May I ask . . .

[defendandprotect]

Are posters here finding any lifting of this oppressive job market -- ?

News from family or friends or direct experience?

Anything to report?

[Capitalocracy]

1. Option 11...

so hard up for work that I feel like things are looking up now that I'm getting low-paying freelance work. Steady employment with a decent wage? Doesn't seem likely in the near future.

[defendandprotect]

4. Ironically, in last two days ....

I had two e-mail messages from friends I hadn't heard from in ages --

exact duplicates of one another --

(My first name) hey I just wanted to share this opportunity with you, I've been making 200-300 dollars a day and I started only a week ago. Check out this news article and it will show you how to get started, it's definitely easy enough for you :)! http://7cnbcnews.com/money


Professionally, one was working in real estate -- the other a NJ teacher --

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I notice that the site says the offer "Expires June 05, 2011."

I will be anything that date changes daily. Always one day ahead of today, whatever today is.

Fucking scammers.

[defendandprotect]

13. What it says to me is .... we're in a depression!!

[Stinky The Clown]

17. I've been saying that for a year or more. If you say it here, there are people who see it as . . .

. . . . an attack on Obama and lay into you for what you said.

[Capitalocracy]

18. That's true, and it's very shortsighted of them.

The system was broken long before Obama came along. We might criticize Obama for how he's handling the situation, or more broadly the Democratic Party for not doing what needs to be done to make the kind of fundamental changes necessary to fix the system, but I don't think there's anyone here who's stupid enough to think Obama caused the nation's financial problems. You'd have to go to Freeperville to find that.

[defendandprotect]

27. Don't hit the link --

look for PM from me --

[defendandprotect]

23. Obama said it last August ... "Depression" ---

It was part of a headline in a Yahoo article last August --

and I picked it up to post it -- but usually hold onto articles a while

to see if anyone else had posted it -- by the time I got back to it to

post it, "depression" had been changed to recession.

but it had been there.

Additionally, we're the publci suffering this economy -- think we know

better than "experts" or anyone in government with a vested interest in

making sure it's not called a depression!!


:evilgrin:

[defendandprotect]

26. Don't hit link -- look for PM from me --

[defendandprotect]

28. Look for PM from me --

[SmileyRose]

20. LOL

Kelly Richards in one pic is blond, Kelly Richards in another pic is brown.

Those sites would crack me up if it wasn't for the fact desperate people in desperate situations fall for it.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Same here.

I'm back in the same temp job I held for the last 3 summers, and also had a short contract job my old boss sent my way. (She found a position that paid half of what she was making before we were laid off.) I make just enough to pay the bills. Come Sept. 1, I will paddling up Shit Creek, unless something comes up. I had a whole three interviews this year. I should hear back from the latest early this week, but I don't have high hopes for this one. I have stopped getting my hopes up, even when the interviews go really well. Been at it so long, I'm pretty much ready to give up.

[defendandprotect]

14. Someone from Oregan ....

here at DU seemed to be saying that hirings are happening as people reach

16-18 months of unemployment --

Don't know if that's what they intended to say, but what it sounded like to me --

So -- wondering -- how much of this unemployment is managed?

If we can have a few dozen wealthy rightwing families turn this nation upside down what

else can they do?

[JohnnyRingo]

2. My friend lost his ob in October '08

He's an original Tea Party member who attended all the early rallies, and blamed Obama for "costing him the best job of his life".

I once asked him how Obama lost his job before the election and he told me that his company, like so any others, "slammed on the brakes" because of the "uncertainty" of an Obama presidency with their high taxes and regulation and all. Since he's over 60, many companies have told him since that their brake pedal is stuck to the floor, and his resentment grew into hate.

Well, I'm happy to say he finally found a new job last month, though I doubt he "forgave" Obama. If this guy got a job, things ust be improving.

[JoePhilly]

3. Obama is so bad for business that the DOW has almost doubled

Since the low of ~6500 in March 2009.

[RebelOne]

8. He is definitely lucky to get another job

when he is in his 60s. Employers aren't even hiring workers that are even in their 50s. I was laid off my job in 2010 and since I was already 70, I decided to retire. Otherwise, I would probably be working until the day I died.

[XanaDUer]

5. Got laid off 11/2010

Got a new job, about the same, 2/11. Was offered two other jobs, as well.

[defendandprotect]

6. Good to hear --

[XanaDUer]

7. Thank you, COBRA was breaking me

shit insurance at 500 a month.

[peace frog]

11. My daughter's externships went well

She received high marks and glowing reports from the companies she worked for, but no job offers. One firm said there would be an employee retiring "in a few years" and for my daughter to stay in touch. "Um, thanks I'll do that." She still has a few irons in the fire so we shall see.

[defendandprotect]

12. "Stay in touch" ....

My son's been unemployed a year --

Recently one or two responses to resumes --

an interview with two follow up interviews up to president --

and said they would call -- nothing --

Another lead where he's in touch with someone who says they're considering

him for a job and passing him along to someone else --

Kinda feels like a depression -- !!


:nuke:



Just a PS on this --

My son and daughter in law since their graduations from college have worked in

completely different work arena than we've had before --

They waited 6 months and more before they even got their first jobs --

My sons been laid off about 3X now since graduation -- working 5-6 years for a

company and then out --

What this adds up to -- and maybe it's only happening to him/? -- but neither

he nor his wife are invested in any retirement program!

And wondering how widespread this is now?

(sigh)

[TheKentuckian]

15. I temped and stuck on a job that pays 2/3 of my peak salary from a few years back.

So, I'm doing pretty fair considering the environment and better than I have been of late but struggling with increased costs for the basics.

The grocery is fucking depressing anymore.

[defendandprotect]

24. k/r

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. My ex was out of work for 13 months and is now working per diem in his

specialty field at the same pay he made when he last worked. Hopefully this will manifest itself into a permanent position.

[Lucky Luciano]

19. Got laid off in October 2008.

Got rehired by the same company in a different role in July 2009. Headhunters call me at work once a week or so. I tell them to email me on linkedin since my boss sits right behind me. I may actually send one my CV and do some interviews to get an offer and use that as leverage for better pay. Others do that all the time. May wait until next year for that though since I have some momentum right now which I would lose at a different company if I went for short term increases in pay. Got promoted last year. If they don't promote me this year as well, I will definitely make myself a "free agent."

[madmom]

21. Son found a job through a temp agency, daughter not so much. She can't get

hired at the same job as son, because she has "no factory experience."

[Kermitt Gribble]

22. I think some areas are improving.

I started the search for a (better) job early to mid-winter of 2010 and couldn't buy an interview, or even a call-back. Things changed around late spring and summer and I started interviewing regularly. I'm a web developer. I had more than a few offers and finally accepted one in late december 2010. The company I work for is quite large, and has been hiring steadily since the beginning of the year - including for fields other than IT.

I think the overall job market is still horrible, but some companies are starting to hire.

[defendandprotect]

25. It did seem that way for a time ... but looks like a fall back now ... ???