Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

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Originally Posted by als463

If you are given the option to join the military, send out x amount of resumes, do a job you are "over-qualified" for, or do something you don't exactly "love" or feel "passionate" about and you turn it down, then I agree with the article that SOME people (not all) are unemployed because they want to be-not in the sense that people wake up and say, "Wow, I love being unemployed," but in the sense that they have been given options, yet chose to ignore them. There are jobs out there. Some people just don't want to "lower" themselves to do them.

Wow. First off, not everybody has the option to join the military, even if it is something they want to do or would be fit for.

Some people send out literally hundreds of resumes per week yet get no offers.

It's not people not being willing to do a job they are "over-qualified" for, it's them not getting those jobs in the first place. That was mentioned many times.

And nobody ever said that they have turned down jobs they don't like or aren't passionate about. It was some of us complaining about people searching for really responsible jobs that they don't care about because there is a perceived availability for them. That kind of attitude is why there are so many shitty social workers out there. They don't really care, they are just doing it for a pay check. They would do only the bare minimum or sometimes even then. Same with teaching. Those jobs should only have somebody who truely cares about it.