Posted on 02/22/2014 11:18:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
When do they stop being unemployment benefits, and start being welfare checks?
If you have not worked for 99 weeks, do you really have more claim to a $300 a week paycheck than a person who wasn’t lucky enough to have a job earlier?
I’m not sure spending several hours a day on your computer is a good way to get a job. There are millions of unemployed with computers who are using the internet to try to find work.
If you want to stand out, do something “remarkable” like actually show up at businesses to fill out applications and ask about jobs.
For example, if I lost my job, I might go spend a week in a local retailer, watching their system and their performance. Then, I’d write up my ideas for improvement, and ask to see the head manager. I would explain how hiring me would pay for itself.
I worry a bit about finding a job as an old person, in part because of government regulations/laws that lock in retirement benefits that make it unhelpful to hire old people full-time.
One way around that is to specifically look for part-time work, and just get a couple of jobs, where they don’t have to offer much in benefits.
Wouldn’t having a job that pays 70% of what you need, and just have to take 30% out of your savings, then not working at all and taking 100% out of your savings?
Or you could kill yourself working two jobs, not a lot of money per hour but maybe enough to live on.
I guess you could move into a house that is smaller as well.
Yes, it is easy for me to say. I’m over 50 but I put 20% of my salary into a retirement fund for pretty much my entire life, so now if I get laid off I could probably retire. Of course, that means I could not take trips to Europe every year, and I got almost all my clothes at thrift stores; but now I’m used to it and you don’t need much of a job to buy thrift-store clothes.
My sister-in-law lost her job, and she wanted to keep her horse, so she took a job shoveling stables in exchange for upkeep.
That was the horrible downside to the extension of unemployment benefits. It put people into a situation where they felt OK looking for work for 99 weeks, and as you said, businesses aren’t all that excited about hiring “experienced workers” who have no reason for not working the past two years.
You’d be better off if you had quit your job, and were coming back into the labor force, because then you’d have a reason.
That is a lesson a lot of people have trouble learning.
When I applied to be a haunt monster at my local theme park, I did say I had a current job, but I gave no other information about my skills at the job. After all, I’m not trying to run their theme park, or re-design their computer system, I just want to scare guests.
So I want them to think of me has a mindless but conscientious employee who will show up for work, do what I am told, obey instructions, and not make waves.
They certainly didn’t need to know my class ranking for my engineering degree, or that they were going to pay me less a day than I’d make in an hour at my real job.
And the woman in the article would have a better chance at knowing people in companies that are hiring if she spend several hours a day volunteering or hanging out with groups of people, instead of watching TV in her living room.
That is something I have going for me — I have no “comfort zone”. I even tell my work that I’d clean the toilets if they wanted. I’ve got a list of jobs I wish I could have done in my life that pretty much encompasses everything that exists. Want me to paint houses, I’ve done that. Dig ditches, I did that too. Cut grass, shovel snow, write opinion columns, work at a theme park — all on my resume. I’d love to do retail, I’d like to be a greeter, or a cashier, I’d love to work on cars for a couple of years, I might be a bit too old to do construction now. As a kid I sold stuff door to door, but for charity — still, I was highly organized, and could have probably made money doing the same.
I’ve done plumbing, electric, and drywall work for my own house so it was like paying myself. If I worked hard at it, I think I could make some money playing music, not singing anymore though. At one time, I thought about setting up a business where I would just help people set the clocks on their VCRs.
“Her monthly bills for “her part” covers things like $132/mo home phone, $153.60/mo Cell phone, $74/mo cable and car insurance and vet bills plus and entry for $640/month child support(?).
Nice clothes (some kind of designer stuff by Denmark Impressions(?)- wore two different things), goes outside to get into a new Nissan and passes a truck and two SUVs in the driveway.”
Thing is, that the foolish woman can cut her expenses by buying a cheap pre-pay cell phone, buy clothes on Ebay, find a smaller house and get a smaller car. Get rid of the home phone and things will be just fine really.
As for cable, I myself download whatever shows I want, so frankly that is another round of bills ended. As for the SUV cars, she has no need for them, so why two plus a truck?
” this is not the time to be worrying about vacations, tuition, dining out, extravagant entertainment, parties, expensive hobbies, gift-giving and the like.”
Amen!
Time for people to stop living like we aren’t in a recession and start living like adults. People don’t need yearly vacations to the tropics or Europe and they don’t need to have massive amounts of electronic equipment.
Our one and only vacation since our marriage (sort of a belated honeymoon) was a short trip of 3 days to Hot Springs, Arkansas many years ago. I’ve never been on a European, Caribbean or cruise ship type trip. All my time overseas was in fatigues and combat boots. LOL
It was the voters who volunteered for it, but they are taking us down with them.
*snicker*
Glad you enjoyed your honeymoon.
What she could do is take a certification course and then use that to get a job. Courses like that are really really cheap compared to a degree really. A medical certificate will get her any job she should so please to get.
Good for you and your family. Crafts are going to be huge in the future and I think it’ll end up being really big.
It was okay. Did a dinner cruise on a little paddlewheeler that was tolerable. Did a separate (male/female) spa experience that was like a page out of a 1930’s sanatorium. Weird.
http://www.buckstaffbaths.com/
Don't you feel guilty taking that job when there are hundreds of illegal aliens who would be happy to make that job a career?
“What she could do is take a certification course and then use that to get a job.”
Maybe, maybe not.
Here in NY, you can not go to school while collecting unemployment. If they find out, they cut you off. And make you pay back what you got.
Nor can you start your own business. You are not allowed to even make plans for your own business while collecting unemployment. That constitutes “work” and if you work, (for nothing) they will cut you off.
No, you need a propper degree to do well paying medical billing job.
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