{"id":8,"date":"2004-01-29T03:54:10","date_gmt":"2004-01-29T08:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=8"},"modified":"2004-01-29T03:54:10","modified_gmt":"2004-01-29T08:54:10","slug":"joblessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"Joblessness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repatriate<\/a> has a damned interesting piece about joblessness. If you’ve ever feared joblessness, by all means, go there and read.<\/p>\n

As long as I have a brain in my head and reasonable health, I will not be jobless. Last year, when my company wasn’t doing so well, everyone took a day off a week without pay. While some could absorb this, others could not. Count me among the latter. I didnt blame George Bush, nor my boss, (frankly, the plan was a brilliant one, keep your employees on staff and spend less, I can’t imagine why they didn’t do it sooner) nor anyone else. <\/p>\n

I got a part time gig.<\/p>\n

I supplimented my income by doing work one or two days a week for an old friend who, as it happened, could use my skills. He helped me out during that time, and the work I was doing was a great help to him. I made enough extra cash to pay the bills. And I moved on.<\/p>\n

Now our business is as strong as ever, and we’re all back to full time, and very happy to say business is beginning to boom. Fact is, though we’re a small company, we’ll have to staff up to deal with the workload. Jobless recovery my ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Repatriate has a damned interesting piece about joblessness. If you’ve ever feared joblessness, by all means, go there and read. As long as I have a brain in my head and reasonable health, I will not be jobless. Last year, when my company wasn’t doing so well, everyone took a day off a week without […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-og-on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}