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Seriously Sappa? It's goin' downhill there as well? bummer...*sigh*
No kidding... sorry BSB.. no move to FL for Uus.. ;-)
Maybe we could move to India... that's where all the US corporate jobs are...
OK, let me explain that. From my perspective, which was contracting my services out to small mom-n-pop construction companies, the dead-stop of construction has caused many of those I've worked with to close up shop, go bankrupt, or try to sell out.
There are other segments of the economy that, so far, seem unaffected by the construction industry dead-stop, mostly the travel and tourism industry. People from around the world will still want to come to Orlando to party with the mouse or the whales. That industry still cannot find people to fill all of their occupational vacancies.
The trouble is, those vacancies are in the areas that are traditionally considered low-wage positions: housekeepers, grounds people, cashiers, retail clerks, where the hourly wage is between $7.50 and $10.00 per hour. There doesn't appear to be too many vacancies in the professional side of the industry: the IT people, the accountants, etc.
The reason those low-wage vacancies exist is because they simply do not pay enough to allow a person to live. For a typical one-bedroom apartment in the Orlando area, one must earn $16.00 per hour after considering food, gasoline, clothing, and other expenses. There are no hourly positions that pay that kind of wage.
This is happening in the Orlando area. I have no knowledge of what South, Southwest, Northwest, Northern, or the West Central areas of the state are like. They may be doing well.
Yea sappa....it sucks everywhere. It aint just where you are. Construction ground to a flippin halt everywhere. What I wouldnt give for a decent weeks paycheck.
THEN to top it all off...finally last week Daddy got a few jobs, but ended up having to do jury duty...so we lost an entire weeks worth of work. Like we cant manage without the government coming in to fuck us all over a little harder.
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