This may not be a shared view with a lot of people, but......................
I have been able to be hired with 8 companies since Jan. 2002. Given I didn't like some and moved up from some, but pretty much if you are looking for work, you will find it. There is no reason for there to be a long term unemployment for anyone, unless they are lazy and want to leech off of those of us with jobs. I currently work 2 jobs and do some work in my spare time for extra money (photography, computers, some brochure designing, or whatever else I can do). I think many Americans let their ego and pride get in the way of employment, hence the reason a laid off engineer is jobless for a year. What the hell is that about. If you can get through college, you can find a job, sure it may not be a dream job, but it is something to hold you over until something better comes along. Stop living off my paychecks, and being lazy asses is what I have to say. I work hard for my money and would like to keep as much of it as possible. Hell, between two jobs I was making salads at a BBQ restaurant. Sure it wasn't glamorous, but it paid my truck payment and insurance, and I was shopping salvage yards for parts to make some honda turbo kits and sell them on ebay to pay the rent. Work is out there if you want it, PERIOD, that is all I have to say.
PS-- I had an argument earlier this week about this, so I'm venting a little
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