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Posted: 7/12/2009 6:50:44 PM | i was just wondering how the job market was out there, where ever you may live.i have never seen it so slow.i work for a construction company and sure hope it gets better.
i wish obama would hurry up and come home from africa. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 6:54:06 PM | It's pretty crappy up here? I just got laid off from my job because of a slow-down in sales.
Oh yeah, and we have a Conservative government up here. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 6:56:11 PM | I was laid off last October. Was lucky enough to pick up two weeks doing some renovations of the Chrysler plant in Brampton... but nothing since.
Our local Union is dispatching guys to jobs who have been out of work since last September... | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 6:57:22 PM | I heard construction is slow as is the housing market. Everything seems to have a domino effect.
I have a job now,but crossing my fingers we don't get outsourced by a cleaning service. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 7:02:09 PM | I have a job. After reaching an age were I was no longer considered a viable employee in my previous profession, I created my own job and went back to work.
i wish obama would hurry up and come home from africa.
Do you believe Obama, in six short months, should of already solved the current mess we have been put in by thirty years of corporate greed abetted by a corrupt government that has existed only for the benefit of the wealthy few? He'll be doing good if he manages to do it in two full terms. He'll be fighting the interests of the rich all the way. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 7:04:08 PM | | This is why I'm working on getting my own business started up on the internet. I feel like good jobs are so hard to find these days. Even though I have a job myself these days, its just hard for me to make enough money as it is cause a good majority of it goes towards rent and bills and I barely have enough spending money as it is. Finding a new job is hard these days unless you're willing to lower your standards and take whats available. The way things are nowadays, people are either taking low paying jobs, going back to school to train for new careers, or starting their own businesses. I"m pretty much preferring to do the latter right now because it's a little more easier. And I have a feeling that the job market is only going to get worse before it gets better. Just my two cents worth. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 7:04:37 PM | The factory here has been slowing down about as much as they can, and has had to lay off some of the production line workers. I think it's been a few hundred total, but I don't remember.
Thankfully, the engineering departments haven't been affected too badly. They've mostly just quit hiring new people, so no positions are getting filled if someone leaves. We have enough work to do just trying to meet the next set of emissions standards, so I'm not too worried yet. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 7:22:16 PM | | do i believe obama has solved this mess?no, he probably has made it worse.i sure hope they do not hand out stimulus checks to everyone again.it didnt help me much, it was like a drop in a bucket. give it to people who need it the most.like the people in california and the unemployed. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 9:11:51 PM | it never ceases to amaze how people are so quick to jump all over obama when things don't appear to be going in their favor. the man has a HUGE plate in front of him and can only sample a few foods at a time. he WILL NOT solve the world's problems or even our own in just a few short months. it's just not gonna happen. it took years to create this mess, it's gonna take years to fix it, and it's gonna take years to see real results.
i guess i can consider myself unemployed cuz i don't work for any particular employer but i'm doing just fine in this economy. you gotta take into consideration the industries that have taken the biggest hit (auto and housing market, financial institutions, etc) and the metro area you live in. if your particular skill set is either irrelevant these days or there's no demand for it, you either gotta bite the bullet and choose a lesser job or start a new career that will give you more job security if you're the working type. for the entrepreneur, this is the perfect time to get things going. if these opportunities don't exist where you're at, you'll have to decide on whether or not you wanna move to places that do.
employers have the advantage these days. they can be picky and take their time hiring cuz they have plenty of fish to choose from so to speak. it's not just dozens of people applying for the same job these days. we're talking hundreds and sometimes even thousands! the competition is fierce. the people that make the most money are the first to go and the ones that demand the most cuz of their previous salary or position are the last to get considered in most cases. that's just the way things are nowadays.
there's more than plenty of jobs where i live. lots of high wage jobs too. in other words, there's opportunity here cuz it's a major metro area. i know that can't be said for smaller populated areas but like i said before, you might wanna consider moving if all else fails. better to know you can rebound cuz of where you live when things get tough as opposed to suffering in a place where everything is going to hell. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 11:37:38 PM | | The company I worked for closed down and moved to Mexico a few years back, and then it closed in Mexico and moved to Germany...so much for American made cars, I was making backseat frames for Chrysler Town & Country vans. | |
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Posted: 7/12/2009 11:56:20 PM | Not bad at all. I worked at a resturant until starting school full-time. Pay was good, co-workers made 30-40K a year or so, did alright. I made around $1500-2,000 a month just working 30hrs a week or so running the to-go station, not even being a waiter. My roommate has hopped resturant to resturant lately until he found one he liked. Didn't have a problem getting hired on the spot. My friend in San Antonio is doing well, just bought an '04 'vette and has a steady job/decent income. I don't know anyone hurting from job-loss except people at the local GM plant.
I think Obama's stimulus plan was crap, personally. Even Biden has admitted that "they didn't understand the situation", but somehow claims that the stimulus is working, even though most of the money hasn't been spent. I don't know, I just don't think Obama is going to clean this up. Did he cause it? Nah, I don't think that. I don't think he will solve it either though.
His policies on industry ARE hurting us economically though, what with all this cracking down on environmental stuff, not drilling domestically, etc. etc.
Don't get me wrong, I love the trees, but I love my car, gasoline, a healthy economy, and my internet too!
Obama's administration has already stated that they don't have a clue pretty much. If they didn't understand the situation a few months ago, I highly doubt that they understand it now. Obama is just taking shots in the dark that "look good". If that's the best he can do, whatever, I am not him, nor do I see what he sees, so I won't knock all of it, but I don't think he is going to get much accomplished either, and I am scared of the damage he could do with all those shots in the dark.
Trust me...it CAN be worse. Gas is still under $3 a gallon, people in my town still have a healthy job market...oh yes. It can get a lot worse. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 12:12:07 AM |
do i believe obama has solved this mess?no, he probably has made it worse.
Don't you love scapegoating?
A man comes into office and is faced with a sh1tload of garbage that is the result of many years of failed policies, lack of accountability, lies, misrepresentations and corporate greed yet as soon as he get's into office, not only do people look to him to fix it quickly, they even want to say he's made it worse.
As if it could have gotten any worse? | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 1:34:23 AM | Don't blame it on Obama....Blame it on greedy, money hungry business corps who take their jobs and run with them to places that pay less than minimum wages ..part time..no insurance ..while corporate america is bailing out and sticking millions in their pockets.
IGA .....for instance...honchos already getting another bonus for doing what??
Not Obama's fault.
Job tip....Michigan is going to have a super ...mega ..building complex built . They are already training laid off auto workers and preparing them for the big time here...within five/ten years. Ground has been broken for a super city/ movie industry...movies are already being made in Michigan. Suppose to stretch for miles...from Dearborn all the way to Ann Arbor.
Hope it happens..we all can use the jobs. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 8:31:18 AM | No...nobody has a job...we're all unemployed or underemployed.
which is why we are all broke, and so is the country.
Only people working are the army and the geeks. And con artists.
Believe it?
LOL! | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 10:00:00 AM |
Only people working are the army and the geeks
How rude to lump everyone together. I am Ms. Geek - thank you very much. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 10:37:19 AM |
it never ceases to amaze how people are so quick to jump all over obama when things don't appear to be going in their favor
Well its not just that they're blaming obama. Its that they would blame any president in his shoes.
If McCain had won, people would be griping in the exact same way.
People like to complain. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 10:47:10 AM |
Well its not just that they're blaming obama. Its that they would blame any president in his shoes.
If McCain had won, people would be griping in the exact same way.
People like to complain.
and they wonder why they're unemployed, make low wages, got no money, hate their job, their life, etc. only one person's gonna fix your problems and that's you. when people start realizing that and stop pointing fingers and playing the blame game, then they can move forward and hopefully stop the nagging. all that negativity ain't healthy. other people, president included, can only do so much for you. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 10:55:21 AM | | ^^Some people have such an insatiable need to feel like a victim that they'll both blame Obama for their own problems and at the same time, wish that Obama would hurry back home. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 11:07:35 AM | obama secured a boatlaod of stimulus money to jumpstart the economy.
why didn't he just refund every adult american who has paid taxes for the last five years $50,000? do you have any idea how that would pump money into employment and it would happen IMMEDIATELY.
at 200 million american's elegible(just a guess) , that would only cost us $100 billion compared to the $700 billion and MORE for the bailouts and stimulus. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 11:36:19 AM | Do you know how badly we would squander that money??
We'd just have a bunch of people owning nice cars with no jobs to pay for the inusrance.  | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 11:54:02 AM | that would only cost us $100 billion
If my math is correct, I come up with:
One hundred billion dollars divided by 138 million taxpayers is seven-hundred and twenty-four dollars ($724) for each. I hope I've figured it right. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 12:01:14 PM | | They'd whiz it away on cheap Chinese goods from Walmart. Now, of they issued a "North American Goods Only" currency...that would stimulate the economy. Keep jobs going...open new ones, etc, etc. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 12:03:50 PM | | I got laid off at the end of last March. I was working for Cessna Aircraft. They are laying off 50% of their employees. There are still more layoff to come there. And I'm still looking for work. That's my current job, looking for a job. The job market sucks. I'm a Manufacturing Engineer. All I can say about that is that its not a career. Its just job hopping and relocating to where the next job is. They ask you if you want to do contract work. That sucks worse. You get to live in a motel while you pay a mortgage on a house with all your stuff in it and don't get to live in it. | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 12:09:58 PM |
obama secured a boatlaod of stimulus money to jumpstart the economy.
why didn't he just refund every adult american who has paid taxes for the last five years $50,000? do you have any idea how that would pump money into employment and it would happen IMMEDIATELY.
at 200 million american's elegible(just a guess) , that would only cost us $100 billion compared to the $700 billion and MORE for the bailouts and stimulus.
i think it's been pretty well established that a good portion of americans have NO CLUE how to handle their money. give someone who's not versed in credit, finances, budgeting, money management, whatever you wanna call it...those people would spend it alright but on vanity items. wants, not needs. it'd be a stimulus but a short lived one. i could retire on 50 g's cuz i know how to make that grow. talk to the average person about what they'd do with that money and investing probably won't be an answer cuz most people don't know how to. some would get horded while the rest would get used on bills and wasted.
by now, the education system should see the importance of a personal finance course being part of the curriculum, starting in high school and going all the way through college for those that go. that way the current generation has a head start and won't make the mistakes of previous generations which has led to this recession. plus they'd be better prepared to handle this massive debt and lack of social security when their time comes around. i've said it all along: education is the key, not just handing out money left and right. what's the point if people don't know what to do with it? | |
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Posted: 7/13/2009 12:35:31 PM |
obama secured a boatlaod of stimulus money to jumpstart the economy.
why didn't he just refund every adult american who has paid taxes for the last five years $50,000? do you have any idea how that would pump money into employment and it would happen IMMEDIATELY.
at 200 million american's elegible(just a guess) , that would only cost us $100 billion compared to the $700 billion and MORE for the bailouts and stimulus.
200,000,000 people times $50,000 is $10,000,000,000,000.
Or 10 trillion dollars.
Maybe some stimulus money should go to adult education. | |
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