Unemployment Rate Facts
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Saturday, September 5, 2026 13:19
VIEWED: 54220
PAGE 14 of 94
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
What is dom?
I forget how vanilla some of my audience is. Dom = Dominate.
Quote:
I'm a tad surprised that nobody here has ragged on your viewpoint about your physical fitness. I don't think enough people understand the proper balance of excellence and exercise of mental, physical, and emotional.
I'm not following your train of thought here.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Have you considered driving truck? I keep hearing there is high demand, low supply, pay double of min wage, even just expiditer cargo trucks, not semis.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:You're right. Pretty much everything you said in that whole post is correct. This is why my mom doesn't understand how I can be "happy" where I'm at in life now and she asks me things like "don't you want some luxuries in life?". To which my response is always "my luxury in life is that I don't have to work full time at a job I hate for an idiot boss I could run circles around".
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Yes, I've always known how hard it has been, statistically or in Percentile context, to be the smartest in any room.
I did not think you meant "how hard" as "how burdensome" it was to be the smartest.
I have probably had times when I resented the success of others, but that does not seem the most productive line of thought.
This also provides me with a bit of leverage as well. Since my company cannot provide me with more money per hour at my current position, and everybody gets the same lousy 2% bonus (because fairness), they need to offer me other things to keep me on staff. It got rocky at my job for about a month there and turned into a high stress affair, and it came to a head when I was written up for the first time in my life for "insubordination". My idiot manager was not going to "dom" me, and I'd frequently yell at her when she tried. This backfired on her though, since it was my way of having a long conversation with the store manager, whom I've never met before, and the 2nd in command who hired me. My work ethic and my ability were never a question, and now I'm given free reign to do my work as I see fit every night and she's been told to give me my space and just let me do my job. We rarely say more than two lines of dialogue on any given night now, and after getting a consensus from the rest of the shift she has been told to tone down her erratically manic tenancies and stop talking down to her good workers and making them quit.
Work is great now, aside from the pay. I get to work out hard every night I'm there, and they no longer give me sporadic days throughout the week. Most of the time I can get two weeks worth of the 3 days a week I'll give them at this rate of pay all in a row, leaving me with very long weekends. I got to leave work last night right after my store manager called me a "rock star". I'm not usually one to fall prey to any meaningless flattery, but after the previous drama with my idiot manager, I can't say I mind.
I may choose to work full time if a higher position is offered to me. They all know my name now, they see what I'm capable of. If they want me full time, they know what they need to do. I'm leveraging my intelligence and my previous financial planning when I did make money to dictate my own terms. If I don't get a promotion, at least I still get that workout every night and they're only allowed to use me as much as I get use out of them.
I try my best not to resent these people. I'm a pretty simple man with simple tastes. If I could get a job making at least 30k a year with benefits, I don't imagine at this point in life I'd resent much of anything. I have no dreams or even desires to ever be rich.
And yes, I've seen Idiocracy. Many times. It's one of my favorite movies of all time.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Have you considered driving truck? I keep hearing there is high demand, low supply, pay double of min wage, even just expiditer cargo trucks, not semis.
Yeah. I definitely wouldn't want to drive a semi truck. I did it twice when I was 20 without a CDL and I hated it. Once you were on the road driving straight it wasn't bad, but when you got near your destination it was all small roads with a monster vehicle and even that was nothing compared to trying to back it up to the dock. Granted, both times I did this I had zero training.
I really miss that boss. Nobody I've ever worked for since had that amount of trust in me.
A smaller cargo truck wouldn't be too bad if I could get a gig that payed decent. I think I'd be bored out of my mind though. It's not as if stocking stuff out is very stimulating, but I do a lot of planning throughout the night and that's a large part of the reason that I get twice as much stuff done as anybody else. The rest of it is just the hustle. I'm easily putting up to 8 miles under my shoes on any given night, and lifting thousands of pounds worth of stuff. I always volunteer for the heavy things because aside from calling my own hours, a big part of the reason I enjoy the job is the serious workout every night.
I think the long road trips would get to me. It wouldn't be bad as sitting around doing nothing like when I did a brief stint as a security guard, but I think it'd be pretty close to that.
I think for now I'm going to hang around a bit and see if something in management becomes available. If something were to fall in my lap that was better in the mean time I'd jump on it, but now that my manager stays out of my way and I have a direct line of communication with the top two people in the store things have worked out really well. Staying at my level and pay is definitely not a good long term plan, but for the first time in years I'm not eating away at my savings. I'm turning a lot of the health issues around in the mean time, I'm not drinking a drop, and my diet is the best it's ever been.
I'm going to enjoy my summer with more days off, and then I'll work more hours when it's cold and crappy. If I'm still at the same level of pay when spring of 2019 hits, and it doesn't look like there's any room for advancement by then, I'm going to start looking into something else.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Today's BLS report on jobless claims shows a 4-week total for May about 40,000 less than April, or average of 9,000 per week less. Even though this week is a seasonal peak for the end of the school year. This includes 2 of the 3 lowest weeks of the year so far. Jobless claims have been an effectively steady decline all year.
Also, at the end of March, the number of job openings hit 6.6 million, the highest number since that report began in December 2000.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quantity over quality. That's our new normal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Jobless Claims.
Apparently the 209,000 reported on 26 April 2018 was the lowest since 1969. And the 210,000 on 1 March was too.
Other weeks:
230,000 1 February
221,000 8 February
229,000 15 February
222,000 22 February
210,000 1 March - 4wk avg 221
230,000 8 March
226,000 15 March
227,000 22 March
215,000 29 March - 4wk avg 225
242,000 5 April
233,000 12 April
233,000 19 April
209,000 26 April - Apr avg 229
211,000 3 May
211,000 10 May
223,000 17 May
234,000 24 May - May avg 215
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Have you heard of All-Star Assembly? Sounds like you would be able to do it. I know a guy making over $300 in a day, but slower people make about $120 per day. Assembling bikes, grilles, etc for different Walmart locations. Piece work, so the faster you work the more you make. Some metric wrenches, rachet sockets, etc. I see they have work in Indiana. You could either earn more or take more time off.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quantity over quality. That's our new normal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Obamanomics kept claiming the New Normal was No Quantity, No Quality, just dependency on Government handouts.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quantity over quality. That's our new normal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Have you heard of All-Star Assembly? Sounds like you would be able to do it. I know a guy making over $300 in a day, but slower people make about $120 per day. Assembling bikes, grilles, etc for different Walmart locations. Piece work, so the faster you work the more you make. Some metric wrenches, rachet sockets, etc. I see they have work in Indiana. You could either earn more or take more time off.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quantity over quality. That's our new normal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's actually something worth looking into. I think I'd actually love a gig like that. I wonder how easy it is to get a job there if you don't know anybody.
Thanks for the tip. That would surely improve my lot in life at the moment.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:Apply online.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:Have you heard of All-Star Assembly? Sounds like you would be able to do it. I know a guy making over $300 in a day, but slower people make about $120 per day. Assembling bikes, grilles, etc for different Walmart locations. Piece work, so the faster you work the more you make. Some metric wrenches, rachet sockets, etc. I see they have work in Indiana. You could either earn more or take more time off.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quantity over quality. That's our new normal.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
That's actually something worth looking into. I think I'd actually love a gig like that. I wonder how easy it is to get a job there if you don't know anybody.
Thanks for the tip. That would surely improve my lot in life at the moment.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Allstarassembly.com or something. Maybe all-starassembly.com
I'm told they're expanding like crazy. Only been in business in past 6-7 years, expanding during Obamanomics.
What city are you near?
If you don't already have tools, find every used tool reseller in your area. And sales at Harbor Freight Tools and Home Depot can be your friend.
NOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME