Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be

[knight_shadow]

Originally Posted by Ggirl617

If I really needed to, I could go out and get a job today. It might not be anything I want, but at least something. Is this not true for everyone (save the mentally and physically handicapped)?

Go out and try it.

If you are like many of the (overqualified) people looking, I'm betting you won't.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by knight_shadow

Go out and try it.

If you are like many of the (overqualified) people looking, I'm betting you won't.

Yep.

Also, in areas with colleges and universities, some employers save the more menial and low wage jobs for the collegiates (or the noncollegiate equivalent).

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I think I told my story of short term unemployment that happened many years ago when the country was NOT in a recession. I was between graduate degrees and I wanted a summer job to tie me over instead of getting unemployment checks. I thought I found an excellent option for something that was just "good enough for now." I was the only person in the applicant pool with more than a high school diploma (they discovered that in the background checks). They let me sit through the interview presentation and called me in the back room to tell me they thought hiring me would be torturous for me and challenging to them. They said this isn't the job for me because it requires a HUNGER that someone with education and career/salary potential is ASSUMED not to have.

Thank God I just needed it for the SUMMER. Had I needed it for the longterm or to support a family, that would've really sucked. I ended up getting unemployment checks.