Is unemployment over 10% where you live?

I'm thinking I should probably figure out a way to move consequences be damned.

 

About 2.5% apparently.

Consequences schmonsequences! Do what you want.

 

or become self-employed...or both

 

i'm pretty sure it's over 10%. there's still jobs though for people who want them. and cost of living is low.

i still wouldn't recommend coming here though; it's kind of a depressing city.

 

There are still jobs here, but people only want someone with four years of experience in whatever.

and, yes, self employment is the best solution, but also the hardest solution because I want to go back to school and being self employed in a meaningful way is beyond full time to do it right.

at least with any of the things I'd be good at.

 

I always seem to be able to find a job, bu I think it's because I tend to like jobs no one else really want.

 

that and you have a degree, it doesn't matter what the degree is, if you have a degree, it simplifies that. if only because it cuts the field dramatically.

 

That's a good point. We have a failed dentist working as a counselor where I work. We do have some people with some weird ass degrees.

 

The country as a whole is in the double-figures. Shit doesn't really hit the boiling point till it's closing in on 20%.

For perspective, during the Great Depression we had 25% unemployment. I lived for 5 years in a neighborhood in Brooklyn with 30% among males. Bullets were flying all over the place.

 

Hi,

in my town the rate is 10.4 per cent, in the federal state it's about 5 per cent and the whole country has an unemployment rate of 8.2 per cent. That's not really good, but we have done worse. In general the rate is higher in areas with a lot of 'traditional industries' and in the parts of the country belonging to the former GDR. Keep in mind that the numbers are not comparable since every nation may has its own algorithm to calculate the rate.

In my opinion we should become familiar with a high rate of people who don't find a job in goods producing industries. Knowledge work and maybe the services sector (Here we have to develop new ideas/opportunities. 5 billion people turning burgers at a fast food shop is not what we need.) are the way to go. Those who are young now may look at the problems we are facing earthwide now. It's likely that solution providers for that problems become the boom industries of tommorow.

Regards
Gyro

 

nationally real unemployment according to the official government numbers is 16.4% according to shadow stats its 20%.

in my area the reported unemployment numbers (not the U-6 numbers) stands at 12%.

we applied ,,,, well, we were going to apply for a job at a broiler farm (chicken houses) when we called the man said "hehehehehe,you will be number 263 applying for this job,do you really want to waste your time?"

there are jobs in certain areas out there even here. healthcare seems to be hiring the most. but as the broiler farm example shows,competition for those jobs is just insane.

 

Can't believe that so many people would apply for such bad work as that at a broiler farm. They can't pay much at all either, can they?

 

Abandon ship, people. Your country is fucked.

 

Haha. You're a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel, Jimmy.

We're not fucked til the bombs go off!

"Indiana's unemployment rate dropped slightly to 9.9 percent in April, but analysts don't expect the glimmer of good news to last long."

And where I'm moving:

"Washington’s 9.1 percent unemployment rate for April reflects the first month without a rise or decline since January 2008. "

But I've already got an interview lined up. And will have at least one or two more lined up before I get there, I'm sure. I always find a job when I want one.

 

Unemployment rate is at 14.1% where I live. A big percentage of it has to do with all of the lay-offs at GM and Packard.

I see so many homes around here being foreclosed on, then they're just sitting there empty, uncared for. It's sad. It's turning into a ghost town around here, everybody leaving. Where, I don't know, because it's bad everywhere anymore.

 

I think a lot of people are migrating to wherever their family is. I think you're going to see a lot more people taking in parents, children, siblings, etc over the next year or two as we finish bottoming out and start to recover.

 

There's always work for the right person.

It must be much, much worse in the US, though; I just landed a second job without really trying and it's pretty much business as usual here as far as I can tell. (Though there are people here crying about difficult times, too.)

 

In Germany by the mid 1990s 10% of Germans were unemployed and 30% of Turks were unemployed.

Case study for Geography.

 

It is a little rough out there. One of the local movie rental chains had so many applicants they paid a firm to create an applicant test to weed out people who can't think fast enough.

One person has passed it according to the administering manager. Needless to say, people are being picky. I have a good enough resume to land an ok job in my field without much delay. And as you said, there is always work if people are willing to do it. I know a lot of people with an "I won't work at Mcdonalds" attitude, and I admit to being one of them. Money just doesn't buy some things back... like pride.

 

this one as is the case with most of them is looking for a husband and wife team. even at 8 bucks a hour that is 16 dollars a hour coming into a single household.

when your only other option is to commute 100 miles one way and unemployment in the area is 12%,quite frankly,im surprised they didnt have more apply for the position..

 

I agree 100%. I can definitely see this happening with many families.