Posted on 07/04/2006 9:28:05 AM PDT by Abathar
1. You can move to a place where there is functionally zero unemployment. Washington DC and the northern Virginia suburbs of DC is such a place. Employers are desperate. They'll hire chimps, with or without a clearance.
2. You can change your job skills so that you have skills that are in demand where you live.
3. You can start your own business.
4. You can continue whining about how tough it is, lose your job, go on unemployment until that runs out, and move in with your mom.
Responsible adults usually choose 1,2, or 3 unless they suffer a life-threatening illness and truly cannot support themselves. But whining about how tough it is rarely helps bring in money.
Liberal democrat "journalists" have made a pretty good living doing just that at least as long as there is a host to be a parasite off.
I think I would get new friends and consider moving to where there are more and better jobs. This happens in a market economy. Only in a command economy like the Soviet Union is one guaranteed a job and complete security from cradle to grave.
Cuba is closer. And has nicer weather.
That statement, plus the fact that you don't care about what the stats say about everyone else, tells us that you and your friends were either working for the New York Times or the Democratic National Committee.
When y'all say to each other that it's the worst economy since Hoover, that's one thing. When you try and pull that line on a forum like this one you've got to know that you're sounding like a full blown looney-toon.
My contract just ended, I'm still getting calls and I'm looking for a new job besides Illinois..
Fortunately or unfortunately, we can't all be journalists.
And as long as George Bush is President it won't get any respect from the left and the uber-right (so far right they're coming up on the left).
You haven't a clue; go buy some. The last few years of the 20th century were NOT the "high point of our economy"! And you and your "friends" are NOT the only ones living/the exemplars of how our economy really is. But the DOW, unemployment figures, GDP, and a lot of other indicators are!
We're having a TERRIBLE storm...so the BBQ/party I was invited to got rained out; as did the fireworks tonight. :-(
Because I've gotta' tell you, if you think this economy is only good for people who aspire to be dishwashers, then . . . let me just repeat I'd like to know where you live so that I can take a look at one of those online job websites to see if what you say is true.
Got it. 144,000,000 jobs don't count, just the one you don't have. LOL!
There are hundreds of millions of other American workers like us who are also very real. Ordinarily, those of us who've read your posts wouldn't have anything personal against y'all, but the fact that you're considering us just a bunch of nameless statistics (and you don't give a rip what *ANY* statistics say"), sure doesn't make it very easy for us to give a dingle dong about your problems.
No wonder you talk about YOUR GALAXY and completely discount the one in which I reside. You live in a perpetual state of delusion and self centered, petulant childhood; where history only begins when you enter the job market and only you and the very paltry of people you know, matter. OTOH, I live in the real world.
Gee, according to your rules, there was NO recession during the Carter and early Reagan years, because my family and the 100s of people we knew, were all making money hand over fist ! Nobody else counted...right? LOL
My grandparents and great grandparents didn't have any money in the market ( they'd all gotten out of it several months earlier ) in Oct. of '29, so gee....I guess there was NO crash and nobody lost a dime, back then. Right? ROTFLMSO
Dishwasher? Is that what your prospects are?
You keep playing the victim, poor-mouthing, whinging, and yelling me, me, me, MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
There are lots of good paying jobs out, all over this nation. If your friends can't get one, perhaps the fault lies within themselves.
People used to work six days a week. Then it was cut back to 5 1/2, and then, five. Everyone has ALWAYS needed to "keep up" with current knowledge and skills.
Instead of lying in a fetal position, sucking your thumb, and crying like a 44 year old baby about how everything is just so rotten, get off the computer and be a man.
Have you ever heard such unadulterated piffle? LOL
Maybe on DU. He could be Willie Green. Slinking back to spread doom and gloom.
Oh come on......even poor old Willie Green wasn't ever THIS much of a damned baby.
You got several replies asking where you lived and your typical job function but you have not replied. While some responses were testy, others were calm and showed a willingness to help given some information. I can understand if you do not want to accept generalities like the DOW, GDP ... but don't expect people to take your generalities seriously either. For your post to have any real punch, disclose your state and general metro-area if you will and your industry/job function. If you'd like to be extra helpful, disclose the industry/job function of your friends who lost their jobs. There are plenty of good right-thinking people here who would help you with pointers or actual job postings if you'd move beyond the general.
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