Posted on 05/21/2014 10:31:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A new survey finds that even though one out of two unemployed Americans are increasingly giving up on looking for a job, nearly all of them remain hopeful that they will find a job they “really want” in the next six months.
Forty-seven percent say they agree, to some degree, with the statement, “I’ve completely given up on looking for a job,” according to a new poll from Express Employment Professionals, the nation’s largest franchised staffing company.
That percentage closely mirrors the 46 percent of respondents who said there are no available jobs, as well as those who have not had a job interview in the past month. Meanwhile, one out of four (23 percent) said their most recent job interview was in 2012 or before.
Yet, despite the seemingly despairing situation, 91 percent are still confident they will find work by responding, “I’m hopeful that I will find a job I really want in the next six months.”
In almost all cases though, nearly or more than half of respondents are “not at all willing” to either relocate to a new city/town (44 percent) or state (60 percent), or to go back to school for training in new skills to make themselves more marketable (64 percent).
If you want work you must feel this way. However when I was young and looking for work I took what ever I could get. Washing dishes, traveling photographer, wiping butts in a hospital, digging ditches, sweeper in a fabricating shop, what ever.
Let’s add to that those of us who are resigned to be underemployed.
I’m 52 and got laid-off from a high-tech company a few months ago.
My team had 10 people on it, 7 of whom were in China.
I’m sure there are 8 in China now.
RE: Let’s add to that those of us who are resigned to be underemployed.
The BLS will still count you among the employed ( which means a LOWER unemployment rate ).
I have a neighbor and friend across the street - great guy, active in T.E.A. party grassroots, has a business degree - and is 54 years old. He can’t land anything. He has to reek of desperation by now in those interviews. He’s going to be sitting across the desk from a twenty-something HR doofus playing with their cellphone during that interview and he’s going to try to keep from puking his guts out at another rejection. I went through the same for about 6 months in 2007 and I can’t tell you how many interviews I had with people who sized me up as from not just another generation, but from another planet - Planet Straight as I began to think of it. That strange world where men don’t talk like Valley girls, eat yogurt and take selfies. This buddy is not going to suddenly become someone else and re-invent himself to suit the times. I pity him. He spent 30 years working for his Dad in the pinball machine trade. Times changed on that enterprise too. Bah!
You lived up to your name. You sought and you found. I thank you. 8^)
RE: My team had 10 people on it, 7 of whom were in China.
I’m sure there are 8 in China now.
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Other than lower salaries, what other advantage does China provide in the high-tech field? I thought most of the jobs going to China were of the manufacturing and assembly type...
I’m sorry to hear you lost your job. Best of luck in finding another soon.
According to the Weekly Standard version of this report, only 20 percent of the unemployed are receiving unemployment benefits.
I gather you’re unemployed?
In 2012 I was laid off from a company I had worked for for 16 years. The lay-off came a month before I turned 60. A lot of other people my age working there had even more time in. In my field, what I mostly see offered now are jobs seeking 1)Interns; 2)unpaid interns; 3) recent grads. As a great man once said: “Getting old ain’t for pussies.”
Why no, I am simply one of the millions emancipated from job lock by Obama and sucking off the teat of, well no that won't work since the teat has dried up. According to more than a few on this site I'm just a lazy leech.
I hope you find the type of work you’re looking for.
FRegards.
>> I will never give up. I will not let these marxist bastards win.
bttt
This problem could be solved if EVerify were in place for jobs, foreign labor were not tolerated when there are qualified US citizens, there were a real penalty for shipping jobs and manufacturing overseas, and all of the freebies being handed out ended.
Then you'd see real supply and demand in the labor market.
“How about if they just find a job, maybe a job that they don’t “really want” but a job that pays bills and keeps them off the dole?”
It’s really not that easy. I went through a lengthy period of unemployment back in 2010. Most jobs are mirages. Listing only. Paper collectors & head-hunters.
I eventually found employment through an acquaintance. That’s how it really works. You find out about real jobs by word of mouth and that is before they get listed.
People think that you can find a job by logging on the internet. I guess we’re conditioned to think that way.
Come to Annapolis, Maryland. We need workers bad! We have so many help wanted signs around it is crazy. Move to Maryland NOW. That is if these folks are serious about working and not just running their mouths.
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