The "Being Unemployed Sucks" Thread

[SpoDaddy]

Get a job in sales, making commission. If you become a good salesman you can end up making tons of money

[station82o]

I could never work like you guys, from a crummy Home Depot or retail job for the rest of my life. It's absolutely fine and dandy if you're putting yourself through school or looking for your big career path, since that's all the time you have available to dedicate to a job. But if you're working home depot full-time you obviously made some poor decisions or are making poor decisions.

I work retail, and am going to college right now, hopefuly I wont stay in retail forever, but look, NO ONE is satisfied working a job like retail or whatnot as a fulltime employment, and they already know it sucks and dont need people telling them so. Don't put yourself on a high horse and shit, different circumstances abound.

[Blacklight85]

Thats a really good point.

[bandit]

Get a job in sales, making commission. If you become a good salesman you can end up making tons of money

But whats worse about retail is they can fire you anytime. Yes, any job can but in a real business, you get fired if they are laying people off or you did something really really wrong. In retail, they'll just fire you whether its based on not enough payroll hours, you're doing poor in sales (especially when it comes to sales, some have quotas), or whatever. Not to mention, you're expendable, so they can get rid of you and hire someone else who will work for less pay.

[AstroBlue]

Mykozo made a valid point. "Overqualified" is another way of saying, "You are smarter than me and could take over my position within a week. Go away."

Sometimes the award will say, especially in education and medicine, that they must pay according to your qualifications. So sometimes it's a money issue.

[x2y]

Mykozo made a valid point. "Overqualified" is another way of saying, "You are smarter than me and could take over my position within a week. Go away."

Exactly especially if you are a college drop out like me. Lol

[Rumpy]

Unemployment ain't that bad when your friends are in the same boat. That can lead to interesting events.

[voltz]

I'm not hardly unemployed anymore, but the work I do involves alot of physical stress and I don't know how I can stand the pain the way things are going. I mean it's nice having a paycheck, but if I can't have hands for doing anything (playing games for example), then what's the point?

On top of that, I'm trying to fill in weekends through a temp agency so I don't get tied up on a routine schedule.

That last year was a real bitch for me to live with, cause I was stuck in the middle of paying for a new car, keeping my rent and having to deal with a bad leg that put me out for a good couple of months. Suffice to say, both went bye-bye, I ended up moving in with my dad for awhile, and got the royal run around looking for a job that was at least worth staying at. I even had one job hauling lumber and my back was never in good condition for handling it, so the friend who got me in there was plenty pissed when he got word I couldn't handle it. I've tried repeated times to get checks from the state again, but my funds were up and at that point is where I decided to leave the area. (midwest WI can go streight to hell)

[Rumpy]

Get a job in sales, making commission. If you become a good salesman you can end up making tons of money

Commission is a double edged sword. Have a good month and your sitting pretty, but next month for whatever of a 1000 reasons, you have a shitty month...it's not good. You don't want to go through a few shitty months.

[Drewbacca]

about you? yeah, you're right

LOL! I know you are but what am I? And you want votes?

Thats you, not me. School full time with 18 credits is enough work for me without working a job also, i have nothing against working but on top of 18 credits of a hard major, no thanks.

Welcome to life.

I work retail, and am going to college right now, hopefuly I wont stay in retail forever, but look, NO ONE is satisfied working a job like retail or whatnot as a fulltime employment, and they already know it sucks and dont need people telling them so. Don't put yourself on a high horse and shit, different circumstances abound.

I never said anything about being satisfied. And I'm always on a high horse, you're just close enough to the ass now to realize it. What I was saying is I wouldn't settle for mediocre. That's lazy.