Been surfing the SDMB a lot lately since I’m unemployed (yes, I am looking for a job, but there ain’t a lot out there at the moment) and I’ve noticed several Dopers mentioning that they’re out of work. How many of us are there?
Oh. Yay. I get to be first. :rolleyes:
Been unemployed since early April. As of Dec. 2, it will be eight (8) months.
I am, though I could have a job if I’d just move 2000 miles.
I just had my second interview cancelled - they filled the position:(
Unemployment sucks. I’m working at a bar to make ends meet but I don’t like this one bit.
C’est Moi (I think that’s how you spell it). Been unemployed since the end of September, and just started my first temp assignment since then today, because temping pays better than unemployment.
No interviews, few responses. I’m overeducated and underexperienced. And there aren’t many jobs out there.
I haven’t had a job since the beginning of August, although I wasn’t fired - I just had to quit so I could go to college. Then I was unable to get another job because the on-campus ones are reserved for work-study students and the off-campus ones would require a car to get to and I don’t have one at the moment. I’ll be looking for a job in January. That should be fun. Finding a non-fast food job in a college town at the beginning of a new semester.
At least in the meantime I have a roof over my head, my utilities are pre-paid, and my mother sends me money for food, so I’m pretty well off nevertheless.
Went nine months before my current temp position. Yes, it does pay better than unemployment, but nowhere near what I am used to getting paid.
Very few responses from the hundred plus resumes that I have sent out. Signed up with three temp services that couldn’t find me jack.
Monster.com sucks. I would recommend smaller job sites such as Flipdog.com that get good jobs, but don’t have millions of people looking jobs as well
Just like Cap’n Crude, I’ve been out since April.
I’m falling behind the curve in the software I specialize in, which makes the competition all the worse. “Whaddaya mean you don’t have any experience in 8.0? Get lost!”
Hey, xmas is comin’! Gee, great.
[list][list][list][list][list]count?
…
[sup]Better than I thought it’d be![/sup]
Another of the unemployed checking in here. 
: passes around chocolate to all the unemployed Dopers, and switches on the TV to Springer, because everyone knows that’s all unemployed people do! : :rolleyes:
Unemployed by choice, (my last job was eating away at my soul) doing some volunteer work to keep myself busy and going back to Uni to finish my degree in February.
Fortunately, my SO scored an excellent job that pays well enough that I could quit my crappy, low-paid job without any noticeable difference in income. Otherwise, I’d still be at that soul-destroying place, and also trying to find time to look for a better job.
[aside] He loves supporting me, because he now comes home to a clean, tidy house with a very happy, relaxed and loving wife, as opposed to the bitchy hag (me) arriving home 10 minutes after him, to a house that we probably should’ve been evicted from it was that untidy ! [/aside]
Oh, good – I have company!
Went out on disability around Memorial Day…followed my doctor’s orders not to return or else risk more injury to my back (we’re talking herniated discs, osteoarthritis, and sciatica…I could barely walk most of the summer). Got a job as a pastry chef the end of August…nice people, easy on my back, creativity galore…BAM, 2 sous chefs, several line cooks, and I are laid off a mere 8 weeks later because business plummeted…
My ex-assistant, who inherited my position, told me not too long ago that they’ve since laid off 2 managers and a prep cook…she’s holding her breath…
I’m also very much overqualified. Besides culinary school, I also have a master’s in education – I left the field after 3 years of backstabbing politicking and have no desire to return…
I don’t qualify for any of the programs Unemployment offers. I have an appointment with a counselor there in a couple of weeks…I’m hoping she’ll suggest something because I’m almost at the end of my rope!
At least I have money socked away…whew…
Anyone care for an Unemployment Blues choco chip cookie??? Fresh from the oven…
I’m unemployed, since August 7. I was an admin assistant for a web consultancy. Since the end of September, I’ve been making half of my old wage in a soul-sucking temp job for a Banshee from the Rotten Crusty Bowels of Hell, and am sinking rapidly into credit-card debt. Christmas? Don’t remind me. I’ve never been unemployed for so long. I’ve been told by many people that almost four months is nothing, and that I shouldn’t worry, but even though I know it could be worse, it still feels awful to me. My boyfriend has had to pick up slack for me on rent and utilities; I can’t get my son glasses to replace the broken ones for at least a couple of weeks because we have no money and no insurance; I’m beginning to lose it.
I’ve been on SO many interviews, only to come in second. It’s like I’m on some “Massive Loser: Do Not Hire” list. Well, I guess the one good thing that’s come of it is that I’m a damn polished interviewee now.
What’s been the hardest for me is missing out on jobs I know I would have loved. Getting my hopes up for nothing has taken its toll. I’m afraid to get excited about any position if I’m going to get the rug yanked out from under me again.
But now, a job I’d give a 7.5 out of 10 may be mine for the taking by tomorrow, if my recruiter is to be believed. Cross your fingers for me!
Me too.
It’ll be two years in February. We’ve gone through all the savings and the separation package. November mortgage is past due, and this morning on hubbys way to work at 5 am the (paid off) truck cracked a head gasket block thingy or something catastrophic like that, so now we are down to one vehicle which will make job hunting in the suburbs interesting.
I’m thinking the ideal situation would be for someone to forward their phone to mine and I’ll be their answering service! Wouldn’t that be cool to have an eleven step commute? Seriously after nearly 15 years in a high stress marketing division of a major oil company as an executive administrative assistant to engineers, I think I’m going to try settling in a a local school as a school secretary. The pay won’t compare but the convenience to home and for family life with a school age kid seems like a good idea for me at this time.
I got laid off last June, but I since started back to school. Does that count?
My next job will be in radiologic technology. Quite a shift after 20 years in the travel industry.
Ooh! Ooh! Me too!
Does being a college student count? 
Tomorrow is my last day where I work. My contract expires there, and business is too slow to keep me around. I knew it was a limited time contract when I started there in September of last year…I just hadn’t anticipated that it would take me over a year and a half to find a permanent job.
I’m single, and have no other source of income. Unemployment is going to suck.
Both my husband and I have been out of work since May 15th (we worked for the same company - bad idea).
I cannot even tell you how many resumes we’ve sent out. Hundreds and hundreds. We no longer even care where the job is, we’ll take it. We almost never get any responses. We have good resumes, are highly qualified, etc. This job market sucks.
Sometimes I think the entire world had a meeting about us and decided that no one should hire us.
I’ve been out since 9/28. I’m in marketing and PR, but I also have technical writing and documentation skills.
Today marked the 101st resume sent out since then.
We have enough savings to carry us three more months, given our average bill structure. Mrs. Angel is still employed and making pretty decent money. The savings covers the part of the bills normally covered by my salary.
The bad part is, Mrs. Angel has plans to open her own business after the first quarter. I’m really excited for her (she’ll be great at it), and I’m desperate to find a gig to cover bills so she can give her dream a shot without having to delay in order to keep the wolves from the door.
raises hand
First my girlfriend broke up with me. Then I lost my car a few months ago (it was towed, and then somehow got crushed by the City of Chicago), so I had to quit my job. With no job, I had to move back into my mom’s basement. You can imagine how much fun it is to try to pick up women with stats like that! “Honestly,” I want to tell them, “I’m really not a loser! Sure other guys with no girl, no job, no car, living in their Mom’s basement are losers, but I’m different!”
UGH.
I finally managed to borrow enough money last week to buy a '97 Hyundai Elantra. Ah, now with wheels like that that’ll show the women that I’m clearly a man of distinction…