of non-government jobs, more than Obama.
Employed with no debts, good health, and enough to eat.
didn’t see option for 20% cut and working only 32 hours
“statutory cap of $365 a week.”
Glad your back at it..
But, seriously - they call it unemployment “insurance” and it’s capped at 365$ a week? I know it probably helps, but if you make nearly that in a day - it ain’t going far with bills etc etc...
The only real unemployment insurance (minimum) is 6-12 months of salary in savings.
I’ve always kind of wondered why actuaries haven’t figured out a way to risk rate unemployment and this type of insurance isn’t privatized with varying premiums.
The european company has American financial backing. So in a sense the money is coming back home. The last 3 years have been terrible, but I cast a very wide net looking for partners. I had several deals fall though until I helped a small company get past a critical point and now they are in a position to return the favor. Sometimes you get lucky if you work at it.
You are blessed.
Unemployed not receiving benefits
“the U.S. is not in a depression (yet), but I can wager you that some regions of the U.S. are experiencing depression conditions already.”
- Tennessee. It is a strange thing to open up the job ads section online and see hundreds of jobs available, yet what they dont tell you is that 2000 resumes are received for every position.
Prepare yourself just in case. I got my first job in '77 and got laid off for the first time shortly after 9/11. I thought I was un-layoff-able. It was major trauma because I simply didn't consider the possibility. I've been laid off twice since. I'm much better able to handle it now after going through it a few times.
Hubby laid off last January.
Hubby collecting benefits.
Clicked your polls. Employed for the past 45 years all the hours I can stand and maybe more. You eat, I work; thank you very much!
I’m on disability; so I don’t count. Ha!
Unemployed - no benes.
Fox is completely unbiased compared to CNN, MSNBC, PBS....
It took me completely by surprise. I had been assured my position was valuable to the company and that my job was safe. My wife and I had roughly six months of both salaries invested in various liquid assets: a passbook savings account, and college funds (stock portfolios and bonds) for our children. The savings account was completely gone by the time I got the new job. The kids are still very young, so I think we would have had time to replenish their college accounts if we had to tap into that too.
We had purchased a new home, a couple of cars, and all the other stuff you would expect with incomes like these. I ended up selling one of the cars. Fortunately, we didn't "max it out" when we were buying. We bought a less expensive home, and less expensive cars than we could have afforded at that time. That turned out to be a very wise strategy.
Complicating matters have been my medical problems over the past year. I had to go to job interviews, without being immediately dismissed as damaged goods. I have no problem doing the job. It's a desk job. But there are always some concerns if you show up at an interview looking like you should have gone to the emergency room instead. And they'd certainly have taken another look at the next resume in their tall stacks of resumes.
I was fortunate enough to continue to be covered by my wife's insurance, at the time I was laid off. I really don't know how someone making $40K or $50K can handle this sort of situation. They wouldn't have had the savings, and they probably wouldn't have had the insurance. They would have lost everything.
I was laid off from my computer repair job with a global company.
I don’t think that i will get back into that hell business.
Still out of work and have no idea what i’m gonna do.
Yes, I was transferred to a group that historically never had a layoff.
Then i got laid off because i was at the bottom of my new totem pole.
Nice....
Both - Unemployed - Receiving Benefits
We both receive max unemployment caped at $500 a week ea.
We also get over $700 a month COBRA supplement from stimulus package.
This equals over $60k a year in obumber dollars for free./s
Now with the latest extension we will receive benefits through February.
Whew.
When you get a chance, breath.
:-)
That would only cover our mortgage and electric bill. We'd loose the house for sure.
Savings, savings, savings!!
“didn’t see option for 20% cut and working only 32 hours
“
Very good point! There should be an option for cut hours.
What do you do? (my kids are always looking for ideas for their future.)
I am no longer on that farm but am still in agriculture as an equipment operator and truck driver. It is not a retire wealthy job but I sleep well when I do. The bills are paid and there is a savings also. I own my home and small acreage in an extremely rural area.
True freedom is being content with what you are blessed with. At the same time when we stop learning we are dead.
“You can only eat one steak at a time!” :-)
I’ll tell you what, the day I made the choice to be happy with what I had was the best day of my life. We’ve been thriving since.
same job i've had since 2006. no real possibility if layoff, i'll be here till i retire...
I have had many jobs over the years from the mountains to the plains but have never given my notice without another one waiting.
I am currently working with a mostly great crew (alfalfa marketing) that is willing to get the job done not just put in hours for a check. Those kind are thought of with disdain as bad as a slacker that is always hovering around the fringes offering unneeded advice while others are getting dirty and sweaty getting it done.
I didn’t vote on the job poll. I’m retired but I do have SSA and Medicare and I’m scared sick that Congress is going to screw everything up.
I don’t like the Republican bill either.
We need to inundate John Boehner with our ideas. I’m getting tired of the rants about the Pelosi-Reid-ObamaCare bill. I’m going to watch something on Fancast.
still full time employed
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