Living the 30's and the Unemployment Rate

21.2% of the labor 30-44 year old's workforce was unemployed in 2012. Equaling to about 12,835 of 60,544. http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat03.pdf A majority of the unemployed is found under the 25-44 year old bracket. More of them being women than men. Men around 1,800 and women 5,000+ in that same age bracket. You can take this information anyway you like. Go political with it. Truth of the matter is, it's a very real situation. Even this year while helping out in the electronics section at work, working my first Black Friday EVER, I was told it wasn't as bad as last year. The only thing I could think was, "It can get worse than this?!" For a small town I felt like most of everyone was there. Looking at shopping carts full of toys, TV's, gadgets, electronic accessories, how is it possible that this could get worse. For four hours I was there, selling accessories and Xbox controllers, laptops, batteries. All of a mobile basket. I directed people to the hourly specials and where to to get bracelets and reserved coupons. Most of us, not myself, were working triple shifts that point in time. I know most of the 30-somethings at the store, so to look at the numbers, I feel shocked to know that they are as high as they are.

Your thirties is supposed to be this time in your life where things start to really take off. Only it isn't apparently. This ties in well with my last post of things that one should know and do in their 20's. It gets tougher in your thirties and if you think about it, it seems to linger into age the more you don't do something about it. I write today because this Christmas has been the worst i think I have experienced. Sure I had the one year where someone slashed my tires and that alone cost me a lucky $200 to replace the tires. This year, my truck is out of commission. Leaking fluid and the water pump has gone out. I am not good with vehicles. So I leave it to my significant other to tell me what's what even if I don't really know what everything is or where it is. To top it off I haven't worked much this month and am looking for replacement work. I have a lot of experience in sales, so while working to get a better education to better my future at a much older age than I really should have done it, I will continue to look in the areas I have the strongest skills in. I write, but this is much harder to make money at then selling something. Even in tough economic times. I really hope to reach the message to those in their 20's and tell them that they can have fun, but take your future seriously. And hopefully not many of them are teen parents. Now, hate me if you want when I say this, it's better not to be a teen parent and have to get through all this. I will say I am happy I wasn't a teen parent. But I was a young parent. I don't regret my kids. I only regret I started the important parts of my life late so that they can have better lives themselves. I don't expect them to have it better than me, though it is a plus, but I do expect them to feel like I didn't have to struggle too hard. Only enough but not so much that I feel like I might fail at all this.

As for the unemployment rate, well, I can only hope this doesn't go on forever. I've seen some improvement but it could be better. This is my banter for the day.