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View Poll Results: What is your job status? | |||
I have been layed off from my job | 5 | 50.00% | |
I was layed off from my job and now I've found a new job in same sector | 4 | 40.00% | |
I was layed off from my job and now I've found a new job in different sector | 0 | 0% | |
My unemployment insurance benefits have run out before I could find a new job. | 2 | 20.00% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 10. You may not vote on this poll |
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07-03-2008, 05:57 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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I Just Lost My Job -- I Just Found a Job
Since recent emloyment data indicated the first month to month contraction of service sector jobs in the US since 2002, and....because I am predicting a severe economic downturn in the US that risks turning into a deflationary depression, I thought it would be a good idea to monitor the impact of economic conditions on the job market, here...in near realtime.
Please post and use the poll, after you lose a job due to economic related influences, and, again when you find a new job. I'm allowing multiple entries in the poll for this purpose. If you post about finding a new job, and you don't find it too personal to do so, please indicate if your new job pays better, has better benefits, better advancement opportunities; whether you think you are better or worse, for the experience of being removed from the workforce, and then gaining reentry. The goal here is to use the activity on the thread to observe how quickly unemployment overtakes the economy....my hunch is, now that it's started, it will quickly ramp up, first in financial and government employment, and then, ??????...we'll see! And.....hopefully, to gain a sense of "what's hot and what's not".... a benefit for everyone who reads the thread.... what sectors are generating the most job layoffs, and where the opportunities are to find your next job. When you post about either a job layoff or that you've landed a new job, please describe the economic sector you've been layed off from, how long you were employed, whether or not you've been layed off from that job before, and, if you find a job, post about the sector you've been hired into..... Last edited by host; 07-03-2008 at 06:03 PM.. |
07-03-2008, 06:24 PM | #3 (permalink) | |
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The busiest port complex in the US, Los Angeles/Long Beach....is experiencing about a six percent decline in incoming, loaded container shipping, so far this year....a sign of declining consurmer demand, but exports are up: http://www.portoflosangeles.org/maritime/stats.asp |
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07-03-2008, 07:01 PM | #4 (permalink) |
Darth Papa
Location: Yonder
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Well, I may have blown the "realtimeness" of the poll--I WAS laid off for economic reasons, but it happened at the end of the LAST tech-bubble burst, in 2004. Since then, I've started my own business in the same field, which is going just fine.
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07-03-2008, 07:05 PM | #5 (permalink) |
Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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I'm a recent college grad, and I gotta say, the pickings are slim in the local job market, and my childcare work has definitely taken a hit. More and more families are staying in instead of having a night out. There is just literally nothing out there, not even fast food jobs; I've applied for one job that would be my "dream job"...cross your fingers. I consider myself lucky that it was even open. Otherwise I'm going to be holding out for August when the university/local school district start really hiring in preparation for the next school year.
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07-03-2008, 07:15 PM | #6 (permalink) |
<3 TFP
Location: 17TLH2445607250
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I have been discharged from active military duty... I guess that's a bit like being laid off... I need to get my damned unenjoyment insurance going. Ugh! I need a damned job though!!!
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07-04-2008, 06:43 AM | #8 (permalink) |
...is a comical chap
Location: Where morons reign supreme
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My husband was let go about a month ago (he wasn't fired/laid off...we actually don't know what term to use) and has found a job in a completely different sector, thank the gods. He starts next week.
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07-04-2008, 07:46 AM | #9 (permalink) | |
Riding the Ocean Spray
Location: S.E. PA in U Sofa
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Part of our booming business is due to the special little valves we're shipping to Alberta as fast as we can make them. Also, the high cost of fuel/energy is further driving demand for some of our products. So in spite of the fact that our company has grown very well every year since it was started in the early 1980's, each month & year now is an all time record for sales. I think the economy would have to crash into a significant depression (not just a recession) for our business to stop growing. |
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07-04-2008, 10:18 AM | #10 (permalink) | |
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Halfway done with my masters, I really don't feel like flipping hamburgers at Burger King or making Chicken at KFC (literally the only jobs I've found open currently.) |
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07-04-2008, 10:23 AM | #11 (permalink) |
Master Thief. Master Criminal. Masturbator.
Location: Windiwana
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I got laid off from my last job and i havnt been working since.
right now im just enrolled in school. Im sick of washing dishes.
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07-04-2008, 04:03 PM | #14 (permalink) |
immoral minority
Location: Back in Ohio
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I don't think my job is going anywhere, and I would be able to find another one most likely. But, I would take a few months off and travel through Europe before looking again.
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07-04-2008, 08:23 PM | #15 (permalink) | ||
The sky calls to us ...
Super Moderator
Location: CT
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I worked in the tech department through college as a student worker. I graduated in May and now work there as a temporary worker until someone to fill my former supervisor's position is hired. I have essentially been doing a $43,000/yr job for the past two years in the free time between classes and expect that I will be hired in my former supervisor's position next week when the main campus gives our campus permission to hire someone because my current boss has all but dropped the facade of pretending he can't tell me who they want to hire and refers to my future there in the long run.
I am fortunate in that I am more capable of doing an essential job than anyone else interested in doing it, and have proven this over the past two years. I am also fortunate that my job is an indispensable piece of a team that generates a large amount of revenue for the campus. It's much more gratifying and profitable than my previous job (which I left voluntarily) of doing routine maintenance on 40+ cars per day for $8/hr with no benefits. Quote:
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07-12-2008, 10:28 AM | #16 (permalink) | |||
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Just 16 months ago, 40 percent of the TFP members who voted in this poll;
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/poll.ph...ts&pollid=1620 , agreed that Quote:
I think denial about what has been happening and what is going to happen, is still the reason that the downward trend is only beginning. People have not even begun to pull back on spending and taken steps to protect themselves, just in case they lose their jobs. I'm hoping that, as you see more and more of your fellow forum members post on this thread, that you will plan defensively. The problem with that, though, as recognition of the threat grows, the pullback in spending by people who have jobs will act to intensify the down trend. Since this is going to be a worldwide depression, it probably doesn't matter as much, what we individuals do in the US. Quote:
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09-08-2008, 12:08 PM | #18 (permalink) | |||||||
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How is the TFP community faring, in the job market? It seems time for an update from frustrated job seekers, those who have found a new job, and from those who have lost the job they had....
Another quarter of 2008 is nearly over.... unemployment nationally, is averaging above 6 percent for the first time in five years, and there is anecdotal evidence that people are refusing to be "debt slaves", trapped in home "ownership" with "upside down" loans... Quote:
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09-08-2008, 12:22 PM | #19 (permalink) |
Currently sour but formerly Dlishs
Super Moderator
Location: Australia/UAE
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dont forget your friends Host
i cant say much about unemployment in the USA. im neither american or living in america, so i dont really belong to the snapshot that you are seeking. here though, its booming behind a huge tourism push, whilst abu dhabi is booming behind a huge oil boom. housing is hard to come by and is quickly snatched up, both the rental and buying market. everyone talks of the coming crash though.. and the correction in the market. what do you think?
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09-08-2008, 12:37 PM | #21 (permalink) |
Kick Ass Kunoichi
Location: Oregon
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Two months later and I'm still unemployed. I've been applying for as many jobs as I can, and I'm not being picky, either. The market is just super tight right now; I've only had one interview all summer. I've got a job once a week cleaning an office here in town, and my babysitting is picking back up. Tomorrow I go in for orientation to become a classified sub for the school district. We'll see how it all works out.
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09-08-2008, 12:37 PM | #22 (permalink) |
Junkie
Location: bedford, tx
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i just lost my IT job 10 days ago. really bad time as the IT market, even in dallas, is not very strong.
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09-08-2008, 02:31 PM | #24 (permalink) |
All important elusive independent swing voter...
Location: People's Republic of KKKalifornia
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The poll is incomplete. I quit my job 5 months ago in the finance consulting industry to pursue other interests. Due to my fiscal discipline, I have close to a year of expenses saved up.
I think you will find the job market to be hot in some industries and cold in others. Location would play a role too I would imagine. For those who are unemployed and having difficulty finding jobs, what industry are you in? Host: How's the restaurant industry faring where you are located? Are you still waiting tables part time? I think you could get a good gauge from your perspective. Here in Southern California it seems to be pretty hot still. Hard to get reservations at some restaurants and long waits at others. Bars and clubs are jammed. Vegas is booming too. Crowds everywhere, lots of money turning over. Nationally, we are a tad over 6% unemployment now. I would be interested in a breakout of what regions and what sectors.
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