On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 11:14:50 -0500, Gary > wrote:

>Bryan wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 21, 7:16 am, John Kuthe > wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > I am a medical professional Bryan.
>>
>> No. You're not. You merely have the license and degree to be "a
>> medical professional."
>
>Well, that's more than I've got. "Professional" ppl can be unemployed too.
>It's kind of low to pick on someone going through hard times. That's like
>the lifeguard at the beach stealing your girlfriend then kicking sand in
>your face before he walks away with her. >:-o
>
>I've got a mere Associates degree in Business Administration and I'm
>painting houses for a living right now. All of the other guys are
>high-school dropouts (and druggies). It works for me now though....it pays
>the bills. That said though, an Associates degree doesn't do much for
>you anyway these days.
>
>Any work is honorable work and no one should look down on even the lowliest
>workers.
>From the movie, Caddyshack, "The world needs ditchdiggers."
>
>The people that I look down on (and I know one) are those that get layed off
>and milk the unemployment until it runs out....rather than go out and find a
>new job. I could have gone on partial unemployment this past winter but I
>wasn't brought up that way. I went out and found my own work to keep me
>going until the company work picked up again.
>
>The other guy (and he got layed off back in July) has sat on his ass all
>this time and drew unemployment while watching daytime television. We
>talked a couple of weeks ago and I mentioned that if company work doesn't
>pick back up soon I might go back into business for myself. His answer:
>"Why would you do that? You'll lose all your unemployment benefits and
>payments. "
>
>sheez! Gary

There's noting wrong with painting houses, as a young teen I did house
painting jobs in the hood, one summer zI painted every stopp on the
block. You can earn more painting houses than you can with an AA
degree... heck, you can earn more painting houses than you can with a
doctorate. And painting houses I bet you don't declare that income so
you pay no taxes. Unemployment insurance is a ridiculous concept, it
encourages folks to become idle do nothings. There are plenty of jobs
out there, just not driving a desk... most jobs that are always
available require one getting dirty hands, calluses, and perspiring.
I've met several people recently who were laid off from their soft
office jobs including a few teachers and instead of applying for
unemployment insurance they immediately became self employed doing
jobs requiring physical labor, they get paid in cash too and will
probably never go back to their previous line of work because they net
a much larger paycheck working for themselves. My last tenant was a
special ed teacher, recently was laid off. When she had her job she
moonlighted cleaning houses and offices, now she cleans full time and
more than doubled her salary, and is her own boss and loves it. I
know another for who losing his job was the impetus for fulfilling his
long time dream, opening his own bicycle shop... he's doing very well
with sales and repairs and especially now with the high price of gas
people are buying bicycles as fast as they become available... there's
actually a shortage now. Last year I hired a guy to clean my gutters,
he was laid off from Allstate Insurance after 15 years... he makes
much more cleaning gutters... now he installs gutters too. And I know
several of the locals who have become full time painters. One of my
neighbor's sons was laid off last year. He was always a car fanatic,
his Stang was always spotless, now he does car detailing full time
from home, he makes over $400 a day and has to turn jobs away for lack
of time. There will always be lots of work for those willing to
actually work. Unemployment insurance is just another useless
grubbermint give away scheme.