Are you employed right now?

[Deja Q]

A testament to the * Economy.

I answered choice 2.

[mcscajun]

1. Where the choice for "UNDER-employed"

for those of us who got the boot from our high-paying wage slave jobs in the last couple of years, and are now working at near-minimum wage?

[Deja Q]

4. Didn't think of it. Which is odd, I often ask the same question when

the 'media' reports xxx,yyy new jobs were created. "What type are they?"

Maybe for my next poll.

But I DO know from a social worker friend that IT jobs (good paying ones, no less) are starting to come back. That surprised me. And he's a liberal Dem too.

[benburch]

2. www.WhiteRoseSociety.org, Inc. employs me!

And at the princely salary of $300 per week. (On weeks when it can afford to...)

[LSdemocrat]

3. Other: I am a full-time student seeking summer work

Hint: anyone in St. Louis who needs a law clerk over the summer, please let me know :-)

[frylock]

5. other - temp currently supporting a network for a middle school..

Monday is my last day after being here for two months. Prior to that, unemployed for nine months.

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[newyawker99]

7. Hi starshine!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Taxloss]

8. Other: I am a sole trader, a freelance, a free agent.

I work for myself and answer to myself. The person who employs me is me.

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[Taxloss]

15. Yes, I entered my field entirely by choice.

As a desk editor on a business magazine, I was driven close to a total nervous breakdown through stress and pressure. Towards the end of my term - which was stratospherically successful - I was rather heavily medicated by my doctor and also "self-medicating" if you see what I mean. Anyway, I abandoned them all and have never felt better. Staying longer would have destroyed me.

Anyone can do it.

[yorkiemommie1]

9. barely employed

after being laid off by school district, hired back minus hours and benefits. BUT, I enjoy the work very much and the atmosphere is easy, easy, easy, and very much Democratic. And, I'm not just starting out. My daughter otoh, just found work after 4 months unemployed.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

10. i am employed

but my job completely fucking sucks and I stay simply because there are no other viable options that are apparent.

[shanti]

12. employed fulltime

give thanks...

[undeterred]

13. Unemployed and worried

4 weeks of unemployment comp left

[Chovexani]

14. Semi-employed

Doing temp work. Haven't had a full time job in about four years. :(

[kiraboo]

18. Me too.

I can't find a permanent full-time job so the agency puts me in a "longterm" position. I recently discovered that this is how my host company does business: it hires only temps for as long as they'll stay to save on wages and benefits. Although it irks me, I have no choice but to hang in there until somebody hires me permanently. I'd like to say there are advantages to being a temp, but I can't think of any. I work 40 hrs+/wk with no hope of pay increase or advancement. It sucks.

[Lone_Wolf_Moderate]

16. Out of college for a year now, employed part time,

looking for full-time work.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Self-employed

and having a bloody good time!

[lonestarnot]

19. Survey sayssssssss...... too small of a sample to be statistically

significant...fart!

[PowerToThePeople]

20. No "Underemployed" option?

Yes, I have a job. But a mak 50% what a person with my education should be making. Student loans on financial burden defferment, car barely kept running, etc.

Just having a job does not mean you are doing ok.

[SW FL Dem]

21. Other: Unemployed by choice

I am a mom who has the luxury of staying at home.

[formernaderite]

22. self-employed...the only way to go.

for me at least..used to do the employee gig, but simplified my life some years ago.