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niro

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I have to search for a new job. I had my last workday last thursday till the end of the year I have vacation.
I went to the welfare today. I am pretty optimistic that I find a new job maybe even a better one,
so that's the news.
 

mal

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I was once asked to provide a sample of my hair for a drug test. Due to that old 'male pattern baldness' I was not looking to share any of my follicles. I told them they'd have to go pubic, if they wanted a sample. I did not get the job. I had already ruled them out as folks I wouldn't want to work for anyway, otherwise I would have never said that (because I've got lots of the extra ear and nose hairs fluttering about that I would have gladly offered). Oh, and I was on heroin during the interview, that's probably important. ;;D
 

niro

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I was once asked to provide a sample of my hair for a drug test. Due to that old 'male pattern baldness' I was not looking to share any of my follicles. I told them they'd have to go pubic, if they wanted a sample. I did not get the job. I had already ruled them out as folks I wouldn't want to work for anyway, otherwise I would have never said that (because I've got lots of the extra ear and nose hairs fluttering about that I would have gladly offered). Oh, and I was on heroin during the interview, that's probably important. ;;D

:biggrin2:
 

Nomik

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I was once asked to provide a sample of my hair for a drug test. Due to that old 'male pattern baldness' I was not looking to share any of my follicles. I told them they'd have to go pubic, if they wanted a sample. I did not get the job. I had already ruled them out as folks I wouldn't want to work for anyway, otherwise I would have never said that (because I've got lots of the extra ear and nose hairs fluttering about that I would have gladly offered). Oh, and I was on heroin during the interview, that's probably important. ;;D
:ill: That may have had something to do with it.

On an unrelated note, I'm finally moving back to Derry. My home tutoring job doesn't pay enough to sustain my family given the cost of living in New England; therefore , I too, have been sending out applications. You know, I thought briefly (and am still thinking) about the copy writing / copy editing industries. It might be worthwhile to take a course because I lack the time to teach myself a lot of the code translation, web development things. I am trying, but I look at the pay for a copywriter, and I think - should be a no-brainer. I've sent out a few resumes for text book publishing companies and schools, including my high school Alma Mater. Technically that one hasn't gone out yet, but I'm working on it.
Good luck (((all in need of a job)))!
 

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:ill: That may have had something to do with it.

On an unrelated note, I'm finally moving back to Derry. My home tutoring job doesn't pay enough to sustain my family given the cost of living in New England; therefore , I too, have been sending out applications. You know, I thought briefly (and am still thinking) about the copy writing / copy editing industries. It might be worthwhile to take a course because I lack the time to teach myself a lot of the code translation, web development things. I am trying, but I look at the pay for a copywriter, and I think - should be a no-brainer. I've sent out a few resumes for text book publishing companies and schools, including my high school Alma Mater. Technically that one hasn't gone out yet, but I'm working on it.
Good luck (((all in need of a job)))!
Best of luck finding a job soon!
 

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:ill: That may have had something to do with it.

On an unrelated note, I'm finally moving back to Derry. My home tutoring job doesn't pay enough to sustain my family given the cost of living in New England; therefore , I too, have been sending out applications. You know, I thought briefly (and am still thinking) about the copy writing / copy editing industries. It might be worthwhile to take a course because I lack the time to teach myself a lot of the code translation, web development things. I am trying, but I look at the pay for a copywriter, and I think - should be a no-brainer. I've sent out a few resumes for text book publishing companies and schools, including my high school Alma Mater. Technically that one hasn't gone out yet, but I'm working on it.
Good luck (((all in need of a job)))!
Positive vibes for job hunting.
 

mal

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:ill: That may have had something to do with it.

On an unrelated note, I'm finally moving back to Derry. My home tutoring job doesn't pay enough to sustain my family given the cost of living in New England; therefore , I too, have been sending out applications. You know, I thought briefly (and am still thinking) about the copy writing / copy editing industries. It might be worthwhile to take a course because I lack the time to teach myself a lot of the code translation, web development things. I am trying, but I look at the pay for a copywriter, and I think - should be a no-brainer. I've sent out a few resumes for text book publishing companies and schools, including my high school Alma Mater. Technically that one hasn't gone out yet, but I'm working on it.
Good luck (((all in need of a job)))!
Hi Nomik, I wish you the best of luck in finding a well paying job as soon as possible. All the best, mal.
 

niro

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:ill: That may have had something to do with it.

On an unrelated note, I'm finally moving back to Derry. My home tutoring job doesn't pay enough to sustain my family given the cost of living in New England; therefore , I too, have been sending out applications. You know, I thought briefly (and am still thinking) about the copy writing / copy editing industries. It might be worthwhile to take a course because I lack the time to teach myself a lot of the code translation, web development things. I am trying, but I look at the pay for a copywriter, and I think - should be a no-brainer. I've sent out a few resumes for text book publishing companies and schools, including my high school Alma Mater. Technically that one hasn't gone out yet, but I'm working on it.
Good luck (((all in need of a job)))!

Good luck! Keep us posted.
 

Nomik

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Niro, how rude of me not to acknowledge your original post. I consider you a friend, after all, the Halloween story was a bit of of a bonding experience.
Welfare. . .:clap::biglove:
Me too.
It's fine. That's what it is for. Roosevelt and his wife meant for it to be a transitional hand up, not a stigma.
Although the visit to the actual office takes hours, usually eight of them. Fortunately you can do this online in most states one you've made the initial visit. I pretty much refuse to bring my two year old there; the last time I did there was a line stretching around the corner of the building (summer, over 110), and I was pregnant. That's just the line to get through the door! The next part involves waiting in another line, only to be put in the list of people to be seen that day. Then, you wait in a dirty room with as many chairs as people and then some.
If you have a medical condition, or you are hungry, sometimes you need insurance and food.
That's how it goes.
Yes, I've got more education than most of (I take that back) ALL of the employees and their supervisors.
. . .and a hell of a lot more student loan debt.
I wish you the best, you are very like able and I'm sending you specific, positive vibes.
Turns out, they work!
 

Mr Nobody

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Welfare. . .:clap::biglove:
Me too.
It's fine. That's what it is for. Roosevelt and his wife meant for it to be a transitional hand up, not a stigma.

That's it. I've been on the dole before and people have expected me to feel bad about it (I never asked to be unemployed/made redundant) or have gone out of their way to make me feel bad, but I've been grateful for the safety net.
It can be hard to bounce back and all the red tape these days has turned it into more of a web to trap you than a net to catch you (it has here, anyway, and maybe elsewhere, too), and some people (a very small minority, of whom there have always been some) try to game the system and abuse it, but in its proper context it's a favour when you need it most.
Quite what the opponents of any kind of welfare system have in mind, or what they would have happen to you/have you do instead, is a mystery to me...but then they're probably the same kind of people who'd leave you behind to bleed out on a battlefield rather than try to help. Until something happens to them or theirs, that is. ;)
 

niro

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Niro, how rude of me not to acknowledge your original post. I consider you a friend, after all, the Halloween story was a bit of of a bonding experience.
Welfare. . .:clap::biglove:
Me too.
It's fine. That's what it is for. Roosevelt and his wife meant for it to be a transitional hand up, not a stigma.
Although the visit to the actual office takes hours, usually eight of them. Fortunately you can do this online in most states one you've made the initial visit. I pretty much refuse to bring my two year old there; the last time I did there was a line stretching around the corner of the building (summer, over 110), and I was pregnant. That's just the line to get through the door! The next part involves waiting in another line, only to be put in the list of people to be seen that day. Then, you wait in a dirty room with as many chairs as people and then some.
If you have a medical condition, or you are hungry, sometimes you need insurance and food.
That's how it goes.
Yes, I've got more education than most of (I take that back) ALL of the employees and their supervisors.
. . .and a hell of a lot more student loan debt.
I wish you the best, you are very like able and I'm sending you specific, positive vibes.
Turns out, they work!

It's not "nice" to go there. It didn't take that long but I had to see three different people to get all the paper work.
Have an appointment to hand them in on Monday. I am in germany and I am not sure who invented the welfare system here it has been reformed a couple of years ago. I can't really tell if for better or for worse.
In the states it became a necessity because of the great depression, right? I am single but I think it is way harder two have two little ones which you have to take care of so all the best to you.

And yes I consider you a friend as well. :)