More job searchers just quit looking

USA TODAY ^ | 4/7/2003 | Barbara Hagenbaugh

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

There are over 54,000 jobs listed here alone. Most of them are IT related.

Nice link. I'm in IT and was replaced last week by 3 Indians from Satyan which shows up on that page as "a great place to work". As a matter of fact I trained them last month to replace me. Looking for any IT work now. Yeah I know I'm screwed. Maybe I'll be a fry king in a month. growl!

[Joe Hadenuf]

The economy is in the tank......

[gcruse]

I hear you. I never in my life accepted unemployment compensation. But this time, I have taken the full load. Benefits expired this week after sending out tons of resumes with maybe two replies. I'm going to miss that weekly check, but being discriminated against for age soothes my feelings of guilt. I go out with middle finger held high!!! :)

[StolarStorm]

You and ALL of your fellow should have gotton together and refused to train you replacements. IT folks will continue to get screwed until the work together. We are war right now with slave traders.

[Joe Hadenuf]

One word: H1-B. A lot of these people would be working if the government didn't flood the market with slave labor from India.

You bet, and compound that with hundreds of thousands of illegals that continue to flood into America.......It's an economic time bomb.......

[maxwell]

Just because someone with decades of experience can find a living, doesn't mean that the market is open to career changers.

I'm right there with ya, dude. I think you meant that reply for Lee308; I sensed that his contribution to the conversation wasn't gonna stick around long (NO it was not I that tattled, Lee) so I saved it fer posterity, nyuk nyuk nyuk...

[annyokie]

I am pleased for you. I worked my ass off in college waiting tables, tending bar and, mainly, selling cars for ten years; all that, time raising three kids. I don't want to hear about what a slacker I am.

[jrushing]

"count your blessings."

Count your blessings can have more to do with at state of mind than religion. A pessimistic person will count his curses. (Keep thoughts of all negative attributes)
An optimistic person will count his blessings. (Keep thinking of all positive attributes) Accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative.
It can't hurt.

[maxwell]

Hey vannrox, I seem to remember hollering with ya a few months back about this very topic... Engineering, right? You should check out some of the sites that I've been looking for jobs on-- "systems engineer", "mechanical engineer", "software engineer", "engineer-yo-mama" everywhere I look... (Hey, I shoulda gone to engineer school...!) General Atomic, Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Sandia, Jet Propulsion Lab in MD, gad-zillions of stuff on Monster and CareerBuilder.com...

[StolarStorm]

You really lack some critical thinking skills. A 44 year old mother of three is not going to get hired for a trade type job, just like a 54 year old ex-techie isn't going to get hired as a construction worker.

[clamper1797]

First time in my life I've ever "taken" from the government

You are NOT taking from the government when you are drawing unemployment ... you are collecting on an insurance policy that you and your previous employer have been paying into while you were working. It's not more "taking from the government" than using your health insurance ....which you and your previous employer paid into as well

[maxwell]

Your a wimp, sorry, we no longer need your services.

Have many friends, do ya?

[TLBSHOW]

Survey: Consumer Confidence Up in April
Tue Apr 8,10:39 AM ET

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[annyokie]

Good luck to you! I have been looking/interviewing for months and there is nothing here.

[StolarStorm]

What kind of work do you do?

[Lee308]

>You really lack some critical thinking skills. A 44 year old mother of three is not going to get hired for a trade type job, just like a 54 year old ex-techie isn't going to get hired as a construction worker.<
No, maybe not, but a friend of mine, 44, female, made $37K last year cleaning condo's. She quit school at 15. She owns a new house and a nice car. Her daugher goes to college. You folks are just cry babies. Lee308

[clamper1797]

gad-zillions of stuff on Monster and CareerBuilder.com

My poor poor uninformed niave friend ... most of the jobs posted on those job boards are either old or bogus. For instance ... I am a DFT expert .... search on DFT ... The Nvidia job posted there has been there for over a year. Same with the TI jobs the Apaptec job and the Sun Micro job. The "posting" are a ploy to get around the government mandate to "attempt" to find an American engineer before hiring a H1B. The worlds expert in any of these fields could apply and they would not even call them in for an interview. I know for sure ....