Rusti
Well-Known Member
...of the state? I work at a public university in southern Illinois for my full time day hobby and I'm about at my wit's end with our state leaders. We've been 9 months now without a budget for FY16, which means the whole public university system in the state, and the community colleges, and the vocational schools haven't gotten a penny from the state all year.
Now, with the proposed cuts for FY17 my university is talking about a huge number of lay offs. I already felt like the walking dead at work and now it's just worse. I'm not sitting idle with the resume of course, but there's not a whole lot of opportunity for my profession (at least at a living wage) around here and I really didn't/don't want to leave the university either.
I want to shake the three silverback gorillas in Springfield until their brains rattle around between their ears I'm so frustrated and angry and scared. Nobody should have to live like this because of somebody else's political agenda.
If you are the praying sort, as I am, I could use the boost. If you have connections in the SEMO, western Kentucky or southern IL area, I can use those too. I'd really rather it not come to competing with 180 other people if they have to do the layoffs. Gah!
/vent (sorry guys)
Now, with the proposed cuts for FY17 my university is talking about a huge number of lay offs. I already felt like the walking dead at work and now it's just worse. I'm not sitting idle with the resume of course, but there's not a whole lot of opportunity for my profession (at least at a living wage) around here and I really didn't/don't want to leave the university either.
I want to shake the three silverback gorillas in Springfield until their brains rattle around between their ears I'm so frustrated and angry and scared. Nobody should have to live like this because of somebody else's political agenda.
If you are the praying sort, as I am, I could use the boost. If you have connections in the SEMO, western Kentucky or southern IL area, I can use those too. I'd really rather it not come to competing with 180 other people if they have to do the layoffs. Gah!
/vent (sorry guys)