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Re: Economy getting better or worse in your area?


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Posted by Buzzman72 on September 19, 2009 at 06:48:11 from (74.129.194.33):

In Reply to: Economy getting better or worse in your area? posted by jocco on September 18, 2009 at 17:10:39:

I can't speak for the local economy, since I've been "laid off" for over a year. My sister and her husband have worked for the last several years as plumbers for a contractor in Eagle, CO [and yes, sometimes that does conjure up mental pictures of the Monroe Bros. on "Green Acres"]. Over the past 10 years, they've never had any money worries, doing all new-construction work on multim illion dollar homes. This year, they're barely getting by.

They have a job that keeps getting pushed back, on a 10,000 sf home...first it was gonna start in May...then July....now they're saying October. Weather's gonna kill 'em if it gets put off much longer.

But that's about all I know. I don't trust what I see in the newspaper, or on the Internet, because it's all leftist propaganda...and I turned off my TV so the economy wouldn't get bad, just like the good folks on this forum told me just over a year ago.

As for myself, I keep scouring the job boards and sending our resumes, and I do get occasional work as a substitute teacher in the local high school...but it's not regular enough to count on, so I don't. But since I turned 50, it seems a lot of employers who might otherwise hire me don't want to end up with me on their health insurnace plan. It's de facto age discrimination, but because it has to do with insurance rates rather than just age, they apparently can get by with it.


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