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Employment rate differences for AS people, US vs Europe

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Are you employable or not, and do you live in the US or in Europe?
I'm an employable American 39%  39%  [ 14 ]
I'm an unemployable American 22%  22%  [ 8 ]
I'm an employable European 31%  31%  [ 11 ]
I'm an unemployable European 8%  8%  [ 3 ]
Total votes : 36

Mikhaillost
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04 Mar 2008, 2:08 pm

I can not find a job. I live in Ohio and I have done many interveiws, but no one likes me because I don't look at them much. In my area, anyways, the employment rate for anyone who is not blonde, 110lbs and at least 5'6 is 0% unless you work at the adult bookstore. They will hire anyone. I will never work there. I think though that most areas it will be pretty hard, at least for teens.

Sicne there are hundreds of other 'normal and acceptable' teens and people in their twenties, it is hard to find a job since only certain fields hire those age ranges.



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04 Mar 2008, 2:36 pm

Sweden is a socialism success story quality of living is good. And of you happen to be a man, haven't checked your profile you don't have to worry about being at the bottom of the social ladder. In Sweden it is hard to get really rich because of the tax system, on the other hand it is hard to be very poor also. America is quite the opposite. Being poor sucks in America, on the same note being lazy sucks in America to.

You, little dude, are poor and unemployed.



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04 Mar 2008, 2:41 pm

Rack wrote:
Living in the capitalist hellhole of the UK I'd love to swap with you. Anyway I've got a job, it's entirely worthless and utterly dead end so whether I can actually manage doesn't seem to matter, as long as I'm there and unhappy that's enough. It's slowly driving me insane though.


It isn't so bad here. The only problem is that my loneliness is inflicted by being poor. If I was gifted with not needing someone special in my life, I know that I would be content.



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04 Mar 2008, 4:44 pm

It's not terrible, but that I have to sacrifice much of my life simply so other people can get even richer bothers me, so I'd much prefer to live somewhere like Sweden. The hellhole bit was matching the original posters tone.



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04 Mar 2008, 9:41 pm

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