[jimbob45]

- Contract role, seemed to have run its full course. Didn’t plan ahead?

- Laid off from a startup. Startups are inherently volatile, should have planned ahead.

- H-1B (it seems), needs to find a job AND sponsorship, far more difficult than what the average US citizen will face

- Contract work again, ran its full course

- Communications degrees are difficult to find employment with anyway

These examples are egregiously bad considering HN has loads of great examples for proving this article’s thesis. At least we can be sure ChatGPT didn’t write this article because it surely would have urged better examples.

[toomuchtodo]

> Today, 1 in 4 unemployed people, or 1.8 million Americans, have been job searching for over half a year, which in most cases means they’ve also exhausted their unemployment insurance benefits. Benefits vary by state but on average replace less than 40% of a person’s previous income.

The 6-12 months needed to find a job is a worrisome economic predictor and isn’t effectively communicated by unemployment rates alone.