From the article: When Unemployment Runs Out
What to do when unemployment runs out? Where you can you get help when you're out of unemployment benefits? How can you job search with limited resources? Here's advice on what to do when you're out of unemployment, plus share your advice to help job seekers who are running out of benefits and are in need of assistance. Share Your Advice
Where is Our Bail Out?
- We bail out banks and car dealships. We're out of work worrying how to pay bills. Ceo of banks gets millions, than you got clunkers for cash which they could had given to someone unemployed that needed a car. W write letters trying to find answers. I wasn't our fault we lost our job, the older we get it's harder to find work.
- —Guest restless
Unemployed
- Take a job even if it is not what you want. Underemployed is better than no employment.
- —Guest Senggir
Extended Unemployment?
- I thought everyone was approved for the new Extended Unemployment stimulus I was laid off from my job Aug 12 Only got unemployment from September to October 3rd? They tell me that I still have money from a past job that I lost last October but I don't qualify? I thought everyone got approved for the extension? Why is it that I am not getting approved? I'm going to lose everything I've been applying and interviewing like crazy doing what I am supposed to do I pay my taxes and everything else so why am I not included in the extension of unemployment benefits?
- —kmf_0320
Worried
- The help info is great. But who will pay the rent? What if you don't have the family to help with it? Or they won't help becasue they don't realize how we are hurting cause they are all still working? I worked all my life and raised 3 kids mostly on my own. Now what? Umemployment that I have paid all these years in only good for a yr and a half. Get jobs out there and I'll work.
- —Guest Vicki
free yourself
- Max out your credit cards with cash advances, then stop paying. The cash you send to the bankers would help pay your utilites and mortgage.. the treasury and federal reserve will give the bankers more money if they need it..credit enslaves you anyways. Fish, hunt, plant a garden, forage for berries, do odd jobs. write to your senators and congressmen for more extensions. All that stuff you bought on credit and didn't need ..sell it. cut waste..like life insurance..ain't gonna do you no good. trust in yourself and God. go ask the bank about the Obama plan..reduce your interest and extend the length of your mortgage..can save you hundreds a month.
- —Guest Terry
Check With Your Church or Library
- Many churches and libraries have job search support groups like this one at St. Bartholomew's in NYC: http://www.stbarts.org/psychotherapy.asp Support groups can not only help you get through being unemployed. They can also help you with job leads and it's really helpful to get support from people who are in the same situation you are.
- —Guest Michael Dillan
barter
- Think about skills that you have that you could use to barter for some of your necessities. For example, if you are a web designer, consider trading web design work with your local produce stand or local farmer's market for groceries.
- —foodie04
Freebies and Frugal Living
- Visit www.freebies4mom.com. Don't have to be a mom to use the site. The site lists tons of FREE stuff and cents-off coupons manufactures are giving away. I've gotten a lot of totally FREE and USEFUL stuff from leads found on this site. Visit the Frugal Living site on About.com (http://frugalliving.about.com). She lists homemade recipes for cleaners that work and save you money by not having to purchase cleaners at the store. Plus tons of ways to save money. She also lists a bare bones budget. Shop at grocery stores that will give you cents off for every bag you bring from home for your groceries. Winco offers 6 cents off per bag. Kroeger offers 5 cents off per bag. Sign up to be a substitute in your local public school district. Sub as a staff assistant, cafeteria worker, office help, janitor. Look for jobs thst no one else wants to do. Visit www.usajobs.gov. The federal government is still hiring across the whole USA.
- —goldbeckjm
Offer to Help
- Sometimes offering help is a way to get help. If you know other people who are unemployed, share job leads with them, write a reference, offer to watch their kids while they interview, etc. They will most likely offer to help you too...
- —Guest Mackensy Carroll
money owed
- i thought losing my mom last year was horrible but having half of my siblings living with me, being unable to find a job, and watching the money get tighter and tighter is truly a nightmare. i'd love to know where to turn just so we could have a break from worrying about losing everything. we're trying to stay together....
- —tree33588
plan ahead
- When you become unemployed, THAT is the time to take serious stock of your expenses. CUT OUT all that you possibly can; we cut out cable tv, one car, and even sold our house. We managed to move to a new city and live for 9 months without full time income. We looked on Craig's List for a sublet with furniture, so we could live without a long term committment. You CAN DO IT, you just have to be brutally honest and realistic.
- —Guest Guest
Hrmmn Bleak times...
- This doesn't take into account those of us who REQUIRE daycare in order to work. Much of this is great advice for singles or couples w.out kids. What about the rest of us? - who don't have family nearby to sit for us? - who don't have friends to sit for free for us? - who have to take into consideration the outgoing of even a few hours in a day Care - who don't qualify for food stamps, medical coverage (I've been waiting on mine for 2 Years now!), or any other state help?
- —Guest HBryant
Pray
- July 3, 2009 was the one year mark of being laid-off. Everyday I ask the God within me to sustain, protect, and guide me as God did when I was working for someone else. I pray everyone day for a breakthrough idea that would bring me and all who need more money to pay for housing, food, and clothing. Pray.
- —Guest yvettejohnson
Value of Volunteering
- This may not make sense to some people, but volunteering, (even for a few hours a week), not only provides a "sense" of being employed, but also gives you a feeling of being useful and productive while you still look for work (which pays money). Many volunteer positions will provide extra perks which are quite beneficial. If you like the work you do as a volunteer, you'll most likely be in an excellent candidate for any paid positions for similar type work as they become available.
- —Guest kacy6595
Create Your Own Job
- The most obvious idea not on the list is to create your own job by startung your own business. EVERYONE can do SOMETHING that someone else will pay for -- if someone can make a living with a business called "Pooper Scoopers" (they pick up after your doggie's walk) then NO ONE can say they can't earn a living! Miost anyone can mow a lawn, clean houses, do shopping for those who can't get out (or are so busy they don't have time), wash cars, rake leaves, clean gutters, write simple articles (as Dave Hardin explains, at the top of the comments), babysit, elder sit, house sit (especially during the summer vacation season) -- I could list 100 businesses to start with nothing to invest but tenacity and the right attitude.
- —Guest JuleS
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