We have retired and living in a small TN town now. Most people are farmers or just have a few cows grazing on their land. Everyone seem to be doing well, relaxed, happy, have lots of friends helping and visiting each other.
Nearby Amish community come into town and sell their veggies during harvest time.
Same with me. I moved to a rural area in middle TN surrounded by farmers and salt of the earth good people two years ago. I love it here. Everyone is happy and relaxed like you said and I thank God for the beauty I wake up to every morning when my roosters wake me up.
I am retired a long time ago.. but I want to move.. BACK OUT TO THE COUNTRY.. I hope I didn't wait to long.. I never wanted to work for a Fortune 500 company.. but I am retired scientist.. like being behind the scenes.
I graduated from college and went to work for a large computer manufacturer. After 4 years of corporate slavery I decided to venture out on my own. That was 52 years ago and I've had to reinvent myself 6 times. Things change. You can't expect to do the same thing all your life. You need to look for gaps in the world and figure out how to fill them. I had a business selling pre printed business forms and one day my largest customer called and told me they no longer needed my services. They actually had a whole warehouse house full of forms. They told me to loose them. When I asked what they were doing they showed me a room full of laser printers. I asked the guy in charge of IT who was going to service them and he said he didn't have time to worry about it. I said how about letting me do it. He said do you know how and I said no but I'll figure it out. That was the start of one of my re inventing myself. I became a Hewlett Packard dealer and had nice run at that. But it's been a ten yea cycle of continually coming up with the next phase of my life.
And, much worse for people over 50 years old, being laid off and cannot find anything else. As you say here, young people who hoped, worked and planned for a job, now finding nothing. THEY, who run things, probably have a solution in mind, while we wait and see what happens next. Thanks, Michael, for your tireless information sharing.
I do feel bad for everybody. The recession of the late 70’s and late 80’s has stuck with me for life. You have to start thinking outside of the box. Get in there and get your hands dirty if you have to. In Texas the bad thing we’re had so many people come across the border and have three or more families in the house get jobs first now. Back in the 80’s we were trying to tell people and all we heard from the country is how racism we were. Well look at the country now. We tried telling people.
There are so many layers to get through to someone responsible for hiring. First, applicants must know the key words to include in their resume to get past the resume algorithm. Then good luck trying to contact someone just to verify that your resume got through the algorithm. If your resume got through, prepare for three or four phone interviews; then wait to hear if you're moving on to a personal interview. Then on to at least two in-person interviews. And finally, hope that anyone also competing for your job isn't a friend of the head of the HR dept.
It used to be so easy to find a job, just by calling a company and asking if they're hiring.
Renee Good and her “partner” were “highly trained” anti Law Enforcement radicals (anti Ice Warriors) radicalized by her 6 year old’s Social Justice Warrior K5 school in Minneapolis.
This is like Hamas teaching Muslim children to hate and kill Jews from a young age. This is the reality of Somali Pirate “day care” LEARing centers. Radicalizing children of mentally challenged into Petri dish pools of MKUltra armies that can be activated at a moment’s notice by encrypted social media, funded by anti American radical oligarchs of various stripes.
Remember, the Jihadis killing Christians in Nigeria and Southern Sudan are funded by China. China sends the chemicals, pill presses and chemists to labs in Mexico to make $$$ and kill Americans. Maduro and Cuba were training AntiFa and TrantiFa domestic terrorists. And Venezuela was sending oil to China.
In Virginia, the jobs are going to be manufacturing jobs. Lego is building their biggest plant in the US. They're also building a brand new warehouse to ship these new Legos all over the world. Drug companies Astra Zenaca, Merck, and others need people that can work in sophisticated manufacturing plants. And right now all of these places will need contractors to build these new plants. I was good enough to work at one place for almost 37 years. But I didn't always do the same things there. But I learned one thing, don't stop learning because if you do you might put yourself in a box. If you need to learn how to work at these new places, call your local community college. Go be an apprentice to an electrician, a plumber, an air conditioner mechanic or something else. Yes those might be dirty jobs but they pay well once you get your license.
I voted Republican and have since I was old enough to vote. Some people vote Democrat no matter who's running. And a lot of the Republicans stayed home this time. Not my fault.
I don't think they stayed home. NORTHERN VA. JUST OVERWHELMED THE STATE.. as usual.. and don't forget the DEMOCRATIC GOVT SHUT JUST IN TIME FOR THE DEEP STATE SWAMP DEMONCRATS TO VOTE>> AND TILT THE ELECTION.
JAY JONES.. the AG won.. the guy who openly "wondered about killing the GOP state Rep.. what does that say about Northern VA and HAMPTON roads..scary.
OUCH... SHE IS HORRIBLE EVIL.. BLANKITY BLANK.. I AGREE .. I need to sign that PETITION THAT THE NATIONAL GUN RIGHTS JUST SENT AROUND.. VA IS GOING TO HAVE REALLY ROUGH FOUR YEARS. I AM HOPING TO MOVE THIS SUMMER AND I GREW UP HERE and so DID MY WHOLE FAMILY. NORTHERN VA IS THE WORST.. horror
I'll bet you sit around jerking off to all this doom porn nonsense you spew. Our great president is working non stop to fix the mess whoever the last president was left behind. The economy will be booming soon enough. Now ban me you free speech hating cocksucker you.
I hear you. I agree.. I had a good friend .. I come from a long time military family and have many military friends who talk like that... Ken.. USAF, RIP used to say KILL THEM ALL LET GOD SORT THEM OUT.. don't give them the space to get you so angry.. they will get what they "get".. which I would not want to have happen to me or anyone one I know..
Just curious how many of these people look for jobs outside of their so-called areas of past employment such as Tech, Finance, HR, etc, or do they just keep looking for the high paying jobs they were used to. Some times, you have to adapt. I did many times in the past when I was in the working world, Didn't always like it, but I had bills to pay and a family to support. There are jobs out there, if you don't think your above certain kinds of work.
WE ALL HAD TO DO THAT. I did.. I had to take a lower paying job in my field right after y2k.. but as a scientist.. I knew computers .. I am not a programmer but I learned how to build medical access Databases.. everyone has to figure out what to do.. NEXT IF THAT HAPPENS..
I worked at Andrews AFB building a medical DB. I learned a lot: ADAPT AND OVERCOME.. was one of the AF mottos. :)
If you have been filling out resumes for 6 months or more, maybe enroll in your local trade school. You will be done in 5 months, and have a marketable skill that's in short supply.
Don't feel alone.. that is happening to my son UVA E SCHOOL and computer SOFTWARE ENGINEER graduated in 2008. He and his wife did spend a lot (she still works as an accountant).. but he did buy a small farm.. too far from Tysons to live.. and also bought platinum.. so he is going .. like Charles said .. RE INVENT HIMSELF and go back to school and get a PHD or MS in an SPECIFIC ENGINEERING FIELD long story. GOOD LUCK.. and KEEP TRYING. HE said a lot of the jobs were posted at HIS LEVEL which is the TOP LEVEL.. ARE FAKE GHOST JOBS. HE HAS hired other software engineers and deployed huge progrrams.. etc. (he is actually an applied mathematician) he is already working on the Math now which he loves. HE SAID THE INTERNET IS ON AUTOPILOT.. right now.. we talked about the incompatibility of the smart phones and lack of legacy compatibility between Apple and Microsoft and the lack of updated equipment.. a real mess. I will pray for all of you.
We have retired and living in a small TN town now. Most people are farmers or just have a few cows grazing on their land. Everyone seem to be doing well, relaxed, happy, have lots of friends helping and visiting each other.
Nearby Amish community come into town and sell their veggies during harvest time.
Same with me. I moved to a rural area in middle TN surrounded by farmers and salt of the earth good people two years ago. I love it here. Everyone is happy and relaxed like you said and I thank God for the beauty I wake up to every morning when my roosters wake me up.
Yes; not all people feel the need to work for a Fortune 500 company. My husband and I live on very little. He is partially retired.
Totally agree. Happiness and health are more important than being rich.
I am retired a long time ago.. but I want to move.. BACK OUT TO THE COUNTRY.. I hope I didn't wait to long.. I never wanted to work for a Fortune 500 company.. but I am retired scientist.. like being behind the scenes.
https://prepper.com/best-prepper-states/
Maybe you can teach science in small town schools?
I graduated from college and went to work for a large computer manufacturer. After 4 years of corporate slavery I decided to venture out on my own. That was 52 years ago and I've had to reinvent myself 6 times. Things change. You can't expect to do the same thing all your life. You need to look for gaps in the world and figure out how to fill them. I had a business selling pre printed business forms and one day my largest customer called and told me they no longer needed my services. They actually had a whole warehouse house full of forms. They told me to loose them. When I asked what they were doing they showed me a room full of laser printers. I asked the guy in charge of IT who was going to service them and he said he didn't have time to worry about it. I said how about letting me do it. He said do you know how and I said no but I'll figure it out. That was the start of one of my re inventing myself. I became a Hewlett Packard dealer and had nice run at that. But it's been a ten yea cycle of continually coming up with the next phase of my life.
And, much worse for people over 50 years old, being laid off and cannot find anything else. As you say here, young people who hoped, worked and planned for a job, now finding nothing. THEY, who run things, probably have a solution in mind, while we wait and see what happens next. Thanks, Michael, for your tireless information sharing.
I do feel bad for everybody. The recession of the late 70’s and late 80’s has stuck with me for life. You have to start thinking outside of the box. Get in there and get your hands dirty if you have to. In Texas the bad thing we’re had so many people come across the border and have three or more families in the house get jobs first now. Back in the 80’s we were trying to tell people and all we heard from the country is how racism we were. Well look at the country now. We tried telling people.
There are so many layers to get through to someone responsible for hiring. First, applicants must know the key words to include in their resume to get past the resume algorithm. Then good luck trying to contact someone just to verify that your resume got through the algorithm. If your resume got through, prepare for three or four phone interviews; then wait to hear if you're moving on to a personal interview. Then on to at least two in-person interviews. And finally, hope that anyone also competing for your job isn't a friend of the head of the HR dept.
It used to be so easy to find a job, just by calling a company and asking if they're hiring.
Renee Good and her “partner” were “highly trained” anti Law Enforcement radicals (anti Ice Warriors) radicalized by her 6 year old’s Social Justice Warrior K5 school in Minneapolis.
This is like Hamas teaching Muslim children to hate and kill Jews from a young age. This is the reality of Somali Pirate “day care” LEARing centers. Radicalizing children of mentally challenged into Petri dish pools of MKUltra armies that can be activated at a moment’s notice by encrypted social media, funded by anti American radical oligarchs of various stripes.
Remember, the Jihadis killing Christians in Nigeria and Southern Sudan are funded by China. China sends the chemicals, pill presses and chemists to labs in Mexico to make $$$ and kill Americans. Maduro and Cuba were training AntiFa and TrantiFa domestic terrorists. And Venezuela was sending oil to China.
https://nypost.com/2026/01/08/us-news/renee-nicole-good-was-minneapolis-ice-watch-warrior-who-trained-to-resist-feds-before-shooting/
I agree with your off topic assessment. very very extremely sad.. HOW COULD AN AMERICAN YOUNG WOMAN LIKE THAT GET BRAINWASHED.. wow. very scary..
I'm glad that the domestic terrorist is dead and her little bastard being brainwashed in that communist charter school is now an orphan.
In Virginia, the jobs are going to be manufacturing jobs. Lego is building their biggest plant in the US. They're also building a brand new warehouse to ship these new Legos all over the world. Drug companies Astra Zenaca, Merck, and others need people that can work in sophisticated manufacturing plants. And right now all of these places will need contractors to build these new plants. I was good enough to work at one place for almost 37 years. But I didn't always do the same things there. But I learned one thing, don't stop learning because if you do you might put yourself in a box. If you need to learn how to work at these new places, call your local community college. Go be an apprentice to an electrician, a plumber, an air conditioner mechanic or something else. Yes those might be dirty jobs but they pay well once you get your license.
Virginia just elected a CIA cunt as Governor and a racist who wants to murder white kids as the AG. Fuck you cunt.
I voted Republican and have since I was old enough to vote. Some people vote Democrat no matter who's running. And a lot of the Republicans stayed home this time. Not my fault.
I don't think they stayed home. NORTHERN VA. JUST OVERWHELMED THE STATE.. as usual.. and don't forget the DEMOCRATIC GOVT SHUT JUST IN TIME FOR THE DEEP STATE SWAMP DEMONCRATS TO VOTE>> AND TILT THE ELECTION.
JAY JONES.. the AG won.. the guy who openly "wondered about killing the GOP state Rep.. what does that say about Northern VA and HAMPTON roads..scary.
cunt
OUCH... SHE IS HORRIBLE EVIL.. BLANKITY BLANK.. I AGREE .. I need to sign that PETITION THAT THE NATIONAL GUN RIGHTS JUST SENT AROUND.. VA IS GOING TO HAVE REALLY ROUGH FOUR YEARS. I AM HOPING TO MOVE THIS SUMMER AND I GREW UP HERE and so DID MY WHOLE FAMILY. NORTHERN VA IS THE WORST.. horror
RIGHT.. like I said my son is going back to school.. even though he has a B.S..from UVA.. family support is helpful.. emotionally and financially :)
I'll bet you sit around jerking off to all this doom porn nonsense you spew. Our great president is working non stop to fix the mess whoever the last president was left behind. The economy will be booming soon enough. Now ban me you free speech hating cocksucker you.
I hear you. I agree.. I had a good friend .. I come from a long time military family and have many military friends who talk like that... Ken.. USAF, RIP used to say KILL THEM ALL LET GOD SORT THEM OUT.. don't give them the space to get you so angry.. they will get what they "get".. which I would not want to have happen to me or anyone one I know..
Just curious how many of these people look for jobs outside of their so-called areas of past employment such as Tech, Finance, HR, etc, or do they just keep looking for the high paying jobs they were used to. Some times, you have to adapt. I did many times in the past when I was in the working world, Didn't always like it, but I had bills to pay and a family to support. There are jobs out there, if you don't think your above certain kinds of work.
WE ALL HAD TO DO THAT. I did.. I had to take a lower paying job in my field right after y2k.. but as a scientist.. I knew computers .. I am not a programmer but I learned how to build medical access Databases.. everyone has to figure out what to do.. NEXT IF THAT HAPPENS..
I worked at Andrews AFB building a medical DB. I learned a lot: ADAPT AND OVERCOME.. was one of the AF mottos. :)
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If you have been filling out resumes for 6 months or more, maybe enroll in your local trade school. You will be done in 5 months, and have a marketable skill that's in short supply.
Don't feel alone.. that is happening to my son UVA E SCHOOL and computer SOFTWARE ENGINEER graduated in 2008. He and his wife did spend a lot (she still works as an accountant).. but he did buy a small farm.. too far from Tysons to live.. and also bought platinum.. so he is going .. like Charles said .. RE INVENT HIMSELF and go back to school and get a PHD or MS in an SPECIFIC ENGINEERING FIELD long story. GOOD LUCK.. and KEEP TRYING. HE said a lot of the jobs were posted at HIS LEVEL which is the TOP LEVEL.. ARE FAKE GHOST JOBS. HE HAS hired other software engineers and deployed huge progrrams.. etc. (he is actually an applied mathematician) he is already working on the Math now which he loves. HE SAID THE INTERNET IS ON AUTOPILOT.. right now.. we talked about the incompatibility of the smart phones and lack of legacy compatibility between Apple and Microsoft and the lack of updated equipment.. a real mess. I will pray for all of you.