What is your current work situation?
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I worked full time for a manufacturing company that specialized in leveling equipment. Im not unemployed because of the economy though. Me and the owners niece, who also worked there, started dating. Two days after her uncle found out, I got the **** can. Luckily they laid me off for "lack of work", so I've been collecting.
I'm a self-employed dog groomer. I specialize in doing just one dog at a time (more like mobile grooming) but at a smaller cost, so haven't seen much change with the poor economy other than a few that wait a bit longer between hair cuts. People do love their pets, so they still do their best to give them whatever they need. 
I should've known when I clicked on "working full time" this morning that something was going to go wrong. No joke within seconds got an email about a conference call that happened this morning. I didn't know about the call until after. Our company had decided that on top of the 5% paycuts already took a few months ago, to furlough us one day without pay a week for the next 10 weeks. How generous.
That sucks Mischiefgrrl!! Sorry!
I voted as less hours... I run my own business but business is way down from what it has been for the last few years. I actually have grown to like the extra free time but I do hope business picks up soon.
I was surprised to see how many here are out of work and the likes but then I think it does match up with the current economic situation I hope things pick up for everyone!!!!
I voted as less hours... I run my own business but business is way down from what it has been for the last few years. I actually have grown to like the extra free time but I do hope business picks up soon.
I was surprised to see how many here are out of work and the likes but then I think it does match up with the current economic situation
I hope things pick up for everyone!!!!
I think it's time to start thinking outside the box for a lot of us. We've been bred to believe that we need to work 40+ hours for a large company every week. That was the case in the day when a person could start in the mail room and work their way up to an executive position with full retirement benefits and health insurance. Now companies keep the little people exactly where they are and cut their pay before they lay them off for several years of hard work. I've been at my specific career for 16 years and somehow ended up at the bottom rung of the ladder after all of these years.
I'm thinking of what I can do for myself. How I can build my own business and be compensated for the amount of work I put into it, not what some hen pecked manager with a grudge decides I'm worth. Big corporations don't promote employees, they just put their buddies in an opening regardless of knowledge and experience. I'm ready to move on and be in charge of my own paychecks.
I'm thinking of what I can do for myself. How I can build my own business and be compensated for the amount of work I put into it, not what some hen pecked manager with a grudge decides I'm worth. Big corporations don't promote employees, they just put their buddies in an opening regardless of knowledge and experience. I'm ready to move on and be in charge of my own paychecks.
Driving instructor. Hired as full time but hours have been in the mid-20's lately. One week only 6 hours. Parents are putting off the expense of driver training for a while...
I'm still a youngin' I guess. I'm 23 and I have two college degrees (social science and psychology), but I am still working at Walmart which was my "college job". My predicament is that I now have a 35 mile commute one way to my crappy job and can't transfer because all of the Walmart's in my area are on a hiring freeze and aren't accepting new hires or transfers. I literally live 1 and a half miles away from a walmart, but can't transfer. They said they probably won't be taking any people until spring. The store that I work at (it is a small one) has had to cut everyone's hours because they aren't making enough money to pay the employees. Hard to believe right? Well they just opened a new Walmart pretty close by and they are taking a lot of our business. So I have been at this store for 3 and a half years and I make a measly 8.20 an hour, and my hours got cut by one full shift (sometimes more). I am lucky if I clear 400 dollars every two weeks, and I didn't this check. Take in account the fact that I don't live at home and I have real bills, and all the gas I go through just to get to work...and I am in the negative. Most of the jobs where I live now that are available are fast food. The others that I have gotten interviews for never hire me. At first I thought maybe it was because I was "tainted" by Walmart, but then I figured it out on my last interview and some of the comments he made. I have been with walmart for three and a half years. I started as a cashier, learned the service desk (returns, money orders, money grams, bill payments, check cashing etc. etc.), then I was trained as a Customer Service Manager (I got to do all of the duties of a CSM without the pay). Then I hurt my back and was forced to take a 40 cent paycut to be a peoplegreeter so I could keep my job. I have been doing that for a year now, but I got my back fixed and I still can't go back to cashiering to gain that 40 cents back because there aren't any positions (and if I did go back to being a cashier I would have to wait 6 months to transfer if anything did come open). So what it comes down to is that I know how to to everything on the front end of the store. I can do my superior's job because I was trained to do it. Outsiders see me as a valuable employee to Walmart, and perhaps I am, but I am not treated like it. In my last job interview the guy asked me why I haven't been promoted. The answer? Walmart doesn't promote people, you have to work your way up with no help, which isn't the problem. I can do that. The problem is that there is nothing to promote me to. There are no positions available at my store, and I can't transfer to another store where I might be able to move up the chain of command because everyone is in a hiring freeze! So I am stuck with a long commute for a crappy job with crappy pay until the hiring freeze is over.
Sorry about this, I guess I needed to vent a little. I am very happy that I do have a job though, and very grateful because I know a lot of people are out of work right now. My situation is just a little frustrating to me because I really want to work in an area where I can apply my psychology degree, but no one will hire me I assume because of limited experience. I would love to work with troubled youth. So yeah, I work with limited hours.
Sorry about this, I guess I needed to vent a little. I am very happy that I do have a job though, and very grateful because I know a lot of people are out of work right now. My situation is just a little frustrating to me because I really want to work in an area where I can apply my psychology degree, but no one will hire me I assume because of limited experience. I would love to work with troubled youth. So yeah, I work with limited hours.
Well I decided now is the time for school. Figured it was one way to get a guaranteed paycheck and take a break from work. I'm working on my EMT certification which should be done this Dec. After that I'm finishing a degree and getting my Paramedic certification. Right now it seems like healthcare is the place to be. Babyboomers are getting older and retiring so demands will only increase. Also this is me for the first time pursuing a career I'm passionate about and want to do instead of working jobs simply because I have experience.
Also to any veterans out there not satisfied with their job or had going back to school on the backburner for awhile now need to check into the new Chapter 33 MGIB. They cover your cost for schooling, plus paying us twice as much for living expenses now, plus $1000/yr for books. Also another new change is they pay for out of state tuition. If you want to get an idea on new living expense rates just look up BAH for E-5 w/ dependants in your area and that's your pay rate under CH33 even if you're single.
Also to any veterans out there not satisfied with their job or had going back to school on the backburner for awhile now need to check into the new Chapter 33 MGIB. They cover your cost for schooling, plus paying us twice as much for living expenses now, plus $1000/yr for books. Also another new change is they pay for out of state tuition. If you want to get an idea on new living expense rates just look up BAH for E-5 w/ dependants in your area and that's your pay rate under CH33 even if you're single.
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