Lost ur job????

Jobs are picking up as the big companies can't afford in house anymore. I have more work than I can handle on almost any given week. And I work remotely from home or an office of my choosing (hammock out back ;) ).

What I would suggest is that all the jobless or near jobless pool together and find common skills, network those skills into freelance positions, and help keep each other busy. As a freelancer you cut out the middle man, and can easily triple your hourly rate just starting out. Cut the overhead out and you'll find there's plenty to live on.

I'm in the "entertainment industry"... And I just managed to secure a loan of just under 1 million dollars from a close family friend... Either he's too wealthy to care or he's not paying attention to what's going on with our economy... Either way, the business venture I've just established involves managing/promoting international music tours... I just determine where in the world $ is being spent on concert tickets at any given time, book my shows, and hit the road... It's been working out well so far... My advice for any and everyone, wherever possible, is to be fully self-sufficient, self-employed, and independent on every level. As volatile as things are here right now, economically and socially, we should all be broadening our horizons...

I'm between Asheville-Charlotte NC and smack up against SC...Rutherford County is the name...Unemployment here is about 9%...but its loads cheaper here than in NY..or even Asheville and Charlotte..
We have people in our house renting to own it..we just had to down size..no real choice.
My desire..if I get lucky and win the lotto or someone puts me in their will..is to buy a few small houses..rent them cheap..people cant afford to buy but lots can afford to rent.
We would love to hook up with someone who does civil service through the military..hubby is Ex-Navy...we hear the money is great but finding the jobs is almost impossible unless you pay...I'm sooooo ready to get out of here.

Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.

My business is construction and my girlfriend fields my calls and she's very anal when it comes to keeping records. Since december 2007 we have recieved 589 calls from people looking for work in Michigan. previous years we would get the odd call maybe 2 a year. I had to lay off two crews in February.Possibly another one this month if something doesn't start coming in soon.

paying off debt from last year. Almost paid off probably in 2-3 months. It was a slow start to the season for us. I do landscape construction. I laid off half my work force so I have to hustle alot more and work l;onger hours. It looks like the receptionist will be the next casualty. So I will work even longer hours. Unless I find a conpany to split the costs for the receptionist. I dont know how long it will be like this but the bottom line is I will pay off all my debt and keep it that way. Pay all cash

in the private sector for environmental due diligence. fortunately, some of my clients are large management funds that are buying up timberland at bargain prices. i perform their aquisition work. my other clients are suffereing (development). the bills are getting paid, but nothing fluffy like i saw a few years ago.

i also dabble in real estate. just sold my shares to the other partners in a subdivision. post permitting but prior to infrastructure. i'll do fine, but not as good as if i kept in for the long haul. thing is, that keeping in is in an ideal market. i have no faith that the market will turn around any time soon, so it was best for me to get out when the gettin was good.

i also have a rehab house that i have a line of credit to refurbish it. i've had some delays (waiting upon the sale of my shares in the subdivision), the city permitting/engineering, etc. i will have to hustle to get this fixed and get it rented. it should be interesting.

we are doing what we can.

promoting ron paul (my truck is spray painted with the revolution and website).

we have a great garden planted and will can the harvest

we're putting more of our savings into gold/silver

we've sold our gas guzzling cars, bought used and diesel. i'm going to convert one to run on filtered grease and have plans to buy a large titration station and make my own true biodiesel and sell it.

i am more scared now than i was a few years back. went through a divorce and basically all of my debts on my assets doubled. i was close to paying off my home, but now its doubled (wanted to keep the home, but pay off the ex). it is a challenge.

hell, look at the metals markets. even a beer can that weighs roughly 15gs. 30 cans to a lb. .60 cents to a lb in scrap. how many beers and sodas does your family drink? i don't mind pissing away money...at least i get the buzz...but throwing it away? nut uh. crush em, store em, and sell the scrap in a year or two.

try copper. if you're in the construction business, strip that old copper wire. you may have a small fortune in your buildings.

even iron is going bonkers. iron ore shares are currently out-performing gold right now.

we can all do this. think on it this way. the market IS correcting itself, because it is more powerful than those that want to control it, or think they can. help the market along and change focus. build your own wealth by forcing theirs a bit down. shop responsibly, conservatively, be a bear when you need to be a bear.

buy hog shares. hog farmers are going bankcrupt because grain is skyrocketed.....be savvy, it can be done!

it is not what you make, but what you keep
it is not what you have, but what you do with it

this applies to the poor and the rich.

share all you know and build good alliances, good friends, and good neighbors. this is what will really count when times are very tough.

peace

im in real estate. I work mostly with short sales. I get them done then they blow up. I have been losing way more deals than closing. I am also losing my home it looks like, I couldnt get the bank to even return my phone call for months to try to work something out.
I encourage all my short sale customers to file chapter 7 bankruptcy to hopefully make all the people they owe money to(creditors) be worse off. Most of my friends, real estate agents, loan officers, builders, roofers, electricians, are all looking for work and many in foreclosure. It seems their is a portion of society thats isnt affected by the economy. People that were already well off, or homes paid off. I wonder how fast thing will fall apart. Will it just crash, or slowly fade.

I am a Manager for a staffing company..(temporary, temporary to hire and permanent placement for a fee to the company that contracts w/us). I have been making my living doing this for 12 years. It has been stable for about 9 months (no growth, no loss) but now we are in the category of *bad* ( revenue losses, lost business, companies going bankrupt, not paying us, etc) this has been happening for about the last 6 months and it is getting worse. I have waaay more to say about fake unmeployment figures and what actual owners/hiring managers are telling me on a daily basis when I call on them to see if they can use some interim support with regard to their labor force as opposed to what the sheeple hear on msm but I think I may write a book instead and try to publish it.....I am thinking of calling it The 4th Reich (sp?)...what do you think? too controversial?
Peace,
Betsy