I hate to admit this but the last 10 days of my life have been extremely hectic. I was laid off from my job about 8 months ago and I just learned I cannot get unemployment. If I didn’t live with my sister, my son and I would be in deep shit.
The system doesn’t work.
I am busting my ass to find a job – ANY job – and there are people who lay around the house all day watching the soaps or playing on the internet,
and they are getting a government handout.
There’s a guy I went to high school with whose granddaddy was a famous surgeon, and this guy, I’ll call him Richie, has a trust fund. He has worked some sales jobs, but was terminated or quit [I’m not sure which] his last job because he didn’t like the way the office was run. He also has every technological gadget known to man, including an iPhone. HE is getting unemployment. I am not. I do not understand this system.
I sure do wish I had paid better attention in school and gone on to college. All I know how to do is manual labor type stuff. I am good at fixing cars, but no body shop or tire place wants to hire a woman, especially not one who is small, like me.
If there is any good thing to come out of this recession, it’s this. I tell my son when we can’t go to the movies or eat anything for dinner except baked beans that he damn well HAS to work hard in school and do better than his mama. Being willing to work hard just isn’t enough any more.
I am amazed at the number of people who are employed but under-employed. Fortunately or unfortunately the baby boomer’s have lived to see the ruin they created.
I fear we are seeing the beginning of the decline of the USA.
Interesting Link on underemployment http://www.newsweekinteractive.com/blogs/jobbed/2010/07/02/depressing-unemployment-numbers-forecast-long-slow-recovery.html?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+newsweek/NationalNews+(Newsweek+-++Nation+(RSS))