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I am having trouble believing this lie
Interviewer: What was the main source of transportation back then"
Two Thousand Year Old Man: Fear. You would see a lion and you would run 2 miles!
So my friends, fear is a good thing. It motivates you. It can make you want to work! Starvation used to be a motivation back in the 'old days'. My dad would say to me, "If you don't get off your duff your're going to starve to death. Back then, there was no "welfare state" and people had to work to survive. I guess we are much better off now. Aren't we?
Get a job?
He seems fairly flippant with Other People's Money.
Sorry, nicholle, but these folks need to get a friggin' job and quit living off the rest of us who ain't afraid to work!!
There're plenty of jobs out there...MUD
They should have networked. I am confident that there are 100,000 jobs available in New York. Damn, lazy people.
I was employed by a major semiconductor equipment manufacturer in Silicon Valley. I grew up in the Washington D.C. area where I had some experience with the Defense industry in summer jobs in college, but fairly little. After I got my education in CA in semiconductor manufacturing, I stayed there because, well, if you do R&D in making chips smaller, where else would you work? My background was in computational modeling of semiconductor manufacturing chambers and processes, a fairly specialized field.
I have been planning to get married for some time to my fiancee, but we had not been able to make it work easily since she lives in the D.C. area and works for a big defense contractor. We had been debating for some time where we should live and who should move, but after the dot.com bust, it was clear that I should move to D.C., just as soon as the economy turned up so I could find employment. Well, after 9/11 I got real moved to hurry up and get a job in the defense industry. Loud mouthed conservative that I am I told everyone in the office about it. When the next layoff came, well, that's when I got the notice.
After the initial shock wore off (about 1 hour) I determined that I was going to move back to D.C. and not take any jobs in CA. Now don't think that this was some sort of stoic tough chinned reaction when I was moving. I was scared, I ate at least 40 lbs. of choclate, put on weight, dilly-dallied and tried to practice avoidance, but I couldn't avoid my circumstance and it really hurt. But I made my plans, sent my stuff to goodwill that I couldn't take and went straight back to D.C.
Finding a job here was not as easy as it would seem, since although there was a lot of defense sector hiring going on here, it was all only for people with active clearances. Since I had been doing chips for several years, I had no active clearances, and you can't get one without being in a defense contractor. The goverment agencies wouldn't hire me either, since they create the position first and hire to the position. Wasn't much need for chip makers here. So with my family and my fiancee standing on my ass I applied to every job board and went to every job fair and applied to every head hunting firm in the area looking for anything at all that was slightly techie.
To make a long story short, after being rejected by everybody because I didn't have a clearance or wasn't what they were looking for, I got a call from a small company in Fredericksburg, VA who saw my resume on monster.com. I drove down there the next day, (70 miles from my fiancee's house) got an offer at the same money I earned in CA and said yes. So I am now staying in hotels during the week at my own expense until my commuter apartment is available.
In summary my lessons were:
1) There are jobs out there
2) Network with EVERYBODY
3) Be willing to move!
4) Be prepared in your old job to lose it through no fault of your own (Thankfully I did this financially.)
5) Take anything! (You can always look for another job.)
6) LOOK FOR SMALL COMPANIES! THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE HIRING DURING A RECESSION!
Been working here now for a month and a half, and am now loving life.
Trust me, I made all the excuses that have been put on this board while I was unemployed, but the guys here are absolutely right about finding positions. They have not been terribly diplomatic about the truth, but hell I am not going to be diplomatic either, since it is the truth!
There are 280 million people in this country, most of whom are employed and millions of employers looking for solid capable people during any economic climate. If you can't find a job it is due to your lack of imagination or lack of sweat equity. And stop whining because NO ONE WILL HIRE SOMEONE WHO CANNOT GET A JOB FOR THEMSELVES
She could move to a new location, NYC is a pretty terrible place to live, unless you are one of the apparatchiks that work for the city governmnent.
I'm not talking about the cops and firemen , they mostly live in Long Island anyway.
"We've always saved for a rainy day, but I think this could very well go into next year," she said. "Then what?"
HOW ABOUT FINDING A JOB your not supposed to use unemployment as an excuse to not look for work ITS HELP to pay bills and FIND A JOB
To many people use unemployment as a vacation when the money is gone they cry it wasnt enough i didnt have time if you cant find some type of job in 6 months or more maybe you need to think about a different job path