Paolo D Photography wrote:
I'm sorta lost here.

You're not lost, you're just like 50% of the job force in America.
The problem has always been there just that just like that farmer getting paid to not raise crops, now most employees are getting paid not to work!
BOTTOM LINE....?
IF you are an employer, it doesn't matter HOW many employees you have. All of the time you are short handed so you can't fire anyone but at any given time 1/2 of your employees are SOOO lazy and their work ethic is SOOO poor that you want to fire 50% of them but you can't because even SH*T employees to replace them is impossible to find, let alone a good employee.
So all of those with jobs right now are the employees you always wish you had that are good but you have to pay them more and all those sitting around weighing all their options are the 50% that you always wanted to FIRE but couldn't!! Employers are really scrambling to find enough help but don't actually know how good they actually have it.
So as all the SH*T workers sitting around weighing their options while sitting on their asses enjoying their government subsidized vacations, will run out of subsidy just in time to find out that employers have come to terms with being short handed with a few good employees and the SH*T will not find jobs as always except for the employer to wish that they could fire them but can't. Shit employees, we all know them. They can't can't talk and work at the same time, they look at their phones every five minutes, they send and receive text because there's always an emergency, They have to show you snippets of videos and have to prove on their phones just how dumb the kids/grandkids are, they go to the bathroom 10 times a day and think chew and vaping on the job is OK!
And so it will have come full circle....., again!!!
John

John Silva Photography wrote:

You're not lost, you're just like 50% of the job force in America.
The problem has always been there just that just like that farmer getting paid to not raise crops, now most employees are getting paid not to work!
BOTTOM LINE....?
IF you are an employer, it doesn't matter HOW many employees you have. All of the time you are short handed so you can't fire anyone but at any given time 1/2 of your employees are SOOO lazy and their work ethic is SOOO poor that you want to fire 50% of them but you can't because even SH*T employees to replace them is impossible to find, let alone a good employee.
So all of those with jobs right now are the employees you always wish you had that are good but you have to pay them more and all those sitting around weighing all their options are the 50% that you always wanted to FIRE but couldn't!! Employers are really scrambling to find enough help but don't actually know how good they actually have it.
So as all the SH*T workers sitting around weighing their options while sitting on their asses enjoying their government subsidized vacations, will run out of subsidy just in time to find out that employers have come to terms with being short handed with a few good employees and the SH*T will not find jobs as always except for the employer to wish that they could fire them but can't. Shit employees, we all know them. They can't can't talk and work at the same time, they look at their phones every five minutes, they send and receive text because there's always an emergency, They have to show you snippets of videos and have to prove on their phones just how dumb the kids/grandkids are, they go to the bathroom 10 times a day and think chew and vaping on the job is OK!
And so it will have come full circle....., again!!!
John

sounds like a bad personal experience?

rxz wrote:
My dad had an uncle who bought a farm and then was paid by the government not to grow crops.  But then he got greedy and tried to get the government to pay him for not raising pigs on the same land.  That's an option..  .

i can't afford any land, at least not around here, but maybe there is an option like that.
getting paid to not do something i don't want to expend the energy to do in the first place seems like a pretty sweet deal.

Managing Light wrote:
Do you like to build things with your hands?  I keep seeing company signs looking for welders, carpenters, etc.  Community colleges have courses for these skills, and companies will often hire workers to train for these jobs.

I have a grandson who is finishing up a community  college course in welding.  His plan is to get a job and get a SCUBA certification so he can start training for underwater welding.

its probably because i spent so many years building things with my hands that i used up both my hands and now they dont work so well. im all out of hands. sometimes it hurts just typing a reply here. im hesitant to take a job that is physically taxing now because i just dont have capacity for it anymore, or rather not something i can handle for many more years. im not getting any younger. however, my skills elsewhere are sort of limited or i limit myself because I dont want to do boring ass work.

so i feel like i just got too old to do the jobs i normally would, and too late to learn new skills doing something i would hate.

Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
Become a Plumber !
Better yet, Become a Plumbing Contractor (you don't get dirty hands by owning the business)

Plumbers never go without work . . . people use the toilet and sink every day whether or not there is high or low unemployment. During the depression they were about the only skilled laborers that worked all the time.

your suggestion reminded me of how i fixed my sink drain after the plumber the landlord hired to fix it failed to fix it.
he was a cool dude though. i also repaired his guitar for him. haha.

its not that i wouldnt be capable of such a trade, but dealing with peoples doo doo pipes is a hard pass.
its a good suggestion though, in terms of a necessary service.
i dont have any money to invest in starting a business, so thats another consideration.
i'm open to starting something, but it would have to be something that doesnt take much to get started and doesnt need special equipment or licensing. also i suck at admin stuff.

on the bright side; i've gotten a response from every potential employer i've contacted so far.
thats also why im being picky.
kind of hoping to hear back from the robotics job next week.
i wasnt joking about doing that.
the only requirement to work there is to wear hipster glasses. (thats a joke)

Ken Marcus Studios wrote:
Become a Plumber !
Better yet, Become a Plumbing Contractor (you don't get dirty hands by owning the business)

Plumbers never go without work . . . people use the toilet and sink every day whether or not there is high or low unemployment. During the depression they were about the only skilled laborers that worked all the time.

Damn. Almost exactly what my father told me when I was young. He owned a plumbing and heating / ac business. And although I don't do plumbing work I've held a plumbing license for over forty years out of respect for him. I figure if worse came to worse I could always either get a job as or start a business in plumbing.

He justified it by pointing out that every time a baby was born there was one more person who would probably someday need to hire a plumber.

Tony Lawrence wrote:
Paolo, I've heard about this thing called photography, rumor has it if you're good at people will pay you.
Just an ideal....

the rumor you've heard is true. however, other than a few gigs here and there i stopped doing photography professionally in 2014. i think theres even less need for another photographer right now considering the lack of events and already saturated market. pay could be decent, perks could be great

Tony Lawrence wrote:
this thing called photography, rumor has it if you're good at people will pay you.

^^^fake news

peter vic wrote:
Get a Government Job. Be first in line for all the counterfeit money, plus ... you really don't have to know anything!

Or actually do anything. If you do they may fire you.

Bob Helm Photography wrote:

Or actually do anything. If you do they may fire you.

i dont think thats how it works.