It was staring across from me as I ate.<\/p>\n
Poking fun at me. Teasing me. This newspaper- the headline and all.<\/p>\n
It read: ‘Unemployment rises to 10.6%.’<\/p>\n
Yep, that’s right. No need to adjust your glasses or the screen. The unemployment statewide is steady at 9.8% (tied with RI for the worst in the country<\/strong>). Meanwhile LA county its even better rising from 10.4 to 10.6%.<\/p>\n Congratulations, you are one of the few. One of those not in the 89.4% of workers… No, you my friend should be headlined… in a picture on this newspaper no less.<\/p>\n Ick.<\/p>\n I have to keep telling myself things will improve. They have to, right? This can’t be the extent of things for me can it? Of course not- yet so often it feels like it is.<\/p>\n Truth be told- things are pretty bad on most of the west coast when it comes to the topic of unemployment. California increased, Oregon while they didn’t increase, also didn’t push any lower and economic indicators don’t show much will change for small markets. Seattle? Who knows. Not much of a chance ending up there, at least not anytime soon, or anything that I can see.<\/p>\n What to do? Might be able to have a job similar to ILS pretty soon. That would bring in a small sum of cash, but somewhat of an influx is better than what is currently happening.<\/p>\n I don’t want my posts being all about jobs and whatnot… But if they are about anything else they’d end up being protected or simply deleted altogether.<\/p>\n I did figure out why all my job interviews were coming from the OC. The unemployment there is just 7.1%!<\/p>\n It’s scary when you question purpose, or anything else for that matter.<\/p>\n It’s frustrating beyond belief. What a struggle.<\/p>\n I guess that’s all for now. \u201cIn three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.\u201d It was staring across from me as I ate. Poking fun at me. Teasing me. This newspaper- the headline and all. It read: ‘Unemployment rises to 10.6%.’ Yep, that’s right. No need to adjust your glasses or the screen. The unemployment statewide is steady at 9.8% (tied with RI for the worst in the country)….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1089,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2011\/09\/05\/1089\/","url_meta":{"origin":1769,"position":0},"title":"X Years","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"September 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"September. 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\njust Pray<\/p>\n
\n\u2015 Robert Frost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"