by expat » Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:18 pm
Fortunately, I have only been unemployed once (so far in this life). I was fired because the maintenance facility I worked at closed over night. Fortunately, I had seen it coming and already had another job lined up. However that job did not start for 3 months. In the mean while I went back to school and got a new qualification that benefited my new employer. I claimed unemployment money. All my life up to that point I have paid my taxes on time and in full. As far as I was concerned it was time to dip into the pot and sign on. I had bills to pay and had to live. No guilt, no bad feeling I was cheating, just happy I could pay the bills. I knew I was going to be a very short term drain on the system, but when you compare it to the professionally unemployed, I cost nothing.
Matt
"A bit of a pickle" - British translation: A catastrophically bad situation with potentially fatal consequences.
PETA
People Eating Tasty Animals.
B1 (Cat C) licenced engineer, Boeing 737NG 600/700/800/900 Airbus A318/19/20/21 and Dash8 Q-400
1. Captain, if the problem is not entered into the technical logbook.........then the aircraft does not have a problem.
2. And, if you have time to write the fault on a napkin and attach to it to the yoke.........you have time to write it in the tech log....see point 1.
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