Not really possible today, for reasons I already mentioned. The better jobs are often taken or not hiring, most of the open positions don’t pay enough.
That’s not actually their job. I know because I actually went to one because I thought they’d help me find a job or hook me up with one. All the do is point you to a job board on the state site and have you register with them. That’s it. I’ve asked and they said they don’t do that stuff like helping you find one, you kinda just gotta do it yourself.
Like I said, they don’t do or offer that. For any further assistance I have to be worse off than I already am.
Quite the opposite actually.
When it was actually possible to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” unlike today.
You really do, most people are scraping by and the cost of living isn’t keep up with wages.
It’s called reality, try it some time. Or read up on what’s going on.
IT’s not just being nice, you have to know people with pull. IT’s not special knowledge but it’s a resource many lack.
The unemployment rate measures the percentage of the labor force that is currently without a job. A high participation rate combined with a low unemployment rate is a sure sign of a robust job market .
Again not exactly, low unemployment doesn’t mean there are plenty of jobs to go around it could mean there are less to go around because most people have them.
You also have to factor in what KIND of jobs are open, and those are the ones that don’t pay enough to support yourself.
Please stop! I’ve used them many times in my life and most recently. So don’t give me that.
Absolutely not true. As I said, been there done that, even recently.
Just stop making excuses and saying stuff that is not true. There is low unemployment so you should easily get a job, if you put an effort into it, instead of sitting around saying, “I can’t. It doesn’t work. blah blah.” My mother had a saying, “Can’t never did a thing.” It’s very true. Employers are hiring right now. So, just stop with the excuses and B.S.
Overall no, it couldn’t possibly mean that. Locally, the job markets vary. So, yes, it could be that in your immediate area people stay in their jobs long term. I’m not clear why you feel stuck where you are. Especially since you say, locally, there aren’t jobs.
By “special knowledge” I was referring to you telling me that you have to know people to get a job, and you said that was something that DIDN’T know. That’s what you keep doing, saying you have some ‘special knowledge’ and that I don’t know what it’s really like today. Do you think I live in some sort of bubble? I see the people on the street, I see schools being underfunded, I have friends who can’t get work.
I doubt that because the one in my state, CO, doesn’t offer stuff like that. They told me in person when I went to see them. The office looked pretty deserted too.
It IS. Unless the State is lying to me.
Low unemployment doesn’t mean there are jobs to go around. Like I told Write, the ones open are those people can’t live off of. The good ones are taken. Either that or most don’t qualify. The ones around me are senior level most of the time.
It’s not excuses, you just don’t understand how the times have changed. That was clear from the fake positive psychology stuff you tried above.
Even if I found one near me I would be earning enough to change my situation. I couldn’t afford to live in or near a city instead of a highly conservative small town. I moved here because people said it was better for gay people than Florida, but the caveat apparently is that it only applies to Denver.
I have to wonder since this seems almost like the bootstrap mentality conservatives try to peddle. Even though the phrase itself was originally used to mean that it’s impossible to do that. You keep suggesting things that don’t work, just like they do.
Speak for yourself. I look at a baby and my insides smile, even if I’m in a bad mood, or miles away in my thoughts, nothing I can do anything about. You can say, oh that’s just because it’s how I’m wired. And I would respond, so what, I am a living biological creature, I can’t help but interact with the world via how I’m wired.
Other stimuli can put me on edge immediately, or any one of a number of emotions, or triggered thoughts/memories. Consciousness is an interaction.
So the biological package you live within is wired differently.
Perhaps simply getting to the point where you own your own feelings or lack of them, is the best you can hope for -
Guess I’m suggesting that rather than your universal statements “life has no meaning”, as if you can speak for others, own it: Life has no meaning for you.
Though I’m’ cynical of “truths” I do think this gets close: “In the end, only you can save yourself” it’s a tad brutal, but so is life, ask the folks in western North Carolina, or the Middle East, or …
Being wired that way is proof that it’s meaningless.
No this isn’t an “it’s just me” thing, it’s the burden that comes with living, realizing that nothing you do is of any real importance or meaning. Personalizing it is just dodging the issue.
Though I knew you wouldn’t get it just like the last times you tried this and failed.
I’ve got no religion, I’ve got no myths
There’s nothing left to convince me with
No opinions from the Left or the Right
Can make up my mind tonight
I look out through my cold eyes
I try to have a good, good time
But I see it all
There’s too much going on, too much going wrong
I disconnect
Something being ephemeral does make it not real, at least according to Buddhism. That’s why making meaning doesn’t actually make meaning, it’s lying to yourself. It exists only in your head and isn’t real or true.
You have told us your personal experience. We tell you ours. That’s how discussion works. Your experience does not match up with the many experiences I have had, so my conclusion, or better said, my thoughts on that, are that maybe it’s something about you. So I keep relating my experience and asking you about you and to try match my experience with yours.
You however, say that if someone disagrees with, that they are stupid.
Do you see how what you’re doing doesn’t match the mission of this forum?
Your evidence is what you say you see. That’s not evidence, that’s your observation. Evidence is something I can verify, something that can be demonstrated. I’m not saying you are a liar, but there is no way for me to verify what you say, short of coming to your town and seeing it.
The problem here isn’t evidence. The problem here is you call people stupid because they don’t believe what you say.
It’s not the first time you called someone a name. I don’t bring up rule violation on the first offense. Commenting on a poem is worse anyway. It doesn’t tell you anything about the person. You saying “idiot” tells me a lot about you.
So, you gonna keep doing that? Cuz I’ll end your account the next time you do.