Are You Employed?

[Fearless]

Poll question: Are You Employed?

We know the national and state statistics. But what is the unemployment rate here on DU?? Remember to Rec. the thread so others see it.


Edit: Note: Self-employed will fall into either the 1st or 2nd category depending on your own judgment.

[Vincardog]

1. Add unemployed more than a year

[Fearless]

2. I've revised the options. Everyone should adjust their answer accordingly.

[nc4bo]

3. Changing my answer to "Other". Census over = no job for me.

Haven't gotten sep. papers yet but I'm sure they'll be here soon.

Sigh. It was such a good feeling to be able to earn some income, even temporarily.

I shall miss it.

On the bright side, hubby landed a small contract with a Va. hotel whose 2-story parking garage is about to cause them to get shut down. Tis good but it's not much when you add in the cost of steel, scaffold, etc. It'd have been better if the owners wanted the job done right rather than cheap.

After that, God only knows. Hope at least I can get something part-time through the winter. That's when stuff really slows down.

[MineralMan]

4. Other: Self-employed

[grantcart]

11. +1

[localroger]

21. I'd call that 'gainfully employed' -- by yourself.

Unless you're self-employed because you can't get a job or better gig you'd prefer, in which case underemployed.

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. I've been unemployed long enough that, at my age, I might as well say I'm retired.

Not voluntarily retired, mind you, but there it is.:shrug:

[old mark]

6. Retired, over 3 1/2 years now.

FWIW, many people used to complain about the civil service workers and how great we had it...but there NEVER was a long line of people willing to do those jobs, and I am sure there is not even now... There is so much stress that our normal retirement age is 60...the only lower retirement age in PA civil service is the State Police.

I worked for the Department of Public Welfare in a State mental hospital...sufferred 2 heart attacks
(maybe more)and later cardiac arythmia (pacemaker) before I retired...I saw the light, dude.
It sucks being old and relatively poor, but it sucks worse being dead-that's really dull...
mark

[lunatica]

7. I'm employed but was laid off last year

I feel very lucky.

[azmouse]

8. Other: Homemaker

It'd be nice to get some $$$ for all that I do though. :)
Guess I'll have to figure I get paid in free time to do what I want to do.

[Name removed]

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[rucky]

10. Job at my skill level, but just cut to 10 hrs/wk.

Lack of work.

[tammywammy]

12. Employed

Last summer I was laid off, but luckily got a job offer the next day and started three weeks later.

[Capitalocracy]

13. Trying to go it alone

As a freelancer and starting a translation business. Count me as "underemployed", but not for working under my skill level, for working fewer hours than I need to work on an inconsistent basis.

[applegrove]

14. I was working in a gift shop when my dad got sick. He and my mom needed someone to

run errands and cook. So I quit and now my parents pay me to work for them 5 days a week. The other two days I cook for them for free. Since I never had a family of my own it is my chance to be nurturing, etc. I feel lucky.

[TheKentuckian]

15. Thirteen months now of looking, its crazy. Temp offices are halfway on life support

[Juche]

16. underemployed

I work in my field, but I am a part time temp worker. The company pays thousands of dollars a year to the temp agency for the ability to not offer me benefits and being able to fire me on a whim. There is something unnervingly plutocratic about that. One wealthy company paying another to avoid paying me benefits. Why not just hire me directly and pay me the extra money?

[krispos42]

17. Unemployed for 2 months now

However, personal issues in my life dictated the best course of action was to relocate back to Connecticut with my son in a rather abrupt manner, so I quit my job. Lord knows it was busy enough there... I was putting in a fair amount of overtime the last couple of months.

[Hissyspit]

18. What about Employed, but Have Had Hours Cut Back or Partial Contract Losses?

[nilram]

19. I now have a job for 6 months, after 1.25 yrs without, hate it, but very happy every other friday...

I was part of the first wave of layoffs in November 2008. All the more painful since the job I was laid off from was one of my best ever.

[bigwillq]

20. Yes (nt)

[NNN0LHI]

22. Retired at 48 with a good union contract

Don't have a lot of money coming in but its steady.

Really happy to be out of the rat race too.

Don

[socialist_n_TN]

23. For now................

:) I've been in the mortgage business since '02 in a support capacity and since June '07, I've been un or under employed a LOT. Now I'm working, BUT as a 1099 contractor. In fact, I haven't had a REAL job (W-2) SINCE '07. When I have worked, it been 1099. There's also been a lot of UNemployed time.

I'll know we getting closer to economic recovery when I'm put on as a real employee and not as a contractor.

[anarch]

24. Employed?

[Kat45]

25. I answered unemployed for less than 6 months, but that's deceptive

I was working for the census the past couple of months, which of course was a very temporary job. I lost my last 'real' job in December 2008, but I was doing some low paying part time and temporary jobs for part of the time since then. So I consider myself unemployed for over a year and a half, but technically I would have been considered employed for a portion of that time. Since the census ended, there have been no prospects whatsoever.