What would you do if you were unemployed AND unemployable?

[piasabird]

Become a Teacher.

 

[piasabird]

Steal your identity and file for taxes for EIC.

 

[Mai72]

Any way possible? So you're rather eat a gun than collect disability?

Being on disability is fine for the short term. You have to be careful because it can turn into a slippery slope. A year turns into 5. Five turns into ten and so on. If this happens you're done and will probably always have to rely on government assistance.

 

[madoka]

$2000 to start your own cafe on wheels seems interesting.

https://wheelyscafe.com/startpage/

 

[IronWing]

Unemployable is not a thing. No matter who you are, you are somebody's fetish.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Unemployable is not a thing. No matter who you are, you are somebody's fetish.

So webcam = job for life?

 

[Staples]

You guys are not realizing that there are more people than there are jobs. A lot of people 50+ find it hard to get a job of any kind now. My mother in law finds her self in this position. She said when she was young, if you knew how to type, you were well in demand. She is 62 and has zero skills (yes she can type and answer phones) but those jobs automatically go to the younger applicants.

 

[Red Squirrel]

You guys are not realizing that there are more people than there are jobs. A lot of people 50+ find it hard to get a job of any kind now. My mother in law finds her self in this position. She said when she was young, if you knew how to type, you were well in demand. She is 62 and has zero skills (yes she can type and answer phones) but those jobs automatically go to the younger applicants.

This. And the number of jobs keeps going down. Even minimum wage service jobs are slowly being automated, look at McDonald's, they have kiosks now. Once those are polished and working they can pretty much lay off all the front counter staff. Most fast food and service places will probably do it too. Most jobs now are also being outsourced. Almost every day you hear of some company laying off 10k+ employees and moving their operations somewhere else. The future is quite grim for those who don't have a job or lose their current job.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Seriously - we have a massive shortage of labor in the PnW. Markets move, you don't get to live in the same place your whole life and expect jobs for life, that's not how economic systems work.

You can complain about it or you can take ownership of your situation and make something happen.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Seriously - we have a massive shortage of labor in the PnW. Markets move, you don't get to live in the same place your whole life and expect jobs for life, that's not how economic systems work.

Not everyone wants to move and give up everything they worked for, leave family behind etc. Work to live, not to work.

 

[Ruptga]

Be clinically depressed and post on the internet like nothing happened.

I have standards, man.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Not everyone wants to move and give up everything they worked for, leave family behind etc. Work to live, not to work.

We're talking about folks who are chronically unemployed. Sometimes working to live means making decisions between multiple shitty outcomes - but when someone is less value than a minimum return on their labor in one area, but not in another, the point of our economic system is to motivate that move.

I won't call not moving stupid (I don't know anyone's individual case) but I will point out that a lot of people are afraid of change to the point of stupiidity.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Not everyone wants to move and give up everything they worked for, leave family behind etc. Work to live, not to work.

That's a want vs need. In the US you *need* to work to eat, because you need money to buy food, unless you own land to grow stuff on (in which case you still gotta work the land to eat). You must live to work if your life depends on work, which it does to someone unemployed without income otherwise or a stash of scratch.

If there's nothing you can do where you are, you move. If there's nothing you can do anywhere, you learn something new or accept that you're gonna do something you don't like until you change your situation. Yes, eventually there'll be more people than jobs, but we're not quite there yet.

 

[Geekbabe]

You guys are not realizing that there are more people than there are jobs. A lot of people 50+ find it hard to get a job of any kind now. My mother in law finds her self in this position. She said when she was young, if you knew how to type, you were well in demand. She is 62 and has zero skills (yes she can type and answer phones) but those jobs automatically go to the younger applicants.

I am 60, have a great work history & skills. Unfortunately I have cancer & am sort of stuck in terms of finding a new job with better health care benefits or higher wages to offset healthcare costs. I would also lose the good will of a 15 yr tenure with a company that makes accommodations for my tx schedule.

Long & short story, nobody wants older workers, we cost too much to insure.