WARNING: If the post title did not warn you, I am warning you yet again. This is a post based on personal observations and is not happy, positive, or perky. Read at your own risk.
The local paper ran a headline that bemoaned the local unemployed folks and how they were facing the end of their unemployment benfits. It also talked about how unemployment was like hopelessness. Huh. http://www.oregonlive.com/money/index.ssf/2012/09/oregonians_out_of_work_for_mon.html
The article talked about how it was really hard to stay positive when looking for a job. One guy they interviewed said he had applied to just over 100 jobs. (Catch up to my 300+, dude, and then we'll talk.)
I wonder how many people know that teachers who can't find jobs are not able to collect unemployment? And that you cannot collect unempoyment during the summer months. I wonder how many people know that when applying to teaching jobs, you are up against literally hundreds of other applicants - all for ONE position? (Yeah, that's right, I said hundreds. This is based on repeated personal experience.) I wonder how many people have had to move out of state, even out of the COUNTRY, away from their families, just in order to get a job? (I know there are a lot of people who are doing this!)
I also wonder how many people who HAVE jobs remember to be thankful for having their jobs? I wonder how many people who bitch about their jobs ever think about all of the people in this country who are struggling every day to get a job.
I wonder how many people have walked into a school office and literally had the door closed in their face? And how those same people hired some 22 year old with NO experience because a principal in another district said she was a great teacher. These of course, are the same people who tell you "not to take it personally".
Try that on for size and stay positive. Am I angry? You bet. Am I tired of all of the bemoaning of how long unemployment benefits last? Am I sick to death of people who bitch about their jobs? Absolutely.
I wish people would simply think before they speak.
OK, Rant over.
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