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I suppose it’s in how you word it. I’ve given up on trying to get a job because there is no point in trying. I can’t afford to pay my rent, but I guess you cou
by 0x20cowboy 4mo ago
I suppose it’s in how you word it. I’ve given up on trying to get a job because there is no point in trying. I can’t afford to pay my rent, but I guess you could call that early retirement.
- cherryteastain 4mo agoPoint of labor participation is that it's independent of whether you want to be employed or not.
- overfeed 4mo agoYou and gp agree that characterizing non-paticipation as (voluntary) "early retirement" is unsupported.
- Obscurity4340 4mo agoThat sounds kinda pointless unless the point of the stats is to make the State and Enterprise look good and justify cuts to non-corporate WELFARE
- nativeit 4mo agoDing ding ding!
- mothballed 4mo agoIf you can stomach it, the seafood canning and fishing industry in Alaska will usually (IDK what the situation is this year) hire anyone off the street, work them 16 hours a day for several months, and give them "free housing." You'll get dumped back in Seattle in several months with at least $10k in your pocket. Edit: genuinely perplexed on the response. This saved my ass one winter when I had nothing for rent.
- t-writescode 4mo agoI thought the fishing industry paid … way more than 10k / 3 months. Color me surprised o.O
- satvikpendem 4mo agoThat's net after housing, perhaps a good deal depending on what your rent would've been otherwise.
- ponector 4mo agoIt is a seasonal low skilled work. How much should it pay? Overall it is comparable to a seasonal farm work: mostly done by immigrants
- insane_dreamer 4mo agomy brother did that 20 years ago; I didn't realize it was still a thing today
- hawgWyld 4mo ago[flagged]
- kristianp 4mo agoSurely it's not actually 16 hours a day, that would leave maybe 6 hours for sleep after other needs are taken care of.
- _DeadFred_ 4mo agoPeople who have been aged out of tech aren't going to be able to physically pull off 16 hour days in Alaska.
- lenkite 4mo agoIf you are working 16 hours a day, you won't even go to your "free housing", you will sleep next to your workplace on a mat and then try and finish toilet/bath in office restroom in 1hour, so you can at-least get some restful hours of sleep before the next day.
- Den_VR 4mo agoYou can’t pay your rent? But then where will you live?
- nativeit 4mo agoA question that roughly 500,000 people in America find themselves asking. So far, the answer seems to be “in a pup tent in the woods behind Walmart”, because there’s not a ton of great options otherwise.