ù Quoting Bob Rudolph from a message to Ryan Bagueros  ù 
BR> all in unemployment.   As you may imagine, my credit cards and equity 
BR> line got quite a workout in  that time, and I'm still around $15000 
BR> behind, but making headway, and will be  caught up in another 2 
Well, you see, we differ in two respects, which illustrate how class 
differences can change people's perspectives:
(1) You made $30k less after your hospital job. Which means that after your 
hospital job, you were at _least_ making around $45k. I have never had a job 
that pays more than $17k ever. And so our financial positions were different 
from the get-go. You also had credit cards to fall back on, I have relatively 
poor credit and cannot get a credit card. 
(2) Your statement that we should just get up and move is a lot different 
when 
you are renting instead of living in a house. I'm trapped in a lease of one 
year, which is the standard length of a lease around these parts. 
Also, keep in mind that we are living in an information economy. Perhaps you 
have had the fortune of holding down a few good IT positions, and so you are 
way more marketable than most people. I personally have the knowhow, but lack 
much workplace experience. 
I'm not whining or making excuses, but illustrating how things are different 
for different people. A lot of people do rent, haven't made more than $15k or 
so, have no savings, have no credit, whatever. A lot more people are 
disadvantaged because of the way they look, or they are black, or just have 
no 
skills and are trapped in minimum wage-paying jobs. It isn't a big problem 
for 
me because I have a job right now, so it isn't too urgent. I guess 60 resumes 
isn't that much - but according to all the papers around here, Columbus is 
the 
"Silicon Valley of the Midwest" ... where's all those computer tech shortages 
we hear so much about?
--- FMail 1.22
---------------