Reply #38: Lost my job in December 2002

[stevedeshazer]

I was a supervisor making ~ 42k.

Now I'm reduced to showing up early on Monday mornings looking to see if I can get a part-time delivery job for 8-9 bucks an hour.

My wife still has a good job, but who knows for how long. She's a public employee.

Yeah, the unemployment rate in my state dropped from 7.7% to 7.1% from January to February. That's because there are 30,000 long-term unemployed people like me who dropped off the screen. No benefits, no shit.

My state has 1% of the total US population. 30,000 here probably is 3 million nationwide who onlt JUST NOW have dropped off the count.

And the number of underemployed, to which I now aspire to become, must be huge.

To all of you who have posted like-minded stories here, you are far from alone. :grr: