I thought we didn’t have to worry about this anymore, like Peggy Joseph said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
I guess the “hope and change” meant “hoping for some small change.”
I was unemployed once, with 26 weeks of benefits, I am looking for my little violin you as others have chose not to work.
Sad story.
Wonder if the author has considered technical writing? Not as creative or glamorous, but nevertheless a pay check.
Maybe the 50th unsuccessful application should have been a clue? I, for one, am sorry to have supported you for the last two and a half years.
ML/NJ
No more writing jobs, has he/she thought of trying a different field. The government is still hiring gropers.
There's his problem right there. Limit yourself to "writing" and you are unemployed. Even then, he could try self-publising a book, teaching as an adjunct English prof (I know there are jobs teaching immigrants English), or something other than whinging screeds about how unfair life is. No one wants to read that stuff!
Oh, and last I heard UPS is hiring. Of course he may have to actually lift something other than a pencil.
Notice, he did not scramble for work while the unemployment checks rolled in. We are subsidizing our high unemployment rate.
Its sad for some people - my daughter is 29 and has been out of work for a year. She is a medical coder and Dr’s certification clerk. She is not even looking for a great job. Just anything. Couldn’t even get into Costco here due to the number of applications. Amazing stuff.
I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Seattle journalists who are finding the Obama economy to be hostile. My guess is that he would like more taxes, more regulation, more unions, and more Obama. Yeah, that’ll fix ya right up.
I’ll be more sympathetic when he says that he’s not looking for writing or editing work but is applying at the local Home Depot, like me. I apply for writing and editing jobs, but I also apply for jobs stocking shelves at Staples, cleaning rooms at the Holiday Inn, or shoveling horse manure. So far, nothing.
There are plenty of those.
Did you apply at Boeing? I hear they are hiring in South Carolina.
There is really no need for flunked out English majors who ended up in J school. Perhaps a simple application to Walmart or Target will see you through the next 4 years while you learn to work
That is three applications per week. One on Monday, one on Wednesday and one on Friday. So he clicked send on his computer 3 times per week and I'm supposed to feel sorry for him?
Where’s that stat that shows - on average - an unemployed worker somehow finds a job within TWO WEEKS after that last unemployment check is received?
SELL A KIDNEY AND QUIT YOUR WHINING, LEECH.
Hey John, did you try McDonald's or Taco Bell?
By now (30 months later) you could have advanced to general manager.
>> How I will miss those Tuesday trips to the mailbox and then the bank
The thought of it is sickening.
In my town, of 8000, we lost our Barber to cancer. For about a year, the shop sat empty. Tough economy?? Why no barber...
Well, today I was the very first customer of the new guy. He is a 2 1/2 yr green card from South Korea, 45 yrs old. Broken english, nervous, but gave me a great haircut.
I’d say he’s on his way to being a fine American.
So, that is what it took, an immigrant, to appreciate the wonderful opportunity our town would afford our new barber.
I feel bad for the guy. I really do. But I also wonder if he was one of the many “journalists” who used every journalist’s trick in the book to help get Obama elected in 2008.