I have worked within the office in the past. Right now, I would take almost anything (as I am still unemployed). I am hoping to go to college to get a degree in Social Work. I know that it is very needed everywhere.
My last good job, I was averaging about $15 per hour. ($11.25 plus commission). I know it will be difficult to find a position anywhere that would pay that well without a degree.
We currently live in Forest Lake (about 1/2 hour or so north of St. Paul).
We are thinking about me heading down there after the holidays and finding employment and a home. Then my husband and the kids can come down.
If you have any suggestions, that would be great! (I did have 3 phone interviews from one company back in November, however, they chose someone that was already in the area.)

I know the area well, have a cousin who lives in Forest Lake. My personal opinion is you will have better luck finding work in the Twin Cities then you will here. With the economy where it is, it is going to be even worse.
If you come to Peachtree City, you will fall in love with it but if you do not have work, you are going to find it hard. Food is more expensive here and unlike Minnesota, you do have to pay sales tax on essential items.
If you are set on coming down, shoot me a private e-mail and I will point you to some of the better neighborhoods in your price range & direct you to a really good agent.

We are set on moving to Georgia. We have many other reasons why we want to move, not just because of the jobs. I have changed my prefrences so you can send me a personal email. I tried sending you one, but it says you don't accept personal emails. Shoot me one and we can talk. Maybe me and your wife could talk instead? Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you!

The police dept is hiring. No degree required. What did your husband used to do?

http://www.peachtree-city.org/jobs.asp

Look at Airtran's website:

http://www.airtran.com/Jobs/employment_opportunities.aspx

There is a career link at the botom of their home page.

Thanks for the info! Hopefully they will still be hiring in June! LOL

My husband has done security, production, water softener treatment (we need that here in MN due to hard water). He has done a few odd jobs here and there. Right now he is battling major depression and not working. I am the only one working right now. So I need a job that I can support my family of 4 on.
That's tough to do right now with the economy!
Any suggestions would be GREATLY appreciated!

I can't wait to be down there. MN has harsh bitter cold winters and misquitoes in the summer.

I lived in Northfield, MN for six years when I taught at St. Olaf College.

For the first year or two, I got out and attacked winter, x-country skiing in the Carlton Arb, sledding, ice-skating, etc. But then, after falling down on the ice in my drive a few too many times, suffering split fingers, frozen boogers and light deprivation syndrome, I began plotting an escape south. And my approach to winter for the final years was to hunker down inside and wait until I heard water dripping from the eaves.

My main memories of summer there involve mosquitoes equipped with talons that could carry you off to a more convenient place to suck your blood.

It is simply the worst place I have ever lived.
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North Georgia is pretty good temperature-wise. Air quality and allergies, just average.
South Georgia has no winter to speak of but has gnats and those mosquitoes.

I am told that somewhere about Chattanooga Tennessee to Knoxville is the best overall.

I tried Oklahoma---no good.
Illinois----no good.
Western Virginia (not WV) four full seasons and no gnats and mosquitoes.
Hawaii of course is good for weather and creatures but a lonesome place after awhile.

Fayette County is to a large extent a bedroom community. A very large number of its residents work at the Atlanta airport or in downtown Atlanta, where the jobs are. There are already many people who are unemployed in the Atlanta area, and jobs are contracting as the state and city governments are laying off workers, not to mention banks and businesses involved in real estate (architects, lawyers, mortgage lenders, real estate salespeople, etc.). It’s not that the Fayette people are unfriendly, but looking for a job in Fayette County from out-of-state right now is really swimming upstream.

I have worked MANY jobs. That's one of the problems.
I have worked in the office as customer service, assistant (more or less), call center, cashier, receptionist. More recently I am curretnly driving school bus and have my CDL, passenger and school bus license.
I have looked on the school district website and see that they are hiring school bus drivers, but I think I would need to re-test in GA.

I have even started my own business here in MN, personal conceirge service, running errands for people, personal shopper, etc. But that fell through as soon as the recession hit.

Mostly, my goal is to attend Georgia State University to become a therapist to work with women who are addicted. (Ultimately become an addiction counselor.) I would very much like to help the community in GA with addiction and how to get their lives back on the right track.

I was thinking I could start college in the Spring and get a job at the college. I would like to attend nights and weekends. But I am not sure how well that would work out.

Any suggestions? I would appreciate it!

How is Geogia doing now in the bad economy?
Minnesota is up to 9% for unemployment now. I think I heard them on the news the other night saying the the midwest is the hardest hit now, up to 12% total.

We are still planning on oving, but now, we are saving money. So we can have enough money to actually get all of our things down there and find a home to rent.

The hardest part I foresee is finding a job in GA without leaving MN. I almost had one in October, before the recession hit (or depression if you want to call it that.). I was #2 on the list. Then they chose someone who was their last person to interview.

Any suggestions to how I can get a decent job in GA without leaving MN just yet? We have the money now, but are waiting until June or I get a job or interview first.

Hi bad_ptc, I have read (can't remember which publication to source) that we can expect unemployment to rise up to 9% by mid-spring.

I am not a doomsdayer, but have a feeling that we have a better chance of being hit by a gamma ray than we do of coming out of this economic chaos without a full scale depression. The only question is, how bad will the depression be? Bush announced last week that it would be a depression worse than what we saw last century. However, a friend of mine, an economic genius so to speak, keeps a cooler head by assuring that there will most likely be no soup lines or hobos.

If only my crystal ball was working right now.

How is Geogia doing now in the bad economy?
Minnesota is up to 9% for unemployment now. I think I heard them on the news the other night saying the the midwest is the hardest hit now, up to 12% total.

We are still planning on oving, but now, we are saving money. So we can have enough money to actually get all of our things down there and find a home to rent.

The hardest part I foresee is finding a job in GA without leaving MN. I almost had one in October, before the recession hit (or depression if you want to call it that.). I was #2 on the list. Then they chose someone who was their last person to interview.

Any suggestions to how I can get a decent job in GA without leaving MN just yet? We have the money now, but are waiting until June or I get a job or interview first

Trying to seem calm on the surface, and paddling like hell to stay afloat underneath. Unemployment rate not much better than MN. You DID ask. On the plus side, we've been in short sleeves for part of this week, and I'm hearing rain fall rather than snow.

It is like that here as well. Except that I have no one to hand me a paddle or show me where one is. We don't talk to family (long story).

Jobs here are bad. I went back to driving school bus until we move down there. School gets out in June and that's when we are planning on moving. I just wonder how we can get jobs there when we are way up here. Seems impossible!

I have my MN CDL with passenger and school bus endorsement. I wonder if any jobs will be available for driving in June? I can find my way around pretty well for being out of the state.

The temp here today is 0 (zero). But it feels like -15. And they are talking snow later this week into next week. I hate MN!

BTW: How hot does it get down there? And when is it the hottest?