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- sjbdallas, on 01/27/2009, -0/+19My crappy job looks better every day.
- rrouse, on 01/26/2009, -0/+14I think we are in a depression. The question is will it be a big "D" Depression or a little "d" depression and I guess the difference is if I lose my job it will definitely be a big "D" depression.
- SEOAly, on 01/26/2009, -0/+11For the first time in my life I am without a job. In the past when I have decided to take a different career path, I had my choice of positions in a variety of industries. This environment is something utterly foreign to me and I've begun to wonder what's next and how much worse this is going to get.
- sexyflanders, on 01/27/2009, -3/+12So I've been out of work for the last 4 months. I've looked and looked and looked and looked I've had so many things fall and faulter I"ve had 2 or 3 interviews go nowhere I've basically given up on contractor companies hell I've met with 'em all they promise you something as soon as you walk out their door you never hear another ***** word.
I'm 3 months behind on my mortgage payment and Wells Fargo refuses anything not a full months payment. What am I suppose to do because I was let go from my job? I didn't ask for this. How is this stimulas package suppose to help when the first time the 856 Billion was suppose to help people like me?
IT jobs seem to be scarce if your not doing programming or anything related to that I mean I do the help desk / network side of things and the jobs are there but they are all ***** contract jobs and whats worse if your lucky you'll get a response saying that you aren't qualified or they've gone in a different route and than see the same exact job posted again on the same job board you applied at.
What I've also found is either companies want to low ball the hell out of you for you knowing very high technical details or either your overqualified for a job or under qualified for a job.
So I don't know but this is crazy. I really hope something starts happening but I guess I should just keep pounding hte pavement spending several hours a day finding a job I've almost quit looking locally but than again trying to find a job half way around the country you'll get your resume thrown in the trash just because your not a local candidate.
I'm not looking for a government hand out but when the banks refuse to help and work with you what am I suppose to do?: I was actually told I should borrow the money from a friend or family member and when I told them that is never going to happen the person on the phone got angry and said than we can't help you.
I'm pissed off that my credit is going to be ***** up and I get to lose my house because our encomy is ***** before anyone bitches as me and says I should have been prepared tell me when I only was making 2200 a month and my mortgage cost 909 alone not including bills and other stuff like food the whole thing of 10% of your income is ***** ***** nobody makes enough money to be able to live and save enough money for 2 or 3 months worth of rent or house payments.
I was already living paycheck to paycheck getting by but now I've reduced almost everything. I don't know what more to say but if something is going to happen it better start happening soon I'm sick of hearing that something is going to happen and its owed to us and ***** either do something or STFU. - PottSie2, on 01/27/2009, -1/+8'With no sign of consumers cracking open their wallets anytime soon, executives simply realized, “we can’t fix it.”'
Yeah, a bit hard to open your wallet when your scared ***** of losing your job aye ... - PrismoFillusion, on 01/27/2009, -0/+6He must have had a lot of money in his bank account when he quit, otherwise buying a business when you're predicting a recession probably isn't the brightest idea.
- FreddieD, on 01/27/2009, -0/+6Let me save you a trip to bugmenot...
username: annoying2
password: annoying2 - borez, on 01/27/2009, -1/+6One of my mates worked for a London based hedge fund, he predicted that this financial crisis was gonna happen a couple of years ago, he took all of his savings, quit the industry and bought a country pub with his wife in Surrey. We all thought he'd gone absolutely barking mad at the time... how wrong we were.
As he said the other week: " I pull the odd pint, serve the odd bit of food, and trawl the internet watching the world I once knew completely collapse. I've never been happier." - chesterogilvie, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5If you can't see that both the Democrats and Republicans have ***** this up together, then you are lost. If you want a better government, vote for better politicians, not your favorite team.
- borez, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5Millions mate, hedge fund managers creamed it back in the 90's, to the point of it being obscene.
- niheelpatel, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4Really bad news. Sad really that many jobs lost in one day.
- NoozeHound, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4Think very big D.
- Dralha, on 01/27/2009, -1/+5The fruit of eight solid years of republican faith-based no-regulation no-accountability no-oversight voodoo economics policies designed to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. History has shown that it always takes a democrat to clean up republican messes, but in this case the republicans may have been successful in their quest to destroy the world.
- apothekari, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4Hang in there man.
Find something you can do and involve your whole family.
Be honest with each other and save every penny you can.
Grow your own food if possible.Buy a canning set and can and store that food.
Try not to despair,It does nothing for you.
Use absolutely as little electricity as possible.
Throw nothing away unless you are sure you cant re-use it.
All these things help, I've been out of work a while now and am in school {at 39} trying to "re-tool" myself for this new economy.
Good Luck - inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4When I got laid off during the "tech bubble burst" I had over two hundred resumes out the next day.... Still took me three months to find work and at about a $20,000 pay loss. I'm just now starting to make the same salary I did almost 7 years ago.. It's hard, but if you hit the ground running and decide that you may have to make some compromises, then you'll be okay... One of the things I did was cash out my existing 401k, taking the tax penalty etc. but paid off all debt except my mortgage so my family could survive on unemployement until I found work.... For me that was the best option, for you it may not be.
Good luck. - crilen007, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3No it's still bush,
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -1/+4buying a pub isn't so bad, people drown their sorrows. Good call.
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3Don't worry, our government and yours will just take what they need/want through ***** bailouts and "nationalized" improvement projects, paid for by you.
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3You'll have to compromise and probably take a low ball offer or nothing at all. It's a "buyers" market big time right now and yes it sucks ass.... You could always work several fast food jobs etc. or join the military for a couple years.... If you get laid off in this environment and think that you can just bounce to another equaly or better paying position, you are sadly naive... I feel for you as I've been there back during the "tech bubble" but you'll eventually do what you have to survive.
- chesterogilvie, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2At 24 years old I've pretty much given up hope for retirement already so at least I have those 401K funds to tap into! I just puked.
- Loriesmith, on 01/28/2009, -0/+2This is the effect of global financial crisis we have suffered for today.
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -3/+5I just received a 28k tax levy for a former 1099 contracter. He's so ***** hosed. Good since he was an ass.
As far as the welfare tax (that's what it is to me since I'll never benefit from it) goes, they sure don't let you get around it at all. I discovered this past year that prior year losses do not carry forward and offset the welfare tax. Fortunately I had enough to cover the tax, but thats $20k that I'm sure was pissed away by the government and the welfare addicts. - cathicks, on 01/27/2009, -1/+3Imagi, the studio making the Astroboy movie, shut down Monday as well. Out of money. Should be temporary though, as they are scrambling for funds. They also made the TMNT movie.
- diggopolous, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2It aint over till we say it's over! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!
- borez, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2OK... there's always one:
A. He was burnt out from running the fund.
B. He bought the pub outright.
C. He runs a free house, so he's not tied to any particular brewery
D. He doesn't care whether it does well or not, he's got enough stashed away to see out this life and a couple of others.
And... FTR: He actually does extremely good business, especially with Sunday lunch, it was packed the last time I visited. - govsucks, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2Yeah, digg me down, wouldn't want people to know that your social programs are bankrupting people. Wouldn't want people to know that the penalties and interest I'm being charged for a program I don't even want to participate in is about to cause another family to lose their home. Go ahead and cover your eyes, ears and mouths collectivist primates.
Social Security: Bankrupting families for their 600 dollar a month government check future.
The burden of government and foolishness of its many regulations are what is drowning this nation and you people sit around playing the skin flute of the political class.
The politicians have you wrapped around their finger. ***** ALL COLLECTIVISTS
I swear, the only way having 50% of the people pay all the taxes will end up is war. The next collectivist that tells me to my face to pay my fair share is gonna take a fist to the mouth. - inactive, on 02/25/2009, -0/+2lol is this a poem?
- dvpower, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2Here ya go.
www.samaritans.org - mrh182, on 01/27/2009, -0/+1it's rough out there... glad i still have my job as of now
- PaulOwen, on 01/27/2009, -1/+2I agree - as someone in the same position, i think its better to stop worrying and find another job.
Lamenting the scale of the downturn is the equivalent of navel-gazing when your time could be better spent looking for a job. - NoozeHound, on 01/27/2009, -3/+3I smell BS.
Pubs are going out of business at the rate of four per day.
The breweries are asking for government assistance due to the record drop in sales following the tax increase.
If your pal is running a pub I bet he's not having the best time of it and the rest of his savings will be doing poorly because of the interest rate.
Furthermore, working for a hedge fund not only enabled to predict economic collapse, but profit from it and pretty much engineer it too. - maxamus11, on 01/27/2009, -2/+2MORE???!!!! (sigh)
- govsucks, on 01/26/2009, -7/+6And my family and business is about to be bankrupted by social security taxes....YEA, go collectivism.
- Acronym, on 01/27/2009, -5/+3That's the way it works...if there aren't any bad times you won't get any good ones either.
- inactive, on 02/25/2009, -4/+2stop whining. Look at this submission that has just been posted http://digg.com/business_finance/McDonald_s_to_ope ...
when the going gets tough, lower your expectations. A famous quote, but forgot who said it. - justok, on 01/27/2009, -5/+3stop worrying about all that and get a job, ya bum
- pepspaa, on 01/27/2009, -7/+1Well to be quite honest I don't care. It's not like the people of this Earth deserve happiness and prosperity.
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -13/+1if Bush was in Office you would blame this on him so you can blame this on Nobama and the communists
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