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How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 1:29:44 PM

Missokyst

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I have been doing computer repair for about 10 yrs now. I love this job because it lets me use my reasoning skills to their best advantage. I have rarely been bored and have made a decent living at this. All in all I would continue doing this for another decade were it not for one thing. I work for my x dominant. We have had ups and downs but usually it goes back to my doing the job I love.

I have adapted to his having a live in love. I have some casual relationships of my own which have made it easier to be a bit detached from the X, even though my heart has always been with him.

But, I think I have come to the end of the road. Recently I found out that he has an additional girlfriend apart from the live in lover that he plans to keep in the dark.
I knew that he had gone so far as to want to hire a woman for bdsm, but not that he had gotten a new girlfriend (by putting an ad up on craigs for an oral slave for a dom). I was detached enough to be somewhat amused at his inability to be honest with his current love. I might even have been ok with his having another woman in tow. If, he would just stop lying about it. If he would stop telling me how much he misses bdsm and how good I was. If he stopped thinking he was fooling me about his feelings.

I have grown tired of his thinking I am as much of a clueless fool as his girlfriend. Over the years we have told eachother everything. I was thinking of him as a friend, I thought he viewed me as a friend. But I realise now that what he told me early on in our relationship was true, men are friends with women because of what they might gain from it. At the very least it is true for him. And so I find myself thinking of going out in the work market for the first time in a decade.

I am scared. I have done this for a long time. I am too old to be hired as a tech for some of the big markets like best buy or guru's. I know I will never make the kind of cash I was used to making and I am ok with that. But my age is a hindrance in a tech field filled with college age kids looking for work. So I am thinking of retail again, but it has been so long since I had any experience with that work. I am not a secretary. I don't type like a demon. I need something with full time potential so I can at least get medical coverage.

So what kind of hardship am I looking at if I leave this job and set out elsewhere? How difficult is it to find a job when your most recent experience has been in something that has no bearing on the current field?

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RE: How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 2:23:24 PM

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Here in Iowa, if a person is willing to be flexible, it's okay. I would not have a major panic attack if I lost the job I have now.

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RE: How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 2:39:17 PM

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In this part of Florida, jobs can be ard 5o find if you've been out of the so called mainstream for more than a few months.

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RE: How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 3:00:49 PM

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Where I live, jobs are very hard to come by (the county I live in has a 19% unemployment rate.) When you do find one, you typically have to accept a very low wage.

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RE: How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 4:27:03 PM

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Jobs out here are nearly impossible to find,but then again I'm on the shit end of the map as far as california goes(and the recent shutdown scare wasn't exactly the greatest thing for an area that relies on a national park to the south and a marine base to the north)But with your expertise, I'd be surprised if you couldn't find nother job(yeah, there's a bunch of kids looking in the same field, but most of them are flaky as FUCK). If nothing else, the california petitioning season is underway, and if you got the energy to hustle, It's a good way to make an extra thousand or so while you search....

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RE: How bad is the job market? - 4/14/2011 4:59:45 PM

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Hi there,

I re-entered the work force last year after being a stay at home mom. My best employment was found via a temp agency. I did try the retail route and it was a lot harder on the body than I remembered! I also found that unless you are a manager, you won't get even close to full time work.

It seems like a lot of large companies use long term temps to get out of paying benefits, but several of the people in my department ended up getting jobs elsewhere within the company and gaining benefits that way. Good luck in your search.

peach

eta: I live in the suburbs of Los Angeles, if that helps you any.

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