My wife received a call yesterday from a Recruiter. They had a couple of jobs that she may be interested in and wanted to review them with her.
Job One was for a Call Center Customer Service Rep, paying $11.41/hr but was 30 miles away (Frederick). When we drove to our last jobs in Frederick, it cost us about $55 to fill up the cars each week.
Job Two was for a Data Entry position, paying $9.50/hr and about 5 miles away.
Both sounded extremely easy for her to do since she was a Data Manager, but way under her experience. Now to put things into perspective, our unemployment insurance (UI) payments are at $10.75/hr ($430 / 40 hrs = $10.75). Just off of that, these jobs really don't pay much and are not worth even considering. Not to mention that Minimum Wage is a fucking joke at $7.25/hr. Seriously, this is only jobs for High School kids and even to then, this is cheap labor.
Now on the flip side of that coin however, is benefits. Currently we don't have any health or other benefits right now with UI. With either job she would have benefits, but that of course is taken out of your base pay. You then have to weigh the expense of the job vs the benefits it poses.
Unemployment makes you face some damn ugly choices in life.
btw: WTF does AFLAC call you each time you update your resume on Monster wondering if you want a job as an Insurance Saleperson????
Jobless Cartoon of the Day
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