daz28 wrote:
Crosscheck wrote:
I agree with almost everything except the part about unemployment benefits.
Congress has extended unemployment benefits for 2 years (that's a record)...at some point it stops being insurance and starts being welfare.
Even a beleaguered and brow-beaten worker like you should be able to find a job within 2 years no?
This man speaks the truth. People have been sitting on their cans collecting 99 weeks of unemployment. That's insane. 6 months should be enough time to find a job, and people should also be responsible to save a nest egg for just such an occasion. People waste their money like crazy, and I'm not real keen on subsidizing their irresponsibility.
Try it some time.
I worked for two years, and while I lived at home paying off loans (paid one off completely), I still payed some rent and utilities.
While working I had one project grind to a standstill because the state was thinking about shutting down that State Park. I had another grind to a standstill because the State Historic Preservation Office, Oneida Indian Nation, and the Federal Government can't agree on Archaeological testing per Section 106 regulations of NEPA. I had a third grind to a halt because it was a prerequisite for the previous project and once that dried up (shocker) the town didn't want to spend money on another project when the second (larger) one might never get done. I had a fourth grind to a halt because there was turnover in the town board of that municipality and the new regime was behind the curve when it came to information, and not completely supportive of the project anyways.
So I got to the point where I was basically wasting company time because I had no work coming in, yet somewhere around 10,000 hours of work for my position that could come at any moment (and would have to be rushed to meet funding deadlines that got all fucked up by the stalling) so it wasn't prudent to take on new work. Meanwhile the company experienced a slow year and I got laid off.
That was May 12th. Since then I've sent out in the ballpark of 20-30 resumes on top of the 10-15 query letters I've sent out for my novel. At that rate I'm sending 3-4 things out a week, or stuff out every other day. In those two months I've gotten ONE INFORMAL interview for a position that MAY or MAY NOT be available, most likely in a new office that the company hasn't even acquired property for, so it would be ONE TO TWO MONTHS before I could start working EVEN IF I get the job.
Meanwhile, since I believe in being prepared, I have enough money (living at home) in my account to pay off my loans for about a year (even without unemployment coming in), my resume and cover letters were up to date, and I had already been active in looking for a job since I'm trying to move. Not to mention the three weeks vacation I had saved up for the express purpose of being able to get paid after I stopped working to ease the burden and stave off going on unemployment.
I'm looking for the laziness and money wasting...
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