Monday, June 22
After another very rainy weekend, it is Monday already.
We drove to Madison WI and back on Saturday for a graduation party. I saw a total of 1 RV on the 270 miles of driving we did. I would imagine that industry is about dead - who could afford a vehicle like that, let alone the gas it takes to fill it. My yearly fishing trip, going back to 1982, is not happening due to my extended downtime and no money. Last time I talked to the outpost owner, he said many of his regular clients have the same issues preventing them from taking their yearly get away. I will miss the solitude and the opportunity to decompress for a week. But, hopefully next year my crew can go north again.
I read an article that unemployment is supposed to get to 10% nationally. It seems the public is now immune to that stat. Makes you wonder if the country will get back to the point where certain luxuries like fishing trips are attainable, or if we'll all be working paycheck to paycheck. The global events of late, like the Korean nuclear situation and the riots in Iran seem to be overshadowing the lousy situation here in the US.
We drove to Madison WI and back on Saturday for a graduation party. I saw a total of 1 RV on the 270 miles of driving we did. I would imagine that industry is about dead - who could afford a vehicle like that, let alone the gas it takes to fill it. My yearly fishing trip, going back to 1982, is not happening due to my extended downtime and no money. Last time I talked to the outpost owner, he said many of his regular clients have the same issues preventing them from taking their yearly get away. I will miss the solitude and the opportunity to decompress for a week. But, hopefully next year my crew can go north again.
I read an article that unemployment is supposed to get to 10% nationally. It seems the public is now immune to that stat. Makes you wonder if the country will get back to the point where certain luxuries like fishing trips are attainable, or if we'll all be working paycheck to paycheck. The global events of late, like the Korean nuclear situation and the riots in Iran seem to be overshadowing the lousy situation here in the US.
I also wonder sometimes if things will return to a somewhat normal state. It is odd that unemployment is becoming increasingly lower. There did seem to be a bit of a positive crawl for a moment, but I guess that was just a blip. I am starting to think this may go on for well over another year or two. I just had a second interview since (and a third if you count an over the phone discussion) I was laid off in October 2008, which I was not selected for. I read an opinion column how the author, who is fully employed, set out to see how bad it still is. He had a few requirements to his test, but the basics were that he applied to over 300 jobs and only had 8 interviews, I think he noted that even McDonald's didn't call him back. Sad, but that ratio is almost 3 interviews per 100 jobs applied to; which is about my record right now as well. :-(
ReplyDeleteto Laidoff:
ReplyDeleteI saved every email confirmation I got when I applied to a posting. I have over 2000 automated responses. I had maybe 10 interviews which include phone interviews.
all you can do it think that every resume you send will be the one that gets you the job. spend some time on each cover letter to make yourself stand out. don't let yourself get off task and lazy. it is easy to do, believe me. I was off from Sept to March. meet this head on - and you will prevail.
Dave