Just musing on job-seekers

[primsong]

I know far too many people who are looking for work and not finding it. Not good. The gal who lives with us had to postpone her August wedding as neither she nor her fiance can find work and they can't go forward if they've no way to support themselves. :-( Dang. Hard for recent grads like that who are beat out by folks with experience. We're trying to help get my eldest set up for college this August and hope to heavens we can keep having income - too many people leaning on us right now to falter.

On a related note, if you are so inclined and in the US, be sure to attend the nearest 4th of July Tea Party event - our group is marching in a parade, 200+ and rising.

Hope everyone on the flist looking for work finds something soon!

Comments

[estellye.livejournal.com]

I know, so many people are out of work! I feel almost guilty being on the job market when I actually have a job, but I guess that if I find a new one, I will be vacating this one to some other deserving person - hopefully one who will thrive here. It's hard for me to imagine being out of work for an extended period of time! I don't know what I'd do.

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I've always heard it's easier to find a job when you already have one because then they view you as 'employable' instead of suspiciously wondering why you're unemployed. I hope it works as advertised for you - and I like the way you're looking at that, that you're 'creating' a job for someone else by shifting over.

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about the postponed wedding - that's just heartbreaking. :( I'm going to be graduating in a year, hopefully, and I'm so nervous about trying to find a job when I get out. The sector that I'm hoping to work in is pretty good as far as job prospects, but they might not be hiring entry-level people like me, even if there are jobs. Not something to look forward to in my last year!

Good luck to you.

[bluerocean.livejournal.com]

Yes, I feel for all of the people out of work too, my dear Prim. That is such a scary situation to be in, as I well know. I know it is scary for you with one going to college, to think about being without income!

[primsong.livejournal.com]

I'm lucky in that I have a girl who is completely okay with thrift stores and top-ramen if that's what it takes to get there - no diamond-and-champagne tastes here. But you still have to pay that tuition somehow, and the government thinks *we* make too much money for her to qualify for any aid even though she's not even going to be under our roof anymore, go figure.

She says 'I sure hope the job market is better by the time I get out of school!'

[primsong.livejournal.com]

The wedding *was* a bummer - we had to cancel a bridal shower and kind of put everyone on hold. :-/ On the good side, she got a temp agency to give her an interview and put her on their listings at last - the other ones wouldn't even talk to her, they'd just go 'We have nothing, come back at the end of July.'

Best of luck to you also! Here's hoping for an upswing.