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OK, so after 20 some months I have a job, in the same field I had before. I am now required to work fifty hours a week, travel 30 miles a day and make less money than when I was unemployed.I don't get benefits till after 6 months. Nor do I get direct deposit till then (so when I deposit my check on Friday, I have no access to my money till Tuesday). I break out in hives every morning before leaving to work (I have NEVER had hives before) and break out with them when I am home and talk about work. I am sorry I took this job, but my 99 was coming up soon.
I did this. I have call center experience and was laid off earlier this year. I took a job an hour from home for barely more money than UI. The gas ate me alive (and I have a small car) and the company would mandatory early out you when things got slow. So I rarely got a full eight hour day. Thankfully I found a much better position close to home and got out of there. Lesson: If you are being offered a lowball job barely more than UI, don't take it. In New York you have to accept a job that pays 80% of what you were making, less you can refuse. Of course if your UI is out that is different, but I would have been no worse taking a part time job at a local retailer than taking the supposedly full time job that wasn't. Of course they didn't tell me they did this when they offered the job. They told me there would be overtime. Hope this recession ends soon and they lose all their staff. Would serve them right.
OK, so after 20 some months I have a job, in the same field I had before. I am now required to work fifty hours a week, travel 30 miles a day and make less money than when I was unemployed.I don't get benefits till after 6 months. Nor do I get direct deposit till then (so when I deposit my check on Friday, I have no access to my money till Tuesday). I break out in hives every morning before leaving to work (I have NEVER had hives before) and break out with them when I am home and talk about work. I am sorry I took this job, but my 99 was coming up soon.
I agree with OHGreat, you are lucky to have found a job. Now go out and find another. A recent poster stated that it's easier to find a job when you have a job. There is a lot of discrimination against the unemployed right now and many companies have an unwritten policy not to hire the unemployed.
BTW, congrats on finding a job! I'm a 99er and have been without income for 6 months and at the end of this month foreclosure proceedings will start. I'd give anything for any job but at 60 it seems no one wants me. You made the right choice in taking the job, try some relaxing method stuff to try to get through the day and keep on looking for another job...now you have something to put on your resume. And if anyone asks in an interview why your job hopping just tell them it wasn't a good fit.
Well, my life almost got worse because of a job I was offered and accepted and then unaccepted.
Thing of it is, I would have been calling on folks for debt that was many years old (charged off) and scavengered by bottom feeders for pennies on the dollar. Yup, I would have been calling you at 8 a.m. on Sunday mornings threatening you with law suits if you didn't pay that debt from years ago or $25 dollars to Verizon. I would have not cared about your sob stories of having to put food on the table for Billy and Suzie.
I just couldn't do it. As tough as times are, I just couldn't do it. My life would have been hell if I had.
I know it won't pay the bills, mistygrl, but by golly my hat is off to you; with a side of deep bows, and many blown kisses on top. You are a bright light ! love.
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