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This post is not directed at you, but to all who are on the verge of quiting.

What can I say? Move, try something else, start a business, take life by the horns, take flippin charge of your life, but quit feeling sorry for yourself. The moment you accept defeat, the battle is lost. If you want to create optimism, do it in your life.

The country has been through this before, this isn't the worst economy in the history of mankind. Before our last recession, the US economy has suffered 10 recessions since the end of World War II, the last of which was in March 1991. The recession of 1991 was much worse. You should have been around for the 1980s one (Carter's). America is a strong and resilient nation, but it doesn't need people who give up hope and resign theirselves to failure.

Is moving an option? South Carolina sucks, but nationally the unemployment numbers have been going down for the last month, there are places in this country that are at full employment (under %2.5 unemployment).

In reply to people who say this is a jobless recovery, I have included an excerpt discussing the 1991 recession. Remenber in the 1990s we gained 20 Million jobs, it didn't start out that way though.

The first signs are visible, in retrospect, in the so-called "jobless recovery" of the early 1990s. Production and sales reached their troughs in March 1991, and thereafter began a clear recovery. The unemployment rate, however, kept rising. It rose by more than a full percentage point between the semi-official recession trough of March 1991 and the unemployment rate's peak at 7.6% in June of 1992.

"What can I say? Move, try something else, start a business, take life by the horns, take flippin charge of your life, but quit feeling sorry for yourself. The moment you accept defeat, the battle is lost. If you want to create optimism, do it in your life."

All are possible avenues for the unemployed, I myself will stick to my current job where I am working overtime nearly every week. The pay is low but everything I own is paid for. The point of my post is that I simply do not see the evidence that things are going to improve tremendously in the immediate future. I really do hope I am wrong but I have been right too many times in the past when I would rather have been wrong.
And what do you mean by South Carolina sucks, anyway? Is that why the state is filling up with Yankees? Or am I confusing cause and effect?