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How is your job situration now as compared to when Barack HUSSEIN Obama took office.

Did you really have to ask?  I feel bad enough about it anyway to have someone mention it.
0 (0%)
Worse.
4 (16.7%)
Better.  (If You Vote For This Please State Why This Is True).
5 (20.8%)
There be leprechan's out there with the unicorns and rainbows of joy.  Their coming to take me away, ha ha, ho ho, hee hee....
1 (4.2%)
About the same.  But I've had to work my you know what off to keep it that way.
2 (8.3%)
With Obamacare does it really matter?  More money means less money.  I'm working a better job or with better pay but I'm not keeping up.
1 (4.2%)
I'm retired, and it was planned just like I thought I would exit.
4 (16.7%)
I'm retired but it was not as I had planned I had to start early because of the economy.
4 (16.7%)
Working now but storm clouds are on the horizon.  I do not know how long this will hold together for me.
1 (4.2%)
My job was taken by a low wage illegal.
0 (0%)
I had an injury causing me to take disability.
2 (8.3%)

Total Members Voted: 23


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H O W - - I S - - Y O U R - - J O B - - S I T U A T I O N - - N O W ? ? ?
« on: May 10, 2016, 06:19:27 AM »
I think this will be a telling poll.  I just perused a 2011 poll where members were hurting.  Has it gotten better or worse for you?  Did you have to retire? 

For instance, I work in the oil industry and we've been devastated.  It is full of ups and downs so I expect that to happen however, this one is particularly nasty and unlike past oil downturns it has not boosted the US economy one bit.  It would not be so bad if the economy was doing better....but with Obamacare sucking the life out of the US economy the price drop is probably all that has kept us from dropping off the economic precipice.
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« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2016, 06:24:57 AM »
No provision for disability, so I checked "early retirement".
This will be more accurate than the BS being released as monthly jobs reports.
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« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2016, 06:26:12 AM »
Added disability.  The poll is not locked you can change your vote.

Anything else I missed?
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« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2016, 07:20:56 AM »
I don't now how to change my vote.
 But I don't think you missed anything ese.
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« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2016, 07:57:11 AM »
Worse for me.   The money is the same, but I had too increase my gross sales by 7x, higher 9 employees to make it be that way.
That inculdes a move out of ca.  I don't even want too think about how much more I would have too increase it by if I was still tgere.
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2016, 08:03:58 AM »
I "retired", not because I wanted to (lots of gun parts to buy, then started HAM hobby . . . ) but because the job market right now for what I do (high end IT management) here in KY is worse than it was in ND. Plus, being a newly-wed, who wants to travel?

So I took Social Security, and my wife is still working, so lots of time, just not so much money. Plus a son living here now in grad school at UK.
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« Reply #6 on: May 10, 2016, 08:33:23 AM »
I was "down sized" in Jan of 2009 as the senior (highest paid) IT technician at age 62.  Unemployed turned into retired, SS,  and a 70% service related VA disability.

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« Reply #7 on: May 10, 2016, 11:53:12 AM »
Leprechauns for me..

Terminated me and 24 others in January due to lack of work from General Epileptic's decision to screw every supplier of their equipment out of business.  The energy industry is dying due to the admins big boner for green, global cooling foolishness.

Not much here for me...  can't move, stuck with the fact that I'll probably take a HUGE pay cut if and when I find something...

In a word...  screwed!
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« Reply #8 on: May 10, 2016, 02:18:57 PM »
I still have a job with decent pay...construction is picking up, so I think I'm ok for another 5 years or so and then I'll probably be done and try to live on crumbs. Unfortunately, I have noticed a LARGE increase in everything except gasoline. Food prices are way up, clothing has jumped, taxes are higher, vet bills, gun stuff is a little higher. I think we're in an inflationary grip that has been largely buried by the govt and media.
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« Reply #9 on: May 10, 2016, 04:56:32 PM »
I'm retired just like I planned, but my financial situation is not what I envisioned!  I am slowly going broke and am looking for a job at 69 yo!

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