Not true. If you do not produce a tangible product, you don't get that benefit. First thing we checked out. IT workers are service industry and any unemployment office will tell you they don't qualify for training, etc. We are pariahs in the system. The papers won't print anything, the unemployment office isn't doing a thing for us. We've been written off for all practical purposes. We - not me. It ain't about me. I can talk about my personal experience here because I know all the things at issue complicating my situation. Others have their own complications. But some here want to make it about me and blame me and all those who have been put out of work for what is being done to them because they don't want anybody to put the blame where it belongs.I'm here to lay the blame where it belongs. That ticks them off. The truth threatens their percentage.
Sorry to hear that. And I do understand. Many of the people who lost their jobs with me five years ago are either smiling at Walmart or flipping burgers, or not even qualified for that. Some of them have work-related illnesses but can't get workers comp. Some of them are my age, but can't make it in college because they didn't graduate from high schools. There's all sorts of reasons and I don't like to see people get lumped together, as per is the norm for bureacracies.
I have downsized my life to the bare necessities. I sold my home and paid cash for a mobile home and by the time I get out of college, I will be 58. I'm taking extra courses to get out early. I doubt I will ever retire, though my kids say they will help me. I sure hope it never comes to that.