Reply #27: Unemployed for quite a few years. [View All]

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Unable to get a job despite 23 yrs of education, three college degrees, including a J.D. and yrs of experience in the legal field. Now their big catch-22 with the employment agencies is that they want people with "recent" legal experience. I think that's irrelevant, since the purpose of the legal system is NOT to change unless there's a good reason, unlike science and technology. They're insulting me, like I forgot everything I ever learned about the legal profession since I was a small child.

Age discrimination is the big factor, I believe. Employers don't want people with serious educations, because I might make them look bad by doing something intelligent, or asking a pointed question.

No health insurance and no retirement pension and no unemployment.

I'm moving out of the city because the property taxes and insurance and electricity costs are driving me out. Me and my partner can't find jobs, and my partner's last job was killing him -- physically and mentally. He was turning into a horrible person and only taking home $20K a year -- and paying ten dollars a day to PARK HIS CAR!! And he has a BS and MS in Math/Physics that he wasn't using, as well as a degree in Video Production. He got penalized for being innovative and creative (like some incredibly complex database programming), and doing things quickly. They didn't pay him overtime either. He got his overtime when they fired him and he sent them an Excel spread sheet with every day of his work for five years, with his overtime detailed on it.

As far as expenses, we haven't bought a car in 15 years, nor have we spent money unless something broke down. The cost of auto insurance, homeowner's insurance and property taxes and electricity are horrendous, and I don't consider those to be luxuries. For two months last summer my electric bill was $375.00, for the cost of air conditioning so I wouldn't get sick from the heat -- heat and humidity kills people, and where I live, A/C is a necessity. That was at 15 cents a kilowatt hour, with 3 phase electricity which is more efficient.

I fell out of the middle class during the Clinton administration -- that's when the good jobs and increasing income stopped.

To hell with corporate america.


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