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Let's Comiserate About Being Jobless
So. My blogger friends. I'm having one of those freak-out kind of nights.
Is anyone else out there unemployed and looking for a job? Recent grads, like myself? Or otherwise?
I'm not asking for advice... I'm pretty much sick of advice (unless you have something other to say than "keep positive!"). Just looking to know I'm not the only one.
How about you? How are you feeling? My confidence wanes every day....
Is anyone else out there unemployed and looking for a job? Recent grads, like myself? Or otherwise?
I'm not asking for advice... I'm pretty much sick of advice (unless you have something other to say than "keep positive!"). Just looking to know I'm not the only one.
How about you? How are you feeling? My confidence wanes every day....
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Permalink Reply by Angie on -
Trust me, Lauren, both my wife and I do understand.
We've been doing seasonal jobs since we got married. At first they were fun, a great way to see the state, meet new people and get a lot of experience. But sadly, since they are seasonal, we never had a "steady" job. Our last job lasted from early September to early November, it was a Halloween store.
My wife and I like to work as a team, so finding a job is a little harder for us. We are looking EVERYWHERE though. Even for a job for just one of us. And there's nothing. We spend hours applying to online applications*, we spend hours calling to see who is hiring (the answer is: no one,) we try big places like the mall and major attractions and we try little out of the way stores and everything in between.
*Note: And what the hell is up with online applications anyway? The actual "application" part takes a whole... Five minutes? The rest? Is that stupid assessment crap that asks questions for you to answer between Strongly Disagree - Strongly Agree. Ya know what? You cannot tell what kind of employee I am from that and most of the questions have nothing to do with the job I'm applying for.
And what REALLY gets me? Is when I find a job that matches our experience 100% - it seems like our dream job - I apply and "our experience doesn't match" - Er. No. It certainly does.
BAH! It pisses me off. And I know you don't want advice, but I can assure you THINGS WILL WORK OUT!!! Whenever we think we'll never find another job, we do. Just hang in there. ^_^
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on -
Ugh, I HATE online apps. Totally like applying into a black hole. But where else am I supposed to apply?
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Permalink Reply by Sam Huizinga on -
online apps are the worst. i was looking for a job when i moved to l.a and most stores i walked into just told me to apply online.. even the gap (who ended up hiring me.. seasonal part time)
you'll find something soon. it's low season post holiday. everywhere will be looking for new workers in a month or so
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Permalink Reply by Nic Lake on -
I'm not currently unemployed... I monitor a computer lab for 12 hours a week in between classes.
However, I am *FREAKING OUT* about what to do this summer. There's no way my parents and I are going to be able to get along for me to live at home, so that's out. I'll have to get an apartment or something for 3 months. I still haven't found an internship. I don't want to just pick up a 3 month gig at some place around here... I'd probably die from frustration and boredom.
So I'm kinda with you... :-\
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Permalink Reply by Lexi on -
definitely in the same boat... perhaps in a lesser one. I don't even have a degree at this point because my dumbass insisted upon taking a year out after HS which has unfortunately turned into 6, and I still don't have the money to go back. heh. But, in those years I've travelled and had some great experiences- just nothing that helps me find a decent job. Apparently doing volunteer work with disabled children, animals and conservation doesn't reflect a wholesome, hardworking personality.
What makes it even harder, is that I was a homemaker for the past 3 years. Trying to explain how you were a homemaker for 3 years, but only married for 2 months is just ever so fun... especially when they automatically assume you must have children, even though I don't.
And I've definitely got to agree with Angela on those online apps! I've filled those things in till my eyeballs are falling out! I've applied for Best Buy over 30 times in 7 years... and not once have I had an interview. My dad, my ex husband, my current boyfriend, my HS sweetheart and his sister, as well as most of my friends have worked at best buy at some time or another... but I try to, and I can't even get a call! And my dad's been with the company longer than most of the managers!
I'm getting so frustrated and at times deflated. With everything that's going on at the moment with my separation/divorce, I just want to curl up and cry some days. I'm so determined to prove my ex that he's wrong and that I CAN succeed just fine without him but some days I have to wonder how I'll do it alone.
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Permalink Reply by Heidi on -
i've been unemployed since marchish (though i did have a 1 month temp job that i lost on my honeymoon of all times) my husband then got a job (we were both unemployed for about two months together) in CT so we moved from DC and I've been trying to move into the teaching profession - either in a private school, or going back to school to get my certification. Trust me, it ain't easy.
Keep your chin up. I occupied a large portion of my time in DC with a great part time job, and freelance writing. I'm getting back into freelancing which is a lot of fun and it keeps me busy. There are definitely tough days though - days when i feel hopeless, restless, depressed, and everything in between. But figure out what is going to make you happy and then fight for it. I know it's a rough economy but really, should we settle for a shitty job because it's just a job? I'm still debating this question, but i tell my mother I didn't go to college for "a job"...I went to college to have a career and I'll be damned if i don't fight for it.
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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Totally agree. I too went to college for a career. I love that you said that.
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Permalink Reply by MeCassieMarie on -
I have been looking and applying since last semester. It just stinks. Hopefully, I'll get some good news soon. Best of luck to you, as well!
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Permalink Reply by Lauren on
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Thank you all for chatting with me about this! I'm sad we're all on the never-ending job hunt, but glad to know that we're not alone. Good things will happen for us. They just have to!
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Permalink Reply by Lan Nguyen on -
God it sucks to be without a job, especially when I have my mother breathing down my neck saying, "It's so sad, you have a degree and you have to settle for low paying or minimum wage jobs." I'm so glad I squirreled away a lot of money that I can at least pay my rent and eat. I sometimes feel low because I've never had "real job"; I've been in school the whole damn time! Sometimes I feel like I'm being penalized for getting an education and continuing it further (I'm getting my Masters). I have one class this semester that starts at 4 PM; I go to a temp agency (where I'm told should help me find a job easily) and after 5 minutes of talking and mentioning the one class am told there's nothing to fit into my schedule that's office related. Seriously? Is my schedule that inflexible? Is it so bad to let a person go a few hours early one day a week so she can go to class? No, just because I have an English degree does not mean I want to or am capable of substitute teaching.
Aside from online applications, I really hate when you go into apply for a job, and the first thing the manager person asks is "What brings you here?" I need a fucking job. Really, do I have to explain myself? And I really dislike it when the job is something that does not require really any experience or thought process for that matter, and the manager makes the job sound like it requires a lot of both. I know it's a business, but geez...
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Permalink Reply by Nyx on -
Oh yea...story of my life, hon. I've got a degree in anthropology, which - looking back - may not have been the smartest major.
Probably should have ignored career services when they assured me that I'd be able to find a job in my major (something that I, admittedly, love with a passion rivaled only by my chocolate obsession).
I work at a petstore now (same job I had when I was in college), and it has its ups and downs. More downs than ups now-a-days. I search every night, looking for something - anything - that will resemble a "grown up" job or, at the very least, pay more than pennies and pocket lint.
So far...nada. I need a new job before next year, because my health insurance will run out (thank GOD I still have that right now).
I'm trying to remain optimistic. I mostly figure that if I apply to enough places, one of them has to be dumb enough to hire me. I mean, I'm not a serial killer, I'd like to consider myself reasonably intelligent (although...the jury's still out on that one), and I do reasonably good work.
Also...online applications? SUCK. It's hard to try to remain positive - because rejection after rejection takes its toll on one's self-confidence - but the way I see it, if you don't apply then you have a 100% chance of not getting the job.
So good luck to all of you job hunters!!!!!
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Allan Clift on -
I am currently jobless, a recent graduate, but I am keeping myself occupied on my own creative projects, so it isn't something I am too worried about. Right now the plan is to move to Los Angeles and see if I can get some work from my contacts.
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