View Full Version : 4 months, 7 days.
That's how long I've been unemployed. Longest time I've ever been unemployed since graduating high school in 05....and it f***ing SUCKS! Just barely scraping by with my meager savings and *ugh* unemployment benefits...not a fun time, let me tell you.
But that's about to change. I finally got a job! :banana: :banana:
Service Desk Administrator for the North American branch of a company that provides broadband service on public transportation (trains, etc). Pretty neat tech, actually; here's a good article about their stuff.
http://www.dailywireless.org/2011/02/23/nomad-digital-for-amtrak-nationwide/
Not exactly the most exciting job, but the company sounds interesting and the people I've met so far have been pretty cool. Plus, I got all three things I was originally looking for:
1) Get out of the defense sector. (F*** YEAH! Really excited about that one!)
2) Make at least what I was making before I got laid off. (Offer was for ~7% more.)
3) Not terribly far away. (~30 minute drive in good traffic.)
Plus, as it happens, it's literally just 1/2 mile down the road from the local branch of Pheonix University, where I'm going to be finishing my Bachelor's degree once I have a little in savings again.
Ok, that's all for now. I just wanted to celebrate for a while. :D Back to painting now..
Diamon
08-18-2011, 01:47 PM
Congratulations! :D
From what I've seen of your contributions to this forum I'm surprised companies fire you at all though :)
Anyway, good luck with the work and studies.
Congratulations! :D
From what I've seen of your contributions to this forum I'm surprised companies fire you at all though :)
Anyway, good luck with the work and studies.
Thanks! Actually, I wasn't fired, I was laid off when the funding for the contract I was working on ran out.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26123
Luke122
08-18-2011, 05:27 PM
Congrats on the new job! Always exciting to start some new work!
Airbozo
08-18-2011, 05:46 PM
Nice!
I will tip a glass of cider to your new job!
OvRiDe
08-18-2011, 06:46 PM
Congrats! That's fantastic news!
TheMainMan
08-18-2011, 09:57 PM
Having spent the summer trying to find a job, I know a bit what this feels like. I started mine this week and was so excited I could barely sleep the night before! Hope this works out for you! Congrats!
altec
08-18-2011, 10:08 PM
Glad you found something! I guess that one you mentioned last we talked didn't pan out?
If it was the one I'm thinking about, no, it didn't. I actually applied for this one back in early June, but didn't hear anything from them until last week...then interview on Friday and offer today. :D ..thinking back over that conversation though, I do get the feeling that he expected me to counter the offer with a higher salary...damn...I'm really bad at that part...also, tbh, if he had offered me half what he did I would have taken it at this point..
mDust
08-19-2011, 02:54 PM
Congrats on the new job! Sounds like a good one.
artoodeeto
08-19-2011, 04:32 PM
Congrats! Gives me hope for my own search, I've been unemployed for a little over a year now...
billygoat333
08-20-2011, 06:47 AM
yikes! good luck r2d2! :P and glad you found a job sir x88x. :)
Congrats! Gives me hope for my own search, I've been unemployed for a little over a year now...
Ouch...I think I would have gone nuts by now if I were in your position. I hope you find something.
Thanks everyone. :D
Having major contacts at the end of the week is frustrating. :P I got the offer over the phone on Thursday but just got the official offer email and paperwork today. Only 2 business days, but with the weekend in there it there it felt like much longer. :hurt: Anyways, I start a week from today! :D Just got to get some paperwork straightened out and get them started on my background check.
I am gonna have to find a bit more capital though...won't get paid until the 26th of September...nobody around this area would happen to need a refrigerator or portable dishwasher, would they? :whistler:
Fuganater
08-22-2011, 04:10 PM
SO then we will see a mod by xmas time?
Hahaha, we'll see something by christmas time. :D I want to build my dome shed before winter.
dr.walrus
08-22-2011, 06:23 PM
Dome! You going monolithic or geodesic?
dr.walrus
08-22-2011, 06:42 PM
shoulda prolly said congrats on the job first. Congrats!
Geodesic.
http://www.thebestcasescenario.com/forum/showthread.php?t=26555
Started that thread a few months ago when I first decided I wanted to do it...just waiting till I have the disposable income again to actually spend to build it.
dr.walrus
08-22-2011, 07:50 PM
My house I've always wanted to build is based on underground domes - they're incredible structures, but built out of concrete underground? Yeah a thousand years is a conservative structural lifetime....
Heheh, nice. Be sure and document it somewhere if you ever get around to building that. :twisted:
mDust
08-22-2011, 09:03 PM
I am gonna have to find a bit more capital though...won't get paid until the 26th of September...nobody around this area would happen to need a refrigerator or portable dishwasher, would they?
Damn, bi-weekly pay? That's rough starting out. Yard sale time!
My house I've always wanted to build is based on underground domes - they're incredible structures, but built out of concrete underground? Yeah a thousand years is a conservative structural lifetime....
Interesting. My dream is an off-grid, mostly (but not entirely) subterranean concrete structure...I wasn't planning on domes though. I've seen some pretty neat domed structures above and below ground and also under water. Very cool floor-plan options are possible with them due to their strength and even load distribution.
Damn, bi-weekly pay? That's rough starting out. Yard sale time!
Nope, I'd be just fine with bi-weekly pay, that's what I've had for the last ~5 years. This is monthly pay. 26th of every month I get a big paycheck. Once I get past the first month it won't really matter, but I'll be continuing my penny-pinching for the next month or so.
Interesting. My dream is an off-grid, mostly (but not entirely) subterranean concrete structure...I wasn't planning on domes though. I've seen some pretty neat domed structures above and below ground and also under water. Very cool floor-plan options are possible with them due to their strength and even load distribution.
Yup. You can also have a much larger unsupported span with arches (domes are actually a type of arch, architecturally) than with more standard architectural techniques. This translates into much larger open floorplans and much higher ceilings. If you combine that with flat walls by recessing the floor into the ground, you even remove a lot of the problem with unusable space that many dome designs suffer from.
mDust
08-22-2011, 10:03 PM
This is monthly pay. 26th of every month I get a big paycheck.
Ewww...Bleghh! You should do something amazing the first week, get a major promotion and use your new power and growing sphere of influence to change the pay to bi-weekly at the least. I'd forget why I was even there after a few weeks with no pay...
Yeah, but then you get a paycheck twice as big. :P
IDK, maybe it's a more common practice in the UK? The company started there and is still based there, so maybe it's just something that they started over there and standardize throughout the entire company. *shrugs* IDK, like I said, once I get past this first month it won't be a problem. I'm still getting the same pay, it's just arranged differently.
simon275
08-23-2011, 07:19 AM
Glad you have a job. I hear things are tough in the US.
Also how I can tell you have been not working for a bit
TBCS post count of 6000+
dr.walrus
08-23-2011, 06:39 PM
It's absolutely common practice to get paid monthly in the UK.
Ok, that makes sense then. Thanks.
altec
08-23-2011, 11:37 PM
Yeah, but then you get a paycheck twice as big. :P
IDK, maybe it's a more common practice in the UK? The company started there and is still based there, so maybe it's just something that they started over there and standardize throughout the entire company. *shrugs* IDK, like I said, once I get past this first month it won't be a problem. I'm still getting the same pay, it's just arranged differently.
Are you? I always have to warn friends that when their jobs go to bi-weekly, they will walk away with less... Bunch of crap.
Are you? I always have to warn friends that when their jobs go to bi-weekly, they will walk away with less... Bunch of crap.
Howso? Unless the employer is using the change in pay frequency to decrease the pay rate, how would just changing how frequently you get a payout decrease your take-home? Same salary, same taxes, same insurance/etc costs, same everything...so how would changing the frequency at which you receive a check change the net amount you receive over the same time period?
mDust
08-24-2011, 01:23 PM
I could see the argument that you could have had that money invested somewhere for an entire month, which over the course of many years or a career would definitely become significant. The company probably makes a good bit having an entire months worth of payroll checks invested somewhere as well. :think:
IDK; tbh, I don't the the extra two weeks gathering interest on the relatively small amount that is left once my mortgage/etc is paid would be that significant. YMMV. *shrugs*
altec
08-24-2011, 03:27 PM
Howso? Unless the employer is using the change in pay frequency to decrease the pay rate, how would just changing how frequently you get a payout decrease your take-home? Same salary, same taxes, same insurance/etc costs, same everything...so how would changing the frequency at which you receive a check change the net amount you receive over the same time period?
Has to do with taxes taken out of paychecks. I have never looked up why, but even the most recent case of this I've seen, you end up with more taken out because you are "making more." Not as big of a slap in the face as when you get a raise, and fall into a new tax bracket, but still a crock...
sara21
08-25-2011, 03:52 AM
Congratulations ! new here , say here to everyone, hope we can also have good luch :D
dr.walrus
08-25-2011, 03:53 AM
Has to do with taxes taken out of paychecks. I have never looked up why, but even the most recent case of this I've seen, you end up with more taken out because you are "making more." Not as big of a slap in the face as when you get a raise, and fall into a new tax bracket, but still a crock...
Well, no, because the tax is calculated based on the time period you're paid over...
Has to do with taxes taken out of paychecks. I have never looked up why, but even the most recent case of this I've seen, you end up with more taken out because you are "making more." Not as big of a slap in the face as when you get a raise, and fall into a new tax bracket, but still a crock...
If that happens, I would say it's a case of someone in payroll not knowing how to do their damn job and miscalculating your taxes.
Fuganater
08-25-2011, 04:46 AM
Taxes suck... nuff said.
I pay more in taxes per pay now then I used to make in a month.
billygoat333
08-25-2011, 02:19 PM
Congratulations ! new here , say here to everyone, hope we can also have good luch :D
Hi... and yeah I hope we can have a good lunch too.
:facepalm:
I pay more in taxes per pay now then I used to make in a month.
Well, I suppose that's a good thing....sort of... :think:
On another note, I got confirmation today; they're done with the background check and I'm officially starting on Monday. :D
mDust
08-25-2011, 04:59 PM
On another note, I got confirmation today; they're done with the background check and I'm officially starting on Monday. :D
Well official congrats then!
NightrainSrt4
08-25-2011, 05:12 PM
Congrats!
ianclarkson55
08-26-2011, 07:57 AM
what? I'm unemployed right now. Get me a job too :(
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