Comments on: So about that 2.7% unemployment rate in Virginia… https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390 Cutting straight to the point Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:58:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: The Doctor https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390/comment-page-1#comment-23338 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:58:44 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390#comment-23338 Front page of the Richmond “newspaper” today documents unemployment rate of 2.2% and with the rapidly rising retail sector a concern that it will be hard to find workers; I suspect that if you break down the unemployment rate by different economic sectors you would find very low unemployment [and high demand] in retail, including the burger-flipping area, and high unemployment in the professions…

]]> By: segacs https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390/comment-page-1#comment-23332 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 06:02:29 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390#comment-23332 There’s clearly something wrong with the job market when companies are constantly grumbling about being unable to find “top talent”, but TRUE top talent like Meryl Yourish can’t land permanent and secure employment. It just doesn’t make sense. And it doesn’t do much to help the rest of us find hope, either.

]]> By: cond0010 https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390/comment-page-1#comment-23330 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 05:59:05 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390#comment-23330 “I temped for 2 years (1993-95) and it was the worst two years of my life. ”

I assume it had something to do with being a temp-worker…

If thats the case, yea, thats a tough arrangement. Been there too.

Still, the silver lining in that little rain cloud is that it gives you a baseline that shows you that things could be worse once you get a halfway decent job.

Sure, I work nights at the moment, but the pay is good, the benefits are fantastic and I am not treated like an oily rag to be used to sop up the latest mess that happened at the office-place…

So when people say “Gee, it must be hard to work nights”, all I have to do is look back to my days (the ones Meryl is dealing with now…) as a ‘temp’ and say “Yea, ain’t that great??!!”

I think I am probably happier about my situation now just because of how bad things once were for me – and I am grateful they are now past.

Still, that doesn’t help Meryl much as shes there right now.

Meryl, I really do hope things get better for you.

]]> By: chsw https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390/comment-page-1#comment-23321 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:21:29 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390#comment-23321 Fredericksburg is central VA. I think that Richmond is southern VA.

chsw

]]> By: Joel https://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390/comment-page-1#comment-23318 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 20:37:01 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/12/05/2390#comment-23318 Is the job prospects in Fredericksburg – half way between Richmond and D.C. – any better? When I was there in 1993 and 1991 it seemed like a quaint college town. I temped for 2 years (1993-95) and it was the worst two years of my life.

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