So I'm without a job. Not surprising for someone with a visual arts degree, but I had a job(s) for about 9-10 months, full-time and paying SS tax. So how long do you have to work before you can receive unemployment?

11/22/2007 10:54:13 PM

12 weeks I think

11/22/2007 10:59:04 PM

Go get a job, dammit.

11/22/2007 11:15:15 PM

sweet.

And who would have thought that finding seasonal employment would be as hard as it has been. blah.

11/22/2007 11:15:35 PM

GET A JOB SIR!!!


ps gl with it you'll have no problem pulling employment if needed

11/22/2007 11:19:01 PM

I've filled out nearly 100 applications over the last two weeks.


Sure is nice to have this fancy ol' degree when on the application it asks "Did you graduate highschool or a high school equivalent? You did? Super! Next question."

11/22/2007 11:22:07 PM

Go work for Canes Vision. They look like they need some help.

11/23/2007 12:50:35 AM

what/who is that?

11/23/2007 12:52:47 AM

^good luck to you. Have you considered trying dental hygiene? 50-80k on 4 days a week, only takes 2 yrs of school. Could be worth it.

11/23/2007 6:03:34 PM

what did you expect to do with a visual arts degree anyways?

11/23/2007 6:11:20 PM

^^^^no joke. I think they have a bunch of differently-abled middle schoolers in there some nights. They probably don't pay anything, though.

11/23/2007 6:33:33 PM

i was laid off back in may and have been living from savings and such since, but haven't really been that avid about finding a job until now (getting almost too late). Am I in a position to leech from the government as well having had this gap of time in between?

11/23/2007 6:54:04 PM

It sounds like you might be elgibile for unemployment. You need to go to a local employment security commision office and apply. They will then send a notice to all of your former employers within the last three years. This notice will ask the employer why employment ended. If you were fired or were layed off then you will be eligible for some umemployment. I have no idea how they calculate your unemployment though. Unemployment compensation is fully taxable though.

11/23/2007 6:58:38 PM

^ you don't have to go to an office and apply. You can apply online. Well, I was able to anyway. It might be different in different areas

11/23/2007 7:54:51 PM

[Edited on November 23, 2007 at 8:48 PM. Reason : blah]

11/23/2007 8:47:38 PM

Quote :

"what did you expect to do with a visual arts degree anyways?"

A solid job with an advertising agency doing graphic/web design.

What do you expect to do with a PRT degree?

11/23/2007 8:48:55 PM

They're the ones responsible for the mexi-cam incident a couple years back.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2198038

11/23/2007 8:56:42 PM

hah "mexi-cam"

11/24/2007 3:26:40 PM

I got it in 2005, just remember, your last 6 months dont count in your calculation for unemployment, everything before then does....mine even included part time employment while I was in college. I wasnt even going to apply but some coworkers told me to so I did.


I ended up getting a job about 15 weeks into it, I only got 20 weeks because I didnt work long enough for the full amount.

You have to apply for 2 jobs a week and document it while on collecting unemployment. Also, you are subject to random "audits"




[Edited on November 24, 2007 at 9:05 PM. Reason : w]

11/24/2007 9:01:16 PM

I think I'll just suffer through and not apply. I'd rather not give those assholes I used to work for the pleasure of knowing I'm not doing so hot.

11/24/2007 10:08:37 PM

you realize that they're the ones paying for it, right?

11/24/2007 10:10:24 PM

yeah, I know, but after the way they treated me there, I'd much rather rub a "screw you guys, I have a real job" in their faces rather than a "I'm unemployed, you were right".

11/24/2007 11:04:41 PM

^ You are screwing them much more by accepting unemployment. They are paying into that. They'd love nothing more than for you to find something quickly and stay off their check. You paid into the system through taxes, you might as well use it. If you don't, its going to someone else.

11/25/2007 12:22:20 PM