I gotta sell the Firebird

[Mogobs30th]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

I got my callbacks from three different places today, none of which will hire me. These aren't difficult jobs, Lowes, Home Depot, and Autozone, but something I have done or haven't done has caused me to not get a job. So the car is officially for sale if anyone is interested.

[ssms5411]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

Sorry hear that, can you apply for disability or anything, I know for some medical conditions you can apply say for only a year then once your health is good you go back to work. I know if I didn't have this County job I would of lost our house and everything I own, First set of bills were 110,000 which I paid 4300 including 1 month of physical therapy, my next bill with the surgery through the Mayo clinic is going to be about 100,000. Will pay about 1500 of that. I always have look for jobs not based on pay but on medical coverage. I could make 5-10 more an hour at different jobs but then I would have to take less medical coverage. So until I'm forced into disability I'll stay working where I'm at. You can look into government programs for aid,thats what there their for, their is no shame in going on medical disability/social security until your well. Good luck to you Steve

[badinfluenceRS]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

Did you try McDonalds or the food industry?

[Joe Oh]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

I don't know if you've tried this already but I've been searching for a job also and i look on Careerbuilder.com or jobsearch. And there seem to be a lot of dealerships looking for detailers and grunts. Thats what im shootin for as of now. Hope you get to keep the 'bird man.

[BobDoLe]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

I can't let this go - READ

http://cornerstonebooks.net/

http://jamesallen.wwwhubs.com/think.htm



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yeah... i'm with firebirdgt 1,000,000,000% on this one. i'm about to slit my wrists over this thread.

[kala]

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Sorry to hear it, bro ......... Local newspaper could be you best friend..........there are always a lot of jobs posted in newspaper. .......... from dealership sales to driver etc............if you were in nj, i could hook you up with a job right now ............. wish you good luck with everything ........ and remember, there is always a reason for everything ........ that's what gets me going in life.........everytime some bad sh*t happens , i tell myself there must be a reason for this .......something thats good ............trust me, you'll be fine ..........



:)

[DAS BOOT]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

I got my callbacks from three different places today, none of which will hire me. These aren't difficult jobs, Lowes, Home Depot, and Autozone, but something I have done or haven't done has caused me to not get a job. So the car is officially for sale if anyone is interested.

sorry to hear it... if it gets to minimum wage jobs... the movie theatres should be hiring full swing... Spiderman, starting the summer off May 4th. They usually nearly double staffing levels for the summer. But the pay is ****.


My theatre, is hiring ~45 employees, and I know the others in the area are doing similar as well.

[vanbibber]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

Did you try McDonalds or the food industry?

fast food is a joke and not worth the time.

[badinfluenceRS]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

food > nothing

you can look for jobs while working for somewhere...and I'm sure getting a job at a food place (not just fast food but waiters and bussers and ****) is pretty easy...(no offense)

[vanbibber]

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im just saying, fast food isnt worth the time.

somewhere like applebees or tgi fridays pays alot better.

[Mogobs30th]

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Not to sound too picky, but FAST food is not cost effective for me. Most of the fast food places are out of the way, and pay minimum wage, and have little hours. Now Eric had a real good idea, I think I may try a movie theater, because they are open late, which is what I need. Thing about me getting a job is once I have one, I simply will not have the time to look for another. My training comes first, and not only am I at training for 43 hours a week, but when you add the commute as well, it really eats into my time.

I also may try places like TGI Fridays, or Applebee's, they do pay slightly more, and they're are more of those places around then the fast food places and are along my commute. Main priority is that I have to stay along my commute.

I have been thru more **** than I would like to have been thru, and I have always been a firm believer of a balance of life. I think the **** that I have been thru in the last three years is gearing me up for something big, but with the immediate stress on my mind I can't help but vent every once in awhile. I have three months, the third week of June, I am done with training, and I go out into the field for my career, which I have been working on attaining for over a year. Its just that these three months are probably the hardest I have had to deal with in my life, and once they are over with, everything will be set free. As I have said before, EVERYONE has their breaking point, and right now I am dancing with it, but so long as everything goes the way I need it to for the next 11 weeks, I will be good afterwards.

BTW, I may have to sell the car, but I still have a bare block.....;)

[CHEVYINSIDE]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

if theres no note on the car keep it . take it off the insurance to save money and park it . three months isnt that long . good luck

[BobDoLe]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

balance of life...
try this:
after all the **** you're going through, take all the money you get for your firebird to vegas and put it all down on one number on the roulette table. since you've been through so much, you're sure to win, right?

it sounds like the "something big" you're gearing up for is a lesson in life - hopefully learned shortly after you hit your perceived breaking point.

some people have it much harder than others and get no breaks. when you think it couldn't get any worse, it most certainly will. on the other hand, when you're truly determined to make it better, it most certainly will.
many people swear they keep getting knocked back down, when they never really got up in the first place.

[96greenmachine]

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i take it u dont have another car? if so what happens when u dont have a car? not having a car sucks and i know this from experience... i would try and keep the car as long as u could unless u had a sure way of getting around, my gf cant get a job just cuz she has no car

[Mogobs30th]

Re: I gotta sell the Firebird

balance of life...
try this:
after all the **** you're going through, take all the money you get for your firebird to vegas and put it all down on one number on the roulette table. since you've been through so much, you're sure to win, right?

it sounds like the "something big" you're gearing up for is a lesson in life - hopefully learned shortly after you hit your perceived breaking point.

some people have it much harder than others and get no breaks. when you think it couldn't get any worse, it most certainly will. on the other hand, when you're truly determined to make it better, it most certainly will.
many people swear they keep getting knocked back down, when they never really got up in the first place.

First off, Robert, those were good links, I read thru them all, and for the most part, I do believe in them, sorry I didn't mention that earlier. I appreciate everyones support, I always have, atleast the ones who actually do support.

Now, Bobdole, what you fail to understand is the 5 year slide I have had since Deluxe Check Printers closed their doors, a job where I was making pretty good money, was content with myself. So I guess I am going to have to go in chronological order.

April 18th 2002, Deluxe closes their doors, putting me and 75 other people out of a job. I had my Camaro for two years at the time, and only $4000 in debt, between both the car and credit cards, which I almost never used. Before this point in my life, I was doing well, working alot, making good money, doing what I wanted to do. Was looking on getting a promotion to maintenence, where I would have topped out at $18 an hour, but would have had a retirement that I have to this day never seen. But the doors closed, and 75 people were out of work. I soon after started a job at a company called Davis Homes LLC., building trusses with the experience I had for new homes.

December 20th 2002, I was laid off from Davis Homes, along with 25 of 40 people because of the slow season. In order for me to get my job back, I had to start all over and reapply there, in three months. Instead of waiting around, I applied at a courier company. Because of me being laid off and not getting money in time for unemployment, I had to sell a wrecked Camaro, wrecked because my own brother wanted to joyride in it on an icy day, smacked into the rear end of a truck, and bounced it off the walls of a narrow underpass of a railroad bridge. My $6200 car was worth $500 at that point, and my insurance would have dropped me if I had filed. So I sold the car for a van, and went into the courier business, which paid very well, bringing home almost $1000 a week cash.

October 31st 2003, I was diagnosed with a kidney stone, taking me away from my work. Because I was an independent contractor, my boss was in full legal right to get rid of me, hence, there goes the third job in a year and a half, thru no fault of my own. During this time, because I had a kidney stone, no company would hire me when I told them this. Once January rolled around, I found another good job at Atlas Cold Storage....heres where the fun begins.

February 3rd, 2004, I was in the hospital with a problem which to this day I still have, and can only control with expensive medications, something I will not discuss on a public message board, but something serious. My "problem" has been so serious that it has stumped every ER doctor I have come in contact with, many specialists, and in return have created situations to where med students would be in the ER watching the procedures, because of its rarity.

Because of my problem, I have had to contact doctors around the world, from Indianapolis, to specialists at the University of Texas, to even one in Tokyo via interpreter. I had no answers, only doctors telling me to go straight to the ER if this problem occurs. Between the time of February 2004 till January of 2007, I have lost 6 jobs, all because of medical absences. I tried school, but because of the debt accrued over a period of time with hospitals, and not being able to pay the bills, it killed my credit, and I was not able to get enough money to stay at school. Doctors had medication that would treat the problem, but almost all were reluctant to give it to me to treat myself, until the doctor I am with now was able to instruct me on how to take the injections of Sodium chloride and Phenyepherine, a dangerous drug if not CLOSELY measured.

In June of 2006, I realized that I would need a job with collective bargaining agreements, a union, because only with union power was I able to actually keep a job if I was in the ER for days on end, similar to my 12 visits from New Years of this year to January 21st. Now because of the 30+ ER visits, some with overnight hospital stays, I accrued $32,000 of debt, without being any better off than I was the day before. In June of last year, I drove to Chicago to apply for an electricians C-card with the LBEW local 134. It took me 6 months to start school, and when I started on January 2nd, I was yet again knocked back out of school because of the 12 ER visits I had. Because of those 12 ER visitis, I missed 3 days of training, which at that point I was put on a hiatus, to where I couldn't go back to school until a board of trustee's had agreed unanimously to let me back in. Now because my last job I had fired me, due to medical absences, I was on unemployment from Sept 17th of '06 to February 21st of '07. I had enough money to be able to make it thru my 11 weeks of training so that I was able to get out in the field, when I started in January. But because I was put on hiatus, I had to restart just this last week, after my unemployment has ran out. And BTW, my first 11 weeks of training is unpaid. I recieve no money until after I get out and I am with a contractor. Which puts me to today, where since I have been on hiatus, I have applied at well over 100+ jobs, been on 20+ interviews, and a handful of 2nd interviews, in all kinds of places from warehouse work, to office temp, janitor, public works, with NO offers for jobs in the 2 months I have been sitting here.

I am now back in my training, but herein lies the problem, I don't get paid for 11 weeks, and this is 43 hours a week at school, 30 miles away in downtown Chicago. I am up at 4 am, and I don't get home till after 7 pm, after school and my daily round of applying at jobs. I am trying VERY hard to get my life back in order, and if you think not, you haven't been reading.

As for your stupid *** comment, I would love to know what this life lesson is that I have to learn, not to get sick? Not to go to the ER room when I have a job to do? Are you ****ing serious? All I have asked for in this life is the ability to be content, and how can anyone be content if they don't know from one day to the next if they are going to be in an ER? Do you know what thats like, to go to bed everynight and not know if you will be in the hospital or not? Would you have told someone like Eric this as well, who has endured more than I have with cancer, and lived thru it? I don't think you would. I think I have done well for myself considering the situation. All I wanted was somewhere to vent, which I have greatly considered this board a place to be. So do me a favor in the future, KNOW the situation before you open your cockhole. I have considered many of these people here as friends, and know many of them on a personal basis, sometimes its good to let the stress out and talk about it. I can't rely on my family for the same support, never got it then, and I won't get it now, so I come here, and most of the time, I do get my support from my friends.

Bobdole, I have worked my 20 hour days, lived in my car, ate crackers for weeks straight, and had needles poked in places that would make you ****ing cringe and writhe in pain from merely mentioning it, so dont you ****ing sit there and tell me I haven't made the effort to better myself. Don't sit there with some smug dumbass look on your face saying meaningless bull**** to me, because you haven't lived my life.