This is just all to common and very sad to see our society crumbling like this. I am almost 32,a father of 2 with one more on the way. I am educated with a degree in Architecture. I have been unemployed since February 2009. I share a home with my 26 year old unemployed wife who is also educated with a degree in Bussiness, my unemployed 56 year old mother with over 35 years of experience in accounting, sister in-law who is 19years old and is the only one in our household with a crappy job as a receptionist that recieves minimum wage,Which incidently only pays enough for her car payment ,car insurance and fuel to go to work. Also in my home is my unemployed mother in law who is educated with a degree. My wife, my mother and my mother in-laws unemplyment benifits have run out and there are no jobs that will seem to give any of us a shot. Like the person in this article we are also trying to get just about any job we can, with most of them we are over qualified for. Or we are even goin after jobs we are not qualified for. As an example I worked in architecture for over 10 years and in my experience came a great deal of graphic design, so I figured I'd try to get a graphic design job as there are many of them out there. Interview after interview I was told that since I have never worked for a graphic design firm that i do not qualiy for any posistion with thier company. This is rediculous becasue I can perform every job function with creativity and experience that thier graphic design job description describes. I think that so many folks are unemployed so they are looking for the best of the best and paying them the lowest possible wages in return and taking advantage of people in the process.
My unemployment is on an extension currenlty and I don't see hope that I will ever be able to work in Architecture for the remainder of my life, as I fear I will be forced into taking a job in a different feild for a very low pay and when or if the economy comes back that I will have been gone for so long from my industry that I wont qualify for those jobs any longer. I am gratefull that I am alivce and my famiy is surviving for now. Had all 7 of us not decided to rent a small three bedroom house from an unemployed coworker I know for sure we would all be homeless and in the streets. The sad part of it all is we are such hard working educated americans that are on the brink of homelessness. We have all had discussions on whether we should stay in this country any longer. American Dream? HA! There is no such thing.
This is just all to common and very sad to see our society crumbling like this. I am almost 32,a father of 2 with one more on the way. I am educated with a degree in Architecture. I have been unemployed since February 2009. I share a home with my 26 year old unemployed wife who is also educated with a degree in Bussiness, my unemployed 56 year old mother with over 35 years of experience in accounting, sister in-law who is 19years old and is the only one in our household with a crappy job as a receptionist that recieves minimum wage,Which incidently only pays enough for her car payment ,car insurance and fuel to go to work. Also in my home is my unemployed mother in law who is educated with a degree. My wife, my mother and my mother in-laws unemplyment benifits have run out and there are no jobs that will seem to give any of us a shot. Like the person in this article we are also trying to get just about any job we can, with most of them we are over qualified for. Or we are even goin after jobs we are not qualified for. As an example I worked in architecture for over 10 years and in my experience came a great deal of graphic design, so I figured I'd try to get a graphic design job as there are many of them out there. Interview after interview I was told that since I have never worked for a graphic design firm that i do not qualiy for any posistion with thier company. This is rediculous becasue I can perform every job function with creativity and experience that thier graphic design job description describes. I think that so many folks are unemployed so they are looking for the best of the best and paying them the lowest possible wages in return and taking advantage of people in the process.
My unemployment is on an extension currenlty and I don't see hope that I will ever be able to work in Architecture for the remainder of my life, as I fear I will be forced into taking a job in a different feild for a very low pay and when or if the economy comes back that I will have been gone for so long from my industry that I wont qualify for those jobs any longer. I am gratefull that I am alivce and my famiy is surviving for now. Had all 7 of us not decided to rent a small three bedroom house from an unemployed coworker I know for sure we would all be homeless and in the streets. The sad part of it all is we are such hard working educated americans that are on the brink of homelessness. We have all had discussions on whether we should stay in this country any longer. American Dream? HA! There is no such thing.