The Personally Discovered Joys of Being Unemployed

[Tom Horn]

Bowie, your career already kissed you goodbye. I left a business I'd owned for exactly 30 years at the age of 54 for the unknown. Three career changes in the 14 years since.....outside sales where I can control my day and not be under direct supervision from morning till night. I don't have any advice for you other than to accept the cards you been dealt, appreciate what you had, and then forget it and apply what you know to a new endeavor. No political party can help you now....Just figure out a new way of making money, ask people already doing something similar how they're doing it, and get started.

 

[JimBowie1958]

hmm alright, might not pay much at first, but it's a good deed that will pay eventually and you can keep looking for a "day job" at the same time. - Veteran's Party of America needs a national IT guy. Look em up on FB.

Thanks for the tip.

How many people do you guess are probably already applying for that one job?

That is my answer?

No,m I think I will work till the day I die to end the H1-B program instead. And to oppose the GOP's Free Trade bullshit at every opportunity I get.

 

[Auld Phart]

I've seen several suggestions posted to help you in your current circumstances, and you bitched and whined about nearly every one.
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Working at Best Buy is beneath you?

TS

Stay in your LazE Boy, and continue to whine.

When I got out of the service at age 40, it wasn't easy to find employment, and my military training didn't transfer well to the private sector.

After a year, I took a job as a janitor, so I could pay various bills.

Definitely below my paygrade, but it paid bills.

YOU had 20+ years experience in a civilian field?

Don't cry on my shoulder if you can't work in your chosen profession

 

[dannyboys]

The more people get angry the more likely they will vote for socialism and there are less smiles everyday in this country. Socialism is the inevitable destination. Obi wan trump is the last hope, but the evil leftist empire has fired the race card blasters and he can't outrun them.

Good luck jim.

Thanks, I appreciate it.

The point of this thread was to give conservatives a chance to show their true colors and they are.

Some conservatives are real people, others are ideological morons who cant think outside of their ideological boxes and see whats coming, and so they deserve what is coming for them in turn.

Looks like you got what was coming to you pal. Can't find a fucking job. Blaming anyone but yourself. Blaming trade deals on the REPs when in fact it was the fucking LIBs who signed the deals.

What's Hillary's position on the TTP today as opposed to last week or the week before?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Bowie, your career already kissed you goodbye. I left a business I'd owned for exactly 30 years at the age of 54 for the unknown. Three career changes in the 14 years since.....outside sales where I can control my day and not be under direct supervision from morning till night. I don't have any advice for you other than to accept the cards you been dealt, appreciate what you had, and then forget it and apply what you know to a new endeavor. No political party can help you now....Just figure out a new way of making money, ask people already doing something similar how they're doing it, and get started.

I hear you. A while ago I was updating my profile here and I realized I am not really a software engineer any more, since I havent had a job in two years or a nibble for one in about a month. So I am now trying to start my own business, we'll see. Most new businesses fail, about 80-% of them within the first two years. Ijust need to make it till retirement.

If young people are naturally liberals, as Churchill said, and us old farts get abandoned by conservatives, then what is left other than for the conservative movement to lose BOTH the young and the old generations?

Conservatism today does not really stand for anything other than whoring for the corporations. The old social issues have all been losers and most of them admit now that they knew this and just played the game to get the votes.

We need a new opposition party to the Democrats, one that embraces traditional morality and a strong defense posture while at the same time believes in compassionate economic policies for everyone, and not just conservatives.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I've seen several suggestions posted to help you in your current circumstances, and you bitched and whined about nearly every one.

That is not what I said; THEY DID NOT HIRE ME, IDIOT.
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Working at Best Buy is beneath you?

TS

You really need to learn read with your brain turned on.

Stay in your LazE Boy, and continue to whine.

When I got out of the service at age 40, it wasn't easy to find employment, and my military training didn't transfer well to the private sector.

After a year, I took a job as a janitor, so I could pay various bills.

Definitely below my paygrade, but it paid bills.

YOU had 20+ years experience in a civilian field?

Don't cry on my shoulder if you can't work in your chosen profession

Great compassion, enojoy being irrelevant to America in the near future. You deserve it, you morally superior jack ass.

 

[EverCurious]

FYI, no-one had applied for National IT as of last Friday and there's actually more than one IT position open in the party (most of the states need one, I don't think even half of them have one.) There's also a bunch of other positions across the nation (treasurer, secretary, etc.) They're hurting for folks who can get stuff done in time for the presidential election. ~shrug~

 

[Auld Phart]

I've seen several suggestions posted to help you in your current circumstances, and you bitched and whined about nearly every one.

That is not what I said; THEY DID NOT HIRE ME, IDIOT.
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Working at Best Buy is beneath you?

TS

You really need to learn read with your brain turned on.

Stay in your LazE Boy, and continue to whine.

When I got out of the service at age 40, it wasn't easy to find employment, and my military training didn't transfer well to the private sector.

After a year, I took a job as a janitor, so I could pay various bills.

Definitely below my paygrade, but it paid bills.

YOU had 20+ years experience in a civilian field?

Don't cry on my shoulder if you can't work in your chosen profession

Great compassion, enojoy being irrelevant to America in the near future. You deserve it, you morally superior jack ass.

 

[dannyboys]

Blaming Republicans is lame, one of the main factors is your age and mandated health coverage. No Republican voted for it. Older employees are at more of a health risk, so higher premiums. There aren't a lot of job opportunities for 58 year olds. What I did was start my own business. You can work out of you home if you can find someone to sub work out to you.

The jobs I have applied for are mostly contractor positions and do not pay or offer much in benefits, and I always turn them down to keep the cash.

I am working on starting my own business, but that is slow going and of course my wife wants me to get a 'real job', lol.

Thanks for your enocouragement though; can I summarize it as 'learn to have a successful business or drown? Why should I gladly kiss my career good bye, dude?

This is the GOPs offer to the Middle Class of America; Find work or starve?

You might not have a wife anymore if you scoff at her advice to "get a real job". Maybe she'll start looking for a 'real man instead of the fucking loser she is currently putting up with.
Soooo. You claim to be an expert with computers right?
Maybe the reason you can't find a job is because you don't know how the use the 'spell check' function any five year old can.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Again; is this the best conservatism can off people like me?

Then enjoy your coming irrelevance to the rest of America. It is coming soon simply because you really dont give a flying shit about anybody other than yourself and stroking your ideological self.

My my a little testy, are we?

I explain my predicament to you and all you can do is ridicule me and blame me as if I want to be unemployed. So yeah, I kind of feel like you can shove that up your ass.

You're the one who is blaming FREE TRADE for your current jobless state, lol. You are what you describe, you jobless loser.

I am trying to explain to you that a 58 year old American citizen with a bad back coming off of two years of disability cannot be expected BY REASONABLE people to compete with young people, especially not a flood of cheap young people on H1-B visas right out of Hyderabad who are willing to work for 3/4ths of my wage.

And for that I am now a 'jobless loser'?

LEarn to enjoy your coming irrelevance as most of America turns away for your kind of heartless and brainless conservatism.

 

[JimBowie1958]

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Lol, I do appreciate you willingness to illustrate how brain dead and short sighted conservative ideologues like you are.

Now go fuck yourself.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Blaming Republicans is lame, one of the main factors is your age and mandated health coverage. No Republican voted for it. Older employees are at more of a health risk, so higher premiums. There aren't a lot of job opportunities for 58 year olds. What I did was start my own business. You can work out of you home if you can find someone to sub work out to you.

The jobs I have applied for are mostly contractor positions and do not pay or offer much in benefits, and I always turn them down to keep the cash.

I am working on starting my own business, but that is slow going and of course my wife wants me to get a 'real job', lol.

Thanks for your enocouragement though; can I summarize it as 'learn to have a successful business or drown? Why should I gladly kiss my career good bye, dude?

This is the GOPs offer to the Middle Class of America; Find work or starve?

You might not have a wife anymore if you scoff at her advice to "get a real job". Maybe she'll start looking for a 'real man instead of the fucking loser she is currently putting up with.
Soooo. You claim to be an expert with computers right?
Maybe the reason you can't find a job is because you don't know how the use the 'spell check' function any five year old can.

More proof of the brain dead conservative movements decaying stank.

Enjoy your ash heap, loser.

 

[JimBowie1958]

FYI, no-one had applied for National IT as of last Friday and there's actually more than one IT position open in the party (most of the states need one, I don't think even half of them have one.) There's also a bunch of other positions across the nation (treasurer, secretary, etc.) They're hurting for folks who can get stuff done in time for the presidential election. ~shrug~

I'll look into it, thank you!

 

[dannyboys]

Blaming Republicans is lame, one of the main factors is your age and mandated health coverage. No Republican voted for it. Older employees are at more of a health risk, so higher premiums. There aren't a lot of job opportunities for 58 year olds. What I did was start my own business. You can work out of you home if you can find someone to sub work out to you.

The jobs I have applied for are mostly contractor positions and do not pay or offer much in benefits, and I always turn them down to keep the cash.

I am working on starting my own business, but that is slow going and of course my wife wants me to get a 'real job', lol.

Thanks for your enocouragement though; can I summarize it as 'learn to have a successful business or drown? Why should I gladly kiss my career good bye, dude?

This is the GOPs offer to the Middle Class of America; Find work or starve?

Because you no longer HAVE A FUCKING CAREER asshole! It's over! Gone. Finito. The end.
I bet when things were going good for you you behaved like a fucking asshole to those you thought of as not as smart as you. Seen YOU dozens of times. School yard bully until you get the shit kicked out of you then it's EVERYONE ELSE'S fault. This time it's the REPs.
You're pathetic.

 

[Tom Horn]

I hear you. A while ago I was updating my profile here and I realized I am not really a software engineer any more, since I havent had a job in two years or a nibble for one in about a month. So I am now trying to start my own business, we'll see. Most new businesses fail, about 80-% of them within the first two years. Ijust need to make it till retirement.

If young people are naturally liberals, as Churchill said, and us old farts get abandoned by conservatives, then what is left other than for the conservative movement to lose BOTH the young and the old generations?

Conservatism today does not really stand for anything other than whoring for the corporations. The old social issues have all been losers and most of them admit now that they knew this and just played the game to get the votes.

We need a new opposition party to the Democrats, one that embraces traditional morality and a strong defense posture while at the same time believes in compassionate economic policies for everyone, and not just conservatives.

Believe it or not, your main problem is the gap between now and your last job. Personnel people tend to favor stealing somebody from another company to hiring somebody on the outs. When I've interviewed with a new company, that's the first puzzled look I get...."what about between July and February of last year"? So I invented a company of my own (used alarm system equipment) to cover the employment gaps....total bullshit but I appeared motivated to earn. If they ask about your fake business tell them you sell on Craigslist...No potential employer has ever challenged me on it but I've always had well-rehearsed answers if they had.

 

[Auld Phart]

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Lol, I do appreciate you willingness to illustrate how brain dead and short sighted conservative ideologues like you are.

Now go fuck yourself.

I gave you several suggestions on employment.

I gave you my own personal history,

You basically shit on them, and me.

and you have the NERVE to call ME brain dead?

Go away, troll

 

[dannyboys]

Blaming Republicans is lame, one of the main factors is your age and mandated health coverage. No Republican voted for it. Older employees are at more of a health risk, so higher premiums. There aren't a lot of job opportunities for 58 year olds. What I did was start my own business. You can work out of you home if you can find someone to sub work out to you.

The jobs I have applied for are mostly contractor positions and do not pay or offer much in benefits, and I always turn them down to keep the cash.

I am working on starting my own business, but that is slow going and of course my wife wants me to get a 'real job', lol.

Thanks for your enocouragement though; can I summarize it as 'learn to have a successful business or drown? Why should I gladly kiss my career good bye, dude?

This is the GOPs offer to the Middle Class of America; Find work or starve?

You might not have a wife anymore if you scoff at her advice to "get a real job". Maybe she'll start looking for a 'real man instead of the fucking loser she is currently putting up with.
Soooo. You claim to be an expert with computers right?
Maybe the reason you can't find a job is because you don't know how the use the 'spell check' function any five year old can.

More proof of the brain dead conservative movements decaying stank.

Enjoy your ash heap, loser.

Would it make you feel better if I took you for a ride in my vintage Maserati?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Because you no longer HAVE A FUCKING CAREER asshole! It's over! Gone. Finito. The end.
I bet when things were going good for you you behaved like a fucking asshole to those you thought of as not as smart as you. Seen YOU dozens of times. School yard bully until you get the shit kicked out of you then it's EVERYONE ELSE'S fault. This time it's the REPs.
You're pathetic.

You dont know me, and I was never like that. In fact I am still fairly well known for giving handouts to people who ask and over-tipping.

Thanks for playing, loser.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Would it make you feel better if I took you for a ride in my vintage Maserati?

It would make me feel better if you...well there's nothing you can do as I really dont give a fuck what you do.

you could grow a brain but then that might make you dangerous to those around you, so, no, there's not really anything.

 

[JimBowie1958]

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Lol, I do appreciate you willingness to illustrate how brain dead and short sighted conservative ideologues like you are.

Now go fuck yourself.

I gave you several suggestions on employment.

I gave you my own personal history,

You basically shit on them, and me.

and you have the NERVE to call ME brain dead?

Go away, troll

I did nothing of the sort.

Bye, loser.