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After being unemployed and out of college for a year and a half, I just got an office assistant job this past Wednesday, and today I am in Chicago for an interview for a teaching job in Japan...and when I got to my hotel and turned on my laptop, I got an email from another company in Japan essentially offering me a job already. Things work out strangely...when it rains, it pours.
 
Unemployed since last November. It's getting to the point where I'm just wondering how I can find any kind of work with my skills. Of course it doesn't help that I live in an area where the industry I work in completely sucks ass and no one is hiring at all. Also doesn't help that I never was able to make any good networking connections.
 
broony said:
Sorry man. It's not my reading skills, it's my writing skills that are at fault. All I meant to say to you is:


The rest is from my experieneces with highter eductaion students who keep going and going but with no sence of work related closure. I honestley was not aiming the


at you.

My parents both work /worked in higher education. When they divorced both their new parters also worked in higher education.

Through this situation I met quite a few people who sole surpose seemed to be to keep educating themselves for the purpose of being educated. I myself have a batchelors degree with honours but I went about it a slightly different way. I did my GCSEs (highschool diploma) then did A levels, then as I had no idea what I wanted to do I went on the dole (social security) for a year and a half and had a fucking laugh. That got very tired, very quick and although I thought I was entitled to a semi decent job, employeres disagreed and I realised I needed to work without being a snob. For the next five or so years I work regular service industry jobs and got a lot more of a usueful education than any school, college or university has ever given me. Toward s the en though I realised I could do better for myself with some effort and went to university. Three years later I graduated but because of what I had done before I applied for every job I possibly could and after a false start got something that was vaguely worthwhile.

Back to what I was talking about in my original post; I met lot os people who had no intention of contributing anything to society other than recylcing the word they had been taught themselves. They went from BSC to MSC to PHP to fucking nowhere. They had no intention of putting any of their knowledge to use other than waffling about subject no one else had any knowledge or interest in other than themselves and used that knowledge to make themselves feel important.

At no point did I mean to discredit education, it is what everyone should be given access to and themselves should embrace. Hoever there is a sub culture of people who live withtin the educational world who have no idea about real lif and real working values. They were the people I was having a go at, not you.

Switching diciples though seems a little sudden, are you not prepared to go a little lower than your self esteem alows at the minute and take a junior chemical related job?

I've had 8 pints now, sorry for my spelling. All the best to you in your future.
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It's okay man. The example you just gave is exactly how my boss was like I said. He'll never be able to work in a company and will spend his days in an office doing absolutely nothing. He gets fellow students and they all end up in trouble with no jobs so they have to switch branch. Hence why I decided to stop at a MSc degree even when he offered me the option to continue. I met a girl who came all the way from Lebanon to work in his lab and now she is totally destroyed.

The thing is that to get a job in the industry you need to have contacts. My boss didn't have any probably for many reasons I won't write about. When I was writing my thesis I had two ''junior chemical related job''. I worked in a very small company doing the job someone here in QC with a CEGEP diploma could do (CEGEP is two year before B SC), I was also an instructor at university for a lab course. Neither of these two job will help me land a job in my field. Basically with my degree I should work in research and right now this field is quite dead here.

I applied for a lot of technicians positions but they all said the same thing to me : you are overqualified for this. They can hire someone with a technical cegep diploma for way less than they have to hire me since I'm a member of a professional order with an higher degree.

My thesis was about synthesis but was still related heavily with pharmacology. I also took many biochem and pharmacology classes during my studies so Pharmacist is certainly a good backup plan. I don't have much choices, right now I'm stuck. At least I'm quite lucky in a way. I had good scholarships during my M Sc so I can pay for my future studies easily and live correctly. I'll try to find some minimum wage job meanwhile. I'll still look for a research position meanwhile but it won't be easy. I went to an employment center in Montreal and she told me that right now there are about 300ish person with the same degree I have that are currently unemployed in my region. Well it can't always go wrong can it?
 
Unemployed since last july. I'm a graphic designer and... well, they started to fire everyone last year in every studio/agency because of the recession. So when I make a call they always tell me the same thing "we are not hiring anyone, and god knows if we will able to keep this thing afloat".
So yeah I'm pretty fucked.
 
Chao said:
Unemployed since last july. I'm a graphic designer and... well, they started to fire everyone last year in every studio/agency because of the recession. So when I make a call they always tell me the same thing "we are not hiring anyone, and god knows if we will able to keep this thing afloat".
So yeah I'm pretty fucked.
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We really should get the fuck out of this country, muthafucka. I can't even see way.
 
Unemployed.

Apparently I can't even get a job at McDonald's or a 'real' job. I can't even remember the last time I was on a 'real' interview, but I did have an 'interview' at the local Apple store a few weeks ago. Another job I didn't get. :/

Good thing that I'm still in school so I don't have to pay back my loans yet.
 
I was unemployed for 4 months, got a contract job working on a project. That is about to end soon, so I need to find something else ASAP.

It sucks out there right now. Not that it helps in anyway, but there are a ton of people unemployed right now. Hell, my boss from my old job is still looking. She bought a new car like 2 months before we all got laid off. Take any job you can find to keep busy and keep your sanity.
 
This is why I started working first and now I want to go to college... it's really hard to score a job without previous work experience :/
 
Employed, but I don't work for money right now since that would interfere with my current benefits package.
 
At least for the summer. Once I get back to school in the fall I'll have my Federal Work Study job again, but until then... well, I'm still looking.
 
yep been unemployed for a while now. i did get hired for a temp job with the irs and they said it could last up to 60 days but they cut all the temps after 2 weeks and a day. im certainly making the effort to get a job but nothing has really gone my way yet. good luck to everyone
 
Unemployed but volunteering in field related to what i want to do, so not working as hard as i can when it comes to job searching. Soon i tell myself.
 
Unemployed for 9 months with a MS in Nutrition. I've been applying to just about everything, but what I want is to get more clinical research experience. I had 1 interview for a min-wage lab tech that puts down dogs, but didn't get it.
 
J. M. Romeo said:
We really should get the fuck out of this country, muthafucka. I can't even see way.
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Yeah, I know. I'm pretty sure I was born on the wrong country, Spain just doesn't like me.
 
I've been unemployed for a bit. After a post graduation internship, I've had nothing but occasional temporary work, and I'm not even having any luck applying to places like Walmart, Taco Bell, or whatever. The jobs related to my degree and internships are already starting to question my downtime in interviews, which was expected.

My family has been great, but it's hard to not feel like a fucking failure many days.
 
I'm teaching English in Korea. So I have a job, but I might as well be unemployed, since this does absolutely nothing for my future job prospects.

Six months ago I thought I was in a pretty decent position. My friend was moving from his old job to another one, and he recommended me very highly to his boss as his replacement. I went to two interviews and did very well. Got to the third interview, and things just went wrong. The third interviewer asked pretty much the same questions as the second one, only for some reason I wasn't answering them as well.

Then he asked me if I had any experience in an area that was tangentially related to one of my old jobs. I did, but it was kind of a stretch, and I had to exaggerate my old duties just a bit to make it fit. Had I been prepared for this, it would have been no problem, but it came out of left field, and I had to bullshit a little bit, and for whatever reason, I just couldn't bullshit very well that day.

I could see in his face that he knew I was full of shit, and I could also see that the interview had ended in that moment and I was no longer a candidate for this position. It was one of the worst feelings I've ever felt. He gave me the courtesy of asking me a few more questions, but they were half-hearted at best, and I knew without a doubt that I had just fucked myself out of a job. A corporate job in a good company that I could have used to get into a business school and really kick-start my career.

And now I'm in Korea. But at least I can pay off my debts.
 
Apply for civilian work in Iraq or Afghanistan.

....But, if you're a BA and can't do IT work, then I don't recommend being a contracted tech.


However,

If you get your CDL drivers license, that's the commercial driver license where you can drive big trucks and buses, then you can drive a bus in Iraq or Afghanistan for 60 to70K per year.

That's if you're an American citizen. If not, check with your local govt to work outside your country, for them, or for us with their permission.




They don't call it hazard pay for nothing. In a year or less so you could pay back all your debts.
 
RaymondCarver said:
Apply for civilian work in Iraq or Afghanistan.

....But, if you're a BA and can't do IT work, then I don't recommend being a contracted tech.


However,

If you get your CDL drivers license, that's the commercial driver license where you can drive big trucks and buses, then you can drive a bus in Iraq or Afghanistan for 60 to70K per year.

That's if you're an American citizen. If not, check with your local govt to work outside your country, for them, or for us with their permission.



They don't call it hazard pay for nothing. In a year or less so you could pay back all your debts.
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Or be dead.
 
A lot of Arab speaking people (family friends) went to Iraq to translate and they get paid 100k plus every year. Honestly those people were working dead end jobs and no college education and were in debt, so it's a once in a life time deal.
 
I've never had a job in my life.

I'm 18-19 so I can't get the Dole because it goes on what ur parents earn at that stage.

And I've put out resumes and shit and get nothing back.
 
dskillzhtown said:
I was unemployed for 4 months, got a contract job working on a project. That is about to end soon, so I need to find something else ASAP.

It sucks out there right now. Not that it helps in anyway, but there are a ton of people unemployed right now. Hell, my boss from my old job is still looking. She bought a new car like 2 months before we all got laid off. Take any job you can find to keep busy and keep your sanity.
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that's where i am at right now

never thought after graduating i would be looking forward to a call from Walmart or Taco Bell (no calls so far ...)
 
for about 2 years now after hurting my back at work and FINALLY went to court to win the settlement yesterday

but now i still need to wait for them to cut me the lump sum check >_<

THEN i can go to a learning hospital or something similar to find out exactly what is wrong with my back (been to 8-10 local doctors around here that have no damn clue)

i honestly don't know what i'll do if they tell me whatever is wrong with me is permanent and there is no way to fix it, because i'm pretty much in pain all the time, and trying to do just about anything makes it worse =(
 
atomsk said:
for about 2 years now after hurting my back at work and FINALLY went to court to win the settlement yesterday

but now i still need to wait for them to cut me the lump sum check >_<

THEN i can go to a learning hospital or something similar to find out exactly what is wrong with my back (been to 8-10 local doctors around here that have no damn clue)

i honestly don't know what i'll do if they tell me whatever is wrong with me is permanent and there is no way to fix it, because i'm pretty much in pain all the time, and trying to do just about anything makes it worse =(
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Sounds like you need medical marijuana.
 
Xeke said:
Sounds like you need medical marijuana.
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i can't even get them to prescribe me decent painkillers. no solid diagnosis = no effective treatment.

sucks. but i bum ultram off my dad sometimes :lol
 
aktham said:
A lot of Arab speaking people (family friends) went to Iraq to translate and they get paid 100k plus every year. Honestly those people were working dead end jobs and no college education and were in debt, so it's a once in a life time deal.
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i know an afghan guy who worked as a translator, and one of their neighbors in america found out (they didnt get along) and contacted people in afghanistan who threatened his family that still lived in afghanistan. he quit, it wasn't worth having guys knock on his grandmothers door menacingly. It probably didnt help that he's from kandahar
 
Was unemployed (without unemployment benefits, which sure was fun!) for about nine months up until last week. Now I'm just underemployed, working a part-time 9.30 an hour job with two bachelor degrees.
 
blame space said:
i make $7.30 doing this at Staples. i'd kill for $10/hr :(
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Staples sucks as a job. I worked there during high school and made $6.25.

Our 2 assistant managers made about $30,000 salary and easily worked over 60 hours a week. They'd be in the store 6 days a week and work 10 hours a day.

In comparison, Best Buy assistant managers make 50-60k, and GMs make over 100k. Ridiculous.
 
=( I graduated in December of 2009 and started looking for a job in January. So I've basically been looking for one for the past 5 months. FINALLY after checking out my state's, uhh, 'workforce center' it led me to a job within a couple weeks.

There were sooo many times I was depressed and even wanted to die (in debt, 22 with no experience, no job and not a penny to my name, youth slipping b4 my eyes) It was extremely depressing checking for jobs everyday and only finding things that were far out of my league (engineering, nursing, senior something something, etc) or stuff I'd be horrible at and get fired for immediately (sales =x)

At one point I was worrying about having to go back to McDonald's... then I got to thinking that even if I applied I wouldn't get a job because of the crappy online application process. Competing with hundreds or thousands of people = I'm not going to get a call. Then I thought.. I can't take a McD job! How can I put that on my resume for the future?

Luckily I hopped onto an opportunity after using my state's work force job search engine thing. Got hired on a temp position and hopefully if the client sticks I have me a real job. Customer service at a pretty decent call center but for $9... I hate Florida :lol I don't know how people survive here :lol Anyway I'm planning on getting out of here next year. Escape to Japan or Korea to teach. Rather go to Japan because at least I've lived there for a bit before. Right now I feel like my degree is worth as much as a roll of toilet paper and I'll never ever make any kind of money living in FL. Hey, I heard there are great opportunities in places like China and stuff... expand your horizons and if you can just try to find opportunities abroad :D

Some of my family are telling me to go and get my masters but I don't want to be in debt for another toilet paper degree when all any employer really cares about is experience.

Also, great thing about a work force kind of search engine is you are guaranteed hardly any scams/bs listings because you can filter out by employer. You can just look for the work force's 'preferred employers' listings.

Apologies for the rant.
 
Aesius said:
I just got my first job in almost 3 years. Gonna be making a whopping $10/hr selling computers at Best Buy.
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Thats fucking horrible. What job did you hold 3 years ago? How old are you?
 
JayDub said:
Thats fucking horrible. What job did you hold 3 years ago? How old are you?
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It's not that horrible. I'll take what I can get at this point. I'm 23 and about to graduate college in December, so hopefully I can get something better then.
 
Unemployed.

I'm in a strange financial position. I'm still in school, and up to this point I'm barely less than 9000 dollars in debt. If I continue going to school in the states, I may end up being 30k in debt if I graduate from a mediocre state school. Or I could use my dual citizenship and go to Aus where I could get a loan for tuition without any interest, and no required payments unless I make over 44K AUD a year.

I'm leaning on the latter, because I could attend a really good school for the price of a shitty state school, and not be punished after graduation. But if I can't find a part time job, or some scholarships down there, I'll run out of money in 12-18 months.
 
I have been back and forth between unemployment and disability for the last year. It has sucked but I am finally going to be working this fall.
 
*raises hand*

Luckily loans don't kick in until November but I have no idea where I'm going to find a job. I thought I had a strong portfolio but employers must think differently since I only got two interviews at our school's career fair while I can't even get a response back from others. It's looking more and more like Grad school was a waste of 60K.
 
Keep fighting guys. I'm still 2 years from graduating, but looking for internships has already made me feel awful. Contacted about 70 companies give or take a few so far and not a single interview.

Knowing people at my school who's gotten internships and entry level jobs at places like Goldman, UBS, or McKinsey's certainly doesn't help make me feel better. But it's when people who I know aren't as capable landing internships that makes me feel awfully bitter. I wish I knew what I'm doing wrong.
 
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