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Damn, the unemployment benefits just keep getting longer and longer...

While I hope to find a job, I am finding it a bit comforting that I won't have to panic anytime soon thanks to the government.

Normal Unemployment: 26 weeks
First Extension: 20 weeks
Second Extension: 13 weeks.

That's frickin 49 weeks right there. Almost a full year. Now I just saw that at the end of March, the Governator signed a bill, called the FED-ED, that could extend benefits for upto another 20 weeks.

Craziness!!

Anyhow, I just know that the first four months of my benefitis have zipped by and haven't really found any biters, but this makes me a bit more relaxed. I have a feeling we aren't going to see any real grown in employment until Q1 next year, maybe Q2, all depending on how companies do during Q4 and do their main projections for 2010...

I didn't really see this last extension mentioned in the news so it caught me by surprise....so though I'd share the fact that it'sthere now for those of you in a similar situation.

Freaks me out knowing people who were laid off in Decembe 2007 who still haven't found full-time work. And know people who were laid off after the 2001 dot-com crash that took 2-3 years to find full-time work themselves.

ha yes. ive been on unemployment since last march, i think i have like 4 weeks left. been a great vacation

Tell me about it, been unemployed since march this year. I can go on for another year like this.

Unemployment is the best thing ever! I was on it like 3 times in 2 yrs back in like 99-aught-aught thru aught-deuce.

If I wasn't pulling my full time salary for doing absolutely nothing now, I would have no prob going on unemployment again. And if things don't pick up soon, I very well may be doing just that.

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Originally posted by S Nate Faulkner Unemployment is the best thing ever! I was on it like 3 times in 2 yrs back in like 99-aught-aught thru aught-deuce. If I wasn't pulling my full time salary for doing absolutely nothing now, I would have no prob going on unemployment again. And if things don't pick up soon, I very well may be doing just that.

did you get laid off that many times or what?

Hey you jobless fucks, stop bringing the rest of us down. Thanks.

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Originally posted by sponger did you get laid off that many times or what?

Yep, That's what happened when you were an IT contractor during y2k bust and then the .com bust. Also, was too lazy to actually look for another job until unemployment was nearly up.

How much is the government check again?

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Originally posted by bas Hey you jobless fucks, stop bringing the rest of us down. Thanks.

I was trying to cheer up anyone worried about becoming a jobless fuck. Being a jobless fuck that still gets paid ROCKS! The only thing better is having a job were you don't work at all and getting paid.

I get the max $475/week (so $950 every two weeks. I don't have the 10% in taxes taken out, I need tha extra 10% right now, hehe). It's nothing near what I made at my job (where my pay wasn't great considering my field...they abused our passion!), but when looking for a new place we didn't base what we could afford on what I expected to be paid in the future but what what we'd make if we're both unfortunately stuck on unemployment. And largely if we had to scrape by on what I made solely.

I learned the lesson of basing living costs on both salaries....what experts say is often the most critical mistake most people make that puts them into a bind because something could happen to one of us and that income you need could be bye-bye.

I'd rather have a nice solid job right now. I am sick-and-tired of sitting at home. Starting some contract work (which I will have to report since I will be signing a W9), but it's not much (maybe 10 hours at first over the first couple weeks + a couple hours every now and then) and taking it more to occupy my time. Doing some website updates for a publishing company.

I still need to get a car, but moving costs and getting what we need for the place made me dive deeper into my pockets up front than expected, so gonna be waiting a couple more weeks to build up some funds to buy it. Just gonna buy a cheap used car to get from point A to point B. I'll be happy if it lasts me a year, maybe two, w/o much trouble. Just until I can get into position to buy a good car.

Hey Dave if you don't mind me asking, what field are you in? Maybe I can hook you up with some job

For nearly nine year, I was a Senior Producer of Video Production at CNET Networks / CBS Interactive, more specifically GameSpot.com (though as we opened more properties, I did help with them...like tv.com & mp3.com). I was one of the original two people who started up the video team for the site and before the layoffs it grew to nearly 20 people. I would have surely been promotered from Senior Producer...if my boss had ever departed himself, lol. We basically had no where to go within the company unless they decided to build a broader company-wide video group, but each division had their own and all the people running them were veterans of the company....so stuck we were!

I have done everything from video shoots, to lighting (not on a large scale) to editing, to helping build a (HD) control room, to setting up and making sure HUNDREDS of live webcasts from across the USA and even Tokyo went smoothly -- from events where a couple hundred people would watch to big press conferences (like Sony or Nintendo's E3 press conferences) where upwards of 100,000 people would be watching.

I also researched and tested just about all of the gear we bought over time, mainly becasue I had to find products on critically low budgets that did things nearly as well as companies with huge budgets had. That said, we usually ended up leading the pack on getting new things to help our coverage be better than anyone else and the competition would end up just copying a lot of our setups.

Let's see, I specced an all-in-one proprietary encoding and publishing setup that our dev team took and built in house to save cost. I haven't heard any other group out there who has a system that once it was complete was as easy to use or as fast as it was than this system. And it was built to be completely scalable. It was literally two steps to get a final video peace out of the editing software onto the site. And you could use it as purely an encoder using drop folders w/ profiles setup (UI all browser based).

I know extensively how just about most of the popular video codec work and their quality differences. I've also know encoding and have worked with software from Sorenson Squeeze, to Anystream Agility to FlipFactory to Canopus ProCoder to mencoder/ffmpeg (which the encoding/publishing system used),e tc etc.

I know WMV (HD) and FLV (On2VP6 and H.264). LIke there's no tomorrow!

I have beta tested with Adobe for their flash video (mainly their live media encoder) in the past.

I self train myself in just about everything that I have an interest in knowing. And I don't stop training myself until I think I know everything I need to know to no only get the job done but also get us ahead of the competition.

I prefer to use the editing software Canopus/Grassy Valley EDIUS on Windows. It's super fast and incredibly more stable than any other Windows based editor I've used. I know Premiere Pro CS4 well, too. I will admit I haven't had the chance to use Avid that much, and have only been put off Final Cut (which drives me NUTS w/ how it does some thing unefficiently). That said, fact is most editors are the same in 80% of areas and it doesn't take a lot of adjustment to go from one editor the the next, unless you use Sony ACID which (at least last time tried it) is like a rebel of video editors, hehe...good for music videos I do beleive though.

I used to know things like After Effects and other post-production, but it's been years and eyars since I bothered touching it (because we actually hired video graphic designers), and most of it has changed so much over the years I'd basically have to relearn it again.


Our deadlines and workload were insane for the team we had. So just about everythign we did was done with a rush put on it, so we weren't always worried about making sure everything was completely poolished. Would drive me nuts!

I can be a workaholic, lol. For example, last July during E3 I worked for nearly 70 hours straight, got 3 maybe 4 hours of sleep, and then proceeded to work another 24, got one hours of sleep, and then like another 20...or something like that. Thank you Redline...it saved me....except for the last day where my body crashed and I overslept like an hour hehe.


Dave

get a job ya fuck'n BUMS!!!!!

Oh wow you were a Senior Producer of Video Production? I used to go that site a lot GameSpot.com, that was back in the days when I was still crazy about video games... right now I rarely touch my PS3 anymore..

I'll keep a watch out for any job openings in my company, I know that they have just launched a new website that sells mp3s and merchandises from various artists... I know they've done few videos with a few artists to promote the website, but it wasn't on a larger scale.. again, the website is a new division to the company, and it is still growing, so I hope sooner or later they will need someone for the video production (I guess depends on how fast the website is growing too). By then, I really hope you already got a job but if not I'll keep that in mind.. sorry can't really you with anything right now, but I hope someone else will read your post here

I have been unemployed for a little over a year now.

Not once did i bother filing for unemployment, i kick my self for not doing so but i dont want to bog down the system.

I am still getting by, but damn those extra 2g's id be getting every month would sure help.....

I could have prolly gone to Miami if i would have filed, f@k!

Well, after I get a car if i can just find something that I can either do or learn to do (again, I self-teach myself everything....like I did web design back int he late 90s, and taught myself things like PERL and TCL back then. But I don't remember anything about it anymore) and make decent pay, I may take it up just to get out of the house. And if I can grow within the company from there, then great, if not I'll look at other options down the road. I am not one that likes to jump around (I had several offers over the yeas and turned them all down), though....so I'd rather grow within a company as long as the peeps are cool.

I was actually interviewed at GameSpot to be a web designer (probably 75% of the large fan-based videogame sites back in the late 90s, when they actually had a lot of power, were done by me lol), was hired as a writer (as I wrote for one of the most powerful fansites), and then a week later they moved to the video team that was starting up because I had a background in it. I actually taught summer school as a 15 year old and a part of it was video production stuff. It was two teachers and a few students becasue we were teaching teachers and students from other schools int he county. I had to get a FBI background check like any normal hire in the Orange County (Florida) Public School system. Not many peeps can say that lol.

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Originally posted by 72hrpartyanimal get a job ya fuck'n BUMS!!!!!

there are jobs out there...but none of these guys getting $950 every two weeks would take a job that pays $12 an hour($480 a week, $960 bimonthly)

I wouldnt mind taking the rest of the year off and still making about $2,000 to NOT work.

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Originally posted by Nerologic I have been unemployed for a little over a year now. Not once did i bother filing for unemployment, i kick my self for not doing so but i dont want to bog down the system. I am still getting by, but damn those extra 2g's id be getting every month would sure help..... I could have prolly gone to Miami if i would have filed, f@k!

From what I remember from when I was on it, it is not too late to file for it! Don't feel bad about taking it! It is YOUR money to begin with! Unemployment insurance comes out of your check already! Unless you were 1099, then tough shit...also, shit maybe diff now....

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Originally posted by S Nate Faulkner From what I remember from when I was on it, it is not too late to file for it! Don't feel bad about taking it! It is YOUR money to begin with! Unemployment insurance comes out of your check already! Unless you were 1099, then tough shit...also, shit maybe diff now....

No i am sure i can still get it, but its pointless now.

I am starting UCSD in the Fall to work on my Masters so its kinds pointless. I know as soon as they see i am enrolled for school, they cut it immediately.

The more i think of it, the more i know i fucked up on not doing anything right when i got let go!

haha

shit i wish i had 59 weeks unemployment...

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Originally posted by Nerologic No i am sure i can still get it, but its pointless now. I am starting UCSD in the Fall to work on my Masters so its kinds pointless. I know as soon as they see i am enrolled for school, they cut it immediately. The more i think of it, the more i know i fucked up on not doing anything right when i got let go! haha

As long as it's approved by the state (just call up and saying you are trying to a Masters to increase your opportunities), you can go back to school and be on unemployment. There's an entry right on the form you send in every two weeks about. In fact, if they approve of you going back to school, you aren't required to go back to work!


Either way, I say it's worth a shot. Worst they can do is say no.

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Originally posted by Nerologic No i am sure i can still get it, but its pointless now. I am starting UCSD in the Fall to work on my Masters so its kinds pointless. I know as soon as they see i am enrolled for school, they cut it immediately. The more i think of it, the more i know i fucked up on not doing anything right when i got let go! haha

Actually, I'm pretty sure they will EXTEND your benefits if you enroll in school! They WANT you to be more employable. My one "friend" purposely enrolled in some crap classes just to get the extension.

Ohh shit!

Time for me to get my lazy ass off the chair...

I will let you guys know what happens!

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Originally posted by Nerologic Ohh shit! Time for me to get my lazy ass off the chair... I will let you guys know what happens!

and send dave t and nate s a referral fee

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Originally posted by bigperf and send dave t and nate s a referral fee

haha

they are already getting their fees by the state!

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