**Broomstick **and I both live in Northwest Indiana. There are only two major papers in this area - The Hammond Times and the Gary Post-Tribune. There are a handful of local town papers, but they are not much more than ads and pictures of the Rotary Club.
I obviously can’t scan and post the actual classifieds for our local papers, but their jobs sections are quite large. I linked to their websites - unfortunately, because of an attempt to control costs, they are both hooked up with larger web companies. The Post-Tribune is with the Chicago Sun Times, and the Times has now apparently joined the Yahoo jobs site.
The Times jobs I linked to are for one town in the area - Munster. You can search by zip code for others. I tried Gary as well, and there were two pages worth of jobs.
The Post-Tribune has always had a crappy website, but I note that they have seven “new” jobs posted, and it is my understanding those run by the day. So, today, seven new jobs were added to their job database.
As I said, the actual classified job section is big, and even bigger on “employment” day, which I believe is Wednesday.
**Broomstick **has had a crappy run of luck, and I appreciate her position. However, I am always wondering about those who say “There are no jobs” and it turns out there are many jobs, just not ones that they want or like. I was not taught that jobs need to conform to my wants and needs, but that I must change to meet the limits of the job.
He knows that the OP has posted a Pit thread, and that the OP has posited a causal relationship between the current state of the economy and the fiscal fix he finds himself in today.
I agree, its a very thin nail upon which to hang an argument that the OP is a slacking-off fuckup who doesn’t merit any moral support from the rest of us.
But you surely didn’t think his handle is a random string of characters that just happens to be pronounceable as two discrete words, do you?
What indispensable skills do you have that ensure you will NEVER go without a job? Garbage man? I mean, I can’t think of much else that will ALWAYS and FOREVER be in high demand. There always has to be someone to clean up everyone else’s crap, right?
Seriously though. Famous last words, buddy. Never say never, blah blah, etc.
You are a cocky judgmental jerk - what you’re basically saying is that anyone who cannot find a job must be a lazy loser, because after all if they “worked their ass off” like you, or “gone to college” like you, they would NEVER be unemployed, right? Bullshit. That is seriously insulting to all the bright, experienced, talented, educated people out there who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and are having trouble finding work. I hope some of them come in here and call you out on your bullshit.
And p.s., Mr. Awesome, the whole point of the OP is that he IS trying to gain the skills and education to become indispensable like you - he is about to start higher education - but how the hell is he supposed to pay for it and support himself if he can’t find a motherfucking job?? Go back and read the OP, it says he is “go back to (community) college and get an education, and to improve my station in life.” So exactly how is anyone supposed to do that if they can’t find work?!!!
No, because this claim is actually, physically impossible. That the OP is in a bad spot despite some good decisions is not (and please, don’t pretend that all the decisions you ever made have been good ones. No one makes all the right decisions.)
And, actually, I do consider it somewhat likely, at worst, not all that unlikely.
Yes, the only link that goes DIRECTLY to the want ads lists seven. And the other link – the one that you have to do a few more things, like specify a search area – has more than seven.
But why do you feel this discussion should limit itself to the only link that goes directly to the want ads? If you’re serious about looking hard, leaving no stone unturned, I have to say that clicking an extra link or two isn’t all that onerous a prospect. And in any event, my criticism was your “NO, repeat NO” want ads for “weeks and weeks” claim. You still stand by that one, do you?
Yeah, except that I can bring my Monk-like powers of deductive reasoning to the fore and conclude that you in fact have an internet connection. So I’m not inclined to commiserate with you over the need for an internet connection.
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Don’t put words in my mouth. I didn’t say that all poor are poor because they choose to be poor. I said YOU, specifically, don’t strike me as someone who is really looking with every fiber of your being, since you couldn’t find a single want ad.
In fact, I feel quite sorry for those who are really victims of circumstance, because you’re trying to ride on their coattails, when your problem is lack of competence or lack of desire.
Thanks for the support (that was support, right? ).
Also, everyone, I’m still soaking wet over here (not sure how I got this way either), so I’d appreciate any and all suggestions for getting out of this unfortunate situation.
Sure is. I dropped out of college in 1979, left the Navy after only eleven years (no pension for that), lost three (frankly just south of adequate) jobs, worked three other way south of adequate jobs, and spent three years unemployed in the seventeen years since, and six years after I completed my application, got a career-level craft position in the Postal Service.
You don’t know anything about the OP’s history, and yet you feel free to assume that his situation is caused by his own failings.
And the only example you give is contradicted by the very content of the OP.
Indeed. I’m constitutionally allowed to be eating foie gras and drinking champagne between two posts despite a boatload of poor decisions in my life. There’s no constitutional provisions preventing me from understanding that some people can be eating noodles despite a boatload of good decisions, though.
Look, I’m a heartless capitalist bitch, but I’m not blind to the fact that criticism of the victim is often a way of reassuring himself or herself that the misfortune can never happen to himself or herself. That’s what a lot of this thread has been about; you aren’t criticizing lazy unskilled workers or fat people; you’re reassuring yourself that you’ll never land in poverty or become fat, at the expense of others.
OP is perhaps not exercising full creativity in job seeking, but unemployment can happen to anyone, period. Very, very few people have the priorities and education and self-discipline to be able to plan for and survive unemployment, and by the fearful tone in your posts, I’d wager that you aren’t one of them.
If this is serious criticism, I feel it’s misplaced. If your name werre “John Galt” or “Dagny Taggert” or “A. Rand” then I think it’s fair to say a well-read person should twig immediately to the reference. But “Rand Rover” doesn’t immediately bring Ayn Rand to mind.
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