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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry but it sounds like his skills either aren't there, aren't unique, or  aren't transferrable.

The problem with a lot of these USAID folks is there's a lot of talk about deliverables and managing programs but it's a lot of words. [/quote]

No, the problem is that the job market is terrible and the government has poured gasoline on it by dumping 300k extra workers into it all at once. Very few industries or sectors have added any meaningful number of jobs in the past year other than healthcare.

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If healthcare added all these job why aren't the people who prevent infectious diseases in Africa or stopped ebola working in that field.

It sounds like the government propped up the 300k extra workers and they don't really have marketable skills. [/quote]

Because the jobs in healthcare are in the provision of healthcare services (doctors, NPs, nurses, hospital and office administrative staff), not in public health (got cut!) or infectious diseases.

It sounds like you have no idea what you’re talking about, which is unsurprising.[/quote]

That makes no sense. Doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners work in public health and infectious diseases.

Just face it. Usaid people were not in healthcare. They were paper pushers. [/quote]

Of course it makes sense. Your reading skills are just terrible.

I never said USAID people were in healthcare. I specifically said they weren’t in healthcare. The people in healthcare getting jobs are doctors, nurses, hospital administrators. USAID people were not that, and no one ever said they were.

Yes, there are doctors and nurses in public health and infectious diseases. But the type of work USAID did on those issues—which were projects and logistics—would not fall under healthcare as classified by the jobs data. Which is why your earlier point of “If healthcare added all these job why aren't the people who prevent infectious diseases in Africa or stopped ebola working in that field” is actually the point that makes no sense. The work USAID people did is not the type of work where jobs in the US have been added in the past year, which has been my point all along.[/quote]

You are just reinforcing the op's point. If the usaid type of work "projects and logistics" or contracts and deliverables or whatever other vague terms that have been used were actual useful skills then these people would be working. Instead it's a pyramid scheme of managing and supervising and auditing the people doing the actual work. [/quote]

I am not at all surprised that you have never heard of project management or logistics, or that you think dealing with contracts and managing is part of a pyramid scheme instead of “actual work.” These are absolutely foreign concepts down in your troll hole.

Please enlighten us on your deep skills and expertise in doing “actual work.” I’m sure it’s some low-level, menial bulls[i]hit.[/quote]

Maybe your poor interpersonal skills is why you can't find a job. [/quote]

I have a job. I never worked at USAID. The only person with poor interpersonal skills is the one coming onto a thread that is looking for advice for a laid off spouse and making multiple comments about how all of the people that worked at the spouse’s organization had no skills and that’s the reason they are unemployed. It’s just troll behavior from garbage people drinking right-wing kool aid.[/quote]

Why do you think it's one person?[/quote]

I don’t. I think there are multiple Trump trolls on this thread. The person I was referring to above was the person I was responding to. But it indeed applies broadly.[/quote]

OMG I'm one of the ones pushing back. I hate Trump but I also hate government waste. I do believe in soft power. I don't believe in entrenched slush funds. Since I'm a realist though, I would rather double the (original) USAID budget (and contracts) without any reforms at all than be in a war, enriching the Trumps and the billionaires etc. Lots of things can be true at once. Some people just want truth and accountability. From everyone. We're sick of the takers, whatever form they come in. [/quote]

And there are plenty of things to push back on about how USAID operated.

But that’s not the same as coming on to a thread that is asking for advice for a laid off spouse to criticize everyone who worked there as being unskilled. Or to repeat false right wing talking points. Or calling it a pyramid scheme, claiming that if the people who worked there had ”actual useful skills” they would now be employed, and that the people working there weren’t doing “the actual work”.

Not sure why some of you were raised so poorly that someone makes a thread about how to help their spouse and you turn it into a discussion about how the people that worked at the spouse’s organization are useless. Blame your parents, I guess.[/quote]

People are helping by explaining why the spouse can't find a job. He needs to significantly rethink what he thinks his skills are because the real world doesn't agree. [/quote]

No, the comments I pointed out (and many others) are not helping anything. They are just garbage comments from people that apparently never learned how to act normally around other human beings. I worry for you if you can’t see that.[/quote]

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