I'm just a little irate at the moment...

OK, I had a pretty good business supplying PC's to a local retailer, but then around 2001 when OEM's dropped their prices my sales fell off. That's OK, it hurt for a while, I scaled back.

No internships for mechanical designers in 2001 or 2002, so I ended up graduating without the internship (I applied other credits). Of course I spent 2001 and 2002 looking for that new job at graduation...

So I graduate, spend all my earnings from the business on travel, looking for work, rather than on debts. After all, I can pay off debts with that killer new job, right? But I can't stay out of debt without it!

Got a part time job helping out a disabled guy. Paid around $3.50 an hour. Yep, I have a good heart

He died, I'm still looking for work. Now people are telling me "We have an entry level position". Great, but they require 1 year experience. They'll count internships, GRRR.

So first thing Bush tells me is I'm too lazy to find a job. Second thing he tells me is that I'll find a job if I get an education. I have $55k in student loans to pay off, I'm fairly certain I HAVE an education.

So then some smart arse tells me I'm in a dead field. Wrong, every manufacturer needs mechanical designers. Problem is, there are TOO MANY mechanical designers given the available jobs!

Got a call from a guy, ONE GUY, who would hire me without Big 3 related experience. Problem is, He wants me to have learned the version of the program that came out the beginning of THIS YEAR. Like I graduated yesterday! Last I checked, a single licence cost $50k! And some of you wonder why people pirate software!

Bush certainly didn't TAKE my job. And it's not his responsibility to give me one. But his insolence is inconsolable. So I have an idea!

Socialism! Hehehe, not what you're thinking however. How about a job program for people who have been out of work for more than a year? How about they make the program duration 1 year, so that the person can get his 1 year of experience? Surely the government needs certain tasks accomplished. Last depression we had, there was an alphabet soup of job programs!

I heard someone say "Home ownership is at an all time high, proving the good economy". Which is backwards logic, the POOR ECONOMY caused the increase in home ownership! How? If 50% of the population is unemployed and 50% making good money, certainly that 50% can buy a house provided the interest rates are low. In fact, many people are buying houses because they can no longer afford to rent, BUYING IS CHEAPER. And the interest rates are low because of the struggling economy!

I should have went into architecture.

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Michigan is a messed up place. You see, working for $3.50 an hour got me food stamps. Working for minimum wage won't.

How is that possible? You have to work at least 20 hours per week and make less than $400 a month in order to qualify for food stamps. And if you work that out, it means you have to make less than $5 an hour to qualify.

Why would they have programs for which almost nobody qualifies? That's how they save money. When people accuse them of not providing for starving poor, they can say "See, we have this program!"

I was "allowed" to make less than minimum wage because I was getting paid by the state, per "shift". A shift could last 1-3 hours. That's how the state pays care providers when the disabled person can't pay them themselves. I worked the long shift, 3 hours per day, in order to qualify for food stamps And why not? It's the only job I had.

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Yessir! I AM willing to relocate. I know Solidworks and SDRC I-Deas (retail version of Ford's C3P). If you need me to know Autocad, I can get started as soon as someone lends me Autocad 2004. And if you need me to know Catia or UG I'll get started as soon as someone shows me a reference guide!

Just front me the ticket!

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No computer skills will be needed, just the ability to listen to customer needs then sell them what will make you the most money. Yes all us robber.....sales people are the same. Starting pay will be £14000.00 P/A + commision. If you can get youself to France I'll come and pick you up.

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BTW, I AM playing with a full deck of cards, but I'm still a few cents shy of a postage stamp

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I did it, and have many friends that did it and do it. I made $75K a year with bonus and commission and a very crappy base salary of only $1200 a month. Not a shabby job but I'm off to bigger and better things.

Takes a certain type of person to sell though. At least to sell good.

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Stop picking on people you insenstive prick!

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I do now since I don't make that anymore and don't work there anymore. I actually make less now, a lot less. But I would recommend the job to anyone that wants it. If you like dealing with people it's a ton of fun.

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Man do I know how you feel. Not a good place to be in for sure. I don't know if you thought about this or not but the gov. gives contracts to companies to build better tanks, guns,etc. so....perhaps there may be a market for you there if you can find out what companies are getting those contracts.

Of course you know the Marines are always looking for a few good men.

I'm too old for the Marines, still messing with the Army trying to work around some problems I had as a kid.

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$26k is actually not too shabby as base pay, considering cost of living that compares to an $18k base pay here. I can sell anything. I still sell old crappy computers.

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I find it hard that with your skill level, that you could not land a descent job in computer tech or sales.
Here, you should have no trouble finding descent employment, most complainers of not getting work is because they only want the big cahuna, and nothing less will do. That is not your case.
Hang in there bro, you gotta find something.

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Yeh, I liked the guy, and he needed help, so I helped him. It wasn't about the money, but the money did help me. More money would have helped me more. Yet the job was not strenuous, I didn't complain, and he was happy. That is, until his cat killed him.

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Art Vandelay? (sp?)

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LOL, construction is the only industry that's been moving constantly through the recession, due to drops in the prime rate causing drops in building loan rates. So in architecture I should at least be able to find a crappy job working for a local company designing those fiberboard houses the upper middle class keep building.

BTW, what kind of idiot allows a contractor to build his quarter million dollar house out of fiberboard?

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No sympathy for you Crash, just reading over the things you've posted proves how much BS you spray, you said you've applied at so many convience stores but balk at a higher paying construction job, or you braindead or something, you just flat don't want to work do you, I mean why should you, you've been living off handouts so long you're probably pretty used to it by now. And you're looking for someone to blame, well go look in the mirror dude, or else 10yrs from now you'll be selling the same BS.




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I blame you, you bastardly motherfucking braindead rightwing faciast. Your true nature is out now. You're one of those people who, if you rented someone a house with asbestos flooring and insulation, and their 8 year old kid got cancer, would blame him saying he must have smoked since he was 2. Or blame his non-smoking parents. Anything to avoid taking the blame for the larger problem which you were responsible for.

Cry me a river about how everything is my fault, that I took your taxes after spending years paying them myself. Tell me how no matter how much I put into finding a job, it's not enough. Spread your right wing propoganda all the way to Idaho, where you'll find an adequately large audience with the Arian Nation.

Now it all makes perfect sense why I'm not finding a job, guys like you must be running things. "Oh, so you don't have a job? Well then you must be lazy, I'm not hiring you". How the hell am I supposed to get a job with that mentality?

But yet you claim not to care. You DO care. You keep me down so you can use me as an example. You lie about my efforts in order to assure yourself of your wisdom.

I'm surprised you're NOT a politician, or a police officer.


BTW, just watching the history channel show "Mosquito Attack", quiet an ingenious aircraft design, no?

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I'm already more mature than you, I've already worked harder than you, I've already done more of just about everything than you, except for making money, which seems to be your definition of maturity. Yet you cry about me. You moan and whine that I'm so lazy because you got where you are without effort. It's impossible for you to tell me "try harder" simply because you've never had to try at anything.

It's also impossible for you to call me a baby because I've lived a lot more than you. Yet when you whine, you call me a crybaby. You do sound a lot like Bush. But Bush at least has enough sense to know how far he can push things without stirring up a rebelion.

I bet the Czar of Russia use to talk with all the wealthy landowners about how those serfs were too lazy to get anywhere in life. And we saw what happened to him. And Marie Antoinette might as well have said "What a bunch of crybabies" rather than "let them eat cake" just before the axe fell

But you go on living your dillusion, that anyone not offered the same opportunities as you is lazy, because that seems to be your comfort zone. You could have just as easily said the coal miners were dying of black lung because they were lazy.

So you know what it's like to suffer heat stroke? Nah, because you don't know what work is. How about a collapsed disk in your back? Nope, because you don't know what work is. So it's impossible for you to understand why I went to school so I wouldn't have to work in jobs where I can once again suffer heatstroke or fall on the ground unable to move from a back injury. Because for a person who's never actually had to work hard, these are impossible things to imagine.

Now, you'll accuse me once again of crying about things, but I only mention injuries in the context of your immaturity.

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Crash, I operate a small company, and would hire you in a milisecond. You are definately grade A material.
Soon, you will look back on this and realize how far you have come.

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Great RichPLS, is going to hire you and give you a job Crash, Problem solved! Thanks RichPLS, The whining can stop now, now lets see if he accepts!

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Nothing!

But just maybe he'll get mad enough to quit feeling sorry for himself AGAIN, and do something about it, no one here can do it for him!

You're new here, I really don't know you!

If you'd been here for years maybe you'd understand, or maybe not, but Crash can take care of himself here at the Forums he doesn't need a babysitter, just yet.

Now if he can learn to take care of himself out in the real world, where there are job opportunities for anyone that really wants to work, you say you have a small business you should know thats true, I'm not lying about that.

Its hard to even find people these days that really want to work and are dependable employees in the first place, as a matter of fact its almost a nightmare, some people just want everything handed to them but you know that already.






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Dependable employees are like gold, you are fortunate in that respect, it makes your responsibilities and work so much smoother, and you can actually enjoy being the Employer under those circumstances. Thats Great!


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A millisecond? Wow, I just wasted millions of those responding to that other post, I should quit reading these in order!
I pick up some money Monday, where do you need me to go?

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So far I've been looking at the following:
1.) Any local job that's even a little less physically demanding than carrying roofing shingles all day. That means most jobs!
2.) Any job outside my local area but commutable that pays $8 an hour
3.) Any statewide job that pays at least $10 an hour.

Easy explaination for #2 is that I have to make enough money to make traveling the extra distance cost effective. Easy explaination for #3 is that if I have to move at my own expense, I'll need the money to move.

So that's pretty much left me open to thousands of jobs I'm somewhat qualified for, the major sticking point is that most employers are looking for "something else" in the way of experience.

I don't know why none of the local places are hiring me for certain, but the computer place I applied to basically said "you're education exceeds our ability to keep you here" (overqualified) to which I responded "No, the job market hasn't been good and I garuntee you a minimum 2 years". And I think 2 years was a good guess, because that's about as long as anyone has worked there. They normally hire students for mear months.

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