No Jobs?

[Spiffor]

Congrats

OTOH, I don't think that in a rich country, everybody looking for a job should submit to such a thing. Because the failure rate would be humongous.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Flubber


QFT-- when wages are less than benefits, its always better to not work-- When you pull in a bit of under the table wages-- unemployment is even more attractive.

Where I grew up, one of advantages for the unemployed was the firewood they would cut, the moose or caribou they would hunt and usually some cash money working for a fisherman

I don't know how benefits work practically as I've never needed to, but I would have thought that the concept of 'benefit' and 'working' not being mutually exclusive would have cottoned on somewhere. i.e Have a base level of benefit that declines proportionally as your worked earnings increase, rather than have a sudden cut off once you are working.

I guess administration and enforcement would be too difficult.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Dauphin


I don't know how benefits work practically as I've never needed to, but I would have thought that the concept of 'benefit' and 'working' not being mutually exclusive would have cottoned on somewhere. i.e Have a base level of benefit that declines proportionally as your worked earnings increase, rather than have a sudden cut off once you are working.

I haven't needed them either but my understanding here is that sometimes it can be THAT harsh. If your income is x you get all kinds of subsidies for housing, drugs even daycare but as soon as you raise it enough to hit some thresholds, all your benefit is taken away in subsidies you lose.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Congrats

OTOH, I don't think that in a rich country, everybody looking for a job should submit to such a thing. Because the failure rate would be humongous.

sure i understand that, and i'm not putting myself forward as an example of what other people should do, just saying what i did.

if it relates to what i was talking about before, it's because of how easy it was for me to get those 3 jobs, which really anyone could have done. i went to the job centre, or saw a sign in a window, phoned the number, turned up for a brief interview, looking reasonably smart and got the jobs. i have very little sympathy for people who refuse to make this small effort.

[Jon Miller]

In Oregon I several times tried to find summer work. (this was after I graduated highschool)

I always had a difficult time, because people didn't want to train me when I was for sure going to college in a couple months, and they had all the other highschool graduates looking for work/etc. I was also limited because I didn't have a car and lived in a small community (my mom would drive me some places, but it was a limitation). Additionally, a lot of the temporary jobs were taken by the time I returned to Oregon from my college in Minnesota.

My second worse job I have had was as a dishwasher in a restuarant. I got it the summer after my freshman year of college. Dishwasher was as low as you could go, there were many high school juniors and seniors who were higher (cooks/etc).

I would still worry about getting a similar work.

Jon Miller
(I was also pretty crap in the cannery (Colorblindness didn't help), Dishwasher (I just wasn't that fast), and other such jobs..)
(the only one of that type that I sorta liked was Grounds, which I did all 4 years of undergrad (depending on my schedule), I wasn't so great at it either, but I liked the guys and got the stuff done I was suppose to)