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If You Are Unemployed, Should You Move Somewhere Else In Order To Find A Job?

I know a 62 year old male who lost his job then accepted a contracting job in North Carolina that lasted for 6 months. During that time, he had to rent an appartment in NC and try to commute back to Michigan whenever he could to see his family.

At the end of the contract he had to go back home to Michigan......He was then offered a permanent job with the company he was working at so rather than sell his home and move south, he accepted the job and rented once again. Three months later, the company went out of business and he once again had to move back to Michigan......

Unable to find a job, he had to sell his house in Washing Twp. at an enormous loss and move into a smaller one in Warren........

He eventually found another contracting job but it required him to locate to Germany for the extent of his employment. After almost a year away from home, he had to call it quits and move back.

So I'd just as soon not hear any criticism from anyone claiming that if you want to work then you have to move...........This guy did everything in his power to make ends meet but slowly kept falling behind............He's now about 64 years old and his ability to find gainful employment commensurate with his knowledge is pretty much gone.

The feasibility of moving to find work depends on a number of factors.

Does one have a spouse that works and would have to leave that job to relocate?

Does one have kids that are of an age where uprooting them may cause resentment and bad behavior?

Can one find a lesser job in their local area and be underemployed instead of unemployed?

Does the person own a home or rent? If they own, is there sufficient equity to be able to sell it without jumping through hoops?

Does the person have marketable skills that are in demand regardless of where they move? Or are they limited in where they can work? (A surfboard shaper probably wouldn’t do well in Nebraska. An oil man probably wouldn’t do well in San Francisco.)

Does the person qualify to collect unemployment benefits to hold them over for a little while longer so they can continue to look for a job locally?

Do they qualify for training programs to learn a new skill set for a job in a different industry?

Lots of situations, lots of variables. No one-size-fits-all answer.

I am starting to get on in years but, my urge to survive (and actually thrive) is as strong as ever. Many see the extreme challenges facing America as overwhelming. Look again America, these challenges can be seen as OPPORTUNITIES.

IMO, Robert Heinlein said it best.
QUOTE A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. UNQUOTE

A look through the David Gingery HOW-TO books at Lindsay Books might well be particularly helpful. This is how things were done before "must haves" like iPhones. After all, everyone needs pots, pans, bowls and other utensils. It's also a great way to pick up USABLE SKILLS. There are countless other places around the Web on HOW TO do useful things and there are sets of books in FREE public libraries that provide knowledge, free for the asking. Maybe its time to rekindle, MADE IN AMERICA again. That goes for anything from sewing and knitting to electronics and anything in between.

I watched the video on the website about the economic collapse in California. I have read many websites and watched many videos on YouTube about the economic collapse in other states around America.

One very particular comment that piqued my curiosity was made on the video at the 2 minute 40 second mark on The Economic Collapse website by Dewayne Nichols. Nichols said, QUOTE You don't want your children waking up at night with their bellies hurting. UNQUOTE

Seeds from almost ANY vegetable found in the vegetable aisle at any supermarket can be REPLANTED.

Let me re-phrase that for Dewayne Nichols and others. You could save and dry the seeds from the tomato you bought or if its over-ripe, you were given for free at Trader Joe's or Golden Farms or Gelsons or Bristol Farms or hundreds of other supermarkets around the country and you can re-planted those seeds in the loosened-up soil, then watered and cared for a bit. And within 90 days, you'd have tomatoes to feed your children.

You can do exactly the same thing (REPLANTING VEGETABLE SEEDS) with just about any other vegetable.

Instead of watching mush on the flickering blue screen all night long, you could actually read.

If Dewayne Nichols and others chose to eat fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, brussel sprouts, peas, beans, kale, carrots, onions, peppers and potatoes and they garnished these vegetables with their choice of herbs which included dill or parsley or chives oregano or sage or some other appropriate herb then neither he nor his children would ever be hungry or bored for that matter.

There are many locations and churches around every town and city in America that are giving away -=] FREE [=- dried rice. There are absolutely no excuses whatsoever why someone like Dewayne Nichols and others like him, can not eat and enjoy good quality meals in America. IMO, they are ignorant or choose not to. If they are ignorant, read this post.

Food represents about ONE QUARTER (25%) of the cost of living. Eating good tasting, high quality food for FREE, means that people would have twenty-five (25%) more money in their pockets for other necessities and OPPORTUNITIES.

Most of the unemployed have neither the skills, nor the endurance to take many of the jobs available in North Dakota.

And, for the record: The winters in North Dakota make me glad I live in Wyoming. We only get down to -20F here, with a foot or so of snow.

In ND, they get down to -20F or lower, and out near the Black Hills, they can have snowfalls that bury houses whole. We’re talking 3’ to 6’ drifts and more. Tunnels coming out of your house to your car. Having to shovel off the roof or else suffer roof collapse, that sort of thing.

Most people can’t handle that.

What most people should do is learn how to produce a real, tangible product or service. Hint: If it involves shuffling paper with imaginary financial numbers on it, it probably ain’t either.