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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:28 AM
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I finally got a job
I worked for one week for a temp agency delivering appliances because my unemployment ran out. It sucked. I start tomorrow at at a trucking company. I have to be in South Austin at 5:00 am. I'll be driving a belly dump dump truck. You get paid by the load. 25 percent of what the truck makes. They are making a new highway between Round Rock and Georgetown(130). This company has the hauling contract and it should be a good 5 years before it's done. The neocons can't send this job to China. Globalize this you asshole bush.
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:29 AM
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1. Good to hear!
I have been there, my friend, and it is not a situation I wish on anyone.

Good luck!
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:30 AM
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2. Thanks n/t
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:30 AM
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3. Congratulations. I wish you would send that part about sending the
job to China in a letter to the AAStatesman.
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:33 AM
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6. I've written them several times
They never call to ask to publish me. I would gladly tell them yes.
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:36 AM
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9. Good for you. Keep trying. The human interest part MIGHT do the trick.
It would be nice to seem some real people's thoughts for a change.
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:31 AM
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4. Congratulations! Great news.
:toast:
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acmejack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:32 AM
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5. You're lucky to get it..
Jobs are really hard to get here in Austin, whether one is degreed or not. I can't even get hired at the new whole foods, let alone the tech sector. I suppose it is practice for the coming depression. They can't outsource your new job, but they damn sure can bring in "guest drivers".
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:35 AM
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8. I know it.
They're aleady bringing in nurses from India. My AS degree didn't help me at all for job searching. I put out over 400 applications on monster and only got about 5 or 6 offers for low paying jobs.
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two gun sid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:34 AM
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7. Good to hear, bearfan454!
I wish you the best of luck in your new job. Makin' a livin' in this goddamn wreck of an economy is 'hard work'.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:36 AM
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10. Wonderful!
That's five years if they stay on schedule. Road work often takes longer than what is estimated. :)
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bearfan454 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:45 AM
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11. good ! n/t
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OhioChick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 10:55 AM
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12. Congrats to you!
:toast:
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Rowdyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-05 11:11 AM
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13. Great news man. Being unemployed sucks.....
Congratulations :toast:
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