Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an Edge

Re:Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an ... by RUG3Y on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:13PM (#15297214)

I did dirty blue collar jobs for years. Then I would sit on my couch with a laptop and learn Python every night, from 6 or 7PM until I couldn't stay awake any longer. It was no picnic but it can be done.

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Re:Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an ... by s73ver_ on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:41PM (#15297481)

You had a laptop. And it sounds like you only had one job, not multiple, and you didn't have a family to support.

And, quite frankly, just because you were able to do it, does not mean that it's not an incredibly shitty thing to expect of everyone else, or that those who aren't able to do it aren't somehow less deserving.

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Re:Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an ... by RUG3Y on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:43PM (#15297504)

I did have a family to support, and a crummy old computer. And I never implied that someone who couldn't do it is less deserving, just that it can be done. Computers are ubiquitous and while not everyone has one, a great many people do.

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Re:Unemployment Is So 2009: Labor Shortage Gives Workers an ... by TACIXAT on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @03:19PM (#15297260)

It is also more difficult if you have kids (I don't), but I agree, in most cases it is possible to make some time.

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