How Is The Job Situation In Your Area

[DemocratSinceBirth]

[Demeter]

1. Michigan Here

no jobs for 10 years and counting....

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I Am Not Being Flippant Or Insensitive But Have You Thought About Moving?

Because I know moving is traumatic.

[Demeter]

3. I have the job I've had for 12 years

but half a million have moved. I was born here, spent 29 years in exile, and I'm not leaving. But too many good people have because they must. And where can they move to?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. You Have A Job-That's Good

But lots of areas have been deserted for lack of opportunity.

Maybe there will be a mass exodus from the U.S.

[Demeter]

7. Our Governor Has Worked Herself to a Frazzle

trying to recruit new business, trying to hold existing business, trying to balance a budget on a shrinking base. I would have had a breakdown by now. It's too bad she can't run for President.

[hobbit709]

5. Depends on who you talk to

According to the Chamber of Concrete types it's great.
To the average person it's so-so and the jobs don't pay shit.

[Jamastiene]

6. Wal-Mart is still our largest employer.

We have lots of college graduates who have to leave and go at the very least 70 miles away to get gainful employment. That is, unless they want to stay in town and use their degrees to say, "It's over on Aisle 6." or ask, "Would you like fries with that?" Believe it or not, a lot of them do have to do that too.

[blindpig]

8. I meet people who have moved from Michigan and Ohio

to South Carolina looking for work. Our official unemployment rate is 12 1/2%, at least 20% in reality. It breaks my heart.

[GoCubsGo]

9. Great if you are an engineer or a nurse

Otherwise, not so much.

[meeshrox]

10. Tampa Bay area is between 12 and 15%

depending on the county...

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Our county is OFFICIALLY at 24% unemployment.

Nearest big towns ( Or small cities-whichever) are 90 miles away.
And unfortunately, average education is high school.
Worse yet, we do not have spectacular schools.

When I was working, I was offered jobs any where in the state because I have a Master's degree.
Interestingly, back on the West Coast, I could not easily get a job late 1980's
because almost everybody there had a college degree.
In my case, moving to the South at that time was a good career choice.

Today, not even a degree helps much. Few jobs.

[NNN0LHI]

12. All the good union jobs we used to have around here are in Japan and Korea these days