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Being laid off at 50 is fairly brutal but hoping to find something using my django experience and get back to work. Fortunately my mom is still alive I had to m

Being laid off at 50 is fairly brutal but hoping to find something using my django experience and get back to work. Fortunately my mom is still alive I had to move in with her, I had already been laid off once, when you are laid off 2 times in one year they force you to go 6 months with no income whatsoever as a form of punishment.

indigodaddy 4y ago
Sending you good vibes in your search! Good luck to you.
atlgator 4y ago
Who is “they?” Who is forcing you to go without income?
- solarmist 4y ago
  I would assume OP is referring to unemployment benefits.
  - labcomputer 4y ago
    Do you know where I can learn more about this? I’ve never heard of a rule like that before
    - solarmist 4y ago
      I'm guessing that being laid off twice in a year means they didn't have enough time/wages at the second job to re-qualify for unemployment.
- jjtheblunt 4y ago
  seeing we asked the same, simultaneously, i'm deleting my question.
- luckydata 4y ago
  [flagged]
- whitemary 4y ago
  The ruling class. In the contemporary US, this constitutes the owners of capital; not as a whole but as an aggregate of their competitive behavior.
  - jonathankoren 4y ago
    Every policy is a choice. The questions always are who benefits, and who are harmed?
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techperson20007 4y ago
Sorry to hear this and good luck in the search. Out of curiosity, at age 50, wondering why you wouldn't have a substantial savings by this age, enough to avoid losing housing? Or are you simply living with your mom to reduce the impact on that savings? Sorry if i'm making it sound like everyone at 50 should have a ton of money, I know thats not the case. Just curious.
- notac 4y ago
  Honestly I'm sick of seeing people post this kind of thing. There's _all kinds_ of reasons people can not have the "expected" amount of savings at _any_ age. Medical. Divorce. Other life disasters. Failed investments. Business failure. These kinds of questions frankly just lead to victim blaming and expose the asker as either (a) having grown up wealthy and staying that way their entire life, or (b) completely callous.
  - karmakurtisaani 4y ago
    Well, I for one would be interested in hearing those reasons. If for nothing else, to learn from their story.
    - mquirion 4y ago
      Not OP, but reasons that are pretty easy to imagine: - Living in America and suffering from either cancer, heart disease, or any chronic illness. - Have any number of children and not having a family member available to care for them before they are of school age and after school from Kindergarten until whatever local laws permit for the child to be home alone for a few hours a day. - Buying a home at the wrong time and taking an absolute bath on the "investment" once some unforseen circumstance forces you to sell the home while upside down on the mortgage. - Experiencing various forms of fraud. - Experiencing a lawsuit in America, whether you came out as the winner of said dispute or not. - Being 50 and having had the poor but not unreasonable "luck" of having worked for the wrong start-ups in 1999, 2007, and 2022. Those are just top of mind.

indigodaddy 4y ago

Sending you good vibes in your search! Good luck to you.

atlgator 4y ago

Who is “they?” Who is forcing you to go without income?

solarmist 4y ago
I would assume OP is referring to unemployment benefits.
- labcomputer 4y ago
  Do you know where I can learn more about this? I’ve never heard of a rule like that before
  - solarmist 4y ago
    I'm guessing that being laid off twice in a year means they didn't have enough time/wages at the second job to re-qualify for unemployment.
jjtheblunt 4y ago
seeing we asked the same, simultaneously, i'm deleting my question.
luckydata 4y ago
[flagged]
whitemary 4y ago
The ruling class. In the contemporary US, this constitutes the owners of capital; not as a whole but as an aggregate of their competitive behavior.
- jonathankoren 4y ago
  Every policy is a choice. The questions always are who benefits, and who are harmed?

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techperson20007 4y ago

Sorry to hear this and good luck in the search. Out of curiosity, at age 50, wondering why you wouldn't have a substantial savings by this age, enough to avoid losing housing? Or are you simply living with your mom to reduce the impact on that savings? Sorry if i'm making it sound like everyone at 50 should have a ton of money, I know thats not the case. Just curious.

notac 4y ago
Honestly I'm sick of seeing people post this kind of thing. There's _all kinds_ of reasons people can not have the "expected" amount of savings at _any_ age. Medical. Divorce. Other life disasters. Failed investments. Business failure. These kinds of questions frankly just lead to victim blaming and expose the asker as either (a) having grown up wealthy and staying that way their entire life, or (b) completely callous.
- karmakurtisaani 4y ago
  Well, I for one would be interested in hearing those reasons. If for nothing else, to learn from their story.
  - mquirion 4y ago
    Not OP, but reasons that are pretty easy to imagine: - Living in America and suffering from either cancer, heart disease, or any chronic illness. - Have any number of children and not having a family member available to care for them before they are of school age and after school from Kindergarten until whatever local laws permit for the child to be home alone for a few hours a day. - Buying a home at the wrong time and taking an absolute bath on the "investment" once some unforseen circumstance forces you to sell the home while upside down on the mortgage. - Experiencing various forms of fraud. - Experiencing a lawsuit in America, whether you came out as the winner of said dispute or not. - Being 50 and having had the poor but not unreasonable "luck" of having worked for the wrong start-ups in 1999, 2007, and 2022. Those are just top of mind.