It would be hard to say which was my first "real" job. So I will let you decide:
1) Worked 3 PM-11 PM bagging feed at the local feed mill while in school. Did not wait at all. The owner advertised the job in the paper. None of the adult guys would last more than a week. My family was having money issues. I heard the feed store owner complaining when Grand Dad picked up some feed. I was fourteen at the time. I asked the mill owner for the job. He told me I was too young. I told him I would show up and do the bagging. If I could not do it I would quit asking. I ran from school and started at 3:15 at 11:00 I had bagged 22 ton of feed in fifty pound bags by myself. HE said that was better than most of the men he hired. He could not put me on the normal pay roll as I was too young. So he paid me by the ton to bag the feed. I got $2 a ton. I worked every day after school.(I worked for Grand Dad Sat) I was bagging 120 ton a week by the time I graduated high school. That was good money then. He tried to put me on normal payroll after I turn sixteen. I told him I would not take the pay cut. He agreed that it cost him more to have the hourly guys bag the feed as they did not work at it as hard. So I stayed on by the ton until the day before I went to the service.
2) Two weeks after Graduation I stepped of the bus at Army boot camp. I was only 17 then. I would not turn 18 until Aug. So that would be my "first" job after I turned 18.
Now for the rest.
A) How many jobs have you had???: I have worked at 23 different places in my life. This is after I got out of the service. Plus I have always farmed too.
B)How much time honing your resume: I never have applied to anywhere that needed a resume for what I was applying for.
C) How many interviews did you have?? Usually one per job. Either I got it or they turned me down. I never have worked at any place that had large personal departments. So no one needing to make a "job" for themselves.
D) How many times did the company shut down??? I have worked at four places that closed. I usually had another job before they closed.
Here is my take on unemployment. The reason there are unemployed people is that too many people will not get their hands dirty or break a sweat. I have had jobs that SUCKED!!!! and they sure where not a career. They just put food on the table.
People want a 100K job that they only have to work 40 hours to get. Plus some company to kiss their butt to work there. THAT is the main issue. It is not training or education. It is the attitude many have toward work.
I will bet you that I can have a "job" of some kind in less than 48 hours if I wanted it. It might be welding, driving a truck, or even digging a ditch but I could provide for my needs in less than two days. Remember I started out handling 800-1200 50 pound bags of feed everyday. So most anything else would not be that hard.
See many unemployed Mexicans??? Not too many. They have to work or else.
So drop the unemployment back to maybe 4-5 weeks and make the Government handouts be worked for. You would see unemployment drop like a Rock.
The level that people get for "free" from the government is ridiculous. A man married with kids can draw $425 unemployment per week for up to 99 weeks. Then add in food stamps, heat vouchers, rent subsidies, etc. That adds up to more than many of them made before they became unemployed.
The fellows that lost the 80-100K jobs have to start over at a lower wage it is just the facts of life. I have seen the length of unemployment is shorter for the higher wage earners. They are motivated more than the low wage earners.
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