Where are the jobs

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Anonymous wrote:Engineering--structural and inspections
Accounting--CPA-tax prep and payroll
Lawyers--Estate Law and Tax

I have friends who own the above small businesses. All are hiring with professional level jobs. The main complaint by the owners is they have a tough time finding people who work the hours that the jobs require.

The problem with being an employee of a small business is that benefits are typically much worse than large companies. As someone in finance who was laid off and found a new job in 2025, I avoided applying to companies with <100 employees and preferred companies >1000 employees. I think that’s why they get stuck with such weak applicants.

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Anonymous wrote:I just spent 4 months looking for a new role due to a merger. I interviewed a ton but only one offer, in person, after years of remote work. Remote work in my field has dried up. I accepted it and will commute. It's not my favorite but it is far from a deal breaker as not working is the actual issue.

You're in a far better position than those who prefer to do nothing over accepting lower compensation. They will eventually run out of both money and excuses, you won't.

People are willing to accept lower comp. But throwing in the towel for a professional career to spend all tour time as home health aide really should be the last stop on a long line of other options. PP didnt even say less comp, just not WFH.

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Anonymous wrote:Engineering--structural and inspections
Accounting--CPA-tax prep and payroll
Lawyers--Estate Law and Tax

I have friends who own the above small businesses. All are hiring with professional level jobs. The main complaint by the owners is they have a tough time finding people who work the hours that the jobs require.

The problem with being an employee of a small business is that benefits are typically much worse than large companies. As someone in finance who was laid off and found a new job in 2025, I avoided applying to companies with <100 employees and preferred companies >1000 employees. I think that’s why they get stuck with such weak applicants.

I wonder what PP means by “work the hours that the jobs require”?

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

So you can choose instead to be unemployed. Your choice, your consequence.

The consequence is that these dod shops cannot hire engineers. Management is fat and happy and eng is expected to jump through the hoops of maintaining clearances for peanuts. And to be on call. Nobody worth their salt wants to work there.

If you can’t hire engineers, then hopefully the shop will close unless management wants to do the engineering work.

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Anonymous wrote:Home health aide!! There are so many old people who want to age in their homes and not move to assisted living, and that number is only going to increase in the future.

+1! We have been searching for this for my mom. So many home health care agencies hire illegal immigrants because most citizens don’t want to do this job for the pay. It’s a mess!

Fixed it for you. For the right money, I'd happily take care of your mom, and I'd be great at it. But it's hard work, often with odd hours, and anybody you'd trust is also qualified to do something else that pays at least as well.

We pay $50/hour plus time and a half, plus benefits. I know we are paying more than market rate.

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

So you can choose instead to be unemployed. Your choice, your consequence.

The consequence is that these dod shops cannot hire engineers. Management is fat and happy and eng is expected to jump through the hoops of maintaining clearances for peanuts. And to be on call. Nobody worth their salt wants to work there.

If you can’t hire engineers, then hopefully the shop will close unless management wants to do the engineering work.

And just on cue Boeing is laying off 10% of staff. What a circus.

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Anonymous wrote:Engineering--structural and inspections
Accounting--CPA-tax prep and payroll
Lawyers--Estate Law and Tax

I have friends who own the above small businesses. All are hiring with professional level jobs. The main complaint by the owners is they have a tough time finding people who work the hours that the jobs require.

The problem with being an employee of a small business is that benefits are typically much worse than large companies. As someone in finance who was laid off and found a new job in 2025, I avoided applying to companies with <100 employees and preferred companies >1000 employees. I think that’s why they get stuck with such weak applicants.

I wonder what PP means by “work the hours that the jobs require”?

I think that means long hours and in some cases, odd hours like the PP who said structural inspections happen overnight for bridges etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are MAGA please refrain from propagandist statement that the job market is extraordinarily fantastic. This is about the livelihood of Americans regardless of party affiliation.

Where are the jobs?

Folks please share industry, job title, skillets etc where openings vastly exceed demand.

We know restaurants have been hiring for the past 1000 years. So let's exclude those.

Pot calling kettle black, eh?

Leaving aside your hypocritically obvious political bias, we are in a tight but decent job market. We've seen this before. Corps are flush but smarter about hiring.

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Anonymous wrote:Home health aide!! There are so many old people who want to age in their homes and not move to assisted living, and that number is only going to increase in the future.

+1! We have been searching for this for my mom. So many home health care agencies hire illegal immigrants because most citizens don’t want to do this job for the pay. It’s a mess!

Fixed it for you. For the right money, I'd happily take care of your mom, and I'd be great at it. But it's hard work, often with odd hours, and anybody you'd trust is also qualified to do something else that pays at least as well.

We were paying $35 an hour, legal, for home health caregivers for Mom on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. They drove her around, prepared meals, and walked with her (several miles a day.)

I assume you are paying that to a company, I bet the actual worker is getting $20 per hour or less.

They might be getting that rate of pay, but they are employed, which puts them way ahead anyone who is unemployed, no matter how credentialed they are.

This is the core of the issue - jobs most definitely exist, but many people won't deign to take them because of the lack of WFH, the low pay, the lack of prestige, or the perceived/real onerous character of the work. But preferring to be unemployed to feeling underemployed is a choice, and does not mean jobs are not there. Choosing unemployment over underemployment is not at all the same as "but there are no jobs!". You may be able to say you can't find a job you want or like, but that's different.

A job that comes nowhere near paying my bills is not a viable option. Let's say, just as an extreme example, that I work 8 hours a day for $1. Is it really better to be "employed" than unemployed in that case? There are other things I can do with my time, including take care of my kids, try to start a business, go back to school, move to a completely new area. All of those would be better than a job that takes up all of my time but doesn't pay enough for rent and groceries.

And yes, these jobs you have in mind pay more than a dollar a day, but people are making the same calculus when they decide whether to waste their time.

So, you prefer no income to a low income? That's fine, but that's also your choice, and forms no basis for claiming "there are no jobs".

The gig economy sadly inflated the job numbers in recent years. It's the most American thing to say that A job that doesn't pay a living wage is a job. So ridiculous

Yes. My cousin was one of those UPS drivers that lost his job. He became an Uber driver with no benefits and less pay. He is not considered unemployed, but he is definitely underemployed and work more hours hustling for riders than when he worked at UPS with benefits, such as health insurance and PTO days.

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

So you can choose instead to be unemployed. Your choice, your consequence.

The consequence is that these dod shops cannot hire engineers. Management is fat and happy and eng is expected to jump through the hoops of maintaining clearances for peanuts. And to be on call. Nobody worth their salt wants to work there.

If you can’t hire engineers, then hopefully the shop will close unless management wants to do the engineering work.

And just on cue Boeing is laying off 10% of staff. What a circus.

And Boeing just received large orders from the feds, Alaska Airline, and Delta Airline. The stock is soaring as they lay off staff.

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

So you can choose instead to be unemployed. Your choice, your consequence.

The consequence is that these dod shops cannot hire engineers. Management is fat and happy and eng is expected to jump through the hoops of maintaining clearances for peanuts. And to be on call. Nobody worth their salt wants to work there.

If you can’t hire engineers, then hopefully the shop will close unless management wants to do the engineering work.

And just on cue Boeing is laying off 10% of staff. What a circus.

And Boeing just received large orders from the feds, Alaska Airline, and Delta Airline. The stock is soaring as they lay off staff.

They’ll be rehiring. It’s ridiculous musical chairs.

[Anonymous]

From what I see first hand, there's a lot of underemployment because schools are open such short hours. Schools are only open 7 hours, but with a commute of 30 min each way, parents can only really work 6 hours. Mom (they would never think of making the dad stay home) can't get a job during school hours. And she also can't get a job that makes enough to afford before and after care. My county's cheap aftercare is $400 a month x 2 kids= $800 just for aftercare when you only need it a hour a day.

Schools are also failing students, so maybe we need to lengthen the school hours and just have 2 hours of tutoring at the end or beginning of school (not making teachers work longer hours but additional staff). A lot of families could make 8-4:30pm work, but cannot make 8-2:30pm work.

Schools also are always causing childcare crises for parents. Yes, schools aren't childcare, but when they don't open, parents can't get childcare instantly. I understand if buses can't run, but parents should be able to drive their kids to school instead and it still be open. Parents can't work when schools are always closed or running half day schedules.

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Anonymous wrote:Dod engineering and cyber. With clearances and certs. Lots of openings and they are real. (Company I work for is hiring). But no remote options.

Same here. Defense industry. Only some of the jobs are remote but not for the engineers.

Yeah nobody wants to pee in the cup several times a year for the privilege of earning H1b salary

So you can choose instead to be unemployed. Your choice, your consequence.

The consequence is that these dod shops cannot hire engineers. Management is fat and happy and eng is expected to jump through the hoops of maintaining clearances for peanuts. And to be on call. Nobody worth their salt wants to work there.

If you can’t hire engineers, then hopefully the shop will close unless management wants to do the engineering work.

And just on cue Boeing is laying off 10% of staff. What a circus.

And Boeing just received large orders from the feds, Alaska Airline, and Delta Airline. The stock is soaring as they lay off staff.

Great plan. Lets build planes for ICE and outsource more jobs to India. Sustainability at its finest.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I see first hand, there's a lot of underemployment because schools are open such short hours. Schools are only open 7 hours, but with a commute of 30 min each way, parents can only really work 6 hours. Mom (they would never think of making the dad stay home) can't get a job during school hours. And she also can't get a job that makes enough to afford before and after care. My county's cheap aftercare is $400 a month x 2 kids= $800 just for aftercare when you only need it a hour a day.

Schools are also failing students, so maybe we need to lengthen the school hours and just have 2 hours of tutoring at the end or beginning of school (not making teachers work longer hours but additional staff). A lot of families could make 8-4:30pm work, but cannot make 8-2:30pm work.

Schools also are always causing childcare crises for parents. Yes, schools aren't childcare, but when they don't open, parents can't get childcare instantly. I understand if buses can't run, but parents should be able to drive their kids to school instead and it still be open. Parents can't work when schools are always closed or running half day schedules.

unremarkable.

You'll get flamed but this rings true. I work part time and my coworkers (women my age with kids) are snide about it. They all have parents who come here on a revolving door of tourist visas to watch their kids full time and be there when the school bus drops off. It's very clear to the observer that all the "lazy" American born moms at my work are part time and cobbling together childcare and the foreign ones work long hours because they have live-in parental help.

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Anonymous wrote:From what I see first hand, there's a lot of underemployment because schools are open such short hours. Schools are only open 7 hours, but with a commute of 30 min each way, parents can only really work 6 hours. Mom (they would never think of making the dad stay home) can't get a job during school hours. And she also can't get a job that makes enough to afford before and after care. My county's cheap aftercare is $400 a month x 2 kids= $800 just for aftercare when you only need it a hour a day.

Schools are also failing students, so maybe we need to lengthen the school hours and just have 2 hours of tutoring at the end or beginning of school (not making teachers work longer hours but additional staff). A lot of families could make 8-4:30pm work, but cannot make 8-2:30pm work.

Schools also are always causing childcare crises for parents. Yes, schools aren't childcare, but when they don't open, parents can't get childcare instantly. I understand if buses can't run, but parents should be able to drive their kids to school instead and it still be open. Parents can't work when schools are always closed or running half day schedules.

+1

There’s a push for people to have more kids, but a lot of workplaces make it so hard for working parents. I don’t have kids but I watch my colleague struggle with young kids because our boss is not very flexible. It’s something I’m hyper aware as I’ve gotten older even though I don’t even have any kids.