Posted on 04/15/2010 8:05:22 AM PDT by quesney
Agreed and I live in Phoenix. I have been looking for work for over a year. I am up in the middle of the night, and look for jobs online—lots of sources online for this, as well as looking during the day.
I know of people still getting laid off. Some have found jobs but they appear to be temp, or part time jobs and the pay is something like $10 per hour. These are professional people and all I keep thinking is how are they going to make their house payments, etc.
Chase and some of the others do not want to work with people who sincerely need the help.
Moving into an apt. will not be that much different as moving into one with kids will cost almost as much as a house payment.
Housing and job market are very bad unless you are a nurse then there are lots of jobs.
Recovery? Not here in the Pacific Northwest.
Clark County’s unemployment rose back up to 14.8%, I’ve been unemployed almost a year, 61 years old with no prospects in sight and with my wife’s and my wages drastically lower, we had to pay the IRS nearly $1,000 in taxes instead of the small refund we would receive during all those terrible Bush years when lower numbers meant things were worse.
But, at least B HO and his Dem cartel still live high on the hog, right?
The biggest mistake I see new gardeners making is planting too many low producers like tomatoes which are OK but aren’t an optimum Michigan crop.
I have some 200 tomato plants started but I’ll give most away and keep mostly cherry tomatoes. I can buy bushels of tomatoes from the veggie farm down the road for cheaper than I can grow them.
Mostly I’m concentrating on cool weather greens and root crops for my own garden. Lots of broccoli, brussells sprouts, radishes, parsnips and turnips, along with some beans and peas.
“I have seen some apporcching 50% of the last high”
Wow.
If I see any green shoots i’ll squirt them with Roundup!!
We’re in Florida, housing foreclosures and bankruptcies are on the rise. Article this AM in Tampa Bay area...Bankruptcies jumped 21%.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/personalfinance/article1087486.ece
I work for a major defense contractor. We are shedding jobs constantly. A buddy at a different, larger defense contractor says the same thing is going on there. These are both professional and hourly workers. Lots of jobs available in the local paper but as someone else said, they’re in the $10/hour range. I guess we could go broke less rapidly. AND according to “The Decline” website, we’re in relatively good shape. I took a 35% pay cut in late 2008, but at least I still have a job - for the moment. Absolutely no green shoots anywhere that I can see.
My retirement plan is happy the stock market is up, even if it might be only for awhile. But the staff is still doing unpaid furloughs and we're desperately trying to avoid layoffs. It isn't over, from our perspective, it hasn't even bottomed out yet. All purely subjective, of course.
No green shoots in my area. And the roads didn’t get fixed at all!
Not necessary with all this Pre-Emergent Obama, Pelosi and Reid have been dumping all over the place...
Recovery? My company (I work for a pretty big one) SUDDENLY announced budget cuts, travel restrictions, meeting cancellations, etc. We are (well, were) making tons o money, but my guess is they are now choosing to make life suck due to the impending fees Obamacare, etc. they will be experiencing. Recovery? Don’t see it here.
Sale tax receipts in Milwaukee are down 12% or more market-wide year-over-year. Last year they were down 20% some months. Still not over.
But in fairness, I do see a lot of moderation in attitudes regarding personal finances and future economic health - in surveys of local folks.
And...the offer is sugarcoated!
BURP!
The free market economy is made to adjust to changing circumstances. Right now industry and finance are trying to find an equilibrium in which they can survive and even thrive. There are green shoots out there.
Unfortunately, all signs point to a nuclear winter level frost coming soon.
I work for a large semiconductor company. We had multiple waves of layoffs 2008-09, with furloughs and cessation of 401K matching.
Furloughs are over, 401K matching has resumed, and the production lines are filling up quickly. Still no call-backs of the laid off. Probably because labor costs are a big question mark due to the Big Government policies. Those of us still working are doing a lot more work to compensate.
Here in Altus OK we have help wanted signs going up in the windows. We have a few new restaurants being built. We never were much effected to start with.
Terrible here in NW IL. Poor job prospects, very little employment available unless you’re a OTR truck driver or commission-only salesman.
Lots of businesses have cut way back and spending little to nothing on advertising or improvements. Even the UPS and FEDEX guys who stop in here tell of half-empty trucks and routes finished much earlier than usual.
If there’s a recovery going on, it hasn’t happened here.
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