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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 04:59 PM Original message |
Even as layoffs persist, some good jobs go begging |
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tinkerbell41 (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes that would be me. |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:08 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. That is an incredible plate full... I went back to college as a parent and working |
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tinkerbell41 (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
15. Thanks for the hug. |
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Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 07:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. Just how long ago did she did this? 'look your cousin did it and she had 4 kids' |
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tinkerbell41 (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 10:35 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. within the last 2 yrs. |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
9. Straight A students can't get in here |
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tinkerbell41 (722 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. I tried for diagnostic sonographer |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
3. So training is out of the question? |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Well it depends.. I think there is a huge need for "green" trained worker for the |
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Ruby the Liberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. The job sites are begging for medical people |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:18 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. They are begging for CNA's locally.. |
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. This is the rich keeping the jobs to themselves. |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
8. $50 an hour picking cabbages? |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:23 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We really do not value education as a nation.. and the right especially |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Where exactly are nurses making $55-60K?!! The wages around here are crappy. |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:26 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Texas... they come up here and recruit from our nursing schools.. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
17. I knew people who made that kind of money doing floor nursing |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #17 |
30. Sure there are nursing jobs and the like, but |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 09:49 AM Response to Reply #30 |
38. It's why 50% of us with degrees and licenses got out of it |
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juno jones (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 07:30 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. EMT's are not paid nearly enough to deal with the shit |
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Heddi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. In Seattle I made $60k+, in Florida I'm making $55K+ |
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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
12. MRI/Radiologist sequence is 2.5 years FULL TIME... |
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Peacetrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I hear that.. If a person is over 50, it really is almost more than they can handle |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
18. With a few weeks training there are jobs |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 05:48 PM Response to Original message |
19. That's because education is so F-ing expensive. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
20. Oh, fuck you Ed. |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
21. I saw stories like this in the 90's and they weren't even reading resumes |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:25 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. That's exactly what I think - and doctors too |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 06:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. First they came for the textile workers jobs, next they came for the IT workers jobs, ...........n/t |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 07:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Are they really that malicious? |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
26. It's hard to match the jobs with the people in a complex modern economy |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
28. Interesting DOL stats |
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tonysam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
29. Not practical to "retrain" when you're 55 years old |
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rainbow4321 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
31. Oh there are qualified nurses out there |
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imdjh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 08:58 PM Response to Original message |
32. Hoping not to hurt anyone's feelings, if I were an in demand RN Indiana would not be my 1st choice. |
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47of74 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
34. My sister is a pharmicist |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
35. Um. There has ALWAYS been a shortage of nurses. That is not anything new |
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chatnoir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-04-09 11:15 PM Response to Original message |
37. Interesting... |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-05-09 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
39. Rec for the discussion, not the OP. |
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