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Speaker 4: The sex stuff with me and my bullshit. I'm like,

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Speaker 2: So okay, we're not gonna do that one.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, we'll start with the corporate America.

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Speaker 5: That's what we'll do.

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Speaker 4: I've heard y'all stories about leaving the corporate world to

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Speaker 4: My boss blindsided me and decided to not renew my contract.

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Speaker 2: It's a privilege.

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Speaker 4: I believe if you get severance, you can still get unemployment.

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Speaker 4: It depends on the benefits. So I would look into

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Speaker 4: Like, okay, So I'm just gonna just go add on

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Speaker 4: going bankrupt? What name some other ones that just went bankrupt.

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Speaker 4: There's mad Stores that Michaels, Michaels went bankrupt. And hold on,

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Speaker 4: what's the little thing where the girls used to wear

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Speaker 2: Girl, create create a resume with a whole bunch of.

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Speaker 4: Shit that no longer exists. Ask your friends and family, Oh,

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Speaker 5: That's a good trick. I do like that. Use use

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Speaker 4: Don't put regional manager, you can put store manager. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: put things that Route twenty one. I used to work there.

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Speaker 4: They no longer exist.

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Speaker 5: That's a really good to you certain you.

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Speaker 4: Know, and that's in retail, right, But there's also so

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Speaker 5: Still helps a lot.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, because I know too many people who try to

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Speaker 4: Experience, So use them stores that no longer exists because

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Speaker 6: I also add like I know too many people, a

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Speaker 5: They do their easy applause or they apply like that.

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Speaker 6: But I will also very much encourage to go meet people,

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Speaker 6: Hopefully you can find a side hustle like that. But

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Speaker 6: that's so crazy. I love that resonates them. I'm so

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Speaker 5: That, like live just a little bee a lot of it,

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Speaker 2: Like look at the skills. You know how to follow

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Speaker 4: It's like, I don't know, like I think that that's

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Speaker 5: I like that.

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Speaker 2: You brought up the LinkedIn.

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Speaker 6: And people throwing, people throwing something and hoping the sticks.

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Speaker 6: But realistically it is just like you said, it's very

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Speaker 5: Oh well, they have characters, no, no.

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Speaker 4: So I moved to New York in twenty twelve from Miami.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so there's Robert Half.

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Speaker 4: There's like a lot of different names, and I don't

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Speaker 5: Ye that's Ross was another one.

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Speaker 2: Ross dressed for less.

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Speaker 4: But I was in their corporate office here in New

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Speaker 5: That's the thing that she's like, you see, especially.

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Speaker 4: At the time, it wasn't a Let's be very clearly,

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Speaker 4: But there are options out here, There are options. I

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Speaker 5: Like I like what you said. That's it. You just

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Speaker 5: amount us to doing haircuts. I mean in construction there

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna say, task rabbit, Yeah, something gotta

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean I listen. I feel for anyone

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Speaker 5: This marketplace time, this is a.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no.

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Speaker 4: First off, we've been in a recession, but an old

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Speaker 4: ass just didn't want to say it. We've been here,

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Speaker 2: Tap into your network.

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Speaker 6: Tap into the high by the way, because I still

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Speaker 6: be going on discord every once in a while, and

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Speaker 6: they do have a channel for that.

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Speaker 5: They have a channel channel for jobs and stuff like that.

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Speaker 6: Okay, So I don't know if you're on the Discord,

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Speaker 5: But yeah, that's a.

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Speaker 4: If you are a Patreon member, get on the Discord

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Speaker 4: and go to the job section. You're right, the Hive

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Speaker 4: really does be looking out. I mean, we've had someone

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Speaker 2: They were high.

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Speaker 4: Up in content development and Netflix and was like, y'all

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Speaker 4: I would say, yeah, I'm not sure. If you're a

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Speaker 6: So I'm saying, go meet people, find the community, talk

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I love at the end of the day because

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Speaker 4: tell you the job market is drying up, is so

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Speaker 4: is these niggles, Like they is not breaking bread, they

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Speaker 5: It is rough, bro, it is rough.

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Speaker 4: But everybody like a shout out to the men they have.

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Speaker 2: To see here and be providers in this economy.

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Speaker 5: It is expistive. Do you have to be you know

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Speaker 5: what I mean? Like I have no choice, It don't matter,

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Speaker 4: Back in the day, it was nothing to ask a

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Speaker 2: It becomes a little more difficult, Like I.

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Speaker 4: Get it, I get it. It's crazy. These times are hard.

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Speaker 4: The times are hard.

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Speaker 5: Well, as y'all know.

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