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To: wombtotomb

26 years as HVAC and can’t find job??? Give me a break and try to kid someone else. That is one of the BIGGEST demand skills in America right now.


85 posted on 12/15/2008 7:43:30 AM PST by eastforker
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To: eastforker

You hit the nail on the head perhaps in AMERICA. My area of AMERICA is absolutely depleted. St. Lucie County FL has NO, and I mean NO jobs. My husband even registered with laborfinders as a DAY laborer and no work here for his field. the closest places hiring are ft lauderdale and orlando, both over 2 hours away and both unwilling to pay for him to take a service van home that distance each day.
Seeing as I have only one vehicle and I am trying to keep MY job as long as I can, I need the one car we have. it has over 139,000 miles on it and oil leaking from a gasket that will cost over 600 to fix. I wish I were kidding, your comments are cruel and rude. You want to see for yourself, check HVACagent.com, MEPatwork.com, Aerotek.com, americasjobbank.com, careerbuilder.com, monster.com etc. He has applied for HVAC jobs, diswashing jobs, home depot, walmart, and everything else he can think of. Union halls are full of people sitting on the bench here, so they won’t take him. He has applied to government jobs, county jobs, and city jobs that have been posted.
Over 100 applicants for a single meter reader position in our city! City just laid off 40 more people, one of them probably got that job. I have sent out over 100 resumes for him as well as posted countless ones on line. Anything I am NOT doing, please tell me cause he needs a JOB!
We are now going to have to cut our losses, and go to an area of the country that does NOT have a 10.3 percent unemployment rate and hopefully FIND him a job.
Be thankful you live in a place that has not been hit as hard as South Florida if you are still working.


93 posted on 12/15/2008 8:11:31 AM PST by wombtotomb (since its "above his paygrade", why can't we err on the side of caution about when life begins?)
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