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?
I suddenly found myself with three jobs the SAME WEEK my unemployment ran out! I was retired and had only been working part time when I became unemployed because of the business closing down. I suppose you would say that I found three jobs at once because I had not been trying before but one of them was a place where I had applied multiple times and had gotten nowhere but suddenly they were eager to offer me a weekend job. One suddenly appeared when I got a call from a temp agency on Friday afternoon and was asked to report for work at eight on Monday! It was a full time job that a child could do and less than two dollars an hour over minimum wage but I took it for a couple of weeks before I started the other two for which I had already been given a starting date. I quit that one when the other two started up and I worked Monday through Friday on one and then worked Friday evening and eight hours Saturday and eight hours Sunday on the weekend job for a month before I had to quit the weekend job because my feet simply would no longer take being on concrete for eight straight hours. I still work the Monday through Friday job which is telephone sales so it doesn’t kill my feet, I actually enjoy it and with hourly plus commission the pay is not bad. I am sixty seven years old. I worked the weekend job with a guy several years older who is still working that job in spite of having a well-paid full time job during the week.
How did I wind up with three jobs suddenly? How did the other guy even older than me wind up with a full time twenty dollar an hour job plus a weekend job. I honestly don’t have the foggiest notion. All I know is that I did make an effort to find something when I was drawing unemployment but nothing was offered until I got that last check and suddenly everything changed. Some will say that the lord provided but I can guarantee that there are plenty of people more deserving than I am who have not been so well provided for. So why would I, a most unworthy servant, be rewarded with a job I look forward to while so many others go without?