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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:39 PM
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Everyone who's unemployed, raise their hands!
Two months for me.
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LastKnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:41 PM
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1. ditto on 2 months...
Edited on Sat Jun-18-05 11:45 PM by LastKnight
basically since school got out... august and time to move in is comin up soon... and i still dont know if ill have tuition covered as well as id like this year...
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efhmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:43 PM
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2. So sorry. What kind of job are you looking for and where are you?
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:52 PM
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5. Advertising copywriter
Mainly automottive, but I've written most everything. Multi-product, retail, you name it. I'm based in the Detroit arew but I'm willing to move.
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yorkiemommie1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:57 PM
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6. Saatchi and Saatchi
pretty big here. South Bay area of Southern Cal. Near the beach.

http://www.saatchi.com/worldwide/index2.html
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:43 PM
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3. I'm working temp again after my last job (lasted five months) got
eliminated. I am ssssooooo screwed. 13 year old kid, house payment, utilities, etc.

I am so damn sick of this.
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gulfcoastliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-18-05 11:50 PM
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4. Two measely months? (j/k) I've been unemployed since... (drum roll)
Last August.

Getting desperate, I am.
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European Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 12:09 AM
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7. 4 years
But that's Michigan for ya.
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KLF44 Donating Member (163 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 12:18 AM
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8. Count me in also
3 months and counting. Thanks Michigan Rethugs. :sarcasm:
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Qanisqineq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 12:24 AM
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9. almost 12 months here
n/t
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Kathryn STone Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 01:04 AM
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10. me too
lost job June 03 went to Europe for 2 weeks (no way I could have done that with my 0ne week of vacation, know what I mean?)
then got back surgery in November 03 took a while to recover from that (still do) now I have until Sept 7 05 to graduate from paralegal school which I started a year ago.
God hang in there folks!!!
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B Calm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 06:35 AM
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11. I'm working now, but had to take a job that pays 1/2 of what I was
making doing the same kind of work. It's all in the CHEAP LABOR CONSERVATIVE plan to turn this country into a desperate work force willing to work cheap or starve!
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NawlinsNed Donating Member (166 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 06:41 AM
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12. 9 months or so...
... and going strong! And if you thought my credit was bad before, you should listen to my answering machine! It's a laugh riot, I tell ya!
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 06:55 AM
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13. Me!
I've been in a rut the past 2 years.. had really crappy jobs ranging from retail to temp (which I had a HORRIBLE experience with).

I've been applying everywhere since December and I cannot get a job to save my soul.

I give up until after I have the baby.. My mom has a friend at the local bank and I sent her my resume to see if they have any openings. I'm at the point where I dont care what job I have.. Not saying that I'd go sell myself etc.. but even if its min wage I'll take it.

I have an associates in computer technology and I am very reluctant to go back and finish up my bachelors because of my job rut.

I started making candles so I can sell them locally and online so I can bring in at least SOMETHING to help cover the bills seeing that I have to take a 50k loan to do an addition on my house. My house payment is already $450/mo and now its going to be $750+ a month :(

I just want to put a sign on my neck on my next interview PLEASE HIRE ME :) I dont get it.. I'm not hideous, I'm clean, pleasant, and very outgoing when I'm working. I always get the job done and probably better than most people that I know would do. Never late, always on time and rarely if ever, call off.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-19-05 08:39 AM
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14. Yes, I'm out on the old job hunt yet again.
I was a victim of the Chicago Public Schools Non-Tenured Teacher Massacre.
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