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GoCubsGo

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4. Utterly dismal.

Reply to rgbecker (Original post)

Mon Mar 24, 2014, 09:02 AM

Mar 2014

Last week, I heard a report that the long-term unemployed have only an 11% chance of ever having a job again. Well, I am one of those, and I am in my early 50s, to boot. Nobody is hiring people my age. What the fuck am I supposed to do for the rest of my life? I can't even touch the paltry retirement I do have save up for several years.

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Your opinion of the condition of the economy is probably influenced by your employment status. [View all] rgbecker Mar 2014 OP

Not bad but I live in deep blue Maryland yeoman6987 Mar 2014 #1

It is also influenced by what your offspring and friends are going through. NRaleighLiberal Mar 2014 #2

A recession is when your neighbor's out of work. A depression is when *you* are out if work. Jgarrick Mar 2014 #3

Utterly dismal. GoCubsGo Mar 2014 #4

Depends on age too RandoLoodie Mar 2014 #5