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Damn, the unemployment benefits just keep getting longer and longer...
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| DaveT |
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. |
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| sponger |
| ha yes. ive been on unemployment since last march, i think i have like 4 weeks left. been a great vacation :tongue3 |
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| plastikul |
| Tell me about it, been unemployed since march this year. I can go on for another year like this. |
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| 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. |
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| sponger |
| quote: | 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? |
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| bas |
| Hey you jobless s, stop bringing the rest of us down. Thanks. |
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| S Nate Faulkner |
| quote: | 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. |
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| able.h |
| How much is the government check again? |
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| S Nate Faulkner |
| quote: | Originally posted by bas
Hey you jobless s, stop bringing the rest of us down. Thanks. |
I was trying to cheer up anyone worried about becoming a jobless . Being a jobless that still gets paid ROCKS! The only thing better is having a job were you don't work at all and getting paid. |
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| DaveT |
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. |
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| able.h |
| Hey Dave if you don't mind me asking, what field are you in? Maybe I can hook you up with some job ;) |
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| DaveT |
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.
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