Unemployed answers

After reading the unemployment thred I thought I would send this informatio. These ads from "The Daily Republic" Mitchell, SD Jan 16. (mitchellrepublic.com)

Farmworker, 02/10 to 12/1510, 14 positions. Drive trucks, tractors, drawn equip. Perform crop raising duties, repair and maintain farm equip,work with cattle, 48 hr/wk, $10.39 / hr, free housing. Wessington Springs SD Swenson Partnership.

Experienced Drivers for Flatbed Division: Pay on actual hub miles, bonuses, health ins, 401k
Selland Trucking Woonsocket SD 800-658-3315

WelderFabricator/Assembler: Retirement plan after 1 year, 4 day work week, heated shop.
Contact Sheridan, 605-354-2127.

And there's lots more ads for women, nurses, NCRS offices etc. Pull on you parka and bunny boots and come up to SD.

Gordo

I was one of the ones thast responded to the unemployeed post below. Being self employeed I can't draw unenployment so I'm having to do whatever I can to pay the bills. Even as bad as things have been economy wise my wife and I should still be sitting pretty. The problem is we both did everything right and saved and saved all our lives only to have our savings disappear to pay a lawyer in a custody battle that I've posted here about in the past. But that's another story....

Personally I've been looking at the local and national job adds, services wanted adds, etc and have been fortunate enough to find enough to keep afloat for now. Having done so much looking I'll admit there are ALOT of jobs available. The problem is that 90%+ of these jobs are paying salaries from 15 years ago even for "skilled" positions. I mean I was making around $11 an hour doing MIG welding/light fabrication and around $13.50 doing industrial maintenance way back in the early to mid 90's. At the time that was pretty good money around here for both positions. For over 10 years now I've made nearly twice that for 'salaried' stuff through Dad (plus he provides my service truck and all associated insurance, buys the big tools, etc, etc ) and I usually get $35 to $60 an hour for my personal 'side work' depending on what I'm doing. Now I see jobs out there looking for managers, etc making what I was making as just a maintenance man 15 years ago, with no managerial duties.

So, as it stands, I could go out and get a full time job, work my a$$ off for somebody else for 40 hours a week and make them money for them ($75 plus an hour for most dealer shops)and not be 'allowed' to use my tools and service truck to work for others, while making next to nothing for myself...or...I can keep working for dad and myself making two to three plus times the money with the potential for more in the 'extra' time I have available.

It's a tough decision to make and it's not an easy position to be in, but such is life. If the people setting on all of this stimulus money would get off of it and let some of the work this country needs done get done then we'll all be better off. Until that happens the government just keeps going deeper and deeper in debt paying out unemployment to people too lazy to even look for a job. On top of that if we'd send the illegals home and stop using our tax money to pay for their governmental supplied medical care, etc, etc,...then maybe...it just might open up millions of jobs for real Americans as well as start putting tax dollars back into the system from people that currently are nothing but a draw on the system..........but that all makes too much sense...........Until then we'll just have to put up with companies wanting to take advantage of you every way they can, people in general being too lazy to work because of a government that too freely hands out OUR money, etc, etc, etc...and just realize that there is no real American Dream anymore, nowdays it's just a dream of what used to be and prayer of survival........

well said.

A person wonders if there was some bigger plan to bring the wages of Americans down to near poverty levels with the unnecessary high fuel prices, the ripping off of the banks, unnecessary wars, and what ever else sucked the money out of your pocket.
Or then were wages artificially high like the housing market? Around here as little as a couple years ago, you could get something welded, automotive work, etc. for $30hr or less. Now everybodies at 50,60 on up an hour.

Wayne you seem like a good guy and no offence. However the choice is work for some one or self employ. I get so tired of you are paying me 10-15 an hour and making all the money. Thats all we hear and people do not want to work they want a handout. If its hard they won't due it. Would like to see work force have it like it was in the depression.
I agree $7 hour at wally world etc does not cut the mustard in todays world. But many of those people are not worth what there being paid!!! Locally some logging companies cant get help Crews won't work overtime nights weekends etc. I would love to get $15 an hour and a building-tools- vechile provided.

I think a lot depends on where you live. In Michigan, probably parts of Ohio, Indiana, the economy has basically collapsed. Unemployment is easily 25%. But if you are older, 50+, I think it is probably worse. Even a WallMart opening here gets 100 or more applicants for every job. I have a couple of friends that moved to Wyoming a couple years ago. Both are doing ok. But there are more unemployed in Michigan, than there are residents of Wyoming and probably a couple other states put together.