Funny that Kis mentioned Detroit, as that's my stomping grounds! It reeeeaallly sucks around here. Layoffs are a daily occurance, by now, it's just something expected...not surprising at all.
I too lost my job and I haven't been able to find one since. There's actually a LINE to wait thru to get a job at a McDonalds or a Burger King around here! Hell, I went thru 3 seperate interviews for a job at K-Mart that paid $ 7.00 an hour! You would have thought I was applying for work at NASA or something! As it turns out, I didn't even get that job for some reason or another. They probably found someone to do it for $ 6.00 an hour.
All you really hear around these parts is that your over qualified for the position...which isn't surprising since the state unemployment rate is at 10%! By the way, that 10% is just the people collecting unemployment. Those whose unemployment ran out and who are still looking for work are not counted as being unemployed anymore. Truthfullly, our unemployment rate is much higher!
I finally just decided to go into business for myself and last year I lived in poverty as I learned stuff I needed to know and pulled everything together. It was hard and very scary, but last week was the first week that I actually had extra money in my pocket in a looooong time! Far from being rich obviously, but it made me feel a little better. I now have to just keep building on that.
I hope the economy ends sooner as opposed to later. My state was hit first and we've been in a downward spiral for years already! We can't take 2 more years! So many empty homes and people with nowhere to live. I always pray for those who are worse off than me.
