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westernrvparkowner wrote:down home wrote:This guy has no "plight". This is either a troll (99.9 percent likely) or the guy just plain off his rocker. The road NEVER ends in Seguin TX. You only get there if you try. People who are looking for work, looking for solitude, looking for love, looking for inspiration, looking for the pot of gold at the end of rainbow do not go to Seguin.
I'm not going to attempt to colorize the Gentleman's plight.
As an RVer we have seen way too much o what was created by Global Economics or Trickle Down economic. Early forced Retirements,fired laid off, no prospects too old, despite prohibitions on age as a consideration for employment.
Too many stories to lump them together. Wal Mart says you need to move. Move to somewhere else. I'm not sure where you might fit your skills and willingness to work. Perhaps at an RV Park. No pay but be a host for rent electricity and so on.
Looking for Employment is a job just like going to a job every day for.
On the Internet and newspapers every days setting appointments for next day or later for interviews. The best method is to make you resume and go to companies where you want to work, not ones that are advertising.
Everyone wants you to apply on line. However I would see how it works shoing up at HR looking for a job. May not be the best today, I don't know about this today's impersonal world They tell you not to call to check on your application.
I'm not sold on that even though I'm told I'm wrong. If someone wants the position enough to be persistent I may give him first look. Attitude and Presentation and Personal Appearance with intelligence and abilities to do the job works.
Turn job hunting into a job of regular routine, in the am looking for positions and making on line applications. Try to set up interviews as many as you can, for the next day and beyond. Quit at evening and take the load off by doing things you enjoy such as fishing. Anyone ask what your job is say looking for a position. Wash rinse repeat every day. Keep your attitude an d outlook up.
It isn't about a lack of skills to find a job. If you can fog a mirror, you can get a job in Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio and many other cities and towns in Texas. The same can be said for most cities and towns across the country. Though sometimes the media wishes to have you believe otherwise, 2017 is not like the Great Depression. There are not throngs of able bodied workers willing to take any position offered.
Maybe I would cut someone who is trapped in a decaying urban area, or trapped in rural West Virginia without the means to travel elsewhere some slack. But this guy paid cash for an RV. He says he has been traveling around the Seguin area, so he could just as easily traveled to somewhere that jobs are abundant. But like I posted earlier, if not a troll, he is one of the never satisfied, I feel sorry for myself and am too good to work my way out of whatever hole I have dug, people. Those people deserve nothing from anyone.
โApr-15-2017 07:08 AM
gbopp wrote:
Because it's the American way, the wants of a few outweigh the wants of many. :B
โApr-15-2017 06:33 AM
rjxj wrote:Johno02 wrote:
As much fun as it has been, I think its about time for the moderator to step in and kill this one.
Why?
โApr-15-2017 05:52 AM
Bumpyroad wrote:NYCgrrl wrote:
his S.S. (taken earlier than planned, sigh) left a decided hole in our combined income and retirement plans.
as far as taking SS too early, I took it the day I became eligible. at the recommendation of other retirees and the lady at SS. drawing the lesser amount for 5-7 extra years I think it was when I was 85 that I would break even. at that time my major expenses will be depends and puddin.
bumpy
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โApr-15-2017 04:41 AM
NYCgrrl wrote:
his S.S. (taken earlier than planned, sigh) left a decided hole in our combined income and retirement plans.
โApr-15-2017 01:55 AM
Crowe wrote:
LOL! I'm imagining this guy sitting in the living room of his million dollar home, glass of Chardonnay in his hand, little princess dog on his lap, laughing is butt off at all of us. I will say this has been amusing and a great social experiment. I've noticed one common thing, though. This group will jump through hoops to help those who TRULY need it BUT have no tolerance for the slackers in life. I am in SPLENDID company!
โApr-14-2017 11:15 PM
DallasSteve wrote:NYCgrrl wrote:DallasSteve wrote:
I think it is all in how you market yourself and how eager you are to find work. I am NOT a programmer, but am retired and have picked up a couple of small contracts to keep me busy and give me some "mad money". I am continually being asked to do more, with more money being thrown at me, which I refuse because I don't want to work full-time and I like the flexibility of my current schedule and workload. If I kept taking on work, I'd be making more money than when I was working in my career full time. I don't know what field you are experienced in, but I find that employers are looking for people that have knowledge and experience and know how to get the job done right. They could give a darn what age you are, or what you look like. If you can produce, they want you and are willing to pay you. Perhaps it is different where you live, but I've not experienced ageism at all (except for getting my cheap "Geezer Pass", my senior meals, my senior discounts at hotels and grocery stores.
The hotel the man managed was sold a few years before he planned to retire. He searched for a new job with no success finding a comparable position since at that time literally a hotel could have hired at least two newly minted college grads at his then salary to do the same job.
He still works occasionally making mad money but that amt and his S.S. (taken earlier than planned, sigh) left a decided hole in our combined income and retirement plans. Fortunately the real estate market picked up this way which helped to fill the gap but it's still funds lost to being too old.
Just to be clear DallasSteve did not write that quoted post. Somehow you edited the quote and my name got left with the quote from dewey02, I think.
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Johno02 wrote:
As much fun as it has been, I think its about time for the moderator to step in and kill this one.
โApr-14-2017 09:36 PM
I have been drycamping various places in and around Seguin. after hassles with 18 wheelers in many of the locations, the local police suggested I park at Walmart.