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@colourful_hippie: Yep, and a lot of those are shoeboxes. To be fair, it's an amazing city to live in.

@mlarrabee: Best of luck! Keep up with a blog at the very least. Easy to not do the easy stuff like that.

@probablytuna: It has indeed! A fun year, at least.

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@me3639: Yeah, welcome to the east coast. Small towns are small anywhere, but there's something weirdly desolate about some of the burbs on the east coast. At least you can theoretically take a day trip up to a big city if you feel like it, rather than being truly isolated. I'm getting to the age where I need to probably start slowing down a bit in terms of hanging out in bars, I guess. Maybe I'll do that.

@supamon: I've been lucky in that I've been able to bike a lot, especially since Golden Gate Park is just a few blocks from me. The only problem is when my sleep schedule was so off that I'd be waking up at 6 PM as the sun was going down. Not cool, sun. Not cool.

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@zfubarz: I haven't seen those guys recently! Looks like they're doing well, though.

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People who complain about being unemployed are sad. There is money to be found every where, just use your brain and you should be able to earn some.

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@daedelus: All good points!

@evilnights: That's the maximum that CA offers; it varies based on your salary for the previous year or something. I well cleared the maximum, but it can go pretty low if you were on a minimum wage job, I believe.

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@shaunage: Journalism! I wish you the best of luck. And start a blog and keep it updated!

@hailinel: Glad you found something! And thanks for the welcome!

@sgtpierceface: Thanks!

@demoskinos: God I still need to get through that. Just couldn't get my head around all the time travel stuff, and it looked pretty rough on the 360. One of the only single-player FF games I haven't finished.

@oscar__explosion: Let's hope it doesn't happen! All I can recommend is to get that six months to a year of savings in the bank. I'm certainly going to start rebuilding my stockpile.

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@brackynews: If you ever send anything to GB, feel free to address it to me and I'll be sure to send you something back. I can't speak to their habits as far as that goes, but I know the guys up top do get a LOT of mail and don't have time to get back to everything. I'm really going to try to ensure that there's more of a personal touch going forward, so far as I'm able.

@ghostnpc: Thanks! I doubt I'll do many videos going forward, but I'll be around in case they need a hand.

@cooljammer00: I definitely wanted to hold out for something that was relevant to what I was doing in the past, but there were moments when that Help Wanted sign at Pier One was looking tempting. I'm pretty sure a lot of those stores are unlikely to hire people who have skills/degrees, though, since they know people like me would still be looking for work and quit as soon as something better came along. Not really fair to them anyway.

@potoskull: I feel ya. *fistbump*

@marblecmoney: Thanks!

@i_stay_puft: It's pretty crazy, but like I mentioned, this is one of the few places you can live and not own a car, which really does help save a bunch of money. I guess technically the East Bay is like that too, but then I'd have to rely a lot on public transportation, and the costs for that can add up quickly. (Even if I was busing to work every day, four bucks a day x 275 working days or something would be a fair amount of money over the course of a year. Easily pays the cost of my bike.)

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@tycobb said:

@vincentlonga said:

But it struck me odd that someone who gets fired is eligible for benefits, whereas someone who quits a job for a legitimate reason is not eligible for benefits (this took place in Utah btw). Unemployment benefits are great, but policy still needs some work to make it better.

No. It depends on why you were fired. If you get fired because you show up to work late or misbehave, you do not get benefits. If you get laid off then, you get benefits. No one who quits a job should get unemployment. Nothing against you, but states would be even more in debt if people just decided to quit their job and go on unemployment for a year.

Being laid-off and fired are not the same thing.

What Ty said. It's almost always "better" to get laid off than to leave volitionally, at least in the eyes of unemployment. (Some states have some bend to them in this sense.) In the end I can see the point of that. Better to have the safety net there in case of truly accidental, unintended unemployment rather than quitting or getting fired for cause. (Otherwise you'd have people also attempting to get fired for cause to get into the system.) Luckily CA makes it pretty easy to file for unemployment, although I have heard of a lot of people getting odd denials.

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@tycobb: I tried to make the point about companies paying into unemployment clear in the post. It's good that they do, but it's not like it's a virtuous choice that they make; it's legally required. I'm sure that if companies could opt out of that, they would in a heartbeat.

But yeah, I have definitely heard that lengthy unemployment streaks look bad on resumes. Which is definitely a shame, even if it is somewhat understandable (skills rust, work-related networking suffers, etc.). Luckily as a writer I was able to pad out the resume with freelancing.

@mattyftm: Hah, five pounds? That's a trickle. I heard the jobseeker's allowance over there is like 10 pounds a day, and of course some people complain that that's too much. At any rate, best of luck with the job search. I worked in a bookstore for three years after I got out of school, and while retail isn't an ideal job experience, it can still offer some specific joys if you look for them.

@armedbear: I plan to sometime soon! Just been busy with the new job and all.

@nicked: Oh yeah, I forgot to mention healthcare up there. Had I had any health issues this would've been an entirely different story. I wasn't paying for COBRA or anything like that, so one bad fall off my bike would've effectively made me bankrupt. AMERICUHHHH

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@jimbo: I actually was reading a bit about the welfare state in the wake of Thatcher's death, and some of the worst aspects of it seem to be more perceptual than actual as far as I can tell. The majority of the welfare budget is spent on pensioners rather than jobseekers, for instance, and only something like 0.7% of the entire welfare budget is thought to be spent fraudulently, whereas I'm sure if you asked someone on the street what the number was I wouldn't be surprised if the average answer was 20% or higher. There's a similar disconnect in the U.S. when people talk about welfare; the stereotype is of urban poor African-American families with a dozen kids living off the government, but most welfare money actually goes to rural white families. (Of course those figures will change based on what you classify as "welfare," I guess.)

Of course I'm not British, so I might be talking out of my butt. It's a weird political issue, but in the end I kind of think that the fraudulent welfare abusers are far less damaging to the economy (US or UK) than, say, the class of bankers that caused the last recession.

@deathpooky: Yep. People talk about offshoring a lot, but I have a feeling that even jobs like mine that require an in-house American presence are going to be increasingly shifted to contracting models to avoid stuff like company expenditures on health insurance and the like. When you have companies that are constantly fighting to boost quarterly profits, that's understandable, but it's not that great if you're not a vice president or stockbroker.

@xtrememuffinman: Enjoy it while it lasts!

@d8k: Good to be here!

@jasonr86: Yeah, it can definitely be abused, but I'm pretty sure that far and away the bulk of the people on it are just looking for a little help getting back on their feet. It works well for that, at least!

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@supertess: Yeah the stigma around it is pretty annoying sometimes. It can be bad, but for the most part I found it to be kind of enjoyable.

@pyromagnestir: Stuff's expensive in SF. I used to pay 60 bucks (after tip) for nice cuts at a salon back in the day. Sometimes you just want to have someone shampoo you and go the whole nine yards, you know?

@jimmyfenix: I IS HERE

@winternet: I like getting cuts, but around the cheapest you can get around here is $16, which I always rounded up to $20. I got my clippers for $20 from Amazon and they feel pretty solid. At any rate, I've gotten used to doing it and it's nice not to have to go out and make an appointment and etc. Plus I can get it done in about five minutes.