Reply #100: Yes, I have done all of the above. [View All]

[Breeze54]

"Did it ever take every penny you had to put food on the table - not for a short time, but for YEARS?"

And I still am....

Where's your sympathy for me? :shrug:

Employment in the information super sector was essentially unchanged (-100)
at 87,800. Information jobs are up 200 since August 2005 as a strong over the year job increase
of 800 or 3.8 percent in software publishing was offset by a decline of 800 or 3.7 percent in newspaper and periodical publishing.
Information jobs are down 29,200 or 25.0 percent from its January 2001 peak of 117,000.

Construction employment was down 800 in August after increasing by 600 in July.
Employment has fallen in five of the last seven months, resulting in a 2,500 net job loss
since January. However, with the rapid job increase in late 2005, construction employment
at 142,000 is still up 2,100 or 1.5 percent over the past year.

After rising for four consecutive months and posting a 1,200 job gain in July,
manufacturing employment fell by 1,100 in August Manufacturing employment
is down 104,100 jobs, or 25.4 percent, since reaching 410,400 in July 2000.

The number of employed Massachusetts residents decreased by 1,300 in August to 3,207,400,
while the number of Massachusetts unemployed increased by 4,300 to 163,500.
The labor force (the sum of the employed and the unemployed) was up 3,000 over the month
to 3,370,900 and 7,200 from one year ago.

Financial activities lost 800 jobs in August, nearly offsetting the 900 job gain in July

Trade, transportation, and utilities employment was up by 200 in August, the first monthly
increase since April.

Employment is down 2,000 from one year ago to 568,100

*cough* *cough*

BUT.... professional's seem to be doing quite well ... :sarcasm:

Education and health services added 2,200 new jobs in August, its largest one month increase since November 2002.

Employment in professional, scientific, and business services increased by 300 in August to 470,000. This super sector has recorded solid job gains of 3,200 over the past three months. Over the month gains occurred in computer systems design services and architectural and engineering services. Over the year, employment is up 8,900 or 1.9 percent, the highest annual growth rate and tied for the largest net job increase of any industry super sector. Nearly all the net over the year growth occurred in the professional, scientific, and technical segment, with strong job growth recorded in architectural and engineering services (+5.5 percent), management, scientific, and technical consulting services (+4.3 percent), scientific research and development (+4.1 percent) and computer systems design services (+2.7 percent). This overall super sector has added 31,500 jobs since bottoming out in June 2003, but employment is still off 37,500 or 7.4 percent from its January 2001 peak of 507,500.

http://lmi2.detma.org/lmi/News_release_state.asp

I worked in Info. Tech. and a lot of those jobs went to unemployed engineer's and companies gave techs the big boot!
:grr: