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| By: lakota Wednesday February 13, 2013 9:16 am | |
http://gawker.com/5983361/unemployment-stories-vol-26-i-want-hope
This is something I saw on the news today and since my son is going through the same crap after we worked and sacrificed to send him through college and get a degree, I can truly feel these young peoples pain.
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Thank you for this link, lakota.
I am very glad that you are still with us.
Recommended to the entire Firedoglake community, to their consideration and conscience, and to the larger society, as well …
DW
Yes, thank you. I’m very afraid of what the future holds- not just for me, but for all of us.
Haven’t gone to the link yet, but wanted to tell you how happy I was to see your fonts.
Ohmmmm
Thanks for this link. The system for connecting folks with jobs has been screwed up for 40 years. Employers are constructed the screen so tight that they can’t find applicants (and complain about it). Friend-of-a-friend is the leading route to a job these days. Volunteering for things that either require your skills or bring you in contact with people who normally hire folks with your skills is a plan B. It worked for my daughter who volunteered to help in a hospital (she is headed toward a nursing degree but not there yet.) After six months of volunteer work, she was wired in as an entry-level anesthesia tech (mostly a go-fer type of job at $12 an hour).
This is not to minimize the difficulty of finding work these days. It has been extremely difficult for both of my daughters.
Best of fortune to you son in his search.
Rec’d. This is an important issue.
Thanks for continuing to post. The way we’re wasting the energy, talent, and (where they’re able to acquire it) the education of our young people is a national disgrace. Best of luck to your son.
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Thanks to everyone, it feels good to be appreciated.
I bleed when I read stories like these, because I’m so aware of the causes of their problems. The situation we’re in now, was created; it’s not part of some “normal” economic cycle as in times past.
What’s most painful is when these young people who have worked so hard for those degrees, began to feel inadequate because they can’t find a job. They’re suffering intensely because of greed and depravity in Washington DC. Stupidity and incompetence are merely shields the guilty politicians hide behind, while talking about nothing.
Why are so many people so easily deceived? That’s the question I can’t find an answer to.
Sadly, desperation and hope turns otherwise savvy folks into easy and willing victims.
Anyhow, great diary entry and heartbreaking stories that it would behoove all of us to read.
Rec’d!
“To set the stage in December of 2008, I was living the American Dream. House, wife, a daughter and a son on the way. I had a great job I loved as the head of the advertising department for a 34 location chain grocery store. I did 50% graphic design and the rest was a grab bag of copy writing, web design, media buying, social media, administrative and other marketing type work. The department was in every sense of the word an in-house advertising agency. Just before the holidays the other full time person in my department found other employment and I didn’t worry too much about it as I assumed the position would be quickly filled. The first few weeks of the year would be a bit of a challenge though as the old intern had left and the new one hadn’t started. Stressful but nothing I couldn’t handle in the short run.”
In reference to “From Dream to Nightmare” in unemployment stories. In December of 2008, he was living the American Dream. My essay in regard to this is specifically related to the date. Millions of lives went from, maybe not “dream”, but from OK to nightmare after 2008.
If you go to this website http://wp.me/p2vRlu-4 and click on the gasoline chart, in 2008, gasoline cost over $4.00 at the pump. That alone caused catastrophe all over this country, no one escaped. When you couple that with the high price of food, as verified by a price of $7.40. for a bushel of corn in 2008; that increased the cost of living more than this economy could bear. People struggling to survive can not comprehend how much the price of corn and gasoline effect their lives. Each family is so busy trying to cope, that there is no way they can comprehend how these prices affect every aspect of their lives.
If you have a good memory, all you have to do is jog it back to the time before you saw $4.00 gas at the pump. The shopping mall you went to was full of stores. There were more eating places and car dealerships. The effect of those “sky high” prices was the same as a giant “Hoover Vacuum Cleaner” sucking money out of the economy of this country. If I can’t buy what you’re selling, you no longer need the people who manufacture what you’re selling. Those people can no longer buy what someone else is selling, and on it goes. Where did all that money go?
Once upon a time, we had a government that protected us from “commodity market manipulation”. Now we have a government that’s guilty of colluding with the “commodity market manipulators”.