But, what are they going to do when there ARE no jobs! 1,800 lose their checks today here in Maine. In Maine, all that is offered is nursing, home care givers and truckers. What are they to do?????
Even McDonalds isn't hiring! 
But, what are they going to do when there ARE no jobs! 1,800 lose their checks today here in Maine. In Maine, all that is offered is nursing, home care givers and truckers. What are they to do?????
Even McDonalds isn't hiring!
I'd rather have any honest job than sit on my can waiting for the roof to fall in on my head! Jobs here have always been few and far between, perhaps some folks should try starting their own businesses, then they might in time be able to hire some people.
My mother always said there is no sin in good honest days work!
Business is back now, and I never had to depend on ANY government welfare in the meantime. (still have the waiting job 1 or 2 days per week)
Personal example: I am in a VERY competitive field. As a conservative, 90% of the deck is stacked against me in academics. As a white, I automatically cannot even teach 2/3s of the courses offered/hired for. I came out with 10 other people (Ph.D.s), virtually all of them smarter than me. Many had "bigger name" advisors. One guy had even been on the cover of people for his "research" (actually, a woman gave him a trunk with some of Washington's personal letters in it!).
This is not to brag, but to make a point: I was the only one of all those people (as far as I know, and I watch the faculty rosters) to get a full time tenured job.
What did I do? First, I was willing to move, immediately, wherever. I taught at a TINY school in the Wisconsin system just to get a "university" job. Second, I took part-time or non-tenured work, just to get my foot in the door. First time I did that, the faculty (almost all liberals) gave me a tenure track job, and I was tenured in record time, then promoted in record time.
Third, I outworked everyone. I published more than the rest of the department, put togehter; I taught GOOD classes, and I wrote outside of academia whenever I could.
Again, this is not to beat my drum, but to show you that if I---in a field as set against white conservatives as you can possibly get---can beat out better-qualified, smarter people, mainly by hard work and a willingness to do what it takes, I have trouble believing that in ANY other field it can be harder.
I always viewed "my" job as MY JOB. I had to make myself so valuable that no one could let me go. Too many people take their job for granted---not that they aren't happy to have it, but that they don't understand that THEY are responsible for ensuring their own continued employment.