How's the job market in your area the economy is good

[butterfly77]

or so says your president. I would like to know what you think this week. Any new businesses opened up, if so which type. Has anyone gone to school and can't find a job in their chosen profession I have been hearing a lot of this lately, whats going on.

[larrysh]

1. I know I can't find experienced bartenders.....

Lost a pretty good one last week, she went to work for a company that
had health benefits (I can't blame her). Waitresses? Forget it! They
love to work when their tips are coming in, but at the end of the night, when it's time to set their try down and start cleaning, they
don't stick around. I own a bar in a suburb oputside of Houston. Business is up from last year, but it's summer (slowest time of the year for bars) so it's hard to tell anything about the economy from
us.....

[The Cleaner]

13. That waitress sounds lazy, but

generally speaking low-wage service jobs don't pay much of a living wage and that's why you see some having trouble filling those positions. For exmple $5.00/hour in LA. won't even get you an RV.

Wages have not kept up with the cost of living and the lower-wage jobs have fallen way behind. The average person can't afford squat anymore.

[MoseyWalker]

2. In the past 10 years or so

this town has lost 45% (yes - no exaggeration) of its population. Half the buildings are boarded up and empty, and businesses are nonexistent.

Oh. There is hope on the way, though. Walmart has supposedly negotiated with one property owner in between here and a few other almost ghost towns to build a beautiful new huge store. I'm so happy I could shit. <sarcasm>

[butterfly77]

8. Someone hit a walmart in michigan yesterday...

they got away with $200,000.00 they haven't been caught yet.

[uppityperson]

3. self employed health care worker, way less jobs now

people are having problems meeting their deductible (if they have insurance) and can't afford health care if they don't have insurance.

[MoseyWalker]

6. that truly sucks

I hadn't really thought much about that aspect. Is there any way to have the deductible waived?

[uppityperson]

7. no, not unless your group chooses too, or you can and pay more monthly

lower deductible, higher premiums monthly. Sometimes you can chose your deductible, sometimes it is a group thing.

[The Cleaner]

14. Yep. The wealthiest nation on earth,

and yet we can't afford to provide basic healthcare to our own citizens.

That is sad, and quite ironic.

[butterfly77]

9. healthcare was suppose to be the most secure...

[AngryAmish]

4. I'm hiring

[MoseyWalker]

11. Who wants to work for a pissed off Amish guy?

Just kidding! I don't know anything about you, but couldn't resist.

Are you really hiring, and are you having trouble finding people?

[AngryAmish]

15. Actually I am kinda slow about finding someone

I need someone who is bilingual but that is not hard round here. I'm just not trying to pay through the nose.

[flyarm]

5. NOT SURE OF EMPLOYMENT BUT I LIVE ON RESORT ISLAND

in nj ( beach property)..and my realtor neighbor says house sales that have been robust for years..both new and used..is down over 50%..and it has him really worried!!
i also live on fla beach and this past winter i was hearing the same thing from realtors...

those million $$ beach properties are not selling well at all now!!

( i bought long before prices escalated so much)

fly

[The Cleaner]

16. Waaay back in 2001 I was saying that the real estate market

is in a bubble. I expected it to pop in 2002-2003. It just kept going up. I refused to by and instead relocated to a lower cost of living area. I have not bought a home. I refused to buy into the hype: "Better buy now before it's too late..."

Typical bubble, all the signs are there.

But as in everything, what goes up MUST come down. And down it will come.

[B Calm]

10. The job market sucks around here, but if you are a cheap labor

employer, times are good!

[dmr4567]

12. Cheap labor is all around me

My Health insurance detuctabele is 1,500 and my script just cost me 45 dollars up from 25 just a month ago.

[wicket]

17. The economy here in Mass. is in the shitter

n/t

[The Cleaner]

19. Unless of course your're patching up the Big Dig...

Not that the workmanship was shoddy or anything :sarcasm:

[The Cleaner]

18. Some of my relatives are personal-responsibility,

pull yourself up by your bootstraps, Rush Limbaugh lovin' types and had a very hard time understanding that the Dallas Fort Worth economy SUCKS and it's TOUGH to find employment here.

Lots of service jobs, some entry level, but in competitive white collar fields such as technology where pay is higher than $5.50/hr, this area is still feeling the effecs of the 2001 telecom/tech crash. It may be slowly recovering, but probably will NEVER reach the boomtime levels of the late 1990s.

A friend of mine remarked recently that she saw alot of middle-aged, well-groomed men working in Tom Thumb grocery store. Probably collateral damage from the tech crash - in a good economy, middle aged men are behind desks, not seafood counters - working computers, not meat slicers. But hey, ya gotta work somewhere, I guess.

[B Calm]

21. Republicans = Corporate Freedom and Individual Responsibility

Democrats = Corporate Responsibility and Individual Freedom!

[hack89]

20. Pretty good ...

between tourism, the yacht industry and defense contractors things are going very well. My company is hiring programmers at good wages and has plans to hire quite a few more.

[Octafish]

22. Peace is the only solution to war.

If we go the way of revenge, we'll pretty soon run out of people.

UNELECTED

[Sapere aude]

23. I can tell you about the local job market by seeing if the employment

agencies jobs are real or not.

There are more and more agency jobs posted on Monster but they are just fishing for resumes. The jobs don't exist.

Also when the jobs are posted by real companies that are not afraid to put their names in the ad the job market is picking up because they are not replacing someone but adding to their staff.

[conflictgirl]

24. Still sucks in my part of Michigan.

My husband (unemployed since Feb.) has a third interview for a temp job with Delphi this week, and I am waiting to hear back on a second interview for a contract, part-time, work at home editing job.

Sad that we're feeling hopeful and excited about jobs that are not permanent and don't offer benefits. But that pretty much says it all.

[geniph]

25. Back in the late 90s,

the High Tech section of the Help Wanted classified ads in the Sunday paper used to be its own section - six to ten pages, hundreds if not thousands of jobs.

These days, sometimes it's part of a column, very rarely more than about 20 jobs. Some days, there's only one ad.

Yet the local employers cry and moan and gnash their teeth about how they need H1-B visas to bring in more workers from other countries because of the "lack of skilled workforce." All the while, I know experienced tech folks who are working as baristas or cashiers because they can't get anything else.