I am NOT leaving DU, but...

I will miss your intelligence and enthusiasm!

PEACE!

PEACE!

Go without netflix and the internet as long as you can, build up a little reserve. My life sorta revolves around the internet and I watch too darned much TV. But I also have a hefty reserve and no spouse to talk with either.

Your local party maybe could use a volunteer, or two.

Hopefully VERY soon!

PEACE!

I know that you live a small market where job searching is a bit more challenging.

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...59 years old...Yikes!

We are in the process of getting licensed to be foster parents. When that happens, my wife and I agreed that that would be my full time job.

PEACE!

And you'll do it beautifully!

I think there should be some level of "free" internet everywhere. Maybe not fast enough for netflix, but certainly fast enough for DU and email.

Good luck!

PEACE!

Fingers crossed.

PEACE!

See you all soon, real soon...
Tikki

The teabags? Heck no!

Thanks!

PEACE!

Good luck!

PEACE!

Knock 'em dead at your interview and come back to us when the time is right.

Thanks!

PEACE!

It's used to find jobs, to network, to find medical information, to find house cleaning information when you don't have money for normal cleaning products(!), to check the news - especially the LOCAL news (it's the first place I check after an earthquake, to make DMV reservations and engage with other bureaucratic functions...the list goes on and on.

The library reservation time doesn't cut it - especially when you incorporate time required to write tailored job application letters. Everyone in the "system" always says they want you to "tailor" everything - well perhaps they should prove it by making that feasible!

I'm extremely lucky in that I have a housemate, and I paid the Internet bills for the last decade, so I never lost access to that vital form of communication. Ironically I did lose access to all but basic phone communications. California's discount phone program made me choose between a land line and a cellphone. I chose the land line with local calls only, and now I don't know with the fact all HR recruiters assume I can just return their cellphone-based toll numbers at the drop of a pin. The assumption is everyone has a cellphone. Only a really poor person wouldn't.

But if I were paying for it, and I had to choose, I'd still choose Internet access over the cellphone.

By the way, if your hometown has employment support programs, that should enable you a little more Internet access - for job-hunting, if not for DU!

I CAN bring my laptop to the library and be on the web for as long as they're open.

PEACE!

Hope you can return soon!

PEACE!

A close relative of mine just got a master's degree and is job hunting. It is really hard to find anything. Right now it looks like it will be 2-3 part time jobs. It is so difficult now that the corporate schmucks have gotten the unemployment rate so high that they can force people into desperation to force down wages and benefits to nothing.

Hope you get the job. The foster parent idea is a really creative longer term solution. Hope that works out well, too.

member. Yet your name is one I recognize and look for. I enjoy your posts.

I will miss you. Best of luck. Keep us updated, and come back soon!

I enjoy your posts.

You are gonna make a huge comeback.

Here's hoping your circumstances change ASAP and you are clicking away at your computer again. In the meantime if you really need an internet fix, there is the public library. Most have computers you can use for "research".

Hope you are back full time soon!

while filling out job apps. And good luck. I am sure you will bounce back in no time!

You will be missed and people will be glad when you return. Of that, I have no doubt.

And thanks for letting us know. I know some people don't like good bye (or goodbye for now) threads. However I am the worrying kind, so I don't like it when people just disappear. I worry they are very ill or something like that. So this is comforting, in that way.

Maybe you could find a local coffee shop where you could stay connected for the price of a cup. I'm not sure, but I think libraries might have free wireless too. Check around...

Thanks for the update and good luck with your job search.

TYY

to let us know how it goes, please do. We will be thinking of you and hoping for the best.

That really sucks. Sorry you're going through this

I took several during the 00s while I was bouncing between NM and FL taking care of parents.

Best of luck landing that job and come back soon!

Look out for the edge of the cliff!!!!!!


Bwa-haha!!!!

I really wish you could find a way to keep home internet - to me that is no longer a luxury

And come back as soon as you can!

Come back soon.

to you and your wife and the ME Dems

You'll be missed while away for what I hope is just a bit. We're pretty much in the same situation; probably lose the 'net next week (unless I can convince them to let us hang in there).

My addiction to DU will suffer greatly! (Long time lurker, here, only recently posting.)

hope things work out for you quickly.

Quite a few of us are finding that we can't live the lives of steady employment that we grew up expecting. We over-the-hill types keep trying with the job interviews, of course, and sometimes they work (and I wish you well). The main thing that strikes me about your post, though, is that you're not putting all your eggs in that basket.

These days, people just need to have a Plan B (and if possible a Plan C). I've been freelancing, with less income but more free time (and more anxiety) than when I was a wage slave. You've taken the initiative to enter the foster care field. Way to go!

It's also possible that having another option will make you less desperate at the interview and therefore better able to show them your abilities. It almost makes me feel sorry for the poor slobs who have to compete with you for the job.

You will be missed

I'd like to wish you the best of luck.....

if they'd mind if you borrowed a bit of bandwidth from them. Maybe they'd give you their access code...?

I have to keep reminding myself that not everyone here is of my mindset.

As someone who has worked for (in essence) the same outfit for the last 39 years, I can't imagine what it would mean to suddenly be without the job. I don't know how long you were at the one you just lost.

I don't know Maine very well, but was up there last April for the first time in decades (Bath/Freeport area). It did not seem like a bustling hub of prosperity, and after meeting your oaf of a governor, can well imagine why. As a Texan, we know what it means to have an ignorant oaf as governor.

Don't hesitate to share any good news if you have some!

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I really hope you get a job you like soon, and return to a normal life. Take care.