I don’t think Rand Rover’s arrogant shitheadedness was ever in question here.
Yep. Not questioning whether they are or are not lawyers. I just wasn’t comfortable making a claim about their profession when I don’t know them IRL, although I guess it’s pretty common practice, so maybe I could have.
I’ve said what I’ve said. Anyone who cares to can go back and read those posts. I have nothing more to say or add to them. Again, if you can’t comprehend what I wrote you’re stupid. Or willfully obtuse.
Probably due to a lack of reading comprehension.
See, I didn’t think you were and that, as often times can happen, someone’s interpretation of what another has said doesn’t actually meet up with reality. And I was curious where Carol got that impression because you seemed prepared for whatever you got here and hadn’t complained a bit.
Although I have no words of wisdom, good luck on your job search.
Ha! That’s what happened to my job. I’ve had two careers in my life - one was made obsolete due to automation almost 20 years ago, the other is now 70% offshored. So now I find myself at age 50 looking for entry-level jobs. I’m finding out just how few people are willing to hire 50 year olds for entry-level jobs. Thank God I am still (self) employed, but since it’s in the heavily offshored career I’m having to let contracts at Indian rates just to get them, which means my income is 25% of what it was just four years ago. So here I am doing the same “pounding the pavement” as the OP, only I’m not 20, I’m 50!
My solution is to learn yet another career by branching out what types of contracts I’ll take - I hope it works!
Although some of even sven’s ideas look intriguing…
OK. I was unwilling to corner you, but since this argument is dragging, I can’t help saying it : I too don’t understand what your current stance is.
Wow, do you REALLY believe that? You know, being a Libertarian our beliefs are not that far apart. I’m mostly on your side in this whole thread - the only difference is that I didn’t see the OP as making excuses, I just some him as doing a little ranting.
But I cannot fathom how you think making a few comfortable people a little more comfortable “creates a better life for many more people” for someone whose job it is to make sure the people who have a desire to do *the very thing you seem to think everyone should do to employment-proof themselves *is somehow insignificant.
I’m beginning to think this is just a schtick that you enjoy. No one with your apparent intelligence and presumed education can really say something THAT obtuse.
My “current stance” is what it has been all along - I was standing outside the unemployment office with a hardcopy of a newspaper that contained no want ads whatsoever. Apparently, Bricker is convinced that either I hallucinated this, or that I am lying about this experience. As “evidence” I am lying he keeps pointing to on line want ads, which is stupid, because I was talking about a hardcopy newspaper, not the on-line version. Apparently he is unable to distinguish between paper and pixels.
It’s part of a pattern that asshats have - call the unemployed lazy, stupid, liars, uneducated whatever and point to it as a reason that they are unemployed. This is supposed to magically protect the industrious, smart, turthful, educated speaker who is pissing on the less fortunate, at least until they themselves get a bolt from the blue and find themselves being pissed on and told they are worthless for no longer being one of the privileged.
OK, then.
Some updates on my situation:
No luck yet on finding new employment. Every business I’ve encountered so far seems to be on a hiring freeze. They’ll keep my application on file as a courtesy, blah blah blah.
The classified ads have a handfull of skilled and managerial positions. This is a city with more than 30,000 people. I remember in the non too distant past there was a shitload more employment listings, but since I didn’t reside there and had serious transportation issues I didn’t pursue them. Only now, after jumping through the hoops of securing a modestly priced dwelling in a decent area of town where I won’t get mugged for meth money, the well of jobs goes completely dry. :smack:
I did however manage to successfully beg more hours from my current employer.
I’m “semi” moved to the new place. All my roommates are people I know quite well… they’ll be willing to cut me some slack on my 1/5th share of the rent and I’ll give them whatever I can. I already paid my share of the deposit about a week earlier, in addition to the rent I had to pay on the old place that’s what drove me broke.
The old landlord is being very flexible and still letting me crash there on the days I do work, and pay him on a per diem basis.
Um… as I said several times before in this thread, that’s ONE DAY. I told you I didn’t doubt your story of having that experience ONE DAY.
I told you I doubted your story that it happened for weeks on end, which is what you started with.
Conveniently, you’ve studiously ignored that question, and myopically repeated your story of standing in line at the unemployment office.
Me three. Bricker isn’t the one looking dense here. You appear to be either incredible dense or incredibly evasive.
I think it’s quite possible that when Broomstick is saying there’s no jobs, she’s not talking the literal sense that there are 0 people in her area being hired (even in the very deepest depths of the Great Depression, SOME people were being hired), but in the sense that there’s no jobs available that she’s qualified for.
I’ve avoided listing my city here just so I wouldn’t be the victim of nitpicking like Broomstick seems to be. “Oh yeah, Blalron, you SAY there’s no jobs available… look here, a listing for an Electrician and Commercial Truck Driver… how DARE you say there’s no jobs available, you lazy bum!”
I advise people with money about the tax aspects of investing that money. I also help people with skills on finding investments set up funds into which people with money invest. Without good tax advice, these people may not invest at all, invest less, or invest more slowly than they do. The types of projects in which these people invest create jobs for lots of people and solve financial problems for lots of communities (because some of the investments involve purchasing assets from state and local governments). I apparently create a great deal of value for these people because they are willing to pay a lot for my services.
That’s because they already have a lot. If you didn’t help them, they’d still have a lot. Just not as much as they would otherwise. Yeah, you’re a real philanthropist. :rolleyes:
I’m definitely not a philanthropist and never claimed to be. I help people by creating value through giving tax advice.
Yeah, but you help people who generally don’t really need help. Nice, sure, but not exactly noble.
The people I keep talking about helping are: (i) people that get jobs from the investments people make based on my tax advice and (ii) governments that sell stuff to people who rely on my tax advice.
Sorry if I was unclear.
Well, yes, after several pages of Bricker saying “answer me! *Answer me! *ANSWER ME!” I start to look “evasive” but in fact I am not obligated to answer Bricker. When I attempted to it was nothing but nit-picking and attempting to back me into a verbal corner. He’s already decided I’m a despicable person who doesn’t deserve employment so no matter what I say it won’t be good enough for him. So why bother? I am not on trial here, however much that would appeal to Bricker’s lawyer sensibilities,
^ What he said.
Really, look at this thread - one person is telling me to search the want ads online and another is telling me to give up the internet as a luxury! When you’re poor or unemployed or somehow else in an “undesirable” category of society you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t. There is no shortage of people willing to kick a person down on their luck, as this thread demonstrates.