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It's not as easy to get a job as some of you in this thread seem to think. I have a fairly diverse resume, lots of work experience for someone my age, and yet I found it difficult to secure employment when I went job-searching earlier this year. The job I finally found was a temporary position in retail.
Also, as for working sixty hours a week in order to pay off bills--very few employers will let you pull more than 30 any more, especially any entry level job you may get. Even when I was working full-time in a restaurant as a line cook, I never worked more than 32 hours a week. I've only ever had one job that allowed me to pull overtime.
So let's consider it's hard to find one job in the first place, and that job only allows you part-time hours, maybe up to 32 hours a week. That means, in order to create your scenario of income generation, we have to come up with another 30 hours. If it was so difficult to find a first job, how difficult do you think it will be to find a second? When will you find the time with working? And if, like me, you're working an odd shift and sleep at odd hours, how much harder will that make your job search? How hard do you think this would be for a woman of 60, who likely spent most of her life as a housewife until her husband passed on? How hard do you think this would be for someone who has already retired some years before, but now must find work because of tight times--someone whose skills are no longer relevant, and someone who is now in direct competition with me--the younger, healthier applicant. I'm lucky to be young and able-bodied.
Given the current job market where I live, I'm lucky to have a job at all. And being as poor as I am, I can understand why people need assistance. Heating costs are high, and turning off the heat in the dead of winter is just not an option. Neither is running out and finding a job right off the bat--and those of you who seem to think so need to realize that.
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If I am not better, at least I am different. --Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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