What would you do?

Tell him to deal with it and take the job. There are hundreds of journalists out of work. Tell him to stay there a year or two and move on from there. Waiting and hoping for something better is, IMO, dumb. Unless he has money to fall back upon, or parents to pay for everything.

 

...

if your son was at home
crying all alone on the bedroom floor
cuz he's hungry and the only way to feed him
is to sleep with a man for a little bit of money?

and his daddy's gone
somewhere smokin' rock now
in and outta lockdown
i ain't got a job now

so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what i call life

 

I told him just that but he's wavering and I can see why. It is a big decision.

 

The big question is, how much is he making in unemployment?

 

If he's so focused on the numbers on his paycheck (instead of his quality of life) then he'll never be happy.

 

No-brainer from my perspective. Fuck, I'd rather be in Mississippi than in New Jersey under damn near any circumstances.

 

He can always leave Mississippi in a couple of months.

He might not be able to get out of the government cheese line if he decides unemployment beats leaving your ex.

 

You keep saying "It's not Northern NJ" as if that is a negative.

 

Well Boots, now that you've defined the paarmeters a little better,I retract my previous post.

With apologies to our Southern friends here, there is no way in hell a guy from Northern New Jersey -- one of the most affluent areas in America, a spit across the river from the greatest city in the world -- could be happy in the cultural wasteland that is Mississippi...EVER!

Tis better to collect unemployment checks (what's that, about $400 a week now?) in New Jersey than even think about going to Mississippi...not for all the money in the world!

 

Maybe boots' friend hates black people.

 

FACT!

 

I'd rather work in (insert worst city you can think of) than be unemployed in (insert best city you can think of).