Ruth Said:

Could I not be able to collect unemployment benefits if my employer does not respond to the states request ..?

We Answered:

Though the letter you have that states you were laid off pretty much guarantees you will get benefits, they have to give the employer 20-30 days to respond. If the employer fails to respond they will go with what you have provided them.

Lloyd Said:

How Can I pay my Rent?

We Answered:

Have you applied for unemployment insurance?

Do you have a Roth IRA (you can withdraw up to the amount you've contributed without penalty since you've already paid taxes on that amount). Do you have a traditional IRA (you can usually borrow money from your IRA).

Do you have anything to sell or anything to use as collateral for a loan? Do you have any credit cards?

Have you approach one of those staffing agencies? Contracting is usually a good way to get your feet in the door and with a staffing agency, there's at least someone else looking for a job for you.

I've only ever gotten jobs through networking and never through job postings, ie.: people who know me and know my work hire me. It may be a good time to contact people who you've dealt with in the past, maybe some vendors? Vendors that you've had business relationships with are good contacts because they deal with a number of people that had similar jobs as yours was but with different companies.

When you do get a job, save up a six month salary buffer so that you don't get yourself into such a situation again.

Tony Said:

Religious or humane person, how much sympathy do you show others who have unforseen things happen to them?

We Answered:

Sympathy is a feeling, and most people have sympathy for people who have something bad happen to them. But even better than sympathy is when you actually DO something for others rather than just feeling sympathy.

If you see that someone is having a tough time, don't say "Let me know if there is anything I can do to help." Those are empty words. Instead, find something helpful you can do, and do it.

Brandon Said:

Which is the best "work at home"

We Answered:

Dana, first get on disability, then you can find a job you can do from a wheel chair. No reason you can't be a French Teacher, it would be illegal to discriminate against you for reason of a wheel chair disability .

You can also call around to companies and find one who does a lot of work with the French, probably a French based company doing business in the US would be the best bet. Some US companies do a lot of business with France as well though. And don't forget Canada, there is a lot of work for French speaking people to work with French Canadian customers.

Good Luck

Francisco Said:

Doctor Needed: Intestinal Birth Defect?

We Answered:

I don't think you should be putting this on Yahoo Answers, if you are truly serious about helping him you need to talk to HIS OWN DOCTOR or making some phone calls to area doctors or even Mayo clinic.

Mary Said:

Is buying Chinese products just borrowing from our future?

We Answered:

Basically it's like shooting yourself in the leg, since it's a bad move both politically and economically. Most of their products are made from the cheapest materials, assembled very poorly and lack the basic principles of Engineering design, test and manufacturing because they are mainly just an illegal copy of the original.

Regards.

Connie Said:

I applied for a Personal Investigator Position on eastern wv craigslist and today I received an email asking?

We Answered:

100% scam.

There is no job.

While a company by that name may exist, that email did not come from a legit company.

There is only a scammer trying to steal your hard-earned money.

The next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses and will demand you pay for made-up fees, in cash, and only by Western Union or moneygram.

Or the next email will be from another of the scammer's fake names and free email addresses pretending to be the "secretary/assistant/accountant" and will demand you cash a large fake check sent on a stolen UPS/FedEx billing account number and send the money via Western Union or moneygram back to the scammer posing as the "shipping company". When your bank realizes the check is fake and it bounces, you get the real life job of paying back the bank for the bounced check fees and all the bank's money you sent to an overseas criminal.

Western Union and moneygram do not verify anything on the form the sender fills out, not the name, not the street address, not the country, not even the gender of the receiver, it all means absolutely nothing. The clerk will not bother to check ID and will simply hand off your cash to whomever walks in the door with the MTCN# and question/answer. Neither company will tell the sender who picked up the cash, at what store location or even in what country your money walked out the door. Neither company has any kind of refund policy, money sent is money gone forever.

Now that you have responded to a scammer, you are on his 'potential sucker' list, he will try again to separate you from your cash. He will send you more emails from his other free email addresses using another of his fake names with all kinds of stories of great jobs, lottery winnings, millions in the bank and desperate, lonely, sexy singles. He will sell your email address to all his scamming buddies who will also send you dozens of fake emails all with the exact same goal, you sending them your cash via Western Union or moneygram.

You could post up the email address and the emails themselves that the scammer is using, it will help make your post more googlable for other suspicious potential victims to find when looking for information.

Do you know how to check the header of a received email? If not, you could google for information. Being able to read the header to determine the geographic location an email originated from will help you weed out the most obvious scams and scammers. Then delete and block that scammer. Don't bother to tell him that you know he is a scammer, it isn't worth your effort. He has one job in life, convincing victims to send him their hard-earned cash.

Whenever suspicious or just plain curious, google everything, website addresses, names used, companies mentioned, phone numbers given, all email addresses, even sentences from the emails as you might be unpleasantly surprised at what you find already posted online. You can also post/ask here and every scam-warner-anti-fraud-busting site you can find before taking a chance and losing money to a scammer.

6 "Rules to follow" to avoid most fake jobs:
1) Job asks you to use your personal bank account and/or open a new one.
2) Job asks you to print/mail/cash a check or money order.
3) Job asks you to use Western Union or moneygram in any capacity.
4) Job asks you to accept packages and re-ship them on to anyone.
5) Job asks you to pay visas, travel fees via Western Union or moneygram.
6) Job asks you to sign up for a credit reporting or identity verification site.

Avoiding all jobs that mention any of the above listed 'red flags' and you will miss nearly all fake jobs. Only scammers ask you to do any of the above. No. Exceptions. Ever. For any reason.