X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 X-Mozilla-Keys: Message-ID: <54AAC48C.4000302@sbcglobal.net> Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:06:20 -0800 From: Richard Childers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:10.0.3) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/10.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Dobberstein , David Erler , jprimofiore@ci.fortuna.ca.us CC: jessica.ppmrentals@gmail.com Subject: So when am I going to move outta here? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit So when am I going to move outta here? Believe me, we're looking. We can't move without income. We're on food stamps. (It hurts to say that - but, on the other hand, after 30 years of working continuously in Silicon Valley, most of that time spent earning really good wages and getting really soaked by the IRS for being young, and single ... it's nice to finally be getting something back, from my government, while I wait for my industry to remember all that us older people did for them, and start hiring us, again.) Well-paying jobs are few and far between in Humboldt County. I don't want to say it, but this area verges upon being a third-world economy. Maybe it was different when the lumber industry was flourishing. Or maybe all the timber money just kept the problems from being visible. I don't know. I wasn't here. But illiteracy, and climbing dropout rates, don't happen overnight. The region would have been better served by a good dental school, than it is by all the casinos, if I'm any judge of matters. Humboldt County could become the next Petaluma, or the Napa, if we put our minds to it - the Bay Area surely needs eggs - but it will never happen until the roads are widened. In the meantime, I've been attending a series of workshops at the Eureka Employment Development Department, and I've developed a couple of leads - Yurok Tribe is looking for a database manager, for instance - but, during Christmas, nobody makes any hiring decisions. So, getting out of this apartment complex is high on my list of priorities. I'll be interested in seeing if the number of calls from the residents of the complex goes up, or down, after I go. I hear rumors that the apartment complex slated to be condemned. That would solve a lot of problems. Regards, ~richard