Thats right. I got hired. I got a job.

[here_is_to_hope]

And yeah, I am going to gloat.
Its part time sure but it will fill up our bellies with food.
I have to be up at 0300 to be at work at 0330.
I have to move 2400 lb. pallets of paper onto a truck and then deliver them.
So?
I can do that. I will do that.
Its good money.
Bills? Well, they are going to get paid!
That pesky mortgage? Paid!
Heck, if I work it right, I might even get a new pair of glasses.

Did I mention I have a job?

I should also mention I just got home from the first day.
My legs are tired, my eyes have boogers floating across the cornea's and my arms are about two inches longer than they were yesterday.
But I have a job.
I am needed.
Yay for me.

I hope, if you are looking for a job, you find one too.
Don't give up.

For a bit of irony...two weeks ago, we jumped through all of the hoops and applied for TANF (welfare). Yesterday was my first day of attending 'workshops' on how to find a job.
Before I left for that humiliating session, I called about a job I saw on craigslist. Interviewed on the phone, offered the job in the afternoon, started this morning.
TANF immediately issued me checks for boots, work clothes and gas money.
Got to love the support.
Damn Socialist safety net.

Im so fucking happy and tired, I could cry.
Thats all I wanted to say.
Going to bed.
Because I have a job.
Going to sleep well tonight for all of the right reasons.
See ya kids.
Oh, is this a great Country or what?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Congratulations!

:thumbsup:

[liberalmike27]

132. Kind of Happy, Kind of Sad, are you?

It sounds like it. I'm glad you found a job, and I hope you can find one doing what you want.

I never understood why people think manual labor jobs are worth so much less, as they take so much more out of you than mental work. But then, I've always been a bit Socialist, which doesn't bother me, as I've never let any brainwashing media, or anyone else for that matter, tell me what system I should believe in.

[AzDar]

2. Congratulations!

:toast:

[mnhtnbb]

3. Congratulations! Sleep well!

[lunatica]

4. hugs!

Be careful with your tendons and joints. You could really hurt yourself and get tendonitis. Be careful with your back. Wear the harness. Start taking the bone and joint supplements like Glucosamine. It really works to strengthen your tendons and bones.

sleep well. You earned it.

[FailureToCommunicate]

125. Ditto. Good advice.

[cal04]

5. Congratulations!

:woohoo:
Great news!

[handmade34]

6. sweet dreams!

so happy for you

[cally]

7. Congratulations!!!

Your employer is very lucky to have you!!!

[Batgirl]

8. Glad for you :toast:

:toast:

[blue neen]

9. That's wonderful news!

:toast:

[alstephenson]

10. Wonderful news!

[DCBob]

11. Congrats! I have some good news too.

We are all back on full salary after going 1/2 salary for about a year to save the company from going out of business. It seems to have worked.

[Lebam in LA]

31. Great News

I am really happy for you and your co-workers. Imagine if more workers were like you and held together for the good of the rest.

Congratulations

[DCBob]

40. Thanks. Things are looking better for us and some others but I know its tough out there...

for the millions of long term unemployed. I hope job situation improves even more.

[here_is_to_hope]

136. Good news! n/t

[tpsbmam]

144. Woo hoo! Congratulations

and a :fistbump: to you!

[laughingliberal]

12. That's wonderful! Congratulations! nt

[Mz Pip]

13. Congratulations!

Good luck on your new job! :bounce:

Mz Pip

[PassingFair]

14. Shades of "The Jungle"

So his hands relaxed and he merely said quietly: "It is done, and there is no use in weeping, Teta Elzbieta." Then his look turned toward Ona, who stood close to his side, and he saw the wide look of terror in her eyes. "Little one," he said, in a low voice, "do not worry--it will not matter to us. We will pay them all somehow. I will work harder." That was always what Jurgis said. Ona had grown used to it as the solution of all difficulties--"I will work harder!" He had said that in Lithuania when one official had taken his passport from him, and another had arrested him for being without it, and the two had divided a third of his belongings. He had said it again in New York, when the smooth-spoken agent had taken them in hand and made them pay such high prices, and almost prevented their leaving his place, in spite of their paying. Now he said it a third time, and Ona drew a deep breath; it was so wonderful to have a husband, just like a grown woman--and a husband who could solve all problems, and who was so big and strong!




I'm sad that you are so happy.

:cry:

[here_is_to_hope]

137. That excerpt is really touching...

And kind of reflects on how I feel.
Thanks for sharing that.

[PassingFair]

141. I read it when I was in my teens and I have never forgotten it.

It helped me to determine my advocacy of and for
the working class.

I hope that all works out for you and your family.


You are a hero, but you shouldn't have to be.

:hugs:

[Donnachaidh]

15. we've been there -- congrats -- and pace yourself!

Try to tuck a few bucks away so by the third paycheck you can treat yourself and family to a meal or a movie. We hadn't done either in over 18 months, and while it wasn't an expensive restaurant, it sure tasted wonderful!

So glad for you!

[classof56]

16. Hey fellow Oregonian, congrats!

And best wishes from a DU fan East of the Cascades. You're awesome!

[gmoney]

17. Well done!

And be careful out there!

[Fresh_Start]

18. Very very happy for you

congrats

[quiet.american]

19. Congrats! I know the feeling! Sleep well, tonight! nt

[Oregone]

20. Congrats. Though...Id rather traffic drugs

Or steal from rich people than do what you describe. Fuck it. The social contract has long been broken. Best of luck to you though.

[Fridays Child]

21. Yay!

:applause:

Good for you and congratulations!

[nenagh]

22. Well Done

Best of luck and maybe someone here can give a little info on the proper way to lift stuff, to make it easiest..

[rwork]

23. What a wonderful High

and a relief that must be for you. Congratulations!

[Kahuna]

24. Congratulations and God bless!

:toast:

[Rhiannon12866]

25. Excellent news!!! K&R!

Here's to you and your new job! Congratulations! :toast: :woohoo: :fistbump:

[knitter4democracy]

26. I felt the same way when my jobs started last week.

I managed to get two long-term subbing jobs put together into one job (I start at one school and then drive to the other--very different schools, so it's a bit weird), and I'm still on cloud nine about it. Paying the bills is good!

[CurtEastPoint]

27. Congrats and thanks, I needed that.

Feeling kinda low approaching ONE YEAR of unemployment.

[JBoy]

28. Congratulations, and a super post! Off to the Greatest.

[Missy Vixen]

29. Congratulations!

I am so happy for you and your family.

Here's to the job, and here's to many, many more jobs for everyone who needs one!

:toast:
:hug:

[aquart]

30. CONGRATULATIONS! Best news ever.

[peace13]

32. Energy sent your way.

Way to make it happen!

[Lebam in LA]

33. Congratulations!!!!

Great News

[BanzaiBonnie]

34. Happy to hear you have a job

That welfare thing can be a lifesaver, but boy it sure hurts to get to that point.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

35. Mazel Tov! Maybe some of your good luck will rub off on me (looking for a job; laid off a month ago)

[timtom]

36. Excellent!

You've done well.

[calimary]

37. EXCELLENT!!! Congratulations!!!

So glad to hear it. We all can celebrate your good news - and we should!

:party: :patriot: :fistbump: :woohoo: :you rock: :toast:

[renate]

38. Excellent news! Congratulations!

:party:

I just love seeing good news! How relieved you must be!

:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:
:woohoo::woohoo::woohoo::woohoo:

[WilliamPitt]

39. "Going to sleep well tonight for all of the right reasons."

Amen.

:toast:

[HughMoran]

41. Good to hear!

I hope things are ever so slowly getting better (fingers crossed).

[Dulcinea]

42. Congratulations!

Wonderful news! Gives me hope...I've been out of work for almost a year.

[mistertrickster]

43. I have a dream--that one day everybody who's willing to do an honest day's work

can get full-time employment with benefits and a living wage in the richest country in the world.

Is that too much to hope for?

It shouldn't be.

[SeattleGirl]

44. Congratulations!

Very happy to hear this.

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. I am so happy for you.

Amazing what a high you can get knowing someone wants to hire you.

I hope it all works out and the job lasts as long as you need it to.

[OHdem10]

46. Congratulations!

[prolesunited]

47. WTG!

But I have a job.
I am needed.

This is what resonates for me.

[Gregorian]

48. Some have it so good they don't realize what life can be like.

I'm one of those people. You woke something up in me. I've taken things for granted for so long I can't remember. There is an excitement that is lost when one has no worries.

You know, there is nothing more important than the little things in life. Like surviving. And paying bills. The rest is just icing.

Best of luck with your new job.


Edit- And bless those who gave me hearts. It warms me up.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

49. Happy Days are Here Again!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :party: :party: :party: :beer: :beer: :beer: :hi:

[ChicagoSuz219]

50. Mazel tov! I'm happy for you! :-) n/t

[DiverDave]

51. DUDE!!

Congrats, I thank the powers that may be that I have a job...
Now if the wife can get something, she's been out over a year, but I'm grateful for mine, we almost lost our house, we did get our car repossessed, but I managed to get it back (1800 bucks!)

My kids are healthy and happy soooo.
Hang in there, and DO treat yourself to a night out, even if its just a movie, you deserve it!

I'm really glad to hear it.

Dave

[arthritisR_US]

52. Congratulations!! This absolutely warms my heart :-)

:toast:

[Thegonagle]

53. Congrats--it's such a relief to find steady work.

Glad you found one where the money is decent enough, too. You can relax at home a lot more easily when you know where your next mortgage payment is coming from.

[Joe Chi Minh]

54. Great to read. You're quite a writer incidentally. But I always preferred physical work.

Except gardening, which barely qualifies, anyway. You feel tired, but what a sense of well-being.

[Berry Cool]

55. Hurray! So happy for you.

Now let's get me one, too!

[Crabby Appleton]

56. Congratulations!

[undergroundnomore]

57. I'm so happy for you

I'm glad you found a job. I hope things only get better for you.

[grantcart]

58. good for you

[a la izquierda]

59. congrats, that's wonderful!!

[kestrel91316]

60. Let's hope your good luck is contagious. And yeah, yay for socialist work boots.

[pleah]

61. K&R Congratulations!

:toast: :thumbsup: :hi:

[tomm2thumbs]

62. The exhausted excitement in your post was worth the full read

Congrats and sleep well!

[TexasObserver]

63. Congratulations!

[madmom]

64. YAYZ good for you!!!!

[Fire1]

65. That is terrific! Congratulations. n/t

[BeatleBoot]

66. Here's to Safety Nets

May we create a few more for those out there who need them.



:toast:

[WonderGrunion]

67. Your "jobless recovery" is at an end.

Congratulations.

[NikolaC]

68. Congratulations!

:toast:

[Spazito]

69. Congratulations!

I love how you expressed yourself in your OP, it was genuinely heartwarming!

[sweetroxie]

70. Good for you!

[Born_A_Truman]

71. Proud to be the 100th REC!

I'm so happy for you! Congratulations!

[CLANG]

72. Yahoooo!! Congrats!

:toast: :beer: :hi: :pals: :fistbump: :headbang: :yourock: :applause: :patriot:

[Glimmer of Hope]

73. Awesome! I hope you have a decent quitting time if you have to be there at 3:30. :)

[MindandSoul]

74. So glad for you! Congratulations! You have the right attitude!

You, with your attitude are the REAL American!

This is a new job. . .and if you keep that great attitude of yours. . .you'll go far!
You may be starting part-time, it may be a difficult schedule. . .but I'm sure it is only the beginning!

Good luck!

[rury]

75. Congratulations

But I'm holding off on the "great country" part until millions of unemployed and underemployed people are as happy as you are for the same reason.
Peace!

[dave29]

76. Joyous day :)

Very happy and proud.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

77. The great news is not that you have a job, but that you can PAY YOUR BILLS with it!

And THAT is reason to :beer:

Congrats!

[Luciferous]

78. Congratulations!

[SlingBlade]

79. Cool. Go ahead dude, Gloat, You deserve it !

K & R

[Autonomy]

80. I got one of those "jobs" in December...

I was stacking boxes of paint onto pallets and putting the pallets on trucks. It was a lot of heavy lifting, and my arthritis did not like me very much, but I'd been out of work for almost a year, and I really wanted a job. It was not the job I'd envisioned when I got my master's degree, but at least it was work. I might be able to pay my tens of thousands of dollars in student loans, and have money for car insurance.

That was before I found out they were going to cut my Medicaid benefits because I made over $904 GROSS per MONTH. Did I mention the job was through a temp service, and somehow they get around having to pay benefits for full-time work? For $9/hour, no benefits, and work that was tearing up my body, I was still willing, UNTIL I found out that I would lose my medical. I have to get very expense treatments for the arthritis, so it was a no-brainer. I had to quit the job, lose my car insurance, and stop paying my bills.

Some system we have, huh?

[Stinky The Clown]

81. Congrats to you!

[gleaner]

82. Here's to you!

Great news. You did it. You got a job in one of the hardest job markets I have ever seen. That is something to call out about.;)

[existentialist]

83. Congratulations.

I know it can get very scary not having work. This time last year both my wife and I were unemployed, and had been for over two months, and it was beginning to get desperate.

Then I got a temporary full time job which lasted until I got my present two part time jobs, and, now within the last month, my wife has two part time jobs too.

Things are still a bit dicey. Neither one of us can get health insurance, but right now at least we both appear to be healthy. If there were reasonably priced health insurance as we would hope would be available through a public option we could, and would afford that, well, we're at risk.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

84. (((here_is_to_hope))) atta go - so happy for you

I'm looking for job now, wish me luck, very glad for you.

[uberblonde]

85. I'm so happy for you.

And I hope it's contagious! 18 months and counting....

[klook]

86. Job hunting can be so difficult

under the best of circumstances. I'm always reminded of what the Red Queen says in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass:
"It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

Congratulations, and here's hoping your employer is smart enough to realize what a great find you are.
:toast:

[applegrove]

87. Very happy for you.

[DesertDiamond]

88. I am SO happy for you!!!! You made ME cry too! :-)

[northofdenali]

89. Wonderful. And you've given me hope, as well.

I'm back in the job market AGAIN, but at least this time around, there are openings I qualify for and I'm actually getting interview.

Thank you for that good, good feeling of hope. :hug:

[Mopar151]

90. Great!

I have an interview tomorrow - for an agency, but they have some good jobs posted.

[onestepforward]

91. Congratulations!

:toast:

[tavalon]

92. I don't know you personally, but it doesn't matter

I'm thrilled that you have a job. It sounds like a less desirable job but hell, it's a job and the powers that be like to say they have to outsource because Americans don't want certain jobs and that is just bullshit. We want to work.

[elias7]

93. Well done!

[DeadEyeDyck]

94. hey..

any paycheck is better than no paycheck

Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[subterranean]

95. Congrats!

This calls for a :toast:

[Left Coast2020]

96. Will someone please buy this man a drink???

You deserve it!!
:toast: :toast: :toast:

[OneGrassRoot]

97. What an awesome post! Yay for you!!!!

:bounce:

:hug:

[meowomon]

98. Congrats and sleep well.

And yes, this country is great!

[gimama]

99. YEA!!! YEA! for YOU!

Happy news..
They'll soon realize THEY are the lucky ones..they have YOU!
hey-HEY!
:woohoo:

[lizziegrace]

100. Congratulations!

It's almost 5am here and I haven't slept for days wondering how to get through without steady income. Your post gives me hope I desperately need.

:hug:

[DainBramaged]

101. Good for you! Stay healthy.

:yourock: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[BlueCollar]

102. Congratulations !!!! ...n/t

[Doug.Goodall]

103. Congratulations

[secondwind]

104. your post made me feel so happy for you! Congratulations, and get those glasses!

[jeanpalmer]

105. Congratulations

What a welcome turn of events. Hopefully, everyone in need of a job will have a similar experience.

[Delphinus]

106. Yea for you!!!

Congratulations - may your luck continue.

[DisgustedInMN]

107. Good for you!

It always lifts me a little to hear that one of us has gotten back to work. Hope that one day soon I'll be able to post a thread like yours. But, in the mean time, your good news is an upper.

[I Have A Dream]

108. Yay you!

:bounce:

:D

[Christa]

109. Congrats, Buddy! nt

[JTFrog]

110. Awesome news.

Congratulations!

:toast:

[Blue_Tires]

111. major kick

[NoSheep]

112. I've felt exactly as you do. Congratulations on having these worries out of your way.

[justabob]

113. that is great!

I am so happy for you! Thanks for sharing your good news. :D

[RedRoses323]

114. Good for you!!!

Blessings......O8) :bounce: :headbang:

[truebrit71]

115. Congratulations!

Way to hang in there...

[closeupready]

116. That's terrific. :-)

:woohoo: :hi:

[drm604]

117. One more DUer announcing that they've found a job!

:bounce: :toast:
I'm hoping that this is a trend. I started my new job a week ago. (They're closed today for snow).

[myrna minx]

118. I am so happy for you.

Congratulations. :toast:

[sinkingfeeling]

119. Very happy for you.

[trocar]

120. Yeah you ! ! ! ! nt

[raccoon]

121. Best of luck to you! :hug: nt

[Cal Carpenter]

122. Cheers to you, and sadness for the fact

that a capable person has to go through all that just to make a living.

What a little job security for all (and how about Universal Healthcare while we are at it) would to make us truly free....

[lonestarnot]

123. Yeah!

:applause:

[niyad]

124. congratulations

[Beacool]

126. Congratulations!!!!

I'm very happy for you. It must be terrible to have to worry about paying bills and put food on the table at the same time without a job.

Best luck to you!!!!

:hug:

[TwilightGardener]

127. Good for you!

[gratefultobelib]

128. What a wonderful post! Hooray for you!

[FourScore]

129. Sleep well, dear here_is_to_hope.

k&r

[CoffeeCat]

130. I love your attitude!!

I know you will do a great job and be an asset to that company
and a welcome ray of sunshine to your coworkers.

You totally rock!!!

:) :applause: :) :applause: :hug: :applause: :hug: :)

[Still Blue in PDX]

131. Congratulations!

I come from a long line of men who have done the "grunt work," and there's nothing to be ashamed of. Huzzah, employment! Huzzah, steady income! Huzzah, Here_is_to-Hope! You are obviously awesome to be offered a job on the basis of a phone interview.

:toast:

[OllieLotte]

133. Best news I've heard all day. Very happy for you.

[Myrina]

134. Congrats!!!!

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[here_is_to_hope]

135. Hi every one!

Second day is done, had a blast. Not as tired as yesterday but every bit as happy.
I received a company cell phone, keys and assorted handbooks, a pat on the back and a heart 'welcome aboard' so I am in!

I am grateful to every one who posted on this thread, I have never had a post that went to the Greatest Page as I listen more than speak usually...lolz.

To those who are looking for employment, don't get discouraged, I almost let it get to me when my wife was laid off last month, I mean I was down in the dumps.
But this side of the dirt is better than the other side looking up, I found hope where I could and just kept exploring options.

We will get by!



Thanks again every one, nap time...

[Liberal_in_LA]

138. wonderful

[LuckyLib]

139. Your post is a wonderful poem. Send it to your local newspaper, then print it out and save it

to read in the future. It's wonderful!

[marzipanni]

140. Congrats on getting a job! Here's a good place to get glasses-

if the job doesn't have that kind of benefit, so you can spend more of your hard-earned money on other things.
My big brother is one helluva cheapskate, but finds hecka good deals because of it... :)
http://madprofessor.net/2007/08/cheap-prescription-glasses.html

[Earl Grey]

142. Congratulations!!

I know its nice to finally have something to pay the bills with.

[Lasher]

143. Good on you.

:fistbump:

[Control-Z]

145. Great Post.

I'm glad I decided to click on it. Sometimes I ignore the greater posts on the Greatest Page - just because.

Congrats!
:toast:

[friedgreentomatoes]

146. Congratulations.

I hardly if ever post in DU, whatever I do is usually confined to the lounge.

What brings me here is this post from a FReeper; just how much low can they get!!!!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2448761/posts

I hope it is not against DU rules to post this here. Mods pls remove if it is.

[here_is_to_hope]

147. Ha ha! Thats some typical freeper crap...

I read the thread all the way through, those freepers, goodness.

Thanks for the laugh fgt!:D