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I am not ignorant of the issue; but there are more hiring now than there are companies laying off. Unemployment figures according to the governement are at 4.7%; yes, I know how they arrive at the figures and the real nyumbers are higher. Maybe it is time to learn something new. I did that.
Oh please. The vast majority of those employed are not going to be unemployed shortly.
What about all who do that and are hired? Your glass is (more than) half empty.
If their attitudes have gone into the toilet, I have not flushed. As someone said: “If you think you can, or you think you can’t, you are right.”
While you are at it, what about those with middle class jobs who had more expensive houses than they needed; who then took out cash through re-mortgaging their property (with many doing that more than once) and then lost both job and house in the crash? I am supposed to be a bleeding heart for their total lack of common sense? The US is notorious for being among the poorest of savers.
I have chosen to not be a victim. Those who see themselves as victims will prove their thought patterns. You want to sing the blues to me, well, the head ain’t listening. My dad had a severe stroke when I was in the 6th grade, and my mother, who graduated from high school in a class of 5 - she and four other students - figured out pretty quickly that she was no longer going to be a stay-at-home mom. She had several jobs, none of which were a whole lot above minimum wage until she found clerk work for a company which sold mattresses.
Yet I and my 3 younger siblings continued on through Catholic grade and high school, and all four of us graduated from college (3 of them went through state college); three of us have received advanced degrees. And we all, as kids, had multiple jobs. Our money went to the common needs of clothing ans tuition.
In short, we all busted our (backsides). No one was a quitter; no one was a victim, and no one had anything handed to us.
We all have had to scramble at various times; all of us have had to learn new skills at various points in our adult lives.
Yes, people have been handed the short end of the stick. Some make it, and some don’t; and of those who don’t, attitude and willingness to hustle seems to be a large part of the matter. So also are choices along the way, while they are employed.
Right now we are getting reports of people in a city where the minimum wage has been raised to $15/hour asking their employer to cut back their hours - why? Because they will lose their government subsidies. Frankly, if I was tgheir employer, I would tell them they were hired for a full time job; and if they were not willing to work full time, I would gladly find someone to replace them, That request is too often indicative of an employee who shows up, puts in the minimum necessary to not be sent packing, then goes home and (complains) about how unfair life is. I have less than no patience with that attitude.
Frankly, if I were completely on the outs job wise, I would look for an entry level job and let the interviewer know that I wanted the job because I intended to move up the chain of command, and I was bringing a “canbd do” attitude to work.
One of my son-in-laws has a degree in manufacturing engineering, and when he graduated, he couldn’t even buiy an interview. He finally was flown down to Texas tgo interview with Lockheed Martin (which tells me that his schooling record and related issues caught someone’s eye). Bottom line, Lockheed did not get the contract, and he did not get hired. He is now a prison guard in the state prison system, has made temporary sergeant, will make sergeant, and is already setting a goal to be a lieutenant. That may not have much to do with his schooling, but he has a “can-do” attitude. He has never whined about how unfair life is. He simply hitched up his pants and got on with it.