The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Lucem Ferre

3 years. Trump set the new record.

Edit: Luckily I live in Utah. We hardly felt the last recession.

Edit again: Nah, it's still unfortunate to live in Utah.

I definitely felt it. It was ****in terrible looking for a job in 2009. I was out of work for almost a year. Sustained myself through crime and blind luck.

Plus I lived in South Florida where the only blue collar jobs are in construction. The housing market crashed and the construction jobs vanished. People who used to make 15-20 dollars an hour were forced to work retail and service jobs for 8-9 dollars an hour.

[jwb]

I'm trying. But I'm afraid I won't be able to get those kinds of jobs with my background. My younger brother just got one and they did a background check. That's why I'm trying to work at one place for a while and not get in trouble.

[Frownland]

Originally Posted by Psy-Fi

Autopsy finds Jeffrey Epstein had several broken neck bones

Juicy!

Originally Posted by jwb

I definitely felt it. It was ****in terrible looking for a job in 2009. I was out of work for almost a year. Sustained myself through crime and blind luck.

Plus I lived in South Florida where the only blue collar jobs are in construction. The housing market crashed and the construction jobs vanished. People who used to make 15-20 dollars an hour were forced to work retail and service jobs for 8-9 dollars an hour.

I would assume that there's a somewhat perpetual repair and remodeling market out there given the hurricanes and wealthy retirees, no? Waiting for a hurricane to strike isn't exactly stable though.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Juicy!



I would assume that there's a somewhat perpetual repair and remodeling market out there given the hurricanes and wealthy retirees, no? Waiting for a hurricane to strike isn't exactly stable though.

Most of the construction jobs were in building. The area was rapidly expanding. All that came to a halt around 07 or so. I'm sure there were still some people working construction but there were way more workers than there were jobs.

My dad did concrete coating for a lot of the retirees and that more or less dried up around that time too. People stop spending as much on luxuries when there's a recession.

[jwb]

Originally Posted by elphenor

lol just for the meme

what's funny is it's just like a rephrasing of telling liberal arts students to get a different degree

but when it's liberals telling coal miners maybe don't work in coal it sucks anyway...

I digress

Most of the people who work in coal live in dirt poor rural communities where that's the only job in town.

[jwb]

If you don't like maths yeah it's not for you

[The Batlord]

Originally Posted by jwb

If you don't like maths yeah it's not for you

[jwb]

That was intentional.

[grindy]

Well, colour me surprised.

[Lucem Ferre]

Originally Posted by jwb

I definitely felt it. It was ****in terrible looking for a job in 2009. I was out of work for almost a year. Sustained myself through crime and blind luck.

Plus I lived in South Florida where the only blue collar jobs are in construction. The housing market crashed and the construction jobs vanished. People who used to make 15-20 dollars an hour were forced to work retail and service jobs for 8-9 dollars an hour.

I was pulled out of school and told to get a job back then and I struggled real hard too. I think it was mostly because I had no clue what I was doing at the time. I just read that Utah was almost immune to the effects.