FOFC Unemployment List

[maximus]

Front Office Football Central Unemployment List

Well, here it is - the FOFC Unemployment List. Due to recent unsettlings at my former employeer, I (along with 100 others) were told that our plant was closing down (after ten years of service). The news broke on June 16th, 2004. My final day of work was December 1st, 2004.

This thread is to provide a welcome to those of us who are not so fortunate. To those of us who lost their jobs or can't even find one (working at McDonalds or Burger King doesn't count). Lets share our grief, dispair and offer encouragement to one another.



Maximus (aka Milutin) unemployed as of December 1st 2004.

[Joe]

yeah... I'm unemployed. Graduated from college in December, and am looking.

[Noop]

My friends I ask you all to seek out government grants so you can find another job. Go back to school and educate yourself. I know life sucks right now but tommorrow will suck worse if you don't stand up and tell pity, self-doubt, grief and other self defeating feelings "Fuck You!!!" " I am not going to sit and take this because I am better then this I see no mountains of trouble just a damn hill."

[Joe]

I don't wanna go back to school, I just got done.

[vtbub]

ditto

[Noop]

Then I got nothing. Atleast I tried good luck guys...

[cubboyroy1826]

If anyone is in the Chicagoland area let me know. We are hiring intelligent high character, motivated individuals....oops wait wrong message board. No seriously if anyone is in Illinois and wants to give it try in the Mortgage business let me know. I can always use someone to talk FOF with during the work day.

[Coffee Warlord]

If anyone is in the Chicagoland area let me know. We are hiring intelligent high character, motivated individuals....oops wait wrong message board. No seriously if anyone is in Illinois and wants to give it try in the Mortgage business let me know. I can always use someone to talk FOF with during the work day.

Unless you need IT people in the Mortgage business there, I got nothing. :)

[Franklinnoble]

I need a mortgage. Wanna write a loan for a manufactured house while my equity is tied up in probate?

[damnMikeBrown]

I'm a senior finance major at Miami.

I've got one offer, one second interview, and another very strong possibility. I've got a hard deadline on the offer, however, and will likely take it. It's just so much more $$ than I ever thought I'd make graduating as an undergrad.

[Calis]

Add me to the list.

Not trying real hard now though, just going back to school. Savings is running thin though, have to do something soon.

[jamesUMD]

damnMikeBrown

"I've got one offer, one second interview, and another very strong possibility. I've got a hard deadline on the offer, however, and will likely take it. It's just so much more $$ than I ever thought I'd make graduating as an undergrad."<!-- / message -->

No offense but I don't think that was the type of encouragement they were looking for. Sorry you don't have a job, but guess what I just can't decide between all the options that life has to offer me. And it's more $$ than I ever thought I could make coming out of college. Nice!

[duckman]

I don't have a job, and I'm not looking to find one.

[damnMikeBrown]

damnMikeBrown

"I've got one offer, one second interview, and another very strong possibility. I've got a hard deadline on the offer, however, and will likely take it. It's just so much more $$ than I ever thought I'd make graduating as an undergrad."<!-- / message -->

No offense but I don't think that was the type of encouragement they were looking for. Sorry you don't have a job, but guess what I just can't decide between all the options that life has to offer me. And it's more $$ than I ever thought I could make coming out of college. Nice!

Take it any way you like.

I'm a 32yr old under-grad who went back to school for precisely this purpose. I was unemployed, am unemployed, and soon will not be. . .

[fantastic flying froggies]

I'm on that list too...Have been for over six months now (i can afford to, thanks to our great french social service ) but the job interviews are starting to roll in...

Hopefully, it's only a matter of time now...

[Crapshoot]

Anyone who's done finance/math/economics from a decent program, let me know- we might be hiring, though I can't make any promises. also, if any of you are Civil Engineers- for some godforsaken reason, we need one of those.

[terpkristin]

I too am unemployed.
I finished up my Masters program in December and now am looking for jobs.

The last one I interviewed for (see the thread: OT: Job Hunting--Where Did I Go Wrong), I did in fact figure out why I wasn't hired. I had a Master's degree and they wanted somebody with a Bachelor's degree (so they could pay less money).

Alas.

Silly engineering.

~tk

[Joe]

Anyone who's done finance/math/economics from a decent program, let me know- we might be hiring, though I can't make any promises. also, if any of you are Civil Engineers- for some godforsaken reason, we need one of those.

I majored in economics at the U of Minnesota.. where are you located?

[Crapshoot]

I majored in economics at the U of Minnesota.. where are you located?

Send me a PM. We have offices around the US - Boston primarily, but also DC, New York soon, La, and Chicago.

[maximus]

My unemployement couldn't have come at a better time. My brother was involved in a serious (very serious) bicycle accident 5 months ago which was 2 months after I got notice that our plant was shutting down. So I now have alot of time to visit him in the hospital, ect. His accident is actually a pretty big story in Kenosha since it was a 22ton county front loader that crushed him (yea, he was literally crushed).

[MacroGuru]

Well...for anyone interested with a finance background, and willing to relocate to Utah, my company is hiring for a nice position.

http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=26128238

[AnalBumCover]

I don't have a job, and I'm not looking to find one.Then you are not unemployed, according to the economic definition (http://classic.econmodel.com/terms/ur.htm) of unemployed. :p

Unemployed persons. Persons 16 years and over who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.

[Pumpy Tudors]

I'll probably be unemployed this summer unless my wife gets a professor position in the San Francisco Bay Area; Portland, Oregon; or perhaps Philadelphia. If she does get a job in one of those places, I can go to a partner of the company that I currently work for. If she ends up somewhere else (like Kearney, Nebraska, or Bowling Green, Kentucky), I'm screwed. I have a bachelor's degree in communications, but it's been five years since I actually did anything that I was academically trained for. Somehow, I don't think my four months as an intern at the local NBC affiliate will impress anybody at another network affiliate. My internship showed me that I want to be a video editor in a newsroom (though I'd highly prefer the sports department), but I'm sure that everybody's looking for someone with more than four months experience. I'll probably have to start as a PA somewhere. :(

I'd also like to be a radio DJ, but I have no idea how to get started with that.

[TLK]

Does anyone have any resume software to recommend? free or otherwise....

[McSweeny]

i am currently employed. Decent job i suppose. I'm do think i'm lucky to have a decent job considering i only finished 1 year of college.

I'd like more money, but it's enough for a 21 year old kid to get by on and the benifits are great. But aside from that, my job is starting to get to me. So i'm looking. I'm hoping to move back to the Boston area anywhere from 6-12 months from now, so if any of you guys up there know where i could pick up a job (preferably with benifits) with only a year of college completed or have any ideas i'd be much obliged. Thanks

and sorry if i'm taking the unemployed thread in the wrong direction. Perhaps a new thread with for people who are employed but looking for work? :)

[stkelly52]

Well I will add my name to this list. My last day with Alaska Airlines was Jan 2, and I am taking a month off before I get serious about finding a new job. That said, I am still sending my resume out to a few places here and there, and if something were to come up, I would have to end my vacation early. I figure I can live off of my severance package and savings for about a year though, so I am not worried yet.

[Galaril]

I too am moving back to the Boston area with a new baby and fairly recently married(2 1/2 years) and have a masters degree in MIS concentration was in infosec IT. I have completed some professional certifications in Infosec(SANS)If anyone of you guys are in that area and have any advice or know about anything in information security, Information systems auditing, infroamtion security analyst positions in the New england area let me know please.

Dan

[duckman]

Then you are not unemployed, according to the economic definition (http://classic.econmodel.com/terms/ur.htm) of unemployed. :p
Oh well! :)

I don't need to go to work since Uncle Sam is paying my living expenses and school cost. Oh, the benefits of being disabled and former military! :D

[Cuckoo]

Well, I'll have my Masters in English this May and will be looking for a job at that point. If anyone has anything available, let me know. :)

[Esquared1]

If anyone is in the Chicagoland area let me know. We are hiring intelligent high character, motivated individuals....oops wait wrong message board. No seriously if anyone is in Illinois and wants to give it try in the Mortgage business let me know. I can always use someone to talk FOF with during the work day.

Crap, I live in the Chicagoland area, and I'm in the process of getting a mortgage. I'm happy so far, but where were you 10 days ago?

[CamEdwards]

I'll probably be unemployed this summer unless my wife gets a professor position in the San Francisco Bay Area; Portland, Oregon; or perhaps Philadelphia. If she does get a job in one of those places, I can go to a partner of the company that I currently work for. If she ends up somewhere else (like Kearney, Nebraska, or Bowling Green, Kentucky), I'm screwed. I have a bachelor's degree in communications, but it's been five years since I actually did anything that I was academically trained for. Somehow, I don't think my four months as an intern at the local NBC affiliate will impress anybody at another network affiliate. My internship showed me that I want to be a video editor in a newsroom (though I'd highly prefer the sports department), but I'm sure that everybody's looking for someone with more than four months experience. I'll probably have to start as a PA somewhere. :(

I'd also like to be a radio DJ, but I have no idea how to get started with that.

Pumpy,

I worked my way up from PA in a newsroom. In my experience, if you can stick it out for two years (maybe three depending on the market), you can rapidly move up the chain of command. As for getting in with the sports department, you can always volunteer to come in off the clock and edit or shoot some stuff for them.

As long as you're willing to think long term I think it's doable. Although working in TV in Kearney, Nebraska or Bowling Green, Kentucky will probably pay you minimum wage.

[Cuckoo]

Bumping as a salute to FFF's success as well as to say: If anyone knows of anything available in the publishing/editing/marketing fields, I can use any connections I can get. :)

[KevinNU7]

Looking in the Boston area for a Financial Analyst/Staff Accountant position. I'm not unemployeed yet but the way things are going here it is only a matter of time before thousands are sent packing.

PM me.

[Pumpy Tudors]

Pumpy,

I worked my way up from PA in a newsroom. In my experience, if you can stick it out for two years (maybe three depending on the market), you can rapidly move up the chain of command. As for getting in with the sports department, you can always volunteer to come in off the clock and edit or shoot some stuff for them.

As long as you're willing to think long term I think it's doable. Although working in TV in Kearney, Nebraska or Bowling Green, Kentucky will probably pay you minimum wage.
You know, I never saw the above message after it got posted three months ago, so I'm glad that this thread got bumped. My wife got a job in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (35 miles east of Pittsburgh), so I will have a fairly decent opportunity, I guess. I feel like I'll be perceived as being "too old" to be a PA, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Would anybody take a 28-year-old PA seriously in a TV station? They might think I came in off the street with no education or something. Ah, well. The worst they can tell me is "no."

[CamEdwards]

You know, I never saw the above message after it got posted three months ago, so I'm glad that this thread got bumped. My wife got a job in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (35 miles east of Pittsburgh), so I will have a fairly decent opportunity, I guess. I feel like I'll be perceived as being "too old" to be a PA, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Would anybody take a 28-year-old PA seriously in a TV station? They might think I came in off the street with no education or something. Ah, well. The worst they can tell me is "no."

Shortly after I was hired as a 21-year old PA, the station hired a 40-something year old PA. He had done his 15-20 years in the workforce and then gone back to school to major in journalism (community college).

He worked his way up to producer in about two years, then quit to become the press guy for a state rep. He eventually became press secretary for the Lt. Governor before she fired him (or he quit, depending on who you believe).

Bottom line, at least at the station I worked for, I don't think it would really matter. As long as you're a hard worker and you don't mind shitty pay I think you'll be all right.

[RendeR]

I am employed since february 3rd 2005


its called : Stay at home Father


toughest and most amazingly rewarding job I have EVER held.

I don't think I'll be giving up the position any time soon.

I just love my work.

[sterlingice]

yeah... I'm unemployed. Graduated from college in December, and am looking.
Ditto situation here.

SI

[BYU 14]

My company was bought out in November and the deal will be closing in the next week or two. Being in management I have already been informed that I will be let go later in the year and it is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

In 14 years in this industry (Insurance) I have worked for 2 companies and this has happened with both companies, ironically after 7 years of service with each. This time I made up my mind that it will be the last and I got motivated to finally take the jump into business, which I have wanted to do for years, but was always just too comfortable in my job.

I really wouldn't change a thing now as my Wife and I are getting our business plan together, completing research, looking for space etc, and right now I have never been more excited about "work." It is amazing, when forced outside your comfort zone, how much you can really accomplish and how much you realize that we spend too much time, letting our minds be occupied by self limiting thoughts.

Ok, now that this sappy Anthony Robbins moment is over I am heading back to the FHM 100 hottest women thread to get back into "man" mode ;)

[dawgfan]

Looks like I'm about to leave the world of the unemployed...

Midway is in need of animators with motion-capture experience and they're willing to put me up in temporary housing for 2-3 months in Chicago. At that point, if a position hasn't opened up yet with their Seattle affiliate (Surreal Software) and we're both happy with the arrangement, we may set up a telecommuting option or figure out a way to keep me in Chicago until the Seattle job is open (which they're saying right now is 3-6 months away).

I can't complain - basically I get 2-3 months in Chicago risk-free since they're covering my housing.