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[Crankin]

I understand this.
There are a lot of other people I graduated with, who are not employed. I decided to go on every interview I got and frankly, I am doing a type of therapy that is not what i want to do when I am done with my "residency," as I fondly call it. Given the fact that there aren't tons of options until one gets licensed, I decided the culture of the place I worked was the most important. And, I made a good choice. I love the flexibility of my job, and while I said I would "never" go into people's homes, I like it. I don't want to work with kids forever, but I do get work with the parents quite a bit; and it is filling in experience that I didn't get in my internships, where I was so focused on working with adults, because my previous career (teaching) was mostly with adolescents. I actually liked the work I did in my internship last year, better. But, my days go quickly and I can take 2 years of this.
I guess what I am saying is that compared to others I graduated with, I was not so picky in limiting myself to certain things. I want to get the licensing stuff done as soon as I can. It's not perfect. And the pay? Well, sometimes I hardly believe how much I made my last year of teaching. I'll never see that again, unless I open my own practice, and frankly, I'm not willing to do that.
The regional/industry specific thing is very true. Since I live in a place that focuses on health care, technology, and education, things are not so bad.

[Fredwina]

Busily practicing saying Rensselaer (ren-SEE-lear)
I now what everyone is saying - I've probably lost all my furniture with this move, but I'm working and liking Upstate so far, even though I 'm fairly broke for the next week or so (Had to get an advance just to get a place)
Work is doing good - we're actually in a old Grant's department store - i'm two miles away from work
God - this past month has been too crazy!

[KnottedYet]

CrazyCanuck - take a look at the Google logo for French google today: it's a memorial to Freddy Mercury.

Here's an animation of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2BQM0D01M

[bmccasland]

CrazyCanuck - take a look at the Google logo for French google today: it's a memorial to Freddy Mercury.

Here's an animation of it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX2BQM0D01M

Pooh, all I got was the regular Google page. But the youtube video was cool.

[KnottedYet]

Try http://www.google.fr/ It's still up right now. Probably won't be after midnight their time.

[OakLeaf]

The "enhanced" page titles don't make it onto Google's secure site(s), either, so if you're using HTTPS Everywhere or another method of forcing secure login, you won't see the page.

Maybe you have a particular browser set aside for those "guilty" insecure pleasures.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have a few friends who have lost their jobs, and many of my other friends are making less money now than they used to. Some who lost good jobs are now working at jobs for only a portion of their previous salary. Almost every business owner on main street in my town says they are struggling because people are spending less. Our silent food pantry, which had plenty of food on the shelves two years ago and even last year, now looks half empty at any given time for the past several months- donations and supplies are still coming in like before, but the number of clients is rising steadily, and it's now hard to keep enough food stocked to go around for everyone.
The effects of the recession are plain to see in my town.

[KnottedYet]

I blame Wal*Mart and Wall Street.
And the sheeple who handed them the power to f*ck us over.

"Oh, yes please beloved chain store, sell me that widget made in China for $2.93 rather than that one at the local independent hardware store made in Ohio for $3.50. I save and every one wins!" "Oh, yes please, give me that house loan for 1% down and adjustable interest! I can get that house immediately without being forced to have stable personal finances and everyone wins!" "I get what I want, and someone else will take care of it! Because everyone wins and Santa Claus is watching out for us!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKv6RcXa2UI

Of course, I had to learn from a European media that the recently touted Martin Luther King Jr. monument was made in China, and assembled in the US by Chinese workers brought to Washington DC to do the work. Truly, I find this deeply shameful. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-in-China.html

[Trek420]

And .... it has shall we say an editorial error in it. Not spelling or even grammar but kind of like the oddly worded imported t'shirt something is wrong. One word makes a big difference. Carved in granite, oopsie :

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...153930799.html

The effects of the recession are plain to see in my town.

They are plain all around and likely here for a long time. Thanks BSG for what you and your food pantry do.

[Crankin]

I truly was not trying to sound unfeeling. This is an article that was in the paper a day or so after I made my above post.

http://articles.boston.com/2011-09-0...-massachusetts

In the past, Massachusetts has lagged years behind the national economy in recovery, so I guess this is our turn.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Crankin, it's funny, but whenever we cross the border from NY and drive through Mass (which is very often, we are right near it and have family and friends in eastern MA), we see a huge difference immediately. The roads are repaired, bridges painted, houses and lawns well maintained, even the cars look newer. We can't help but notice this, it's always kind of obvious. Not that there aren't places in MA suffering from the recession, mind you.

[OakLeaf]

You see that when you cross county and even sometimes township lines in Ohio.

Total speculation, but I wonder if more things are funded on a state level in Massachusetts, so there's more of a cushion and everyone shares the pain a little more equally???

[Owlie]

Oak, check your post count. I wonder that too--MA probably has a larger tax base than does Ohio, too.

I'm pretty sure we're all screwed. I've been e-mailing back and forth with one of my former professors (who wrote a couple of recommendation letters) for me. He asked why I wasn't in a PhD program--it's because the grant situation is so bad that no one is willing to spend money on people who they don't know or who aren't science rock stars. It's going to get worse before it gets better. And people whine about the US "falling behind."

[NbyNW]

They don't call it Taxachusetts for nuthin'.

Maybe MA also had someone on the congressional transportation committee for a while? That could help, too.

[Fredwina]

It was great - about 45 minutes - same as the bus -plus got in some exercise.
And I got my debit card from Cal EDD - i'm rich!