I’ve applied to over 100 companies for online positions that match my qualifications and zero takers and only 3 interviews. Lots of folks are applying for these jobs (hundreds) in some cases. Weird job market.
Many of those jobs are for 19 hours because they don’t want to provide healthcare to a full time worker. The side effect of bad legislation.
1) Inflation has pushed costs sky high
2) People are leaving for higher paying jobs.
3) The jobs are forced to offer higher rates, to attract new employees.
4) This makes their cost higher
5) repeat from 1
What Americans are doing in terms of work life is puzzling to me. How do they live? I’ve come up with two possibilities, both have negative implications for America’s future:
1 - People who don’t want to work at all. The “stimulus” and other forms of forgiveness have made this possible. Many Americans “live in the moment”. They don’t plan, they don’t care about tomorrow, as long as they can get by today, that’s all that counts. Seems to be a lot of them, and they must be running out of savings and building huge debt. It’s mind boggling.
2 - People who work “side hustles”. Door dash, uber, lyft, sell stuff on ebay, amazon and so on. Again, unconcerned about the future, just living for today. Those side hustles will give them nothing in terms of social securty, 401k, or any other form of retirement. But, they can get enough for today.
It just looks like serious trouble to me.
Nope. They’re quitting due to wages can’t offset the costs of living
* Transportation
* High fuel costs
* High housing
* High food
* High gas and utilities
Their argument: “what’s the use”
It's only Tuesday morning... how does that happen?