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Struggle to get a job
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Hi,
Just wondered how people have found it since the financial crisis hit ?
Have you struggled to get a job or are most people doing ok ?
Just looking for people's experiences really.
Personally I've struggled.
Just wondered how people have found it since the financial crisis hit ?
Have you struggled to get a job or are most people doing ok ?
Just looking for people's experiences really.
Personally I've struggled.
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I had a job, was laid off, finished school and now have about 50k in student loans (tuition costs, only) so I could get a history degree and certificate to teach those aged 12ish-18ish.
After a year of unemployment - which included resumes to every single school district in a 60 mile radius (no exageration) and other non-education jobs, I have the most mundane job of data entry for a construction company... though, granted, I only make about 3k less a year than a teacher does... I don't know why universities keep churning out teacher wannabe's, there are no jobs and the pay is shit.
... and our governor just cut $200,000,000 from the education budget, so I will not be getting any use out of that degree any time soon... and by any time soon, I mean ever.
If it were not for my boyfriend, us living together, and him being understanding and not making me pay rent and buying me food, I'd be at home living with my parents, at 27... or off on some hippie commune trying to live enough under the grid so no bill collectors could ever find me. Alas, I love cereal too much, they would track my grocery store records.
I'm 27 and living at home with the parents. Grateful that I'm at home, but partly due to the economy and partly due to concentrating more on getting better I've not had too much paid work.
Have done a lot of voluntary, but I'd like to move on with my life, just not feeling very confident about doing so because of the way the economy is.
Does anyone have advice on a good way to move forward from the point of view of being unwell, having to recover and also the way the economy is ?
In my opinion the economy is still in a bad state and is a long way off recovery.
On the other hand I have a few friends who are interested in electrican/ building/ plumbing etc. jobs and they have all been hit really really hard. So it depends what you want I guess it depends on the field your going into it (mcdonalds - good for students but not a lot of people want to work there full time so there's quite a lot of jobs going as students obviously have other responsibilities) - beauty/ hair (always going to be big especially during recession as people want treatments and want to be made to feel beautiful as they can't afford holidays and want to forget about all the shit going on in their lives for a while) but really if you truely really look you'll probably get a job depending on whether you care what you wanna do or not
Yes it does depend on what you want to do. But you'll struggle if you don't know what to do.
sorry for the negativity, i might be a little bit bitter
I had to get an agency job in a call centre for a year, as I had just finished university and my Mum doesn't have the income to support another person. The pay was awful and in retrospect, I would have been better off on benefits (I lived in Kingston on around £12K... Some months I didn't make enough to cover basic expenses and rent). It was dreadful and I hated my job.
I had a degree, but as I applied for jobs and had interviews, I found myself over qualified for the basic experience that I needed to get a job in an office. It was this weird graduate limbo. I literally applied for hundreds of jobs, but I didn't really know a lot about applying for jobs either, so again in retrospect, I may have been better off signing on and getting advice on CVs and jobhunting.
I had nine interviews before I had the job I'm in. It sucked a bit, as I had to take a day off work for them and this knocked a dent in my wages... Again, everything was fiercely competitive! One feedback I got was that I was "too intelligent" and would get bored, but mostly, it was down to lack of experience.
I now work in an office job and have looked for ways out. My job pays a comfortable enough wage that, if I live frugally, I can usually put away some cash for travel. My best moment was paying off my big ass overdraft last year!
I can't say where I work or what I do and the job I do isn't for me in the long run and I have been shocked at the working conditions and how exhausting it is (this coming from somebody who has worked up to 60 hours a week in busy bars). It's really easy to get depressed doing my job, as it literally can be soul destroying, but at the same time, it has taught me a lot, I have met wonderful people and I am tough enough, I feel I can handle almost anything.
I'm off to do a part time Masters next year... I'm really hoping I can get a part time job, as I can't afford to fund a full time Masters. I feel quite confident I'll be able to do it, as I now know really well how to apply for jobs and if all else fails, I am articulate enough to get a call centre job and don't look too scary for bar work or retail. :razz:
Afterwards? I dunno... Maybe I will somehow pull the money out of my arse for a PHD... Or try to get a job in academia... Of course, I think that'll be a whole different world in terms of job hunting.
I also had a couple of interviews for positions that I wasn't thrilled about, but I didn't get to the final rounds for those. I guess the lack of enthusiasm showed on my part. Maybe I should have made more effort.
Six months after I graduated I was still desperate and unemployed, so I started twigging pretty much any contacts I had for work experience / interviews / whatever. Finally, nepotism got me a job in January and I've been doing it ever since. Really fly at my job, I kinda run circles round some of the other staff and I wonder whether I could stick it out long term here. I like the job, but I'm not on a earth shattering salary (though I can save about £300 a month as long as I dont spend it on toys / clothes / whatever) and I wonder if in 10 years time there is a reasonable chance of me being significantly better off by staying with this company.
But, beggars cant be choosers. The majority of my friends from uni are underemployed, with the exception of one or two who got onto graduate schemes.
Yes i know Fishyfrags.:/ i hate my country sometimes because we don't have many choices of jobs. so you have to work at the first job that crosses you.
I'm also going to try and sell prints of my photos......I just need to get out there and take some good composites.
I gave up because it doesn't suit me. And I'd rather have my own studio but I don't.
Since I take photos of landscapes, I might as well do something with them, and also my 'birds in flight' photos.
I'm planning on going on a course (not college because they are sh!t). I mean by a private tutor.... or even an online course by one of the top photographer's like Scott Kelby or Gavin Hoey.
I also have a handful, a very small handful, or customers who buy salmon flies off me. Two years ago I had an order for £200 worth of flies which made me quite happy.
This friday I'm thinking about tying some salmon flies and putting them on eBay or a fly fishing forum and sell them at the price which they are on my (dad's) website.