There may be 1 less person on the unemployment rolls on Wednesday

[TwixVoy]

So I have a job interview for a part time cashier job at a small grocery store location on Wednesday. It pays near minimum wage and from the internet research I've done the health insurance offered is atrocious. I got the phone call for the interview a day after putting in the application which is always a warning sign.

In any case it is a job and I will be glad to be doing something until I can find a full time job. This will be the first part time job I have worked in years. I asked a cashier how many hours they averaged when I went to apply and he told me "we're lucky we get about 20 to 25 hours".

Well I will be contributing to the reduction in the unemployment numbers. Laid off from a full time telecom technician position and now trading down to a part time cashier. I have also lost the "real" health insurance I had.

Still no calls from the close to 50 full time positions I have put in for in the past month.

The media and government shall report this as good news.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. crossing my fingers for you!

[TwixVoy]

2. Thank you

[marmar]

3. They'll get to play around with the numbers further this year when all the Census workers....

..... get hired.

[Warpy]

4. Part time dead end jobs give you more time to interview

than full time dead end jobs do, so that's actually an advantage.

Part time, dead end jobs can also help you pay the rent and stay fed until the economy picks up and companies start to hire again. That can help you stretch your savings and even preserve some of them.

A part time, dead end job will look better on your work history than just giving up would.

If you don't get this one, you will get one. It will be good news when you do.

[TwixVoy]

5. All those reasons are why I applied

It will be good news for ME, but not good news about the general direction of the country.

[NightWatcher]

6. is this part time job going to pay more than unemployment?

that is, if you are on UI.

It sounds horrible, but you (not you personally, but the royal 'you') have to do what is best for you and your family, even if that means "gaming" the system. I am not gaming the system, but using UI to cover a few bills while I volunteer in a new field trying to build a decent resume.

I was laid off from my stop-gap temporary job after only a few months. You wanna talk about a shitty feeling, try getting let go from a minimum wage job for which you are WAY OVERQUALIFIED for.


Whatever happens, keep in good spirits.

[TwixVoy]

7. It will probably be less than the UI

But what I have found is that being unemployed is hurting my full time jobs chances. So I would rather take less money short term if it means better chances of longer term job prospects.

[NightWatcher]

8. I used to be in government hr and I thought the opposite

a job that is completely unrelated to your career path looked tragically out of place to me, even if it was short term.

Is there anything that you can do while claiming UI that would better help your chances of getting a better job later on instead of a PT cashier job?

[TwixVoy]

9. I suppose there is always additional college classes

but I will be damned if I let my self get student loan debt.

It seems to me though that these days people with bachelors degrees are told they need to go get a masters. Then when the get the masters and are still screwed they are told it's their fault and they need to go get a Phd. It's just a bunch of corporate BS to blame job seekers.

I used to interview job applicants as part of my job at Target. I liked to see work history more than a blank slate.