What's your employment situation?

[Liberal_in_LA]

[nebenaube]

1. hmmm...

well, where is the way-under-self-employed because you are unemployable option?

[Mojambo]

2. Severely underemployed. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Where's retired?

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. ooops! forgot!

[eleny]

5. other - retired

[IDemo]

6. Other - temporarily laid off n/t

[crispini]

8. I believe that would count as "unemployed."

Unless you mean "furloughed" and your company intends to rehire you.

I've been unemployed for a month. It's getting old.

[IDemo]

11. It's a two week shutdown over Thanksgiving, with 3 weeks more over Christmas

"furloughed" would be the correct term.

[eyesroll]

7. Student/part time employed by choice.

Come May, I'll either be unemployed or full-time employed (as I'll graduate and my part-time student job will go poof).

[Danger Mouse]

9. full-time employment. pay's lousy, but hey it's a job.

[Versailles]

10. Unemployed...

Was not rehired at a private school last year (I don't think they liked the fact that my then fiancee and I were living together before marriage) and I have yet to find a job...been 6 months. South Carolina economy sucks.

[CRF450]

12. Unemployed, but receaving unemployment pay for now.

Cant wait till spring time rolls around so I can work my seasonal job again making lots of money.

[KG]

13. unemployed, due to collapse of housing industry. don't expect have another job for 2 years.

[Ladyhawk]

14. Disabled, but wanting to get well enough to work. n/t

[lindbergh]

15. Self-employed since 1980 now semi-retired. In good shape despite 8 years of Bushonomics.

...

[high density]

16. Full time employed

Working at a wage that is about 25% under market.

[NNN0LHI]

17. Retired and getting ready to apply for a Walmart greeter job if things get much worse

[littlebit]

18. Self employed

small buisness owner. My partner was laid off about six weeks ago.

[Indenturedebtor]

19. Just got a new job with a great company in a great field

I got damn lucky. I'm still going bankrupt because I was outta work for a little over 3 months... but I feel pretty damn happy I got this job. They're going to train me and really add to my CV as well. I scored.

[Liberal_in_LA]

22. congrats!

[Indenturedebtor]

24. Thanks. I really got lucky with this one. Just plain lucky

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. Luck plus preparation, no doubt.

[Indenturedebtor]

29. Well yeah but damn if I haven't done everything right to get jobs that I was more qualified for

Over the last three years I've been trying to get out of sales, and this time it finally worked and this was the best job I applied for :D I'm pumped!

[leftofthedial]

20. I said "unemployed,"

but truth is, I work three (sometimes four or five) part-time, temporary and generally shitty and low-paying jobs from time to time.

Often though, I have stretches of weeks or even months when I have no real work at all.

My gross income last year was less than one-tenth of what I earned in 2001.

[ekelly]

21. Employed full time and I feel very lucky n/t

[Lyric]

23. Full-time student/Unemployed*

*Because the part-time jobs I could take would only barely cover the childcare, transportation, and other peripheral work-related expenses that I would incur. It makes no sense for me to try and work when it would cost more for me to work than it does for me to just stay home with the kidlet.

My same-sex domestic partner (also a full-time student) works part-time at a convenience store/mini-mart.

[Chan790]

26. Transitory (and that's a good thing?)

After two years 2 months and 26 days of working for Starbucks part-time (and toiling on my "trunk" novel), my best friend called me today to offer me an assistant (learning the ropes) position in the film-and-television development house he's co-founding.

It's funny because I've told maybe 15 people today and they've been like "Wow...that's a dream job.", except it's not my dream job. (I'd much rather be planning fundraising gala events for MoMA.) I mean it's a cool job and he's really super-positioned and well-respected because he started as a PA for HBO working on Sex and The City and The Wire, progressed through a series of more-senior positions working on The Sopranos and finally made the jump into film work where he worked his way up to a executive producer position on a couple of well-received indie films. Working with him could make us both millionaires. He's got the industry connections and I'm creative in ways few people are. But it's not who I want to be and what I want to be doing; I guess it's about growing up and giving in.

A big part of me still wants to say "no thanks" even if it will allow me to move to NYC like I've always wanted. I just can't be an idiot like that. It's a "dream job"...

:dilemma: (I honestly think I might be the only person alive who would be unhappy being handed a job that other people covet and work their entire lives for. I worry that this makes me an ass.)

[Liberal_in_LA]

28. What are you afraid of?

[Chan790]

31. Not fear...

more like resignation...he's offered me an inside-shot at other positions before and I've turned him down cold...a lot. We both started in this field in different roles (I was a grip, He was a PA.) at the same time coming out of college. I hated it because, while the money is great, the hours were long and the work isn't interesting to me. What good was making $30/hr. if you work all the time (sometimes 18 hours in a day) and have no life or free time to enjoy? (I place a low relative value on $ and things compared to the freedom to do what I want. He OTOH has a beautiful apartment filled with beautiful things he never sees, a 60" flat-screen TV he doesn't have time to watch and a live-in girlfriend he's hardly seen in six months.)

I've always felt you should love what you do. I don't love this. But I feel like I'm almost 30, it's time I start being responsible and apply myself.

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. I see. Then enjoy your current job, you don't owe it to your friend to take job . :-)

[Idealism]

27. Can I lobby to include "Broke" as a choice?

[Historic NY]

30. disability pension.

[bluhoodie]

33. Full-time but as a contractor through an agency

Half of the people I work with are contractors. We're on 3-month to 11-month contracts. My previous job was a 6-month (once renewed) contract. Both jobs are professional positions.

[tech3149]

34. I gave up gainfull employment back in 2002

I just couldn't stand the thought of supporting a company that saw my participation in the business as a liability rather than an asset. 15 years of trying to to keep the company from committing suicide just wore me out. I didn't see any other companies out there that were any better, in fact it seems since then, the situation has gotten worse.

When I do go back to for profit work, it will be a small, privately owned company that doesn't have MBA's or business management graduates deciding company policy. I might modify that if those people have some history in the industry.

[tabbycat31]

35. unemployed

with no luck finding a job for 6 months so far. I'm back in school now, and won't finish until next year. I'll take even part-time at this point.

[Adsos Letter]

36. retired.