I'm broke and my income has been postponed until January 13.
I suspect I will be laid off in the next week.
I suspect I will be laid off in the next week.
The Recession: Any Escapist members been affected?
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That sucks man.geldonyetich said:
Only thing is that my parents want me to start paying them $800 a month when I turn eighteen and they expect me to pay for college by myself and my dad is too lazy to teach me to drive and too cheap to buy me even a junker of a car so I can't go look for a job. In short, I am fucked. I'm going to have to stay with my grandmother up in Tampa if I don't want to be homeless.
Why, yes, I have been affected. Before June, the last full-time job I had was in 2004. 2004-05 were bad times for me, depression caused by many deaths near and dear. In June, thanks to family connections, I got to work with asbestos. Fun times. But they gave me the boot in August because (shock of shocks) they didn't have any work for us. And that's where I've been since.
I watched that once. Made me want to kill myself...some quality entertainment.miracleofsound said:
Same for me. Right now I'm just volunteering everywhere I can until there's an opening. If I can't get a little spending money now, I figure I should pad up the ol' resume for when the opportunity shows its face.wouldyoukindly99 said:
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I haven't directly, though it's harder now for me to find a part time job whilst at university (and it was hard enough before the recession...). However, my dad lost his job shortly after I started my first year of university last year. He was a construction industry contracts manager, earning about £50,000 per year (I think, roughly). He took ages to find a new job, which he's now in. Same job, but on much less money (I think closer to £30,000 per year now). He's still looking for something better even now, even though he has a job again.
I'm doing alright, it appears people tune in to public access a lot more when they are unemployed and home at all hours of the day. Money for commercials means money for me!
Your parents seem like twats. No offence to them or to you, but that really is bad. Granted, my parents also mentioned paying rent. However, they specifically said that I would have to start paying them rent whilst living with them if I ended up leaving university early, which hasn't happened. Whilst I'm at university, they support me, I have a student loan and I'll be getting about £400 from my university as a special grant as well which I don't have to pay back, but my parents have agreed to support me financially if I ask them to (in one and a half years I've only had to ask them once, a few weeks ago. I don't really like asking other people for money, you see...). As for driving, my parents paid half towards driving lessons and my Nan saved up and paid the other half. She used to take me and my brother on daytrips when we were little and she still saves the money even though we're too old now for daytrips, so she used my share towards driving lessons and helping me at university. Honestly, if it wasn't for my Nan and my parents, I'd have had to drop out of university (unwillingly) by now.wouldyoukindly99 said:That sucks man.geldonyetich said:
Only thing is that my parents want me to start paying them $800 a month when I turn eighteen and they expect me to pay for college by myself and my dad is too lazy to teach me to drive and too cheap to buy me even a junker of a car so I can't go look for a job. In short, I am fucked. I'm going to have to stay with my grandmother up in Tampa if I don't want to be homeless.
Generally, if you haven't been affected by the recession, you don't live on planet earth. Everyone (even you booze sellers, you lucky bastards) has been affected to some degree no matter where you are due to the overly interconnected global economy. How much you were affected was based half on personal circumstances (like how I have to look for work in a place where 1/4 of all people are underemployed) and how your respective governments reacted to the crisis. The more interventionist that your government was, the more likely that the individual impact was lessened.
I do temp work when I'm not at school (where I work for the university), and whether or not I get an assignment is essentially a roll of the dice now that there's a severe shortage of jobs.
I do temp work when I'm not at school (where I work for the university), and whether or not I get an assignment is essentially a roll of the dice now that there's a severe shortage of jobs.
Not yet, but in the near future I foresee a lot of problems trying to get a job in my field. The place I'm interning at this upcoming summer has had to cut a lot of their staff because of budget cuts. I've also been hearing that the military is really filling up which is a huge change from just a few years ago when they needed to keep lowering the entrance requirements just to get more people to join.
I'm not gonna lie, The recession hasn't been ruff on me.
To everyone who's lost there jobs, I wish you the best of luck and hope you pull through.
To everyone who's lost there jobs, I wish you the best of luck and hope you pull through.
Yes they can be twats sometimes, but those twats feed me and clothe me so I try not to be ungrateful.Trivun said:
It's really depressing because I want to work I want to earn my own money (And spend it) but no matter how much of a dedicated worker I am I can't earn a living if no one will give me a chance. I feel like a leech, like a blood-sucking parasite. It really makes me depressed to think that I can't even get a monkey's job, yet it seems like half of my classmates have had employment oppurtunities magically drop into their laps.