Jobs

[mjarrels]

year Doom and gloom... My daughter got a job two months ago and makes good money for a 17 year old... Wife was out of work from the next door 36 hole Golf course for three plus months... she was offered two jobs that she turned down knowing she would be back to work in late March. I can't figure why CNN is running stories about people who cannot find jobs after 2 years. Must be that they have a $2,000 dollar morgage that they could never afford.

mark

 

[archerm3]

year Doom and gloom... My daughter got a job two months ago and makes good money for a 17 year old... Wife was out of work from the next door 36 hole Golf course for three plus months... she was offered two jobs that she turned down knowing she would be back to work in late March. I can't figure why CNN is running stories about people who cannot find jobs after 2 years. Must be that they have a $2,000 dollar morgage that they could never afford.

mark

Have a trip to michigan and search through the want ads..lol

 

[mbohuntr]

Up here, We took 2 hits, Manufacturing was drying up because of outsourcing, and then the recession wiped out the rest, like our huge transmission and air conditioning plants. Those jobs won't be coming back, and while there are jobs in technology, those people are in their 50's and don't stand a chance of re-educating themselves, and starting over... I was lucky and gave up welding and fabricating 10 years ago, got in with a utility, and am finishing my degree this month... I am one of the lucky ones... It will take another 10 years for this area to adjust to the new reality...

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I hear the paving crew is hiring

 

[MossRoad]

year Doom and gloom... My daughter got a job two months ago and makes good money for a 17 year old... Wife was out of work from the next door 36 hole Golf course for three plus months... she was offered two jobs that she turned down knowing she would be back to work in late March. I can't figure why CNN is running stories about people who cannot find jobs after 2 years. Must be that they have a $2,000 dollar morgage that they could never afford.

mark

I know lots of folks that are riding unemployment until the benefits run out, then get a job. They take the free time to spruce up their house and go fishing.

On the other hand, I also know some folks that are in deep doo-doo financially and are in debt far beyond what the available jobs are paying. Some of them take the jobs anyway and are attempting to pay off their debts. Some are declaring BK and writing the whole thing off.

 

[2manyrocks]

A lot of the BK filers are folks who bought real estate during the boom and are upside down on their mortgages. If they lose a job, they are ripe for BK. Even if they have a job, some are tempted to file just to get out of the mortgage.

 

[oldnslo]

Nothern Illinois is at 20% unemployment and rising. What percentage of the unenployed are not being counted since thier unemployment benefits ran out???

 

[Mousefield]

Nothern Illinois is at 20% unemployment and rising. What percentage of the unenployed are not being counted since thier unemployment benefits ran out???

Sad to see those numbers. Probably the jobs you can get for the most part are low paying and or part time.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I know of 2 large aluminum plants that have closed, because it was just too expensive to do business in this country. It was a combination of unions constantly picketing for higher wages and the high cost of electricity used to run the place. Environmental regulations caused the 2nd one. There are jobs in some areas of the country, it's just you have to move to get them, and then the cost of living is a lot higher than what you were used to. I know a lot of people have moved into the MD area from the Pittsburgh area. There is a shortage of people to fill some high tech jobs like engineering / computer scientists.

 

[300UGUY]

Plant I used to work in had 2000 workers at one time. By June 1, the number will be zero. A lot of small manufacturing plants around here ( central Michigan ), have been shutting down for years. Michigan started losing jobs in 2000, we have lost jobs for 10 straight years. A lot of it is labor cost. Mexicans working for $2 per hour or Chinese working for pennies are pretty near impossible to compete with.

 

[mbohuntr]

....And isn't it amazing nobody mentions NAFTA and CAFTA... Trading equality is important, but I think they missed the point about the wage movement being one sided... About all I could think of is to educate myself to the point where my skills stay in demand, and find a sector which will remain in demand regardless of the economy... I probably wouldn't do well as a nurse or mortician...:laughing: The elected idiots aren't smart enough to see that declining employment affects how municipalities and schools collect revenue. Lets just tax the remaining peasants more... Oh well, enough rant before this gets political...

 

[beenthere]

Get rid of the illegals working here, and their jobs will be open to citizens.

Get rid of the tax burden on our factories and quit focusing on raising taxes on the "so-called" rich because they have the money to pay for services and goods (hopefully US made).

Get rid of the free spending by a Gov't that seems to relish the idea that they can buy votes with free money. Not sure we can learn from this, but spiraling downward seems to be so easy to do.

We should learn from the mistakes being made in Europe. Heard the latest, that people in Europe have a "right" to a vacation, so the tax dollars are about to be used to send poor people on a paid vacation. What next?

 

[mjarrels]

Please and thank you... Daughter came home last night with $128.00 in tips. She buys her own gas and has plenty of pocket money. Not bad for 5 hours work... She is learning a lot about life... Her brother once said, once you start working, you can never stop. He started in his early years pushing a disabled person from class to class in HS at about age 14.

mark

 

[mbohuntr]

You should be proud...:thumbsup: There is a sense of entitlement that many of our younger generations have... That too is part of the problem. When Katrina hit Lousiana, you watched people in the streets screaming "Somebody do something, help us... Where's the government?" As the floodwaters rose in the midwest, You watched neighbors helping neighbors, The old making meals for the sandbag crews, and school children pitching in where they could... The city folk have forgotten that WE ARE the government, and it's OUR problem.... If you cannot make $40 an hour anymore, get up and figure it out... nobody is gonna do it for you... BE angry...but figure it out...

 

[Tred Boyota]

Agree'd mark, but it is truth that jobs are getting cut all over the place.

But the media blow things out of proportions like there are no new jobs popping up or just new oppurtunities for the unemployed.

 

[YanmarFever]

Get rid of the illegals working here, and their jobs will be open to citizens.

Get rid of the tax burden on our factories and quit focusing on raising taxes on the "so-called" rich because they have the money to pay for services and goods (hopefully US made).

Get rid of the free spending by a Gov't that seems to relish the idea that they can buy votes with free money. Not sure we can learn from this, but spiraling downward seems to be so easy to do.

We should learn from the mistakes being made in Europe. Heard the latest, that people in Europe have a "right" to a vacation, so the tax dollars are about to be used to send poor people on a paid vacation. What next?

You hit the nail on the head !!:thumbsup:

Plus, you forgot the cash for clunkers program for new tractors !!!
Now that's what we really need to get us all into some new metal

 

[bstrom]

The High-tech thing fizzled out in the Boston area. I've got a couple friends down there that have been laid off a few times. Sometimes they get hired on contract then dumped. Not like the 90's when you could name your price even as a technician. I have one friend laid off from hi-tech (computer engineering) for over a year now. He is 58, has sent out over 400 resumes and gotten 5 interviews. He really wants to work but he is not going to be going to work as a waiter at 58. Do you want fries with that?

Here in Maine the job market always stinks but it is worse than usual. Some people that don't work in the local economy or for wealthy summer people have had remote work at home jobs. Some of those have dried up. I have a programmer friend who has also been out of work here for over a year. He was last laid-off was from a contract job -no unemployment for him.

It's not that rosy if you are over 45 or 50 and laid-off and there are a lot of them.

Do you want fries with that ? is not really an option for a lot of those people.

But hopefully things will be improving for everyone in the job market eventually. It has been tough for a lot of people though.

 

[mjarrels]

My daughter is off to work tonight... school night so hopefully only 4/5 hours. I'm a lucky guy and was able to retire at age 52... haven't looked back... I watch house hunters interanals and can't believe what people pay for flats overseas.

mark

 

[MossRoad]

The High-tech thing fizzled out in the Boston area. I've got a couple friends down there that have been laid off a few times. Sometimes they get hired on contract then dumped. Not like the 90's when you could name your price even as a technician. I have one friend laid off from hi-tech (computer engineering) for over a year now. He is 58, has sent out over 400 resumes and gotten 5 interviews. He really wants to work but he is not going to be going to work as a waiter at 58. Do you want fries with that?

Here in Maine the job market always stinks but it is worse than usual. Some people that don't work in the local economy or for wealthy summer people have had remote work at home jobs. Some of those have dried up. I have a programmer friend who has also been out of work here for over a year. He was last laid-off was from a contract job -no unemployment for him.

It's not that rosy if you are over 45 or 50 and laid-off and there are a lot of them.

Do you want fries with that ? is not really an option for a lot of those people.

But hopefully things will be improving for everyone in the job market eventually. It has been tough for a lot of people though.

So he won't take a menial labor job while still looking for more fulfilling employment?

 

[Big Bri]

Get rid of the illegals working here, and their jobs will be open to citizens.

Get rid of the tax burden on our factories and quit focusing on raising taxes on the "so-called" rich because they have the money to pay for services and goods (hopefully US made).

Get rid of the free spending by a Gov't that seems to relish the idea that they can buy votes with free money. Not sure we can learn from this, but spiraling downward seems to be so easy to do.

We should learn from the mistakes being made in Europe. Heard the latest, that people in Europe have a "right" to a vacation, so the tax dollars are about to be used to send poor people on a paid vacation. What next?

+1 you are right on with this comment