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.
You say you work part time but you won’t let your husband commute with the car for an $800 plus week paycheck??Listen sister, I know all about construction and contractors. You husband needs to apply with some of the big time contractors out there that always have work available. Yea he might have to work out of town but most pay per diem. And most of those jobs pay about $1500 pluss a week. Yoyu can sit there at your key board and cry all you want, matter of fact, the amount of post you have done the last 2 months I don’t see where you have time to work even part time. Sorry for being rude, but, when a noobie starts whining about how terrible life is, and how their journeyman HVAC hubby can not find work, I consider them being suspect as a troll.
I suggest you move to wherever work can be found. Back in the mid 1980’s I went over a year without work in Michigan. I sold my car and used that money to rent a U-Haul van. We moved down to Texas and I found an entry-level job a week later. Within 6 months I found a good paying job. Desperate times call for desperate actions.