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Many from Ohio have joined them. Many more will join them.

There is a commercial that airs from time to time; talking about the economy, events that led to the situation today. It ends with this request: “Will the last person leaving Ohio, please shut the lights off?”

When most of us still had work, temp work if no perm work was available, it got a chuckle b/c most of us believed it (economy) would turn around. Just a small dry spell.

Now, most of us nod & believe it will, sooner than not, come to that.

I am a Technician not, yet, an Engineer, I am still finishing school for that.

Ohio has lost much industry and jobs have gone overseas, as well. When much of the Auto Industry failed, after the Steel Mills, and other industries failed, the results are many engineers were laid off.

So for the last few years, companies that do use Technicians from Technical Temp Agencies, were able to request Engineers, rather than Techs @ a Technician pay rate.

They say we are getting more jobs here, in Ohio. Problem is, no one seems to know where. Of the jobs that are left, many have changed over to part-time and even getting one of those is difficult.

A few years ago, the Sunday Newspapers used to be 3-4 inches thick with half of it being Jobs. Even the daily papers were 1 inch thick with 1/2 being jobs (I know this, as I assembled and delivered the newspapers in both urban and rural areas).
Now, the jobs section is on about less than 1/2 page and is only a few small columns.

The biggest increase in jobs has been in telemarketing, which they now call telecommunications. This is not the Telecom I worked in, LOL. I did test, final inspection to the component level and was blessed to also work in some pretty cool R&D have also worked in the field as well.

The new telecommunications is all part-time calling to sell services. Not something they would hire a deaf person for.

Yes, I do. I know much can change in a year.

I also know that the need for good workers does not go away, unless, like me, one lives in an area where the work has gone all the way across the board, quite often b/c many jobs have left the country.

This has been the case where I live. I have had personal experience with a company, leaving the country. Many of us were not invited along. Those of us whom were, were offered very good incentives on one hand, on the other, dangerous areas of the world, make those incentives worthless.

Then there are to ones that would have gladly followed the companies, but were told they had to train their replacements both on domestic shores, as well as overseas, otherwise they would not receive their benefits package when they were laid off.

Even part-time jobs are not here. I was told by Tech Agencies that they are not getting requests for Technicians since there is a surplus of Engineers laid off. Companies can fill both positions with a laid off Engineer at a Technician rate of pay.

So, I will continue to do my homework on the feasibility or opportunities of this and/or other options. However, once I am healed and given the green light, medically, one unavoidable fact remains: I will have to go where ever the work is.

My Husband and Parents are dead. I have no Children to help me when I get older, than I already am. My Siblings that have not passed through that final veil, we all have to travel, have their own Families and problems. I will not be adding to them. So it is just me, to take care of me.

I will be getting a newer camper & replacing my truck, packing my FurBabies, putting anything else into storage and then following the work, living in campgrounds.

There are many from here having had to do, likewise.

One poster above mentioned, we, as a nation, have lost our ambition. Some of us never lost it. We have always had it. Just with more obstacles to overcome, to be able to achieve what many have felt is their right to just either have or have taken for granted.

That is also my concern.

Then there are many of us, whom worked hard all of our lives only to be sidelined by work injury.

I am one of them. I NEVER wanted to be on assistance. However, getting injured put me there.

Add insult to the injury, the Company is “Private, or Self” insured and as such, falls through the cracks in WCB or IC Rules.

A hearing officer told me, that if they had been regular WBC, my injuries would have been repaired within the first year, not dragging out for the 8 years it has been.

However, since I have an excellent Atty and we have repeatedly met the burden of proof, my repair surgeries & PT are within the next six months, as the company has been ordered to comply with treatment.

Once, that is done, I will be looking into coming out there. Getting security clearances or passing background/drug checks are not a problem.

I am a Technician in electronics/computers, and since there are no jobs where I live nor apparently in my field out there, then going back to manual labor or driving tow motor equipment, would be welcome compared to being on assistance. When I get off this site, I am looking into our local Career School to check out a few additional trade skill courses, that seem like they would be a good fit for out there. Once healed, I go where the work is.

Trust me, that pitiful amount well under $1K/month, does not pay bills after paying rent & necessities. Why anyone would rather have that than work is beyond me. WAY beyond me and I have been handicapped since I was a baby. I was brought up to stand on my own two feet.

The thing that concerns me, is given some of the overtones here, how safe is it for female workers? I can live in a camper, have been for years, so that is no problem and I have four footed protection @ home. However, I do not wish to be fighting off others on the job nor as I travel to or from the job.

Hello, I have heard of these FEMA trailers for sale but have not been able to find any being sold near where I live. May I ask, where & whom did you deal with to purchase yours?

Respectfully,
Cj