When part-timers seek full-time work

[dArKeR]

As economy adds jobs, ranks of ‘underemployed’ growing

When Joanne Puckett finally found a job in public relations — after eight months of searching — she had high hopes that her career at last was taking off. But only six months after being hired by a large Chicago agency, Puckett, 29, was told there no longer was enough business to justify her working full-time. Now she works 24 hours a week and wonders if she chose the right profession.

PUCKETT IS ONE of millions of “underemployed” Americans working part-time either because they are unable to find full-time work or because of slack business conditions. Add these to the uncounted millions more who have had to take huge pay cuts in new or existing jobs, and you begin to get a picture of a labor market that might be quite a bit worse than suggested by the 6.1 percent jobless rate.

http://msnbc.com/news/990083.asp?0cv=CB10

[childslibrarian]

1. You are right

The books are cooked. How long before the media figures out? Two years? (IE after the election?) The same time the bill for the deficit comes due?
Sorry, I am in a cynical mood...but realistic. I can't take much more of this. How is life in Canada?

[Webster Green]

2. The rosy statistics are meaningless.......

I burned out my unemployment insurance extension benefits over a year ago. I am unemployed. Since I have no active claim, I am not counted as unemployed. I know plenty of others in the same category as myself.

[Bronco69]

3. Same here.

I was layed off in January 2001. I found a couple of temp jobs since then, but that's all.

[bobbieinok]

4. kick

:kick:

[Tripper11]

5. I just spoke to one of my supervisors about this....

I work in radio, part-time and like I told my supervisor, I just don't see any future full time work for me here. I want it, I'm good enough, smart enough (thanks Stuart Smilie! lol) but they don't nurture the future for themselves.
His response was that I needed to really look at what I wanted to do and attack it from that angle. Make people know that they need me on a full time basis. I appreciate that and will start being more agressive, but it sure isn't easy to sit around spinning your wheels when you want more.