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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 11:58 AM
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Poll question: Unemployed? Part II The Unsatisfactory Years
The first poll I did yesterday was strictly about unemployment.

This poll is for those who have had to make other arrangements, rather than the career you thought you had planned for. Again it's divided by age group.

underemployed means you found a job of some description: hourly, P/T . You might get grocery and gas money out of it, but it's not a future you can believe in.

6 months means 6 months or less.

6+ months means over 6 months.

If I get enough responses to these polls it might be interesting to plot them on a graph.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:03 PM
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1. over 50 and underemployed for eighteen months plus
The entire family now suffers from some form of post traumatic stress because of it. Still angry, still NOT feeling *safe* (and wondering if that feeling will *ever* come back again) - and getting even more disgusted with a government that will kiss corporate ass, or have photo ops at parties and *galas* -- smiling and laughing while walking over the bodies of the working class on their way to their limos.

And many people in my area feel exactly as *I* do.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:06 PM
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2. Know what you mean
about not feeling "safe"

I can't tell you the last time I felt safe. :-(

:hug: to you and yours.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:13 PM
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3. back atcha supernova
:hug: Safe is no longer something that is as available as the air we breathe. Sad, isn't it? The supposed *greatest country in the world* and their citizens live in fear more often than is told.
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obxhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:41 PM
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6. And that fear is over our health and well being.
fuck the terra BS. We need real health care and real jobs. It's disgusting how much we could do if we just cut the military budget by 10%, yet the military budget just continues to grow every year.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:47 PM
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8. I fear for my future too
I just don't see a sunny outcome anymore.

It seems all I can do is hang on by my fingernails anymore.

*sigh*
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:46 PM
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14. you HAVE nails???? I'm jealous LOL!
sorry - couldn't resist. No piccie of a rimshot, though.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:49 PM
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15. LOL!
:hug:

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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:32 PM
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4. Kick
I'd like this to stay up at least today. Numbers matter.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:37 PM
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5. Sometimes
education and work experience make someone unemployable even for hourly part-time positions. Sometimes unemployed folks elect to become self-employed or to make a drastic career change. Sometimes they choose to remain unemployed for a time to take care for personal or family issues. Sometimes they choose to go back to school for new or additional training. Your polls seem to ignore these possibilities.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 12:43 PM
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7. There are only so many choice lines
Edited on Mon Jun-07-10 12:43 PM by supernova
that we have in the poll utility. It's also simple in that you can't check off more than one option at a time. You have to decide how you will count yourself given the poll parameters.

"in school" means you decided to go back to school.

I hope to be one of the self-employed in the next 6-9 months, but for now, I'm in the 6+ unemployed category.

The emphasis on this poll was about what different age groups are having to do.

The only thing I couldn't make fit was FMLA situations. And a lot of those situations happen regardless of what the economy is doing.

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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 01:02 PM
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9. Understood
Edited on Mon Jun-07-10 01:03 PM by Coyote_Bandit
Your poll does not accomodate my circumstances.

At least the one yesterday had an "Other" option.

Edit to add: Your focus seems to be on folks in all age categories who choose to be underemployed rather than pursue other alternatives.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 01:28 PM
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11. With all due respect
I don't think anybody "chooses" to be underemployed. It's just what is most doable given their circumstances.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:05 PM
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12. With all due respect
One can choose to work a part-time hourly job and be underemployed rather than either be self-employed or return to school in order to expand their options to earn a livlihood. Often it's easier to be underemployed than to pursue the other alternatives.
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Donnachaidh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:45 PM
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13. absolute CROCK
When you are hanging on by a thread and don't have the financial savings to *be self-employed* or *return to school* you have NO choice to *be under-employed*. You just ARE.

An older worker may feel they have NO option to take on thousands of dollars in debt in order to re-train. And even if he/she does - they many times are overlooked for jobs -- BECAUSE of their age.

What an insulting attitude! Must make it easier to look at the under-employed as un-important. :sarcasm:
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 03:13 PM
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18. Ummmm......
Be insulted if you want.

I'm an old fart who is long-term unemployed. I chose to get my ass back in school and try to earn my own livlihood rather than become dependent on some dumbshit mega-corporation paying slave wages. You don't have to respect my choice - but you should recognize it was a CHOICE. I could be a Wally World greeter instead.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:55 PM
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16. Get out of my thread
I didn't start these polls to be rotten to people, whatever their circumstances.
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Coyote_Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 03:15 PM
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19. Maybe
you should work in HR in corporate Amerikkka where everything and everyone has to fit neatly nto little boxes - and into standardized career paths.

Really don't ask questions if you aren't prepared for answers that might not fit your expectations.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 03:19 PM
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20. Ha Ha
If you want to start your own topic about what you're doing, go right ahead. No one is stopping you, least of all me.

But, for the purposes of my thread, no one should be insulted here for what they have had to do to survive.

Learn it. Love it. Live it.
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Jkid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 02:59 PM
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17. Problem is that you need two part time jobs with living expensives these days.
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 04:01 PM
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21. That's what's so insidious
You can't really find a job just to keep the wolves at bay anymore.
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glen123098 Donating Member (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-07-10 01:07 PM
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10. I am 24 and in school, but would like a job,.
I dont take classes in summer because funding dont pay for them, so I'd like to find a job but its impossible. Ive been looking for a job for over a year, but noone wants to hire me because of my school schedule.
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