Am I Crazy to be thinking about this?

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So it's been almost a year now since I last worked. I've exausted my Unemployment benifits and, have to file for an extension. In order to qualify for extensions I have to increase my job search beyond waiting for my number to come up at my local union hall. So I can bid on work. The criteria for jobs that I have to accept is if it pays minimum wage or more then what I would earn on UI and is within 50 miles of my house I have to accept it.

So what I'm thinking about doing is dropping my 10 year "carreer" as an Electrician and, just going back working for minimum wage at Mc Donald's. Is that Crazy?

Yes, life is crazy period.

I know a guy who tried hard to get a job at burger king. He had been through college twice I believe, once entirely on money he made scraping.

Well to me, any money is good money...so go for it.

Is there some way you could take a minimum wage job on a temporary basis? I mean, your employer doesn't need to know it's temporary, but could you continue to try to get electrician jobs whilst working at, say, McDonald's?

sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.

yes you're crazy. I'm sure if you put some effort into it, can find better things to do.

50 miles is nothing. I've commuted to jobs further away than that, took me 4 hours (there and back) a day.

If you want to continue your career, i suggest you open up to the fact that your little home town isn't the centre of the universe and jobs do disappear: Either you work on getting a good electrician job again, even if its far away - or get ready to start flippin' burgers.

Commuting isn't that bad, buy a portable DVD player or a laptop to play with and time go by quickly, also consider moving if it isn't possible to commute.

Either take charge of your own destiny - or life will decide the outcome.