Economy

Post by **Troy** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:34 pm

Shit really started slowing down at work this week.

Way too much time just doing marketing and sales calls.

Way too much time to just read articles and graphs about current and future problems.

This Particular Graph scares the shit out of me.

How are things going for you Catt? Did you find a new position?

Post by **TheCatt** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:10 pm

I got an offer from where I used to work, and turned it down. So, still looking.

But my job hasn't ended yet either, so.... who knows. Looks like it will end in February now.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 11:53 am

Man, job searching sucks. One day it's like "look at all these jobs!" then it's "man, I think I'm going to have to move" then it's "yay! emails!" then it's "why isn't anyone calling me?"

I have two prospects that I believe will be interviews by the end of next week, so that would be great. But man, it's like a freaking rollercoaster ride.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:08 pm

Employers are bitches. The ones that communicate w\ the outside world are typically the biggest liars of all.

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 4:39 pm

Good time to be working for academic institutions, enrollments are booming. Which is normal in a bad economy.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 6:32 pm

Dunno bout your state, but our state budgets are getting slammed. or do you work somewhere private?

Post by **TPRJones** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:09 pm

No, it's public, and we may have problems with money from the state later. But most of our funding comes from college district property taxes, student grants (like Pell grants), and tuition. The first is flat, but the other two are up. Lots of people without jobs tend to go back to school.

If universities in your state are purely state funded, then it may be a different story.

Post by **TheCatt** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 9:27 pm

We have really low tuition rates, so yeah, most funds come from the state.

Mommy Dearest · Post by **Mommy Dearest** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 10:29 pm

Well I wish I had a crystal ball because as most of you know I ko like real estate but I am kinda tight. Am getting ready to bid $250,000.00 on a house that cost $440,000.00 to build in 1991 on a $100,000 lot. and am second guessing myself that the bid is too high. I really do love a good recession

Alhazad · Post by **Alhazad** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:44 pm

TheCatt wrote:Man, job searching sucks. One day it's like "look at all these jobs!" then it's "man, I think I'm going to have to move" then it's "yay! emails!" then it's "why isn't anyone calling me?"

Oh, you get that too?

I had two interviews that went quite well and I'm reasonably sure I'm the most qualified candidate, and yet... the phone doesn't ring.

Malcolm · Post by **Malcolm** » Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:30 pm

I've found the most qualified candidate rarely gets the job.

It's kind of like Bones noticing that, "Evil usually triumphs unless good is very careful."

Post by **Troy** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:32 am

I got iced today.

Woo....

Post by **TheCatt** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 11:03 am

Troy wrote:I got iced today.

Woo....

Um... welcome to the job market?

I'm still looking. I've got a 2nd job interview with a small start-up on Thursday.

Still at work, though.

I kinda don't want to work until June. It'd be nice to take a break.

Post by **Troy** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 12:13 pm

Yeah, I'm not suprised, as is obvious by this thread.

In the long run, I'll just use this as an excuse to jump start my move to Atlanta, that I was planning on doing at the end of the year anyway.

I might just have to take a less glamorous job that I would have had I done it on my own terms.

Post by **GORDON** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 10:47 pm

You're young... you'd probably make a shitload of money as a gay manwhore.

No pun intended.

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:48 pm

Here's a nice little animated sort about the economic crisis: http://consumerist.com/5157192....and-fun

Post by **TPRJones** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:07 pm

For the "whats different to make this happen now?" question, I'd recommend this article: http://www.wired.com/techbiz....age=all

Post by **TheCatt** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 2:45 pm

We learned about "risk" in our finance MBA classes. I was like "that's not risk, it's correlation." and the prof said "Yes, but it's the best we've got"

Post by **Troy** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:47 pm

Got a job in Atlanta today.

Best Friday the 13th ever.

Was an image a while back that reminded me of my interviews.

Only replace Perl with "Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator"

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:13 am

Awesome, what will you be doing?

I assume some sort of male prostitution?