10-26-2011, 03:21 AM
Living in an area with rediculously low unemployment, we have kind of the opposite problem to most of the United States. There are, as of about 2 months ago, an estimated nine (9) jobs for every job applicant out here.
Pay for most of these jobs is quite high. Some more, um, er, disreputable employments even pay well: i.e. strippers out here are making up to $2,000/night doing "exotic dancing." Thank you CNN.com for pointing that out on your front page this morning... groan.
However, this has left a serious deficit in maintenance, county, and other necessary positions. Perhaps the Feds should winterize some FEMA trailers and bring out some folks who are collecting unemployment to come out to rural areas and do maintenance, etc. We all know that the US infrastructure kind of stinks in places. I'd bet money on heavy equipment operators, construction workers, etc. being on unemployment. We could all use some extra snow removal
Pay for most of these jobs is quite high. Some more, um, er, disreputable employments even pay well: i.e. strippers out here are making up to $2,000/night doing "exotic dancing." Thank you CNN.com for pointing that out on your front page this morning... groan.
However, this has left a serious deficit in maintenance, county, and other necessary positions. Perhaps the Feds should winterize some FEMA trailers and bring out some folks who are collecting unemployment to come out to rural areas and do maintenance, etc. We all know that the US infrastructure kind of stinks in places. I'd bet money on heavy equipment operators, construction workers, etc. being on unemployment. We could all use some extra snow removal