Surviving Job Hell: Working Three Jobs to Make Half Your Old Pay

[Better Believe It]

Laid-Off Workers Settle for Part-time Jobs
It's the only way to pay the bills
by: Carole Fleck | from: AARP Bulletin | June 1, 2011

Half a salary is better than none. And these days, it takes 50-year-old Phil Bookfor three part-time jobs just to earn that.

After 17 years at the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, N.J., where he worked as a supervisor making $48,000 a year, Bookfor got laid off in 2007. He's been unable to land a full-time job since. So he works as a waiter at two restaurants and as a concierge at a convention center — sometimes all in the same week.

Welcome to the new post-recession labor landscape. Since December 2007, U.S. employers have shed 8.7 million jobs, and as of April had added back only about 1.8 million. Consequently, older and younger workers alike are increasingly forced to accept part-time or temporary jobs in lieu of full-time work, or take full-time positions inappropriate to their skill level and previous pay grade.

To make ends meet, laid-off managers now work as cashiers. Unemployed teachers are delivering pizzas. Engineers are fixing computers. These are the underemployed, and according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), their growth as a group is unprecedented.

Read the full article at:

http://www.aarp.org/work/job-hunting/info-06-2011/underemployed-workers.html

[Angry Dragon]

1. The Republican Worker Hell

welcome to the future.............

[RKP5637]

2. The sheer waste of talent and resources in this country is phenomenal. If anyone

is left to write the history of this period one day it will not go down as a very impressive era.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. k&r

[progressoid]

4. Maybe the Democrats new job initiative will help.

Oh, wait.

Nevermind.

[Vanje]

5. K&R nt

[OhioChick]

6. K&R n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. this trend will result in a return to inter-generational households

or more multi room mate housing.
It simply will not be cost effective for 1-2 people to live in a house by themselves.It will take 3 or more people working at 2-3 jobs just to cover living expenses.

[w8liftinglady]

8. the PCts at my job work 7 days/week

at three jobs to make ends meet.
It is a crying fIng shame.