Uh I looked at that cite and saw a handful.
Unskilled laborers need food and shelter too, you know.
It occurs to me that we have no way of knowing what the OP’s age is based on this thread… if he’s 30 and never went to college that’s quite different than if he is, say 19 or 20. Would you expect a 20 year old to have a college degree completed?
It is never impossible to lose employment. Don’t fool yourself. Shit can happen over which you have no control.
As I pointed out, there is nothing to indicate the OP’s age in this thread. I have no idea if we’re talking about someone 20 or 40 or 60 years old.
I, too, have “worked my ass” off, I have a college degree, I made contingency plans, and yet here I am. Yes, I am working “unskilled labor” and you know what? I was chosen over younger people with less experience in working. Should I call someone 20 years old who asked for the same job I now have a “loser” because I won the spot and they didn’t?
I HAVE taken a lower paying job. Despite that, I may yet find myself on the street.
And you’ve conveniently ignored the point that you don’t know enough about the OP’s circumstances to be able state with any certainty that he’s in this boat due to his own poor decisions. He may well be, but with no evidence either way, you’re just ass/u/me-ing.
Your Mom goes to college.
Yeesh. These responses are like the thyroid people in the fat threads (i.e., there’s a small group of people that have every possible obstacle in their way so that gives everyone else a free pass because they could have had one or more of those same obstacles in their way).
Also, to reiterate, I never castigated the OP for not going to college. I castigated the OP for not doing anything to better himself (college being just one example).
Finally, as a French person, you are probably constitutionally incapable of understanding concepts such as personal responsibility and all that, so you get a pass.
No we didn’t. Unless I missed something, Sateryn did not say he was looking at the same paper Broomstick was using. He just said it was a local paper somewhere in NW Indiana. It may or may not be anywhere near where Broomstick actually lives - unless Sateryn has some extra knowledge of Broomstick’s actual address which he hasn’t brought to the thread.
Wait, so you are saying it is possible for someone who can only get work in unskilled labor to have arrived at that position through a series of good decisions? I would agree with this only in extremely narrow circumstances. For example, if the OP were physically abused as a child in a third-world country but now he has come to America to work, then he’s alright with me.
Ahh do you know why he “failed”? Maybe he’s been stuck in a bad life situation.
Also you fucking douche bag he’s trying to go college to fix that. How the hell is he supposed to go to college when he can’t even get enough money for food and rent?
First of all, the only link provided that goes directly to the want ads lists SEVEN, which is hardly “pages and pages” - who’s exaggerating now?
Second - there appears to be a difference between the hardcopy papers and the paper’s website. Silly me - I’ve been looking in the hardcopy for the want ads! Nevermind I never saw anything that said “sorry - we’ve moved all our want ads to the internet. If you don’t know that, or don’t have an internet connection, you’re fucked! Ha-ha!”
Fine, call me a liar, say it’s all my fault, it’s still the party line that the poor are poor because they choose to be poor and deserve to suffer. I’ve been hearing it for decades, and even more since I was laid off because management decided to eliminate wholesale an entire job category and not because of a conduct problem. That couldn’t possibly happen to any of the privileged characters who enjoy pissing on people going through a hard time. After all, if it’s not the poor peoples’ fault then - OMG! - you might one day have bad luck yourself!
You do not know what the OP has or has not done, or why.
Sateryn actually did give the paper editions he was looking at which, although near my location are not *precisely *my location. That, too, might also account for why the paper copy I picked up did not have want ads and his did, as they might have been targeted towards a particular edition of the paper for some reason. I hadn’t though of that, frankly it did not occur to me that with locations grouped fairly close together that that might happen but perhaps it is. I will have to investigate this more thoroughly. I am willing to travel 40 or 50 miles for a job with a paycheck I can live on but some employers may be assuming otherwise and thus not listing as widely as I might have thought they would.
Le sigh. Yes, you can come up with possible scenarios why the OP is a saint who has had the very bowels of life open up goatse-like upon him since day one. But that’s not very likely. You can also think of ways that he can’t do things to better himself. However, I find it much more productive for people to take responsibility over what they’ve done and what they need to do.
Yes, that’s what I’m saying. It’s also possible to end up with a great career despite having made a whole shitload of bad decisions. Life’s funny that way.
Wow. Are you drunk or just a tool?
But I know where he is (in loserville) and his attitude about it (it’s not his fault).
Once again, you conveniently ignore the point that he’s trying to go to college. Or maybe you just have the attention span of a retarded gnat.
Are there other papers in NW Indiana besides the Times and the Post-Tribune? I mean, given the size of the area that could be called “NW Indiana” I don’t see how anyone who is supposedly turning over every stone in search of a job could FAIL to search those papers. Can you explain to me how a good faith, leave-no-stone-unturned job search for a person living in northwest Indiana could justify excluding either paper?
I vote drunken tool.
But then, I’m a little cynical these days.
Possible in both instances, but not very likely. Will you acknowledge that?
For instance, if someone says “Each and every day I eat 4 calories and work out for three hours, but I still can’t lose weight,” do you think that it’s more likely that this person is lying or that they are one of the very few people with an actual medical problem that could cause that to be the case?