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Correct. One that she got last week...after looking for quite a while.
So, get new job to pay bills, keep new job until something better comes along. This is what we would advise someone in her position. To take the full time job and look for something better, length of commute be darned, as it is a full time job. Yet, when OP does it, somehow even though you have told people to suck it up and do what it takes, somehow her doing so is not enough.
I believe this was a federal job. That is bad karma, to blow a fed job. Almost no one gets fired after probation, and few get fired during probation. This was health insurance, a pension, more than just a pay check. And it blows future fed jobs.... Pretty much.
I don't think the OP really liked the job, but maybe something better will come along. BTW, I did unemployment eligibility for five years. And adjudication for benefits. So, I do know something about it.
Not saying you don't, just saying that OP's efforts showed that she was trying to keep the job. Part of those efforts were sent to me via DM, but she did enough to show UI that she did not just toss the job aside.
This story could easily be me. I moved to another state for a job, I have no parents or spouse to bail me out. I don't have a lot in savings either, aside from a retirement account. My finances have been doing okay, but it takes awhile to recover from moving expenses, being unemployed.
I have a cat, no dogs. And am saving money for a new car, my car is seven years old.
This story could easily be me. I moved to another state for a job, I have no parents or spouse to bail me out. I don't have a lot in savings either, aside from a retirement account. My finances have been doing okay, but it takes awhile to recover from moving expenses, being unemployed.
I have a cat, no dogs. And am saving money for a new car, my car is seven years old.
Life styles of the rich and famous...
That's why I feel for her. I have seen her resume, I helped her rewrite it actually. She is willing to work anywhere and learn to do anything...including jobs in gator infested waters, and I am not making that up. She has no gaps on it and has worked part time jobs when she could not find full time. Her savings was depleted after 2 years of looking for full time work. So, she limped along on what she could and took the 1st job she could after 2 years. Which we would have all said she should do. She limped that along as best as she could, had car issues which stopped her from being able to move. I think we have ALL had a moment in life where the best laid plans get shot down. She has been trying to outrun a hungry bear. It finally caught her.
... to all people, good and bad. Many of us if we lost our good job and couldn't get a similar one fast and had only UI or menial work would be up s__t creek pretty fast but we are too vain to say so.
Anyone feeling smug and superior to the OP and all those in the "get a job, any job and you'll be okay forever" camp should read this book:
Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job -- any job -- can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors.
In it the author set out to see how a person trying to eke out a living gets by in America. If you read it, you will see how easy it can be to fall through the cracks and how hard it is to build up any savings or any type of safety net.
Correct. One that she got last week...after looking for quite a while.
So, get new job to pay bills, keep new job until something better comes along. This is what we would advise someone in her position. To take the full time job and look for something better, length of commute be darned, as it is a full time job. Yet, when OP does it, somehow even though you have told people to suck it up and do what it takes, somehow her doing so is not enough.
"Not enough" was that she got fired for missing work. She didn't do enough to secure her job.
For the second job, and I quote:
"What sucks even more is that I was looking for another job the whole time, finally found one, it requires driving, (albeit no where near the same amount), but since the car just died, the offer I just got...is probably gone.
So, goody for me, I'm unemployed again."
Are you kidding me???!!! Please tell me that is enough effort again, thebunny?
And am saving money for a new car, my car is seven years old.
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You talk like a seven year old car is going to die any day. If you choose your car brand logically, there is no reason that it can't last ALOT longer than that.
I have a ten year old Honda and it has given me virtually no problems and I can expect it to run for another 10 years.
You talk like a seven year old car is going to die any day. If you choose your car brand logically, there is no reason that it can't last ALOT longer than that.
I have a ten year old Honda and it has given me virtually no problems and I can expect it to run for another 10 years.
I have a 1997. Complaining about a 7 year-old car is a bit melodramatic.
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