On Jun 30, 2:06=EF=BF=BDpm, "AZ" <infiniti_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> This might be the worst time in our lives not to have a job.
=EF=BF=BDThe =
economy
> sucks so much, companies don't know how to get rid some of their
employees=
,
> much less hire more.
>
> I have been out of work for a month now. =EF=BF=BDI probably sent over
10,=
000
> r=EF=BF=BDsum=EF=BF=BDs and Broadcast Letters to hotels, resorts,
casinos =
and Airlines (My
> background is Aviation and Casinos). =EF=BF=BDWith the Airlines, you can
f=
orget
> about it. They're all somehow in Bankruptcies, yet their prices are as
hig=
h
> as Mt. Everest, and their planes are always full. =EF=BF=BDI don't get
it,=
>
> Casino hotels and resorts.hell, there is one behind every corner if
there =
is
> water there, and if there isn't, then it's an Indian Casino.
=EF=BF=BDPlea=
se don't
> comment on me saying "Indian" Casinos that is not the point.
=EF=BF=BDThe =
point is
> casinos are everywhere, and they can not cover their overheads.
=EF=BF=BDI=
llinois
> passed a law last year to tax the casinos at the rate of 39%.
=EF=BF=BDWha=
t the
> hell? =EF=BF=BDWhat company is taxed that much? So these casinos up
there =
are being
> forced to reduce their staff, hours of OPS and so on. =EF=BF=BDI know
beca=
use I
> opened the Par-A-Dice casino in Peoria and was talking to them all week
> long.
>
> I also contacted hundreds of employment agencies and head hunters.
=EF=BF=
=BDSo, far,
> all I get is people telling me they saw my r=EF=BF=BDsum=EF=BF=BD on
Monst=
er or Careers.com
> or whatever, and they want me to interview with 20 other people
(together)=
> to go sell insurance. =EF=BF=BDWell, that ain't happening.
>
> There is nothing locally. =EF=BF=BDI visited with just about every damn
co=
mpany that
> I think might be hiring. The economy is terrible. =EF=BF=BDI am so
depress=
ed. =EF=BF=BDI got
> really drunk this week end (sorry David)
>
> I am at a loss. =EF=BF=BDWhere are all the Goddamn jobs? =EF=BF=BDWhere
th=
e **** are they?
> There has to be something for me somewhere!!
>
> This is not a solicitation of sympathy. =EF=BF=BDThis is a rant.
=EF=BF=BD=
Otherwise, I am
> going to lit into somebody today. =EF=BF=BD****!
Great rant, AZ. I hope it helped a bit. I don't really have any job
search advice for you. I was never without a decent job, but then I
worked mostly through the good years. However, I am a child of the
Great Depression, having been born that long ago and having read lots
of books about that dreadful time. More recently, I did help out one
of my sons when he was on a protracted job search. Not so much with
contacts or advice, but with some financial sup****t while he was
searching; made sure he had adequate healthcare coverage and helped
him to pay the rent. It took him a while, but now he is happily
working in Chicago at a place that he likes and has met the girl of
his dreams out there. But then again, he did not have the family
responsibilities that you do.
When my ex-husband lost his last job, we were living in Cincinnati and
I was working in a department store to help out. He never made any
kind of search, just went into a deep depression, so bad he couldn't
even fill out his unemployment insurance forms. We got through that
one by me getting a new job back in New York and so we were able to
make that move. I stayed with that job for the rest of my working
life, but he never worked again. I left him before he could spend
every cent I earned. He had been a photojournalist all his life, but
when the picture magazines faded away (Look and Life), he really
didn't know what to do. He tried free-lancing and I stayed with him
until he was earning more than I was. Then I left. He sold our house
and then moved up into the Catskill Mountains where he lives to this
day.
Our two sons were by then in college; one in a state university and
the other in law school. They unfortunately got deep into student
loans, but the younger guy got his PhD on a fellow****p that just about
paid his entire way. I am so very proud of them.
AZ, I am telling you all this because I want you to know that life
hands us troubles that we must manage our way out of as best we can.
I believe you have the strength and experience to make your way
through this terrible time. My ex just would not even entertain the
idea of revising or retraining himself. While I went out and marketed
my own talents into a 25 year career in advertising.
You gotta know that I am an old broad when I tell you that I went to
the 1939 Worlds Fair in New York. My mother was in the hospital then
with TB and I went with her sister, my Aunt Frieda and her daughters.
I remember that there was a man with a machine on a little cart that
would turn a copper penny into a souvenir of the Fair. I had a penny
and my Aunt paid for me to get the souvenir for my mother. I asked
her to take it to her in the hospital. She died shortly after that.
So that is my sharpest memory of the Great Depression.
Joyce
10 years 7 months
P.S. I was talking with my younger son last night. His father had
suggested that he take the train into New York the next time he
comes. It might be cheaper than the airfares these days. He almost
laughed right into my ear. He said, "Ma, I don't want to spend 18
hours on a train. We don't have all that much time to stay in NY."
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