loathar wrote: I've been out of work for almost 1 1/2 years! That leaves ZERO $$$ for the layout! A can of paint or a copy of MR is a cause for celebration for me.I've got 10 years management experience and I can't even get a job stocking grocery store shelves on third shift! I've applied at about 50 places in the last 3 weeks. Got ONE call for an interview. A job I was REALLY qualified for. I got 2 sentences out of my mouth and the woman interviewing me called out to the rest of the people in the office-LOOKY HERE! WE GOT US A OHIO YANKEE LOOKIN FER WERK!!!I REALLY frickin hate living in the South!!
I've been out of work for almost 1 1/2 years! That leaves ZERO $$$ for the layout! A can of paint or a copy of MR is a cause for celebration for me.I've got 10 years management experience and I can't even get a job stocking grocery store shelves on third shift! I've applied at about 50 places in the last 3 weeks. Got ONE call for an interview. A job I was REALLY qualified for. I got 2 sentences out of my mouth and the woman interviewing me called out to the rest of the people in the office-LOOKY HERE! WE GOT US A OHIO YANKEE LOOKIN FER WERK!!!I REALLY frickin hate living in the South!!
Maybe it's time to move away from thar' ...come to Houston..There are jobs everywhere here. They need 80,000 truckers in this area alone to move the goods. I don't know what it is, but when the country gets in an economic slump, Houston becomes a boom town....Of course most of the oil refineries are here which my have a lot to do with it....chuck
dale8chevyss wrote:Try being over a year out of college and still not be able to find a job.
What was your major?
Aw, c'mon, Loathar - the South ain't all bad! There are idiots like that all over the world, and just as much discrimination "up north" as "down south."
I'm sorry about your bad luck, but don't hate the game - hate the player
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
jamnest wrote:It's like the prototype railroad for me. I have been working on the layout to get it into shape for an operating session. I am not employed right now, but had previously stocked up on supplies for this anticipated time off. Sorry to learn now that I did not purchase enough track or turnouts. I have a staging yard at each end of the layoyut and do not have enough track and turnouts in the inventory to reach one of the staging yards. Like the prototype, construction has halted until the railroad management can raise more funds.
Interesting you say railroad management & raising funds. At the rate I'm going right now, my B&M layout will go the way of the original. Bankrupt...
Jim, Modeling the Kansas City Southern Lines in HO scale.
I hear you there. Last night on the way home from work, I had to gas up my truck. I only needed a little over half a tank, and the total came to $88! Even riding my bike to work as much as I can is getting pricy, the last tankful there was $17.
I get really depressed when I look at my 401K fund. At this rate, I won't be able to retire EVER! I'm starting to think I should save all of my money in a couple of Mason jars out in the backyard. I try to keep an "allowance" from my paycheck to limit my spending. It has been $100 a week for years, and this winter, it will take all of that to buy gas to go to work (probabaly and then some too). I'm trying to save up some money to buy a couple of locos from a guy, and I can't seem to get any put back.
The only nice thing is that I do have a lot of stuff put back to work on when I can't afford to go to work any more! At least I won't be bored.
Good Luck, Morpar
Modeling the N&W freelanced at the height of their steam era in HO.
Daniel G.
Is anyone else feeling the crunch of the economy like me? With gas prices at well over $4.00 a gallon, home heating oil above that, and the increases at the grocery store, and at all other realtors my layout has not been touched in a month. I just don't have the $$$ to spend on my toys like I did before.
I'm very depressed.