Tenth Crew Member needs your help.
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UPDATED: Friday, October 16, 2009 03:43
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Aw... This economy is hitting lots of people hard, it's not anything to be ashamed of. And sometimes people need people, it's why we build our homes all clustered together. A healthy community is one that reaches across the fences to their neighbors. :)
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Oh, and because someone queried, I should add:
I have been in retail management for the past 15 years, in some form or another. That's what I do, it paid the bills.
I have worked in manufacturing, I was a cutter/layer/pleater for a few years after high school at a uniform company, so manufacturing environments I am okay with as well.
Believe me, these jobs exist here, in Cincinnati/NKY, but I just don't get the calls. Have had exactly 2 interviews since becoming unemployed, and for whatever reason those didn't come to fruition.
Mind you have have applied for more jobs in the last 6 weeks than I have in my entire life combined until now (quite literally, 1000's), even for places I said I would never work, such as gas stations and fast food joints.
So yeah, any help there, I really am going to jump at the first opportunity that comes my way. I refuse to live off the system longer than is absolutely necessary! (Like the fact that my foodstamp allowance for the month is TRIPLE what I spend when I pay for it myself really grinds my gizzard and puts me (in my mind) in the "burden to society" category).
As for what I "want to do", well, I am a creative individual. I enjoy creating anything. Drawing, poetry, t-shirts (thanks to y'all for getting me started on that!), board & card games (also thanks to Browncoats), currently working on a novel, I've written a pilot for a t.v. show idea I have, have a screenplay idea for a movie...doing those things makes me happy, but they don't pay the bills...not yet anyway...maybe someday if I am lucky. Frankly, I think I am a hack at all of it, but I am always most critical of my own work.
I tried to go to school for IT training, but I couldn't get funding because my credit is shot thanks to the lazy soon-to-be-ex. Would love to go to school for graphic design.
There ya go. More insight into what makes TCM tick. :)
Xie xie!
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TenthCM ?
Pick up a phone book and sort through your local security companies - make sure to call Guardsmark LLC and CSS first.
Ain't glamorous work, but it's work, and word has been passed down the line, such as mine will carry.
Heck, I own my company and I still walk some of the watches, good exercise, time to think, and barring a really, really BAD day, nice and quiet.
And given the current economic situation, one of the few businesses that IS doing ok.
If you can get in with CSS, your management skills might actually be useful as heck to them, as they always need experienced cat-herders to ride herd on the younger guys anyways.
As I said, such as word of mine can carry, it's been carried, and here's for hopin that the doors will open, yes ?
-Frem
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Will do.
Thanks, Frem!
I'll let you know if it pans out. Cat-herder...I still have a link to that commercial...lol!
Is there a name I should drop at the hopefully open door?
ETA: Guardsmark asked me to come in an fill out an app/drop off my resume tomorrow, so I will do that, though they aren't sure right at the moment what openings they have (apparently 2 larger customers just cut back on hours) but said new openings are always popping up. Thanks again!
I could definitely do security work. And more definitely herd the cats. ;)
As an aside, just got word from LEGO they aren't interested in having me work their new retail store here...man that would have been the Nirvana of Geekdom for me...probably a bit much to be asking for the perfect job, but that would've been it. Que sera.
Did get a bank account opened today with the funds friends and family already gave me, so going to link the new PP account to it. Again, I can't thank everyone enough, but thank you all the same.
Stay Shiny!
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I feel for you brother. Like you I'm out of work. Have been 11 months this Saturday. I at least qualified for unemployment. Not much but keeps gas in the car and food on the table.
The Vermont Job market is tight. I landed a three month part time temp gig over the holidays, hence why I still have some unemployment money left.
It will run out sometime in July I think. I've been called for two interviews in the last 11 months. One leading to the temp job.
I have a phone interview tomorrow so cross your fingers.
And I promise to buy something from your store as soon as I can swing it.
Brian
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See? I always know someone out there has it as bad or worse...one of the things that always makes me hesitant to ever ask for help.
"It's worse than you know." - Operative
"It usually is." - Mal
*chuckles* I remember thinking when I first watched Firefly on DVD, I thought "Wow, I really relate to these people"...little did I realize how much parallel I would have with them. Sometimes good, sometimes bad, but always there.
I wish you all the luck fate has seen to withhold from me, Brian. ;) I once went 8 months on unemployment and that's how I discovered Firefly, otherwise I think I'd have gone insane. I lucked out and started a job the week my unemployment ran out.
And I appreciate the promise, it just further evidences the mindset of Browncoats, but know I want you on your own two feet before you think about making said purchase. I'd feel bad if you helped me out and put yourself in a pinch on any level.
BWAH! 
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Well, I feel better, orderd two shirts and sent 'cashy money' to help with the other stuff.
Good luck and hang in there. Remember, if it wasn't necesary to need others help sometime, would we have...'when you can't walk, you crawl and when you can't crawl, you find somebody to carry you'?
I been there, for two years I could only find a part time job, but still had full time bills. Thank goodness for the church's food bank and food stamps, I bought tuna with the stamps to feed my cats, and I got by on lots of free bread from the church. I remember, being hungry all the time, it made a big impression on me, I can afford stuff now, but still remember that time.
As Chaplain in the 76th, I will pray you find a job, asap! Catholic Charities is a good one to contact, call your local Catholic church and ask for the number, you don't have to be Catholic.
Chaplain of the 76th Independant Battalion
Do not bother dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
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Thanks, Filly,
And yeah, I've already been there. Some churches here have been wonderful in feeding my kids until the foodstamps rolled in.
Others, not so much. Took exception to my "lack of faith". *shrug* I have plenty of faith, but not where they want it.
For those that did take care of us, the favors will be returned when I am once again on my feet. I have always donated in the past to free stores, Goodwill, food pantries and Salvation Army because its the right thing to do.
Well, I am off to Guardsmark (thank you again Frem!), wish me luck. I hope my masculine wiles (LOL! yeah right! let's just go with work history and experience shall we? Yeah.) land me a job so I can take care of me and mine, and I lessen my burden on society.
Thanks!
BWAH!
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Much luck indeed, and I passed word onto them a little while ago, so let's keep our fingers crossed.
As for favors, no need to pass it back, you're like me, and will reserve it to pass forward onto those in a pinch when you get back up on your own feet.
And more than that I couldn't ask for.
It's little enough, but we're Browncoats, believing in the impossible is who we are.
-F
EDIT: Here's for hoping he's not replied cause they handed him a uniform and a schedule on the spot as was suggested to em, and he's been busy workin that out.
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EDIT: Here's for hoping he's not replied cause they handed him a uniform and a schedule on the spot as was suggested to em, and he's been busy workin that out.
Unfortunately, they said they would be in touch, that because of the loss of 2 big accounts, they were cutting back hours, though before I left they reaffirmed where I lived and said they may have some part time hours for an account near my house opening up.
Maybe it'll take a little time to filter down the ranks? We can hope.
Thanks for trying though. I'll update again, when I have something to update. Which reminds me...
While I am here and have a moment, want to thank all the Browncoats again who have been so generous with their support, whether it be the financial (and a big thank you to the anonymous gift from a Florida Browncoat...cuz yeah...wow, and equally thank you to Natalie and all the others because, yes, every little bit helps), or the intangible moral support (help in job searches, prayers & thoughts, etc.), it all makes a difference.
It all means a lot, and, if nothing else, is making a difference in the lives of at least 3 people (myself and my 2 kids). My problems are by no means solved, but they are manageable with help, and because of you, we will come out on top, I know this now, and having that bit of confidence is more peace of mind than I could have imagined a few weeks ago.
Stay shiny, Crew!
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