Welp.....I was just laid off...

[Gilmer]

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate.

[Rising-Sun]

Well you better start collecting bottles and cans, not sure if you are trolling if not, then you are doomed!

Depending on your location and your conditions, if you have a vehicle to travel, then you have better chance to find something. There alot of ppls out there doesnt like what they do, but pay the bills.

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate.

warspite1

Sorry to hear that [:(] Same happened to me three years ago - I hope something comes up.

[SeaMonkey]

One word, "Texas"!

[berto]

Two words: North Dakota!

(North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S., currently ~2.7%.)

[Qwixt]

Sorry to hear about that.

The clock is ticking on my job too. 3 to 15 months.

[vonRocko]

Good luck H Gilmer. I know how you feel.

[aaatoysandmore]

I hear they are paying McDonald employees $14 an hour in North Dakota. Course they are not hiring atm cause everybody went there that used to work at Burger King in Texas. lol But, seriously they really have been paying that much in some places there. Nobody wants to live in the constant cold of N. Dakota it would seem so there's always jobs there, mostly in the construction business though and you pretty much have to live in a trailer home or your car. 60 minutes has had some shows about it.

On another note Security officer jobs are on the rise. So, if you don't mind putting your life on the line for $9 or $10 an hour there's a slew of them pretty much around the country.

Walmart's is hiring slaves again (pretty much minimum wage jobs for backs and cashiers) for some kind of new store they are trying called a Neighborhood Market (grocery store only that is setup like most Walmart stores without all the other stuff).

Truck Drivers are always needed in the chemical business end of it. Hazmat an all that.

Of course there's always slave labor jobs usually open for concrete finishers and road crews and platform workers in the oilfield. If you don't mind getting your fingers dirty goto Haliburton.com and look for frac jobs in your area or close to it, they are always needing help.

As for accounting jobs, if you ain't a skirt those jobs are few and far between for a dude. Plus, where I'm from you are basically "required" to speak Mexican/Spanish if you want an office or customer service job anymore. Basically if it comes down between you or a skirt, the skirt is gonna get the job.

Don't let em fool yah about age discrimination or your sex. The bias is still alive and well. Especially here in my area.

I think interviews should be done in private booths, whereby each applicant goes into this booth (that the employer cannot see the applicant until after the interview and he/she has selected the person for the job) and they are interviewed but their voices and sound are distorted like they show on tv sometimes when they are asked questions and don't want anyone to know who they are. Then prospective employers would have to pick "exactly" by qualifications instead of looks and preferences of sex and age and stuff like that. I don't know how many jobs I've been turned away from because I was a dude or too old. Course they won't tell you but I was sure I had the best qualifications for the job an experience.

[parusski]

ORIGINAL: berto


Two words: North Dakota!

(North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S., currently ~2.7%.)

Yep. I have a cousin who was laid off in 2012 and after looking for a new job(unsucessfully) for 6 months he moved to North Dakota and got a job three days later. He was a help desk tech. for a major retailer making $44,000 per year. He now works as a tech for a North Dakota energy services company at $69,000. Housing was a little tough to find but he shares a place with someone.

Texas or North Dakota are the places to go.

Good luck.

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[GaryChildress]

ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate.

Sorry to hear H. Gilmer. I don't know of any jobs openings off hand. Although, when I was laid off in 2007 I went to work for a temp company and managed to find a new place that would take me in on one of my temp assignments. You might try that in the meantime, especially if you have good skills. [:(]

[Gilmer]

Thanks all.

I will endeavor to persevere.

[Twotribes]

ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

Thanks all.

I will endeavor to persevere.

So you saw Josey Wales ehh?

[Missouri_Rebel]

Sorry to hear of your troubles.

Best of luck.

mo reb

[radic202]

AH that sucks my friend.. It happened to me about 22 years ago while working full time plus finishing a University degree part time, 3 kids, 2 cars and 3 mortgage payments left on my home..............Needless to say, sold one car, wife went back to work part time, parents-in-law took over babysitting while I finished my last of 5 degrees (went full time to finish it), my parents paid off our mortgage, chipped in with some expenses and we all pulled through.. Not everyone has family to pitch in but we were lucky as heck! Found my dream job about 10 months later and never looked back!

Now 24 years latter, a much bigger house and no mortgage, all kids grown up and graduated from the same University I went to, a $60K German sedan in the garage (all paid for), but parents-in-law both passed and I miss then like I never thought I would, sometimes wish I was back to those difficult times just to have them back, anyhow..........

What I want to say, is that all can look bad and gloomy but take it day by day, look at where you are at and where yo want to go, Look to family and friends for support and mostly it can never get worst then what it is atm so build on that. Keeping you in our thoughts my friend. Good Luck and God Bless.

[rodney727]

Are you a CPA? Lots of jobs in the accounting field. Start looking at hospitals first.

[Queeg]

Texas, seriously. Energy industry. Accounting should be a good fit.

[SeaMonkey]

The Bakken, ha! Big deal, black gold and cold as a witch's t--t. Yeah sure, go to ND, freeze your nuts off. Texas has a lot more than oil. Take a look at the geography...you see tha Gulf there, with those deep water ports. Think about it, does it look like the heart of the western hemisphere? Access to the rest of the planet, pipelines feeding energy from all the shale formations of the eastern Rockies and guess where a lot of that Bakken oil ends up....in our Texas refineries.

Accountants become schedulers down here for all the big oil companies, that means they sit at a trader's elbow and schedule all his traffic, barges, ships, terminal blending etc. But if you don't like money, don't come, we don't need no Texican'ts, got enough of those from Cal and the other places that have screwed up their economies.

We will take some more Texi-cans though. Ohhh, but beware, its does get a bit toastie![:'(]

[Perif]

Yep Texas, energy is a growing sector and there are plenty of jobs there.

ps: I am living there and working in it.

[SeaMonkey]

A CDL will get you 6 figures driving an 18 wheeler....hauling...guess what???