| mrstickball said: IF the government gives out any unemployment benefits, it should be simple: Use a few hundred million dollars to help these people find new jobs. Nothing more. Maybe, just maybe, some people are in the wrong careers in the wrong areas, and need to find employment somewhere else in the USA. I wonder if Richard could find a job with his masters somewhere that isn't Rochester NY. |
If the jobs aren't here, then hard to get trained for them. I am also not in Rochester. I am near Poughkeepsie. I am currently lining up part time office cleaning work. That is how my Masters is being put to use. The reality is there isn't any good place to get a job in IT now at all. And I have no clue what ever to target. If I were to get certification in SQL Server, does that mean I get a job? They say, if you haven't worked in the IT industry in over 6 months, your career is over. As of now, the amount of money I would bring in would leave me around $100 a month total, after paying student loans (the rate things are going, I am going to likely have to default on them). Being over 40 years old doesn't help either. I am likely NEVER going to ever retire. Social security is likely going to fail to over time .
In regards to "help people find new jobs", they do that. They have employment centers. Microsoft is giving people Windows XP certification training. Answer me how that is going to count in the IT industry, and help people get jobs.
What I do know is that people who aren't in the situation I am have NO clue to how messed up things are. You can seriously fall great heights and possibly never recover. And it is happening with more and more frequency. This is a reason why people fear illegal aliens. The belief is that manual labor and also the emergency room are believe to always be there. Well, no guarantee of that.
