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Originally Posted by MindBomber
And didn't have a career that allows you to easily start your own business?
During the recession I went from working 60 hours a week at a great wage, to taking a pay cut and working 20 hours a week. Fortunately, I was paid as a sub-contractor working in construction, so I reached out to contractors and home owners taking on small jobs that wouldn't be profitable for a typical sub-contractor who has overhead and the extra effort earned me a great income. That flexibility is one of the benefits of working in construction.
If I were newly graduated with a finance degree and massive student loan debt, I wouldn't have had that option during the recession. I would have been over qualified for construction, retail, food service and no matter how many jobs I applied for the likelihood of finding something would have been low. So, if that person, who may well still be unemployed or not working in their field, stands in the streets trying to enact change for weeks without compensation is a whiner or has a poor work ethic then maybe you can suggest an alternative.
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If you worked as contractor, then you took a narrow field of work, it is a risky business.
If you decided to take out loans for a finance degree, then you took not only a risk for a field but also for a loan.
You balanced both long term gain and a fulfilling profession against the risk of a narrow field or a loan.
Suck it up.
If you wanted something safe, then you don't take something rewarding.
You work your way up to become a manager of Mcdonalads.
It's not just who isn't a hard worker and whiner.
It's who made bad decisions in life and ends up paying for it either.
I have made some pretty bad decisions, but you don't blame management that you can't learn to work the system to your advantage.
I keep hearing about cases where people take risks then raging at the system when they got burned. They had lots of lower risk options on the table but explain it away as "beneath them".
If you are hard working enough and can talk somebody into holding onto your job, you'd be the best damn janitor ever.
Don't blame it on the system.
The only thing I blame on the system is that the big banks got bailed out.
And there isn't enough transparency with large government contract.