Point By Point: PART 5

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strict wrote: " ... <snip> ... You didn't even try to read that:

that's the maximum (before taxes are taken out) that unemployment

will pay PER WEEK until it runs out (at most, usually 26 weeks) if

you've earned $50K per year ... <snip> ... "

For those who are self-employed, they don't rely on unemployment

insurance at $496 maximum per week for 26 weeks. They make sure they

save a reasonable portion of their income to cover such things as

slow downs and lost contracts and such.

Those who are employed would do well to learn something about

budgeting, debt management and saving money for a rainy day.

strict wrote: " ... <snip> ... Stop being stupid and trying to twist

things that you don't know squat about living expenses/costs in the

area I'm in, versus what most people are in: they're simply not the

same. You also don't know jack about how it works with having lost

a job that everyone can see you could clearly get again, as soon as

things turn up, when what they're offering is notably lower pay:

you're seen as a major flight risk, so they won't hire you, based on

that fact alone, unless the job they've got available is

considered so truly onerous and keeps people short-term enough that

they're happy to even have someone for a short period of time, which

doesn't usually happen with any jobs that have any meaningful

training requirements. Now, go back and re-read what I stated about

unemployment, both in this paragraph, and the original post I

mentioned it, and try to read it correctly this time, will you? A

huge portion of why the roommate thing hasn't worked in practice is

I've always managed to get really bad (I mean criminals on their way

into earning prison time, which is not an exaggeration) roommates

that don't pay their rent: a few times of that is enough to convince

anyone reasonable that things just aren't so worthwhile for the

risks/rewards basis ... <snip> ... "

That you are unable to make appropriate choices with regards to

roommates is no one's fault but your own, strict. Learn to use an

agency that screens roommates if you need a roommate or move to an

area of the country where you can afford the rent without additional

revenues from a roommate.

That employment in the part of the country where you wish to live is

not available to you and where the expenses are beyond your ability

to shoulder is no one's fault but your own, strict. Move to an area

you can reasonably afford.

Waiting around forever for a job that MIGHT come available at a rate

of pay that is more than entry level pay is foolish in these economic

times. And relocating to an area of the country where your knowledge

and skills result in employment hardly constitutes you to be

a 'flight risk.' Good Lord but that's a dramatic presentation if

ever there was one! LOL!

Your comments are nothing more than poor excuses for an individual

refusing to pull himself or herself up by his or her bootstraps and

being responsible for his or her choices in life.

It's this sort of mindset that has led people into these difficult

economic times because people are loathe to be responsible for their

own actions and to do what has to be done to improve their lot in

life.

Raven