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Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 6:44:24 PM   
Gilmer


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Status: offline 		I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate. :)

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 6:49:33 PM   
Rising-Sun


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Status: offline 		Well you better start collecting bottles and cans, not sure if you are trolling if not, then you are doomed!

Depending on your location and your conditions, if you have a vehicle to travel, then you have better chance to find something. There alot of ppls out there doesnt like what they do, but pay the bills.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 7:01:30 PM   
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ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate. :)
warspite1

Sorry to hear that Same happened to me three years ago - I hope something comes up.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 7:15:05 PM   
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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 7:31:17 PM   
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Two words: North Dakota!

(North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S., currently ~2.7%.)

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 8:18:53 PM   
Qwixt


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The clock is ticking on my job too. 3 to 15 months.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 8:34:06 PM   
vonRocko

 

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 8:47:36 PM   
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Status: offline 		I hear they are paying McDonald employees $14 an hour in North Dakota. Course they are not hiring atm cause everybody went there that used to work at Burger King in Texas. lol But, seriously they really have been paying that much in some places there. Nobody wants to live in the constant cold of N. Dakota it would seem so there's always jobs there, mostly in the construction business though and you pretty much have to live in a trailer home or your car. 60 minutes has had some shows about it.

On another note Security officer jobs are on the rise. So, if you don't mind putting your life on the line for $9 or $10 an hour there's a slew of them pretty much around the country.

Walmart's is hiring slaves again (pretty much minimum wage jobs for backs and cashiers) for some kind of new store they are trying called a Neighborhood Market (grocery store only that is setup like most Walmart stores without all the other stuff).

Truck Drivers are always needed in the chemical business end of it. Hazmat an all that.

Of course there's always slave labor jobs usually open for concrete finishers and road crews and platform workers in the oilfield. If you don't mind getting your fingers dirty goto Haliburton.com and look for frac jobs in your area or close to it, they are always needing help.

As for accounting jobs, if you ain't a skirt those jobs are few and far between for a dude. Plus, where I'm from you are basically "required" to speak Mexican/Spanish if you want an office or customer service job anymore. Basically if it comes down between you or a skirt, the skirt is gonna get the job.

Don't let em fool yah about age discrimination or your sex. The bias is still alive and well. Especially here in my area.

I think interviews should be done in private booths, whereby each applicant goes into this booth (that the employer cannot see the applicant until after the interview and he/she has selected the person for the job) and they are interviewed but their voices and sound are distorted like they show on tv sometimes when they are asked questions and don't want anyone to know who they are. Then prospective employers would have to pick "exactly" by qualifications instead of looks and preferences of sex and age and stuff like that. I don't know how many jobs I've been turned away from because I was a dude or too old. Course they won't tell you but I was sure I had the best qualifications for the job an experience.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 9:08:55 PM   
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Two words: North Dakota!

(North Dakota has the lowest unemployment rate in the U.S., currently ~2.7%.)


Yep. I have a cousin who was laid off in 2012 and after looking for a new job(unsucessfully) for 6 months he moved to North Dakota and got a job three days later. He was a help desk tech. for a major retailer making $44,000 per year. He now works as a tech for a North Dakota energy services company at $69,000. Housing was a little tough to find but he shares a place with someone.

Texas or North Dakota are the places to go.

Good luck.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 9:17:51 PM   
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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 10:21:24 PM   
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ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate. :)


Sorry to hear H. Gilmer. I don't know of any jobs openings off hand. Although, when I was laid off in 2007 I went to work for a temp company and managed to find a new place that would take me in on one of my temp assignments. You might try that in the meantime, especially if you have good skills.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 11:29:15 PM   
Gilmer


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I will endeavor to persevere.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/8/2014 11:44:29 PM   
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ORIGINAL: H Gilmer

Thanks all.

I will endeavor to persevere.


So you saw Josey Wales ehh?

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 12:52:46 AM   
Missouri_Rebel


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Best of luck.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 1:05:55 AM   
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AH that sucks my friend.. It happened to me about 22 years ago while working full time plus finishing a University degree part time, 3 kids, 2 cars and 3 mortgage payments left on my home..............Needless to say, sold one car, wife went back to work part time, parents-in-law took over babysitting while I finished my last of 5 degrees (went full time to finish it), my parents paid off our mortgage, chipped in with some expenses and we all pulled through.. Not everyone has family to pitch in but we were lucky as heck! Found my dream job about 10 months later and never looked back!

Now 24 years latter, a much bigger house and no mortgage, all kids grown up and graduated from the same University I went to, a $60K German sedan in the garage (all paid for), but parents-in-law both passed and I miss then like I never thought I would, sometimes wish I was back to those difficult times just to have them back, anyhow..........

What I want to say, is that all can look bad and gloomy but take it day by day, look at where you are at and where yo want to go, Look to family and friends for support and mostly it can never get worst then what it is atm so build on that. Keeping you in our thoughts my friend. Good Luck and God Bless.


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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 1:53:19 AM   
rodney727


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Status: offline 		Are you a CPA? Lots of jobs in the accounting field. Start looking at hospitals first.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 2:53:53 AM   
Queeg


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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 3:09:50 AM   
SeaMonkey

 

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Status: offline 		The Bakken, ha! Big deal, black gold and cold as a witch's t--t. Yeah sure, go to ND, freeze your nuts off. Texas has a lot more than oil. Take a look at the geography...you see tha Gulf there, with those deep water ports. Think about it, does it look like the heart of the western hemisphere? Access to the rest of the planet, pipelines feeding energy from all the shale formations of the eastern Rockies and guess where a lot of that Bakken oil ends up....in our Texas refineries.

Accountants become schedulers down here for all the big oil companies, that means they sit at a trader's elbow and schedule all his traffic, barges, ships, terminal blending etc. But if you don't like money, don't come, we don't need no Texican'ts, got enough of those from Cal and the other places that have screwed up their economies.

We will take some more Texi-cans though. Ohhh, but beware, its does get a bit toastie!

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 3:15:08 AM   
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ps: I am living there and working in it.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 3:21:03 AM   
SeaMonkey

 

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 3:36:00 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sorry to hear that you lost your job, H Gilmer.

Good luck in finding another.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 5:02:49 AM   
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I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate. :)


I sold custom goods for 1,000 beans. Collected 500 beans to get the order going, I will collect the other 500 when the order is completed.

Are the 500 beans I collected an asset or a liability?

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 12:46:28 PM   
wings7


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Status: offline 		Good luck Kurt, I feel for you ...lots of opportunities out there!

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/9/2014 3:11:34 PM   
Gilmer


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quote:

I don't suppose anyone has a job lying around handy. I just got the notice from my company they are laying us all off, pretty much.

Accounting, USA, open to relocate. :)


I sold custom goods for 1,000 beans. Collected 500 beans to get the order going, I will collect the other 500 when the order is completed.

Are the 500 beans I collected an asset or a liability?


Deferred revenue is a liability on the balance sheet. You can only record it as revenue on the IS when you complete the order.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/10/2014 1:01:23 AM   
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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/10/2014 1:06:09 AM   
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Status: offline 		I'm a fan of the "when one door closes... another one opens wide" philosophy of life. I've had my share of rough spots and I don't regret any of the resulting twists and turns. The first time you get knocked out of your secure "comfort zone" it is really scary, but after that you just move ahead with a positive attitude and open those new doors.

Sorry you are going through this, but you have intelligence and education... things will work out fine for you. Don't despair!

Please stay in touch on the forum and keep us informed of how you are doing. Friends are here to help out with advice and support :)

You are not alone.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/10/2014 1:38:36 AM   
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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/10/2014 11:40:25 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Perif

Yep Texas, energy is a growing sector and there are plenty of jobs there.

ps: I am living there and working in it.

I work with a few Americans here in Canada oil sands.They tell me the wages in Texas are very low,like $15/hr.One guy from North Carolina tells me $12/hr is a good wage there.Is this true?Our average pay here is $90-140,000 gross depending on what level you are in your trade.

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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 8/11/2014 12:18:59 AM   
histgamer

 

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Status: offline 		Probably depends where? My friend went to college in Dakota 2 years ago and about half his friends dropped out their Sophomore and Jr years to work in the Oil fields making 100k+, granted the hours sucked and were 12+ hour days but great pay.

I make about $20 per hour with good benefits in a customer service tech position and my wife's a manager there and does a little better than that in Wisconsin. You can also get a grocery store or retail job at a lot of places around here for $12-$14 an hour as long as its not a Walmart. Woodman's, Aldi's, Pickensave all pay roughly that.


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ORIGINAL: bairdlander


quote:

ORIGINAL: Perif

Yep Texas, energy is a growing sector and there are plenty of jobs there.

ps: I am living there and working in it.

I work with a few Americans here in Canada oil sands.They tell me the wages in Texas are very low,like $15/hr.One guy from North Carolina tells me $12/hr is a good wage there.Is this true?Our average pay here is $90-140,000 gross depending on what level you are in your trade.


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RE: Welp.....I was just laid off... - 12/20/2014 12:50:02 AM   
Gilmer


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Status: offline 		Hi all!! A lot of things happened since I posted this!! It took me a long time, but about a week ago I took a temporary job. Hard work, but I was working. Not as much money as I had been making but enough to get by on. I had interview after interview, and there were some jobs I wanted a lot. I never got them. I was always close but I did not get them. I always seemed to come in 2nd. "They liked you, but they liked this other person just slightly more...."

Well, after I took the temporary job, my phone has been ringing off the hook for people wanting me to interview. Recruiters have been cold calling me out of the blue and emailing me out of the blue.

Just this week, I accepted a position that is a promotion and about 11-13K (depending on bonus) more than I was making at my previous full time job. I am not a very religious person, but I did ask God for help and I know some don't believe ... but somehow, after weeks of rejection, I got the best job of the bunch.

Thanks to everyone for good and caring thoughts. :)


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