Aside from legitimate injuries that disable people from working, do you really believe people cant find jobs in the United States?
Open up any local newspaper, and theres thousands of want ads for thousands of positions.
I do not believe that a person cant find some job, no matter how menial, to make some money to get on one's feet.
Is it lack of jobs, or lack or ambition?
2006-09-06 07:45:01 · 12 answers · asked by JusticeManEsq 5 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
I've had many jobs. I have never been unemployed more than 2 or 3 days. If you want to work you can. You may have to do something you do not want to do while you are looking for a better job but as stated, if you want to work you can. Unemployment is for losers and people who are too proud to do menial jobs while looking for something better. Do you think all those latinos want to work construction, mow lawns and clean houses. Hell no! They gotta do something to pay the bills. In America you are what you make of yourself. If there aren't any jobs where you live....MOVE!
2006-09-06 08:07:13 · answer #1 · answered by drctrutops 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sometimes it is the location as well. When a local major employer goes out of business, there are a flood of people suddenly on the market who may snap up all of the available jobs. In your area, there may be hundreds of jobs, but not in a county where they just had a big factory close.
Also, there can be a skill set problem. Most decent jobs these days require at least a BS or BA. If you don't have these, you may not be able to find a job. The people without a high school diploma or GED are even worse off - can you think of a lot of jobs that don't require at least this?
Granted, there are some people who have a lack of ambition. But I don't agree with generalizing this to say that all unemployment is fiction.
2006-09-06 14:49:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest issue for many is ambition. There can be a time of depression after a job loss that creates a mental hole that is tough to crawl out of.
Otherwise, there is also a bad meeting between available joobs and the education that individuals have paid for. While it would be nice to take any job, there is a mindset that if you are busy with some menial job during the day you are unable to interview for a more meaningful position.
But I lean more towards lack of ambition and the mental block that it brings...
2006-09-06 14:54:14 · answer #3 · answered by fe2o3ez 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a such thing as a 'natural' unemployment rate. No matter how efficiently the economy is working, there will always be people looking for work. If you are making 40K and you think you should be making 60K, you start looking for a new job. If you leave your current job to search full time (not uncommon) then you are unemployed. This is the economy's way of making sure all resources are utilized as fully as possible.
2006-09-06 14:51:24 · answer #4 · answered by Fermat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unemployment is real but with most people it is only temporary...I was unemployed for 4 months because every interview I went to they told me they could not work around my college schedule(3days a week for 4 hours each class)OH by the way I'm in FL try coming here and find a decent job
2006-09-06 14:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you've never been there - you just don't know. I thought the same thing too at one time. I'm working now - it's temp work - but I'm working and this position will prayerfully become a permanent full time job. I collected unemployment for the 1st time in my working career (30 some years). So - as they say "Sh*t happens" - it happened to me. So, hopefully in your lifetime - it will by pass you. But, should it happen to you - you will see things in a whole new different light.
2006-09-06 14:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by Topez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I actually did take unemployment for several weeks at one point during my life.
I was looking as hard as I could for another job and jumped at the first offer I got. I was SO GLAD to be working again.
I didn't like taking it. But I didn't refuse it. I thought that I had paid into it for that purpose. And I knew my old employer would in effect be contributing too. I had bills to pay.
Make of my first-hand experience what you will.
2006-09-06 14:50:37 · answer #7 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Topez is right!!!!!!
You have to experience it. NO ONE who has a job seems to have the slightest compassion or understanding, which makes it worse!!
2006-09-06 21:56:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
lack of ambition
2006-09-06 14:58:37 · answer #9 · answered by xzhou11377 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There are many workers that are legitamately denied Workers Compensation and still cannot work. They can't qualify for welfare because they have money or homes. Please do not judge.
2006-09-06 14:52:41 · answer #10 · answered by Rockford 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋