Im moving to Clearwater, FL in a few days. Unfortunately, I did not have a transferable job, so I am going to have to find a new job. I was wondering before i get there if anyone has any advice for a good job in the Clearwater area.

I am twenty years old, I graduated high school, started college but have not graduated and am not going this semester. I would like to go to school down here, but i also want a solid job that I can learn and advance in for now and while i attend school. I know with the economy jobs are not easy to come by, but i know certain places i have lived there is always a few good companies to get into that I have ran across, so i was just curious if anyone in the area could help point me in a good direction!

Thank you for your help!!

Shane

P.S :

I was a store manager for a Hobby Shop that sold orders world-wide via the internet (100-200 orders exported per day) for 2 years in which i did a lot of customer service, and worked in a restaurant for 16 months.

I have just started learning about economics in Social Science and can someone please assist me with this question…

Nick is an accountant working for himself in Brunswick. He earns $100,000 a year preparing tax returns for his customers as well as providing financial advice. Nick has a mortgage on his house, and spends some of his money going out, clothes and general living expenses. The remainder of his money is saved.
a) Explain how each of the activities Nick undertakes affects others in the economy. Your answer should include reference to his: customers, banks, restaurants, shops, etc.
b) If Nick, and others like him, decided to save more money by eating at home rather than eating at restaurants, explain how this decision would affect the restaurants he usually visits and thise businesses that supply them.

Any help would be appreciated please

why India considered 3rd world? I mean ya there is poverty, slums and underdevelopment but would you go as far as to say third world when many parts of the country are actually quite developed and modern? I think India should just be called a “developing” country and a land of extremes. Why western media always projects India to be this very backwards, starving, poor nation? Yes there is poverty but there is also a large population that isn’t in poverty (large middle class). Also the countries economy is growing and things are improving….I’ve been to delhi, bangalore, hyderabad and Mumbai and these places are quite developed (obviously there is population but that’s not the point). What third world country has fancy malls, clubs, bars, restaurants, great movie multiplexes, and great wide expressways? Why is there always this image that India is ONLY poor and nothing else. I went to the U.S during my December break to visit a cousin and I showed one of his friends a picture of where I live and some other parts of delhi. His reply was, “wait…That’s India?”

Here I will start off:

Two wealthy Repubs are sitting in a restaurant, one of them being the owner.

The owner turns to his guest and says, “See? I’m doing my part to help the economy, I just opened up three new jobs in my restaurant.”

Just as the two get finished toasting each other’s success, the busboy comes by to clear off their dishes and says, “I know, I have all three of them.”

Scenario one:

Johnny wants a new widget, so he hires Freddy to produce one and pays Freddy ten bucks for it. Freddy, now richer by ten, decides he wants his field hoed, so hires fourteen year old Eddie, and pays Eddie ten bucks. Eddie, now richer by ten, decides he wants a restaurant meal and goes to Frans Deli for the ten-buck eat-all-you-want pig-out-special. Fran, now richer by ten bucks, etc.

Going around, that ten bucks has already facilitated the creation of a big meal, a field being hoed, and one widget, and it is still going around. In this scenario, the people have money and a lot of goods and services.

Scenario two:

Now put a little government into it. Freddy earned ten bucks from Johnny, but after tax has only eight left. His eight only gets part of his field hoed, and Eddie has to pay tax on his eight, leaving only six dollars to go to dinner with. Fran gets Eddie’s six for the blue plate economy special, but after tax has only four left. In this scenario, produced is a small meal, part of a field being hoed and one widget — while the government is richer by six bucks.

Now, put government into it some more. To help the agrichemical industry, the government passes a regulation prohibiting youths under eighteen from hoeing fields, so child labor won’t reduce the sale of herbicides. To help the fast food industry, government decreed that restaurants who offer cooked-to-order all-you-can-eat meals have to have separate seating areas for them, while blue plate specials have to be served on real, blue ceramic plates, much to the protest of the paper plate industry, but much desired by the ceramics industry, which had the right connections to lobby for their interests. The result — produced: one widget, Freddy (an organic farmer) has to hoe his own field or go out of business which makes him overworked, depressed and afraid. Under-age Eddie, unable to earn any money at all, goes criminal and steals part of Freddy’s crop in the middle of the night and Fran has to charge so much more for her food that her independent business is destroyed, making her feel she would be better off with a McDonald’s franchise.

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Your thoughts? Rants? Rationalizations?
@ disgruntled — Now that is an interesting development. It would be VERY interesting if that action has such tangible good effect that it encourages them to ‘enlarge’ the qualifying bracket.
@ bawnit — in a free market, nobody does business long with thieves. They get shut out real quick.
In fact an argument can be made, with current real world examples, that government ‘regulation’ actually ENABLES thievery. Regulators aren’t beholden to the anti-thievery self-regulation of a free market; they can be bought for the right price. Whereas, loyal patronage cannot be bought — it must be earned.
@ ash — Granted of course that essential services of civilization need to be paid for. How about substitute “income tax” for “tax” in my story. Because income tax is what removes capital from the market before it can be used BY the market.

All of the essential services of civilization that you mention can be paid for by a consumption tax, which unlike income tax does not leach fresh capital from the private sector before it can be put to use.
@ Clouseau — credit default swaps are a gambling operation — a con game. See my explanation per thievery above.

I am asking for advice on how to figure out what job I will be able to tolerate. I’m 108/120 credits out of graduating but it’s a useless Lib Arts degree. This girl I was chilling with dumped me cuz she said I was a loser with no prospects. I can’t even afford a strip club anymore, much less taking a girl out to a fancy restaurant. Who would hire me in this economy? Is there like a test I can take to see what job would be tolerable? I’m desperate. What would you do if you were me? Oh, and I also have no friends. But I’m really not that bad a guy. I think…

I have. Many times. Every time I walk through DC. Some of them get pretty angry too, as a matter of fact. I have offered them coupons for free food at a restaurant or to buy them something but they never want it. I have never even had ONE say yes, even though they asked for money by stating they hadn’t eaten in days!

These are the people who the government wants us to support?? All they want is money for drugs or a bottle of booze. I have offered to direct them to shelters but they don’t want to go (I’m sure it’s NOT because shelters don’t allow drugs and many give breathalyzers and urine tests). I have also known homeless people personally and believe me, the reason they were homeless was all their own fault. The ones I knew became homeless when they were kicked out by family because of their refusal to stop using drugs or alcohol. These people are the reason I do not offer money to homeless people; I offer food instead. And I have never had even ONE take it. And we aren’t just talking about 1 or 2 or even 10 people here. We are talking about DOZENS over YEARS of living in and around DC.

Why should we be FORCED to help people who will not help themselves?
Daniel, there is no way to do that. EVERYBODY has a hard luck story and that is really all the agencies have to go by: what the person says. If they have no paystubs, no job and no income, how can welfare discern how they became homeless? They can’t.
Lag Indicator: Yes and most of those people are in shelters because they are actively TRYING to get back on their feet. The shelter will help homeless people but they also give breathalyzers, some give urine screens and all of them take most of your money and hold it for you until you leave. Gee, wonder why drug adsdicts wouldn’t be down with that?
And Lag Indicator: Why would a survey taken over 20 years ago affect your views on today’s economy? What does it even have to DO with now??
Round 2: You are incorrect. People who are on the street DO apply for aid. And most get it, too. Welfare and homeless shelters are not the same thing, you do know that right? And being at a homeless shelter does not count as welfare OR as getting aid. And yes, many people on the street are mentally ill. That is very true. And they are self-medicating drug addicts or alcoholics. The ones who are REALLY crazy get picked up regularly by the police and many of them DO go to shelters, at least for a time. But those people will also take the offer of a sandwich or a warm bed so they are not who we are talking about. You obviously don’t have much experience with streetlife and that’s fine; most people don’t. I on the other hand DO and I’m sorry but you are incorrect. For every 10 homeless drug addicts or alcoholics, there is maybe 1 bona fide “crazy” who really cannot function in society or hold a job and usually not even 1.
“A heaping dose of stupidity”? LMAO. No, more like it takes a fatal dose of Liberalism and the ability to be typing from your nice warm home and no idea of what it actually is like on the streets to DISbelieve it. But that’s ok; people like you are a streetrat’s dream. You and every bleeding heart like you is the reason they get their fix everyday. Way to go.
Daniel: They do that here, too. And it is VERY easy to fake. If someone wants to cheat the system, they can.
It isn’t just drug addicts either. I know someone who is homeless RIGHT NOW with 4 kids, all of them under 10. She got kicked out of the shelter for having a guy there they already kicked out once. Her father gave her $5,000 to get on her feet and she never got a place. Now her money is gone & she stays in a motel with some guy she met at the shelter 2 months ago (a different guy) who was in prison for 12 years for a violent crime. People like this do not deserve help. But she gets food stamps and medicaid or whatever and is going to apply for TANF (welfare check).
Lower The Flags: And your answer indicates you didn’t read them, which indicates your lack of comprehension. They aren’t edits. They are responses.
Round 2: LMAO. How do you think I know all this?? I HAVE been homelesss, you idiot. And streetrats ARE what younger homeless people call themselves. That’s about all the answer you deserve; I can tell by your answer you have no idea what you are talking about. Country club?? LMAO. I grew up in the ghettos of DC and Northern Virginia. How many prostitution rings were busted in your neighborhood? How many ATF raids went down on your block? How many people sold crack on your corners? Please.

This is the situation. I am 19 and a working student. My job is at a local Quizno’s. The job itself isn’t too bad and the boss is pretty nice. However, the pay is very inconsistent. My boss is sort of a goof and incredibly disorganized. To be frank, she has owned that particular restaurant for 7 years and I am very surprised she hasn’t gone bankrupt. We’re always running out of stuff because she doesn’t keep inventory very well and her finances regarding the restaurant is way too disorganized. She’ll misplace weekly reports of the income or there will be money missing from the register or something.

Because of that her employees usually get paid a week or more late and even if we do she might tell us to hold off on depositing our check because she needs to pay for food first. I don’t mind getting paid late but a check she gave me bounced because she didn’t tell me not to deposit it yet this one time and I suffered overdraft fees as a result. I still have the check with me and I don’t even know when to deposit it yet because it seems to me like she doesn’t have her stuff together yet.

Should I just quit or just suffer through it until the situation gets better? I prefer the latter because finding another job in this economy is incredibly hard. Any advice though?

i always wanted to own my own restaurant but there are some many out there and in this economy its tuff. i want to have a restaurant that you come and eat and in the back is a small theater that shows oldies on sundays, like fred Astaire and ginger rogers. and maybe have some cartoons or kids movies on friday and sat. i would call it jojo’ dinner and a movie. you can eat and for two extra bucks stay to see a good movie. does anybody think this would make a go of it. thanks

Well in this bad economy im trying to bring some business into my restaurant. A local restaurant started a raffel were if you buy a meal you get a ticket stub and you come in next week for a chance to win money. The way they did this was the owner of business puts in 50 bucks and if your number is drawn and your not there the money is then saved till next week and the pot just keeps getting bigger which is making more people come in to eat. So i am trying to figure a way to attract customers so we can compete with them but not do the same game they are doing. I Have done a deal for on mondays people can order a meal and get second one half off and all kids eat free. Any ideas would be great thanks.