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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".

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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.

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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

There are no H1B employees at my workplace. US citizenship is a requirement. I’ve never had to pee in a cup. But if you don’t like even the possibility of a drug test, a job requiring a clearance is not for you.

Uhhhh….then how do you hold public trust clearance? Impossible. We pee in cups.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Plenty of jobs at Ice, no hs education required 🤷‍♂️

Anonymous wrote:Healthcare. We are drowning. My hospital pays better than most around us and we still have many job openings. I can't imagine what it looks like at hospitals who pay less.

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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

There are no H1B employees at my workplace. US citizenship is a requirement. I’ve never had to pee in a cup. But if you don’t like even the possibility of a drug test, a job requiring a clearance is not for you.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone i know who is looking for a job and can't find one "needs" WFH. That well is totally dry. They are willing to take a big pay cut as long as they don't have to actually go in. I know multiple lab scientists (my job) who are trying to do "medical billing" etc at less than half the pay because it's from home. The whole world is fighting over those jobs.
All the unfilled jobs are those that must be done in person.

My friend in Bethesda call me up she was laid off. She wants 100 percent renote, no OT, flex she can go to bus stop, do chores go to kids things at school, in summer have time make meals. She is ok hybrid two days a week as long as within 10 minutes of her house. She want 150base and a 40k bonus with a months vacation action. She is out of work 9 months.

I had a job in McLean in person but she was like no way driving to VA or in person s no thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone i know who is looking for a job and can't find one "needs" WFH. That well is totally dry. They are willing to take a big pay cut as long as they don't have to actually go in. I know multiple lab scientists (my job) who are trying to do "medical billing" etc at less than half the pay because it's from home. The whole world is fighting over those jobs.
All the unfilled jobs are those that must be done in person.

My friend in Bethesda call me up she was laid off. She wants 100 percent renote, no OT, flex she can go to bus stop, do chores go to kids things at school, in summer have time make meals. She is ok hybrid two days a week as long as within 10 minutes of her house. She want 150base and a 40k bonus with a months vacation action. She is out of work 9 months.

I had a job in McLean in person but she was like no way driving to VA or in person s no thanks.

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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.

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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

Anonymous wrote:Everyone i know who is looking for a job and can't find one "needs" WFH. That well is totally dry. They are willing to take a big pay cut as long as they don't have to actually go in. I know multiple lab scientists (my job) who are trying to do "medical billing" etc at less than half the pay because it's from home. The whole world is fighting over those jobs.
All the unfilled jobs are those that must be done in person.

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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.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone i know who is looking for a job and can't find one "needs" WFH. That well is totally dry. They are willing to take a big pay cut as long as they don't have to actually go in. I know multiple lab scientists (my job) who are trying to do "medical billing" etc at less than half the pay because it's from home. The whole world is fighting over those jobs.
All the unfilled jobs are those that must be done in person.