Unemployment thread

[rayzor]

2 hours ago, bull123 said:

Good grief dude...what state are you in?...many really good public schools in NC

Long story but let's just say I did some wandering around for a while and landed at a school in another state. I took a risk. I had fun and a lot of good experiences while I worked my butt off. It was a great section of my life, but I could accomplished that a lot more cheaply, especially if I hadn't gone to school. But I had to prove myself. School I went to was really good and I connected with the admissions people pretty quickly. It was a good fit for where I thought I was at the time. Business program was great and I got to meet a lot of interesting and big names politically and some big players on the world stage as well. I just think my life would have been just as rich not going.

[45catfan]

4 minutes ago, rayzor said:

Long story but let's just say I did some wandering around for a while and landed at a school in another state. I took a risk. I had fun and a lot of good experiences while I worked my butt off. It was a great section of my life, but I could accomplished that a lot more cheaply, especially if I hadn't gone to school. But I had to prove myself. School I went to was really good and I connected with the admissions people pretty quickly. It was a good fit for where I thought I was at the time. Business program was great and I got to meet a lot of interesting and big names politically and some big players on the world stage as well. I just think my life would have been just as rich not going.

Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20.  I made some really good choices about college and some not so good ones.  I'm just about out from under my biggest college financial oops, but that said, I would be living in a different town, with a different job and married to a different woman had I not made that decision.

[45catfan]

Another thought is if you don't mind using your personal vehicle, 3rd party delivery drivers like Grub Hub and Uber Eats are more than likely hiring.

Along the thought process of delivery drivers, It wouldn't hurt to see if UPS, Fed EX and Amazon Prime drivers are needed too.

[Bytes]

1 hour ago, 45catfan said:

Great society programs.  Notice prior to 1940's there was little national debt.   Then flat until end of the 1960's when more entitlement programs were created.

It's not the Baby Boomers per se, the timeline just happens to coincide with their generation.  The three other generations have contributed plenty too.

And no, I'm not a Boomer.

Ummm no. The tax rate before Reagon took office was much higher. Suppy side economics has NEVER worked long term. Its no coincidence that the US is ranked 9th in debt to gdp ratio while ONE advanced democratic socialist country is ranked in the top 15. Jamaica has a better debt to gdp ratio. The US spends too much on military and corporations and the uber rich dint pay enough in taxes.

[45catfan]

8 hours ago, Bytes said:

Ummm no. The tax rate before Reagon took office was much higher. Suppy side economics has NEVER worked long term. Its no coincidence that the US is ranked 9th in debt to gdp ratio while ONE advanced democratic socialist country is ranked in the top 15. Jamaica has a better debt to gdp ratio. The US spends too much on military and corporations and the uber rich dint pay enough in taxes.

High tax rates never worked either.  Why?  Politicians spend it quicker than it can be budgeted.  I was very young when Carter was in office, but my older siblings told be the horror stories of gas lines and how hard it was to buy a house with interest rates around 20%.  Matter of fact there wasn't even a federal income tax until 1911 and somehow didn't incur a ton of debt.  Odd, right? Yet, our national debt was low despite having fought WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam...so it wasn't the military causing the debt to skyrocket.

Yes, social programs DO blow a hole in the deficit.  You can't give nearly everyone in a country the size of America a piece of the pie and not expect it to add up fast.  People love to site much smaller countries as a model where certain social programs work, but in a country this size with our very high standard of living, you can't do these types of programs and not incur a ton of debt.

[4Corners]

[45catfan]

29 minutes ago, 4Corners said:

I have no clue who this person is, but a statement like that is a hallmark of a career politician or an idiot.  Can't imagine there's much of a difference anymore.

[4Corners]

Just now, 45catfan said:

I have no clue who this person is, but a statement like that is a hallmark of a career politician or an idiot.  Can't imagine there's much of a difference anymore.

Tim Bridge is the Park and Rec ambassador to Uganda and central Africa. He was appointed and endorsed by your president.  Maybe show a little respect?

[45catfan]

1 minute ago, 4Corners said:

Tim Bridge is the Park and Rec ambassador to Uganda and central Africa. He was appointed and endorsed by your president.  Maybe show a little respect?

I'll pass.  I don't really care who appointed him or his party affiliation.  Dumb is dumb.  His statement was beyond idiotic. Why stop there, why not cite the price of a new BMW?  Because, you know,  priorities....

[CatTower]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/03/27/donald-trump-dhs-starts-to-import-85000-h-1b-graduate-gig-workers/

 

 

[LinvilleGorge]

Given everything that's going on we've been a lot more lax here recently about political bickering, but can y'all reel it in a little? Go argue about this stuff in the TB. Let's try to keep this thread here in the main forum.

[4Corners]

Y’all out here complaining about jobs and unemployment but there is this guy in Oklahoma who is a tiger trainer, a tiger breeder, owns and maintains a zoo, operates his own TV network, is a paramedic, and investigative reporter/detective. Step your game up. 
 

[rayzor]

13 hours ago, 45catfan said:

Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20.  I made some really good choices about college and some not so good ones.  I'm just about out from under my biggest college financial oops, but that said, I would be living in a different town, with a different job and married to a different woman had I not made that decision.

Because of the things I had going on at the time, I didn't want to marry anyone that was running around the same circles I was in college. I knew there were some things about myself that needed to come to an end. I had the political stuff stuff going on that I was increasingly uncomfortable with and I was also in a band that was starting to gain a lot of steam, but there was a lot of stuff associated with that I knew wasn't sustainable and frankly just got tired of the whole scene. I didn't want to be with someone who knew that part of me to be with me expecting that part of me to keep being me, if that makes sense.

I ended up marrying someone from back home after I got my MBA. She could care less about politics and has never seen me on stage. It was exactly what I needed.

[Sgt Schultz]

I wish everybody who has lost their job in this fiasco the best.  Hopefully part of the $2.2T they just passed makes its way to those who need help.  But it's Congress, so I am skeptical.

I work in aviation, as the guy between air traffic controllers and engineers.  Both do well.  I started this career as an air traffic controller, and eventually that merged with computer experience before I made a career change.  Exactly none of that is related to my degree.  But, I was fortunately in a college (a state school in Missouri) was cheap in the early 1980's, so I walked out without any debt.

I bring up my career only because of this.  I am surrounded by people who make good money.  Yet, at the bar after work, I offer up that if I had a child who was 16 or 17, I might tell them not to dismiss marching down to the IBEW Hall and becoming and apprentice electrician, going into one of the other trades, or going to a technical school to learn computer diagnostics and repair.  Those alternatives allow someone to start with little or no debt, and can yield some pretty good earnings once they are established.  The trades are hard work, but can be very rewarding and are a good alternative to being saddled with a mountain of debt for years, especially when you might wind up using the education you paid for (many do not).  Nobody I work with argues with that.

I enjoyed my college experience, but I might be regretting it a lot more had I had 15 years of debt when I marched out of it.