just wondering if anybody is seeing any big projects starting up especially ones needing trucks, its very slow here, and i think we might have done all we can do trucking wise, the only town around thats livable [ expensive] is built out to the walls no more room for subdivisions, ect, just sort of smelling around, probably going to have to stay inthe southern us due to daughter having a rare desiease that makes her have a very bad reaction to cold, [ i cant remember the mile long name for it]
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Anonymous-0
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In the North we are thinking the job situation is better in the South. Guess the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence.
Terrible. The manufacturers continue to shed jobs through out the area. The grocery stores have the same faces working there week after week so nobody is quitting the menial jobs. Don't see the temp agencies with ads in the paper like they used to.
Got my eyes fixed on a gov't job but we will see. I have had excellent civil service scores before only to be beaten by somebody that had an in with the people doing the hiring. See a lot of road tractors sitting. Would have to be a job where I was only gone a couple days at a time with the farm and my wife's health.
I am frustrated with the regional job market the way RR Lund is frustrated with his community
Got my eyes fixed on a gov't job but we will see. I have had excellent civil service scores before only to be beaten by somebody that had an in with the people doing the hiring. See a lot of road tractors sitting. Would have to be a job where I was only gone a couple days at a time with the farm and my wife's health.
I am frustrated with the regional job market the way RR Lund is frustrated with his community
Here in Elkhart Co. Indiana we're still at about 15% unemployment (highest in state I think). I have seen more traffic in the mornings and have to wait for a few more trains so maybe something is improving a bit. Jayco (RV/campers) is supposed to add 50 jobs and open a shuttered plant soon. Looks like our company will be profitable each month so far this year. Hope oil/gas prices stay down. If they get over $3 I think it'll really put the brakes back on the economy. We were lucky Nat gas stayed real low all winter and now its been pretty nice out.
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I am actually seeing jobs being added here in Nebraska. We have had one of the nation's lowest unemployment rates (4.5%) for a while. Good ag economy helps. Plants in other parts of the country and some other overseas areas are being moved here. If you don't like cold though, not a good place. (Also pretty hot in the summer.)
Anonymous-0
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Tru-Green Corp (lawn fertilizing etc) just announced they are looking to have their best spring sales in many years. This is important factor because people don't need lawn service, it's not considered essential and is usually bought with leftover disposable income money.
I am in employee benefits (health insurance) and I have seen a uptick on employers hiring back layed off employees the last 2 months or so.
Hopefully it will keep up.
I am in employee benefits (health insurance) and I have seen a uptick on employers hiring back layed off employees the last 2 months or so.
Hopefully it will keep up.
olgentdc
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WE are All Competing for the last $100 bucks in the county , Here in Southern Ind ... My Son is trying to make a living Doing Home improvement . He has a lot more talent than I had at that age ,,.. . I founded business In 1974 and it Served Me very well ...,But THESE ARE DIFFERENT TIMES , and we are reaping the Rewards of NAFTA , FRee trade with CHINA ....
Anonymous-0
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Pretty strong economic situation in SW Manitoba. More jobs than people to do them. Also more people went on a long holiday this winter than usual. A lot of new half tons around. It is oil than is causing it not agriculture.
farmer boy
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In SW Ontario I don't think it's as good as it seems but Wescast (manufactures manifolds) is now hiring some people back. They still have one plant sitting idle. The cities likely got hit a bit harded than the rural areas. The ag is still strong here. It's mostly manf. that took the hit. Other stuff was affected but it just slowed it down and now it's back to full speed it seems. I don't think Canada got hit near as hard as the States though
Lucky you. After our governor killed the state budget she took a job under external_link so she could kill us all with government health insurance.
I remember the joke about "Government health care" with the service of the US post office and the bedside manner of the IRS. Little did people know the IRS would be involved.... And people would claim it was an improvement.
I remember the joke about "Government health care" with the service of the US post office and the bedside manner of the IRS. Little did people know the IRS would be involved.... And people would claim it was an improvement.
Anonymous-0
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Real bad in our area, been slipping for about six years or so, extra hard the last four.
Sorry, I don't list unemployment, as it means nothing at all, other than for politcal battles. Most unemployment has run out, so our rate would not reflect anything by stating the percentages.
Now the big farmers are hiring the low pay persons from below our border to do jobs that would never be done by their employer or his family members.
We live twenty miles from where the biggest raid in US history took place. You know the guy who did not realize he was doing anything wrong ordeal? To bad the county could not split up all the court costs, and attorney fees and give it to all the folks who were effected.
The big farmers with their big government checks are buying out or over bidding the small farmers, so our town is drying up real fast.
Our schools are still getting more funds with less students, so they probably will turn out extra smart no doubt.
The baby boomers will need extra health care, and houses are getting cheaper, and lots are for sale now. It is just that no one has money to buy?
There are alot of truck drivers sitting by the phone with high hopes, but they have cut each others throats so bad that there is little profit if any.
It is surprising how up beat the town is however, and we are hopeful we all will get to the rainbow soon. Our town is safer now for small kids crossing the main high way, as well as streets. There are also few kids that need to cross the streets.
We used to have to try and find a place to park on main street years ago, especialy in front of the watering holes. I have been watching the last four years and now seldom is their a car parked on main street after nine at night. Our town is of only seven hundred, and I know of one place that placed a add, got eight hundred plus aplications.
Sorry, I don't list unemployment, as it means nothing at all, other than for politcal battles. Most unemployment has run out, so our rate would not reflect anything by stating the percentages.
Now the big farmers are hiring the low pay persons from below our border to do jobs that would never be done by their employer or his family members.
We live twenty miles from where the biggest raid in US history took place. You know the guy who did not realize he was doing anything wrong ordeal? To bad the county could not split up all the court costs, and attorney fees and give it to all the folks who were effected.
The big farmers with their big government checks are buying out or over bidding the small farmers, so our town is drying up real fast.
Our schools are still getting more funds with less students, so they probably will turn out extra smart no doubt.
The baby boomers will need extra health care, and houses are getting cheaper, and lots are for sale now. It is just that no one has money to buy?
There are alot of truck drivers sitting by the phone with high hopes, but they have cut each others throats so bad that there is little profit if any.
It is surprising how up beat the town is however, and we are hopeful we all will get to the rainbow soon. Our town is safer now for small kids crossing the main high way, as well as streets. There are also few kids that need to cross the streets.
We used to have to try and find a place to park on main street years ago, especialy in front of the watering holes. I have been watching the last four years and now seldom is their a car parked on main street after nine at night. Our town is of only seven hundred, and I know of one place that placed a add, got eight hundred plus aplications.
Walterdavies
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Try Mexico with all the Mexicans up here there has got to be a lot job openings down there.
Walt
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Well Dean, depending how far you are from the Bakken formation there could be few drilling rigs show up in the next few years. How difficult can it be to get oil out of shale? Might also put a couple of your long forgotten states back on the map. Won't hurt Saskatchewan and a small part of Manitoba either.
buickanddeere
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Sort of lucky here. We are in a 20 miles radius economic bubble here from the Bruce Nuclear Site. Steady city wages as long as people purchase electricity.
Makes it tough for the locals however that work in the traditonal work for at 1/3 to 1/2 the nuclear hourly wage.
Makes it tough for the locals however that work in the traditonal work for at 1/3 to 1/2 the nuclear hourly wage.
Pretty tough here in Montana. We lost a paper mill and a couple of saw/plywood mills in the past year and they"ll probably never be back. It"s getting so no one can log Forest Service land without a string of lawsuits that take several years to resolve and you can"t even log burned up forest. We got wolve preying on livestock. Americans were noted for the common sense in the past but it looks like that"s a rare commodity these days.
We are doing great in Michigan cause Obammy is the prezident and we are just waiting for all the gubbiment money to come in.
Actually Michigan is in real bad shape.....16% unemployment now. My tax assessment went down 15% this year and 14% last year.
I thank almighty God that my wife and I are still employed. (I lost my old job 5 years ago and got another one right away, with a 20% reduction in pay and bennies at the new place)
Actually Michigan is in real bad shape.....16% unemployment now. My tax assessment went down 15% this year and 14% last year.
I thank almighty God that my wife and I are still employed. (I lost my old job 5 years ago and got another one right away, with a 20% reduction in pay and bennies at the new place)
The paper mill here in rochester ny has picked up a little.We are runnin five days a week 24/7.we ran only four days most all of last year.Its usually always slow this time of year,going to five days a week this early in the year was kind of a surprise.Who knows how long it will last.will see I guess.
Stan
Stan
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Slow and all the town streets and state highways are falling apart from this winter's weather.
Paul from MI
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Plant where I worked is down from 185 to about 50, and no sign of any improvement soon. The only areas of growth are health care and government. The new health care bill will create 150,000 jobs just to administer it. Guess my kids will have to pay for those, I'm retired. Sure is good to know that someone in Washington knows how to take care of me better than I do.
Paul
Paul
landlord7012
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Ba!!s to the wall here! Work from JD, Carrier, Cat, Oshkosh, etc. Just waiting for our cranes (Manitowoc) to take off again. The ice cuber plant is picking up slowly.
Good jobs,
Bill
Good jobs,
Bill
Anonymous-0
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Middle Tenn is becoming pretty strong. Have one new plant being built HemlockSemiconducter. Something to do with the solar industry. Several other major projects. Have 16 tri axels and we have been busier this winter than ever..Road work is picking up along with housing.
hard to say. In MD I left the old job last year to go back to Carpentry on School jobs. That was great, now they have work, but all jobs are delayed-some up to 6 months. Can't be on layoff that long, so I called the old job, turns out they seem to think i'm worth an extra $3 an hour since I left, so I came back. They're stacked for work, but 90% commercial or govt. They used to be about 40-60% residential. Some neighbors around my house haven't found work in 18 months. I think I've been pretty lucky.
We're on 50 hours this week and next, then down to 45 for a few weeks and probably back up to 50 for a few more weeks. We make trim presses and trim tooling for foundries, and we've been doing really well this year. Sent presses to Kawasaki & Ryobi, making another one for Brillion Iron Works, Neenah Foundry, and a foundry in Brazil. Possibly more orders coming in from Mexico.
Doing really good right now, hopefully this means a kick back in the form of a raise...
Donovan from Wisconsin
Doing really good right now, hopefully this means a kick back in the form of a raise...
Donovan from Wisconsin
Nothing here, we were late getting hit with everything and its just now really starting to sink in. Construction is DOA except for one Dollar Store. Residential, commerical, industrial is almost snail pace. Most of the factories are bouncing up from the bottom on production. A few of the layoffs are getting hired back but no new hiring.
Guys, Road projects out the wazoo here in Central Texas,I can count 8 different Major projects here locally Building of single Occ. Homes are still strong. Austin/Round rock area has over 1mill,2hundrws Thousand people in it. No slowing down of folks coming to this area to live,work retire! Maybe there needs to be a Toll Gate at the Red River! LOL! Hope this answers your question.
Later,
John A.
PS.... Austin just finished up the 2 week long SxSW music/ film,Media Festival over 40thousand people attented from all walks of live from just about every country on the face of the planet. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million Dollars spent by them while they were in Austin!!!
Yes! Central Texas going strong!
Later,
John A.
PS.... Austin just finished up the 2 week long SxSW music/ film,Media Festival over 40thousand people attented from all walks of live from just about every country on the face of the planet. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million Dollars spent by them while they were in Austin!!!
Yes! Central Texas going strong!
Anonymous-0
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Can't offer much advice about the state of the economy near where I live....I'm too broke to leave home to check it out.
The economy has been in recession here for 40 years so there's not really much new....
That time marked the begining of the end for the coal mines and steel plant both of which were finally closed 9 years ago. For some time there were manufacturing jobs in 2 Magna plants and another die caster that supplied parts to Magna... all of which closed last year. The most work that's going on right now is the 400 million project to solidify and cap the tar ponds (next to and partly because of Sydney Steel) along with the coke ovens remediation along with various projects to remediate and cap various mine highball sites and the former Scotia steel site. This work is projected to continue for the next 5-10 years...
Aside from that there is one major highway bridge replacement scheduled for this season that will require 290K tonne of rock to be moved for a new causeway/approach.
Otherwise, not much going on. Most people are leaving here for work in Alberta...
The only real new project, if it goes... is a new mine to be opened by Xtrata coal and that's still conditional on them finding a market for high sulfur coking coal as NSP doesn't want to buy it for their thermal plants.
Rod
That time marked the begining of the end for the coal mines and steel plant both of which were finally closed 9 years ago. For some time there were manufacturing jobs in 2 Magna plants and another die caster that supplied parts to Magna... all of which closed last year. The most work that's going on right now is the 400 million project to solidify and cap the tar ponds (next to and partly because of Sydney Steel) along with the coke ovens remediation along with various projects to remediate and cap various mine highball sites and the former Scotia steel site. This work is projected to continue for the next 5-10 years...
Aside from that there is one major highway bridge replacement scheduled for this season that will require 290K tonne of rock to be moved for a new causeway/approach.
Otherwise, not much going on. Most people are leaving here for work in Alberta...
The only real new project, if it goes... is a new mine to be opened by Xtrata coal and that's still conditional on them finding a market for high sulfur coking coal as NSP doesn't want to buy it for their thermal plants.
Rod
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