What's the longest time you were unemployed or took time off from work?

[ringmastery]

[Florida_Geek]

1. 3 yrs but who counts with this great Bush economy

:(

[amandae]

2. Um ... been unemployed since 1997

That's if you count traditional employment. I had my first child in '97 and it's 100x more difficult than any job I've ever had.

Semi-working right now for a professor (10 hours a week for 10 weeks a semester). Way less than part-time so I still consider myself traditionally "unemployed".

:hi:

[Skittles]

3. I have been laid off twice but never missed a day getting another position

*fingers crossed*

[bif]

4. Just over a year

But I managed to survive.

[bahrbearian]

5. 2 years right after Raygun took the White House

1 year with Chimpy.

[stopbush]

6. Right now. Unemployed since May 2001.

BUT...I have another interview tomorrow that looks promising...on its face.

I'm 49 and worked steadily until 2001. I doubt if I'll ever get back to the salary level I attained by age 46. I'd take just about anything right now.

[masshole]

7. you aren't alone stopbush

your situation is almost exactly as as my own - dates, age, etc.

[dweller]

8. aug 02

other than bits and pieces i've scrounged up temp/sub-contracted, etc...

at least you are getting interviews. good luck with that next one!

dp

[punpirate]

9. Unemployed for thirteen months...

... in the last Bush monarchy.

[Rowdyboy]

10. Halloween 2001 (10/31/2001)

I retired after 25 years as a state employee. My retitrement event was a costume party at my request). It was 6 weeks after 9/11 so I went as O'Steva Bin Leavin'...Wearing a jalaba my partner bought in Algiers in 1970, a pillowcase headdress, sandals, a fake machine gun and waving small American flags...It was quite a party. Haven't worked for money a day since.

However, I have overseen the rewiring and the painting of a 100 year old, two story house, assisted in the replumbing, redone a bedroom and helped install a tile bath, transformed the garden, and wasted hundreds of hours on DU.

2 1/2 years since I punched a clock! And I'm 50...

[itaintmema]

11. Two weeks since 1973

You?