Getting a Job here in the Triangle and J/C

The construction industry is bad but there are problems all over. Some of my customers do work in the auto industry and that area is as bad if not worse. One owes me 30K for a project done on a plant that shut down before he got the report to them finished. He is not sure he will get paid for his work, and that carries down the line. Some facilities cannot gather up enough work to operate at the rate required to meet their permit requirements so they are looking at the possibility of fines or shutting down. The tests only take about 4 hours and they do not have enough work to run so unless they are given an extension they will be shutting down too. I have heard of ethanol facilities going under because they had too large of a debt load for the drop in economy. Others just could not get enough credit to keep their cash flow going.

Without the credit influx of the bailout and stimulus packages it will get much much worse too. The impact is in all industries and in all of the countries in North and South America becasue I am hearing it from even my international customers. The problems are the same from the individual through the large corporation and without the availability to credit and the confidence in the future of the economy the outlook is the same for them all, just the timescale is different.

Hopefully the positive effects will start to be felt soon, but the road to recovery will be longer than the road getting to this point.

 

Dh has been trying to find a local IT job since May of last year, with no luck. It's gotten even worse in that field in the last few months (for what he does at least).

As far as construction goes, I agree that there may not be many jobs for that here. I think that with the building boom a lot of contruction workers moved here, and are now fighting for the jobs as they open up. Some handy men/general contractor jobs still seem to be doing well, as every contractor we spoke to in the last few weeks was busy and/or had a back-log, since many people now are choosing to improve their current homes instead of moving. We also have a friend who's a master carpenter who has been making inquiries in the area for a full-time job for several months without much luck. Some places offer piece-work, or really low salary.

I definitely wouldn't suggest moving into the area without a job lined up first.

 

My husband is in survey, mostly large government and highhway projects. They are down to a 4 day work week and struggling to find enough to keep the guys busy those 4 days. They have however managed to not lay anyone off, lets hope this doesn't change!