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Offline Hawkgirl

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Becoming unemployed and scared
« on: June 24, 2010, 06:35:16 PM »
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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts)        Wed Jun-23-10 11:37 PM
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Becoming unemployed and scared

This is a crisis so many American's have experienced, I can in no way ask for sympathy.
but you're going to anyway

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Next week, I am moving with a wing, a prayer, and a month's paycheck to find a job in Buffalo. I've moved a lot, New Orleans, San Francisco, San Diego, Richmond, Philadelphia, but never without a job lined up ahead of time. I'm 41 and one month away from being homeless with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences.

and I'm Queen Elizabeth
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My grandfathers told me about this dream where you can make a living if you work for it. That age seems past, and I accept it, but this is the most general fear I've felt since I first started living on my own 20 years ago.

Economy, I can finally blame something else from my shortcomings.

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riderinthestorm  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-23-10 11:44 PM
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6. Why Buffalo? Do they have a booming economy or something?
 Am I missing something about Buffalo and biomedical sciences?

Good luck regardless, just curious why Buffalo? (it's damn cold there, not a lot of culture, not some kind of global mecca for sciences....)

riderinthestorm is on to him?

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gateley  (1000+ posts)      Wed Jun-23-10 11:56 PM
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14. I'm curious, too -- why Buffalo? If you have family there that may help.
 If it weren't for my brother and sister-in-law, I'd be on the street. When I lived in NC (when I became sick, blah blah blah) I actually looked up "how to live in your car". Only problem was, I didn't have any money to buy gas to get from place to place.

 

So you're mooching off your family...what else is new?

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Juche  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-24-10 12:19 AM
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23. Same here
 I have looked up how to live in a car. I have also looked into how to live in a tent. The problem always seems to be finding a place to actually set up where you won't be harassed or arrested. Plus the weather when it is extremely bad.  

yeah, normal families don't like bums crashing their winter recitals...and things of that sort...
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Blue_Tires  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-24-10 12:13 AM
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19. all i can say is it won't be like this forever...
 and i'm someone who has had reliable full-time work only five out of the last ten years after grad school...


you should probably go back to school then... :lmao:

More desperation here:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8624504

I hope I did the quote thing right...I normally don't start threads in this section...




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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2010, 06:58:51 PM »
Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences....Pot/drugs and their myriad uses.

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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2010, 07:14:17 PM »
All those posts and I see no 1 blaming Obama, if it was Bush? we know what the comments would be.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2010, 07:38:16 PM »
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Next week, I am moving with a wing, a prayer, and a month's paycheck to find a job in Buffalo. I've moved a lot, New Orleans, San Francisco, San Diego, Richmond, Philadelphia, but never without a job lined up ahead of time. I'm 41 and one month away from being homeless with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences.

In other words being an insane leftist has meant you can`t hold a job anywhere even if the doctorate thing was true,which is doubtful.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2010, 07:39:36 PM »
Quote from: Carl on June 24, 2010, 07:38:16 PM
In other words being an insane leftist has meant you can`t hold a job anywhere even if the doctorate thing was true,which is doubtful.

Or it was dumb enough to move to large cities run by liberals with higher-than-normal unemployment rates and a difficult job market (even during good times).
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2010, 08:05:42 PM »
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I actually looked up "how to live in your car".

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Same here

I have looked up how to live in a car. I have also looked into how to live in a tent.

Ever notice none of them ever look up "How to get a job and keep it"?

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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2010, 08:06:04 PM »
:rofl: :hi5:
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2010, 08:09:14 PM »
I looked up living in your car, too.  I found a bunch of crap written by someone named bobbolink.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2010, 08:11:27 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on June 24, 2010, 08:09:14 PM
I looked up living in your car, too.  I found a bunch of crap written by someone named bobbolink.

You also find things by her on how to post from the library and how to rid pol boards of drunken fourth-rate writers.

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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2010, 08:13:53 PM »
I want to know how Bobbo pays for an iphone!
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2010, 08:14:51 PM »
Quote from: USA4ME on June 24, 2010, 08:11:27 PM
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2010, 08:46:19 PM »
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Next week, I am moving with a wing, a prayer, and a month's paycheck to find a job in Buffalo. I've moved a lot, New Orleans, San Francisco, San Diego, Richmond, Philadelphia, but never without a job lined up ahead of time. I'm 41 and one month away from being homeless with a Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences.

There's two kinds of liberals in this world. Those that are as DUmb as a stump with no work experience and those who have spent several decades in a university. They have several advanced degrees and no work experience. A good example is Greywarrior. She is 60 and still applying for student loans for the next school year.

The island is infested with both types. What we need is a good can of RAID.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2010, 09:22:30 PM »
The homeless Doctor...

Yep, sounds like a lib to me  :evillaugh:
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #13 on: June 25, 2010, 11:22:42 AM »
Buffalo, without a job already lined up?  He's either totally insane, or he knows where they're giving out free weed in Buffalo.  Trying to live in a car or a tent if it came to that in a Snow Belt/Rust Belt city is about the dumbest idea since 'Nutshot' videos.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #14 on: June 25, 2010, 11:39:18 AM »
What gets me is that they actually had to look up how to live in a tent!

I guess somebody's parents never took them camping before.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2010, 12:11:37 PM »
Quote from: HACKSAW on June 25, 2010, 11:39:18 AM
What gets me is that they actually had to look up how to live in a tent!

I guess somebody's parents never took them camping before.

Or in the military.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2010, 12:22:08 PM »
Oh for cripes sake! "How to live in your car": open the frikkin' door and get in, ya frikkin' DUmbass! Sheesh, these people couldn't poor piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel!
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2010, 12:31:03 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on June 25, 2010, 12:22:08 PM
Oh for cripes sake! "How to live in your car": open the frikkin' door and get in, ya frikkin' DUmbass! Sheesh, these people couldn't poor piss out of a boot with the instructions printed on the heel!

That question should be posed at the island. Maybe bobo the hobo could offer some tips.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2010, 12:39:04 PM »
Hey, frustrated_lefty, welcome to obama's America!
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2010, 01:12:45 PM »


Just espied a pair while out getting some gas. They are easy to spot and plentiful around here this time of year but tend to migrate to warmer climes as the Autumn wind makes living under their blue plastic tarps more difficult.   This pair was definately off to an bum camp, they were going in the direct opposite direction of the NEW HOMLESS SHELTER.

Our hero of this piece seems to be going to Buffalo with its mate who is going for a job if I remember what I read.

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frustrated_lefty (1000+ posts)        Thu Jun-24-10 07:49 AM
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34. A surprising number of people were curious about "why Buffalo"
 My fiance wants to live there, close to her family. That basically settles it.

There are other reasons which make it agreeable. My daughter lives in Michigan, I want to stay in traveling range. I can't live in middle America, I need some kind of coast or major lake in seeing distance. The people I love are there, or near there...I have to make it work, basically. I can lose things, even lose important friends. I can't lose my daughter or fiance. I'll live in a shelter, work at a convenience store, whatever.

Thanks for bouncing ideas with me guys, this has helped remind me of my priorities.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2010, 01:16:32 PM »
So what you are saying is the under G.W. Bush you had a job.

Welcome to the Oconomy.
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2010, 03:30:49 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on June 25, 2010, 11:22:42 AM
Buffalo, without a job already lined up?  He's either totally insane, or he knows where they're giving out free weed in Buffalo.  Trying to live in a car or a tent if it came to that in a Snow Belt/Rust Belt city is about the dumbest idea since 'Nutshot' videos.

Part of me would like to smack the DUmb**** in the head with a 2"x4" and tell them about the folly of such an idea.

Another part of me wants to . . . just smack the DUmb**** in the head with the aforementioned 2"x4". :hammer:
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2010, 03:39:56 PM »
**** me... Get a job driving for Pizza Hut or something. Sure, your $100,000 PhD won't mean shit, but you'll have a job and some income. If it's not enough, get a second job stocking nights at a grocery store or something. Again, your PhD is worthless, but it's more money. And you have a fiancee. She can get a job or two as well. Before you know it, those $15 grand a year jobs will add up to some real money that you can live on. And eventually, you may be able to find a job in your field and you can leave them behind, grateful that you managed to survive long enough to do so.

But yeah, knowing your type, that work is "beneath you." You wouldn't deign to have a job where you aren't called "Doctor" by all the staff. Worthless DUmbass.

Oh yeah, Mr. PhD in Biomedical Sciences, it's "Americans" not "American's."  :thatsright:
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2010, 03:40:52 PM »
Oh man, is he going to hate it.  Especially in the coming winter.  Buffalo is very very tough.  And no fun to be had.  

Suuuure am looking forward to having another loser dependent on my loser state.  
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Re: Becoming unemployed and scared
« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2010, 03:46:08 PM »
Quote from: Karin on June 25, 2010, 03:40:52 PM
Oh man, is he going to hate it.  Especially in the coming winter.  Buffalo is very very tough.  And no fun to be had.  

Suuuure am looking forward to having another loser dependent on my loser state.  

Just wait until his fiancé dumps his ass and leaves him on his own when she moves in with her relatives.
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