The "Unemployed" Need Not Apply

[Gaspar]

Good, now if I can only find something part time in the interum that is very flexible on hours

What type of job?

[Jammie]

I'm surprised that people would want to stay on unemployment even if it's extended. It's not really true that health ins. would cost less since the govt. now pays a portion of it. Generally an employer will be paying 80% to 85% of the premium and with COBRA you start with the entire 100% until the govt. kicks in.

Funny how things have changed. Back in the early 1980s when I desperately wanted a full time job instead of my part time job, employers would immediately tell me that they were only considering the unemployed. Strange.

[sauerkraut]

Anyone besides me remember way back when that the hardest part of getting a job was passing a physical? Now its background checks and so on.... and now this.

I don't have a problem with background checks or drug tests since I can pass those- But the physical, if it required back x-rays I'd always fail- they say I have scullisosis and am unsureable or the like- I have no back trouble, never had back pain, yet the back x-rays always nailed me, I did pass one back x-ray when I applied for a job at Ametek in Grand Prairie, Texas in May of 1981, the doctor said he'd let it slide, it was nothing much. My hope was to apply at companies that did not require back x-rays or no physicals.

[Gaspar]

I'm surprised that people would want to stay on unemployment even if it's extended. It's not really true that health ins. would cost less since the govt. now pays a portion of it. Generally an employer will be paying 80% to 85% of the premium and with COBRA you start with the entire 100% until the govt. kicks in.

Funny how things have changed. Back in the early 1980s when I desperately wanted a full time job instead of my part time job, employers would immediately tell me that they were only considering the unemployed. Strange.

That's correct if you're single.  If you have a family of 4, as I do, the company paid 100% for me, 50% for my spouse and 0% for the kids.  The Gubment pays Cobra 50% across the board, so it ends up cheaper for many.

[Jammie]

Excellent point. I was only thinking of my own situation where there are just two of us. We have ours at our respective employers.

[custosnox]

What type of job?

Right now, just about anything, though I would like to get a foot in the door with computers since that is what I'm going back to class for.  Only thing on it is I can't do a lot of physical  labor because I screwed up my back a few years ago and am still on the mend, and I don't care how much I get paid, or how great the job is, I'm not going to risk undoing all the work I've done to get it as close to recovered as it is (I'm currently at about %80).  That is one thing that has been killing me because almost everything I can point to on paper about my recent employment history has to do with heavy lifting (guess how I messed up my back). 

Sorry for the slow response, been finding out exactly how much I did not know about algebra.