Posted on 02/06/2010 2:24:01 PM PST by Steelfish
Frustrated Job Seekers Deciding To Call It Quits
By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD, AP Business Writer February 6, 2010
Many jobless people have reached a conclusion that captures the depth of the unemployment crisis: Looking for a job is a waste of time. The economy is growing. Yet it's creating few jobs. That's why in the past eight months, 1.8 million people without jobs left the labor market. Many had grown so frustrated by their failure to find a job that they threw up their hands and quit looking for one.
And it's why Barbara Bishop sat down at her kitchen table in suburban Atlanta last month and joined their ranks. Her decision came seven months after she quit a PR job that seemed about to be axed. Sending out resumes got her nowhere. So Bishop made a list of her skills and decided to launch her own business.
"I don't want to look any more," she said of the job hunt. "It's become very discouraging."
The nation's unemployment rate is 9.7 percent. But so many jobless people have quit looking that if they're combined with the number of part-time workers who'd prefer to work full time, the so-called "underemployment" rate is 16.5 percent.
Their outsize numbers show that even though the economy is growing, the job market is stagnant. Employers remain reluctant to hire.
The exodus did halt in January, when a net total of 111,000 people re-entered the job market. But 661,000 had left in December. And the overall trend since spring has been people leaving the work force.
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There are ways to earn income though it will be viewed by many as too lowly. despicable and cowardly.
Find your local police tipline numbers and when or if you find or sincerely think there is a meth lab, a fugitive or some other situation that you will be rewarded for offering information leading to the arrest and convictions of felony acts its possible to make an income.
Might as well clean up the neighborhood while a person can.
I have been with every online site, Texas employment commision. I have looked out of town and out of state. I am 56. This and no degree has much to do with the luck I have had. I was making 6 figure income and have been turned down for 9:50 per hour jobs as customer service reps on the phone. I was the number 3 sales rep for Wells Fargo in the nation. Now I can’t even get a customer service phone job. I have at my own expense taken 5 weeks of schools to become an insurance adjuster. It cost me 5K and I passed their assesment with the highest score in a room full of seasoned adjusters. Still companies that advertise for adjusters want 3 to 5 years experience or a 4 year degree. With so many people out of work, the few jobs open are looking for college degree or experience. I can’t tell you how many Sales rep jobs I have applied for. I can’t get past the degree thing. Of course I must be the worst interview in the world because the few I have had did not even call me back. And I thought they went well. I can only think its my gray hair.
Find a few more in the same boat as you and form a bounty hunter club.
Were I you, I would seriously consider checking out North Dakota. Late last year some time I read an article where an entire Call Center was simply moved to some other state because they couldn't fill the positions, and the article mentioned that many jobs cannot be filled, there aren't enough workers available.
With all your experience and your obviously superior qualifications, were I you, I would seriously consider going through an ONLINE PHONE BOOK for North Dakota and talking to every single manager of any place possible where car financing is done.
I doubt that such a line of action will appeal to you, so instead I offer you the online Job Service for North Dakota:
site:www.jobsnd.com "north dakota" employment - Google Search
Do you have your application all up to date at the federal job website, it's called something like JobsUSA.net OR something similar.
I have also read several articles that MANY companies refuse to advertise any openings because literally thousands show up, and instead, they rely on the dozens of resumes they've collected from all the people pounding the sidewalk, going "cold calling" door to door.
Have you joined any networking groups for the unemployed?
While I agree that it is basically the poor farm concept, we are a lot better at doing things today then they were back when. The emphasis is on this not being a long term concept, but as a temporary means to provide a reasonable standard of living, at lower cost, while waiting for a turn around in an unstable and destructive economy.
Dye your hair????? best of luck to you.....I wonder if they really check on the college degrees on those applications???? Just wondering....
If you check it out on a weekend, please remember that not many jobs are posted on either Saturday or Sunday anywhere in the nation, most are posted during the work week, M-F.
Warning about craigslist job postings. Many are scams to gather personal data, preying on the unemployed.
Of course, caution is advised, as it is with all things online.
IF you happen to know a better way to give the posters an idea of how to follow all the openings in North Dakota, where they can't find enough workers, PLEASE POST this information.
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