Get a lawn mower, rake and a snow shovel and comb the neighborhoods to start up your own business.
My sister cleans houses for a living and people always pity her but she makes great money - close to a $1000 cash a week which is not bad for cleaning houses.
Interesting. One of my skills is technical writing. Although I wasn’t contracted to do that, it is actually what I am doing right now. I’m still getting about a call every day from my resume on Monster. One of those calls is how I got my current job. One interview, one job.
Maybe it is the industry I’m in. I’m not concerned with finding a job. Rather, with finding one that pays what I want. The job ranges from $30 an hour to about $80. On some occasions far more and somewhat less. It may not last forever, but if it got really tight, I’d just go back into sales of some sort. The turnover there is unbelievable. They are always looking.
Oh, and I have no education beyond HS and less than a year of trade school. And I’m roughly the author’s age.
>> Then in March of 2009, the Hearst Corporation quit publishing the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. I suddenly became a labor statistic...
I love a happy ending.
“Visualize unemployed propagandists”
I have a friend with a technical writing business who hires lots of writers. He has several openings. But not journalists. For some reason they can not convey a thought without adding their feelings, impressions, concerns, and vapid insights. The the owner used to be a reporter and says the 5-Ws he grew up with have be replaced by journalists with the 5Ms — me, me, me, me, me!
Are you bleepin’ kidding me? That’s more than our take home. Like he couldn’t get off his rear to find a job in 2.5 long years? But it’s ok for me to take food from my kids’ mouths so he can lay around on the couch?!?!
I’m not going to throw stones at this person for the misfortune that has befallen him. Obama’s America is no place to be unemployed, so my heart goes out to him and I remain thankful that i still have a job, even though the environment around it stinks.
But, he’s has 36 months to pick up a trade to provide for himself. He may not be able to live the life as before, but at least he would be looking at nothing. I of course am assuming a job in a new profession could be found also.
Hmmm, I’m even more thankful for what I have now.
I’m not going to throw stones at this person for the misfortune that has befallen him. Obama’s America is no place to be unemployed, so my heart goes out to him and I remain thankful that i still have a job, even though the environment around it stinks.
But, he’s has 36 months to pick up a trade to provide for himself. He may not be able to live the life as before, but at least he would be looking at nothing. I of course am assuming a job in a new profession could be found also.
Hmmm, I’m even more thankful for what I have now.
North Dakota. If he is really interested in work, that is the place to go. But then again, he might have to get dirty.
Skilled auto body technicians are always in demand.
At least that’s what Mr. TV tells me. Maybe you were made to weld.
Lower your standards, get out of the field you can’t find a job in and the door to a job will open quickly for you. When I dicided I needed a full time job to support my business and family (hopefully temporarly) I made 3 phone calls and was working the next day. I was hired by a company I never worked for before.
The only requirements of the job where a car (or van) and a drivers license with a clean record (last 3 years). My first check was 1400 dollars.
If I can do it, anyone can.
Today on craigs list there are 5-10 courier jobs posted. Some even provide the van for you!
Do the math. He sent out 3 applications a week.
Booo Hooo.
And for that he apparently got $527 / wk, normally.
Why do we bother working?
My uncle had an unemployed guy show up looking for job. He told my uncle that he would not work for him unless he was paid ‘X’ amount of dollars. My uncle quickly showed the door!
Better yet....get a job as a truck loader with UPS or FedEx....pays a bit less but you will get fit.
And the grand prize.....Get a job just before Christmas with UPS as a "driver helper" then sign on for another 99 unemployment when laid off on December 26th.
Those of us who work for ourselves, and have seen many (or most) of our clients go under, receive zero compensation for that situation.
You would think that after 30 months, he could at least have written a book or two. If I had good writing skills and lots of free time on my hands, I would have at least created some sort of website with the potential for income two years down the road. Or submit short articles regularly to some periodical with the hope of getting noticed. At the very least, he could have gotten on the payroll of Obama’s Ministry of Propaganda.
What the hell is wrong with this guy ?
In 1979, I saw the writing on the wall for the scribbling profession and got out. My first year in marketing and sale tripled what I’d been making as a reporter.
remember what Raoul said... BIAS = LAYOFFS!!!