Context: I lived in RI for 9 years and it’s gotten to be too much. No good jobs around. The higher paying jobs are 45min away in Mass. and those high paying jobs arent even more than $17 an hour.
The colleges have all been indoctrinated. I go down Thayer St and see every single college kid wearing masks in public. Our new governor (Sorry about the new Commerce Sec Gina Raimondo btw) just announced we dont need masks outside anymore, so you get where I’m coming from.
I get PA has a Gov thats an islamic sympathizer, but the Senate over the winter gave me hope that this wont last long. And the AZ audit. I feel like despite the leadership in PA, the people there know whats up.
Finally, i’ll be a couple hours closer to my family so theres that.
Wish me luck boys! Not tryna be a basement dweller for long, how am I supposed to keep my tan going?!
Edit: also, Providence is building a bunch of apartments because Boston residents would rather live in Prov with “cheaper” rent and commute to Boston. So thats gonna drive up the market even more because for all intents and purposes, we have “illegal aliens” living in areas where actual RI residents could be living.
I been on unemployment for a while and I feel bad saying that because how the gov set it up it’s so hard to go back into the workforce without feeling like a schmuck either way. Either I stay on unemployment and be yet another lazy bum or I go find decent work and a decent pay, but i’ll be making LESS money than when I was sitting around doing nothing (making $600 more on unemployment than when I was working). I made the decision to get out because I knew it wasn’t good to be on it but i’m hating myself because now I’m gonna be in the workforce wearing masks and sweating my balls off. Making less money than I was when I was sleeping all day.
It’s a disgusting system.
Stay on it and take online courses or volunteer in a field you are passionate about, something to beef up your resume so when you do interview, you have skills others might not have. Employers pay the unemployment insurance tax so you are sticking it to your old employer being on it. The less employees they get rid off the lower their rates should be. It might be different for the Covid unemployment, but don’t take a crappy job just because.
It’s because of Covid thats why. With Covid they increase your benefits by another $300 and its weekly! So i’m getting my percentage of my pay AND an extra $1200 a month basically.