Unemployment Ethics
By ellaprice76
@ellaprice76 (196)
United States
August 28, 2009 7:30pm CST
As soon as you find yourself in the unemployment line the people who are employed pass judgment (or so it appears). Claiming you're unemployed because you don't want to work.
First question:
If the person is still able to pay all of their bills, has not moved in with a friend or parents, are people entitle to pass judgment, we know they do anyways but are they entitle?
Second question:
At what time should the person be open to take any job available?
Example:
Accounting Clerk II, she worked herself up in the company but during her years of employment she didn't get any other outside education or certification nor did she go to college. At what point should she stop looking for jobs at her level and apply for jobs at a lower level.
At what point should someone who went to grad school apply for jobs that only require an undergraduate degree?These decisions come with pay cuts and make the acquired education less valuable. Being unemployed is hard enough but at what time should the person have to step back and start from the beginning throwing years of hard work in the wind?Or, how long can a person say, I don't know if I want to do that job, I know I can but I don't know if I want to do that kind of job so I better not apply?At what point should a person be willing to look outside of their profession for a job? Should a skilled worker look outside of their line of work before someone with a degree or certifications?
2 responses
@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
29 Aug 09
Hi there!
In my opinion, if you really wanted to have a stable future you've got to have the will to find a job. One doesn't have to take into consideration if this is the right time or not yet to look for a job. It doesn't matter weather you have to start from the lowest position cause with a little bit of hardwork you can rise from the lowest rank at some point in one's career.
In this time of crisis we don't have to be choosy in finding a job. A job is still a job even it pays low. What's important is, you're not just sitting around and doing nothing.
But I guess these things would depend on one's status in life. If you are the type of person who can live by even without a job, of course, you can be choosy as you can be and you wouldn't be that willful to find a job.
Ciao!
In my opinion, if you really wanted to have a stable future you've got to have the will to find a job. One doesn't have to take into consideration if this is the right time or not yet to look for a job. It doesn't matter weather you have to start from the lowest position cause with a little bit of hardwork you can rise from the lowest rank at some point in one's career.
In this time of crisis we don't have to be choosy in finding a job. A job is still a job even it pays low. What's important is, you're not just sitting around and doing nothing.
But I guess these things would depend on one's status in life. If you are the type of person who can live by even without a job, of course, you can be choosy as you can be and you wouldn't be that willful to find a job.
Ciao!1 person likes this
@ellaprice76 (196)
• United States
29 Aug 09
You bring up a good point. Even if the person takes a lower position they are able to work themselves up much faster then in the first place.
Although I can see how a person who went to grad school may not want to take some office job.
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@iskayz (5420)
• Philippines
29 Aug 09
Well there are some who can be choosy especially those who graduated from Universities. But I suggest, take whatever job is available at the moment, but still continue to search for a better job that would suit your taste or your course. Maybe with your current career thought it's not your chosen one, you may meet other people and in your dealings with them it can open up a new opportunity.
At least, if one has a job, he/she won't be included under those unemployed people.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Aug 09
hi ella here in Southern ca a lot of Universities and colleges
and even junior colleges have special departments or whatever'you callit to help a student find a job before he or she graduates.''also in Washington dc and other big cities college grads can get jobs
as interns and quickly move up to whatever they are qualifid to'do. so check at the university or college. I know if I had really high qualifications I would look for jobs offering work for those
qualifications then move lower but dont give up. this economy cannot last forever.Dont move lower til you have exhausted all other revenuses first.also think of any relatives in jobs that want what you are qualified for. networking is one way to get the job you want. check out friends and relatives first.
@ellaprice76 (196)
• United States
29 Aug 09
Actually it was more a question then personal. However you are correct I started with GE after I was done with school. I didn't like it there so I left years ago. I may would have still a job if I would have stayed but I don't regret leaving GE. GE is a great place to work for some people for me I just couldn't deal with my direct management which work in a totally different way then Jack Welch was talking about in his book "Winning". I guess I could have moved to a different department back then, still I don't regret leaving GE.
I was asking the question because in some of the posts people are writing how much they are struggling and then they have to listen to others tell them that they are lazy just because they don't just work at MacDonald's. That made me really come up with the question.
