Let's see, while I was unemployed looking for a job I still had to provide for a family of 6. I did not want my relatives to have to carry that burden. My job search was extensive, I spent minimum 7-9 hours per day, 5-6 days per week, researching companies, making phone calls, sending resumes, pounding the pavement, canvassing friends and old colleagues (I made it my "full-time job" and kept a fairly detailed log). I did the math and all the jobs I had available to me at that time I would have to work at least 8 hours per day to max out anything much beyond what unemployment paid.
So I should take a min wage job and work 8-10 hours per day just to get off unemployment, and make marginally more than unemployment is paying so I still cannot provide for my family, and ALSO I can't look for a job as much as I did before, so my time employed at this level is lengthened by who knows how long?
Great plan.
I did take a job with the Census from Dec 09 to Jul 10, because that paid more than twice what I was making from unemployment, but during that time my job search efforts had to be cut drastically since it was a salaried position and we were working 10-12 hour days. I figure I lost about 3 months of job search time, all told, while I worked there (on the per hour basis I was logging). Maybe I could have had a better job months earlier than I did had I not worked there. But I felt I needed to do what I could to ease the burden on my family and other relatives.
You obviously have never been in that boat before. When you talk out of your *** it is amazing how far down your throat you can stick your foot.
