Go to trucking school, get your CDL, and become a trucker. Perfect loner's job. And you'll get to explore the world as a bonus.
This also has the fringe benefit of killing truck stop hookers.
See? What's not to love? Trucking is a seriously underrated profession that clearly pays well.
If you're not a people person, you could always become self employed.
I make money online. Also make passive income online (getting paid for not working). I had to work to create the passive income, but then it keeps going without any further work. Now I work to create higher levels of passive income for me. I love it. I like it way better than working in a job. Making money from home is a reality.
Check out these links:
Ways to Make Money Online
The 4 Hour Work Week
You can work on your online business in your spare time.
Then once you have your online income at a high enough level, you can kiss your job goodbye and say hello to freedom.
That's what I did.
It may be difficult at first, but it's well worth persisting until you succeed,
because then you're free from all the hassles of the job market forever.
I hear a lot of Americans used to play online poker and make a reasonable living, not because they were good at it, but because everyone else sucks and so they could pull $35k+ a year.
I hear a lot of Americans used to play online poker and make a reasonable living, not because they were good at it, but because everyone else sucks and so they could pull $35k+ a year.
Fewer than a fifth of graduating seniors even have offers, research finds...
Matt Dumont has been looking for work since May.
“I’ve had a couple times that I was told that I was one of the top applicants, went in for an interview, and then I just never heard back from them,” said Dumont, who graduated last spring from Abilene Christian University in Texas with a degree in English...
Labor statistics for July showed that 15.3 percent of Americans ages 20 to 24 were unemployed, ... compared to the overall jobless rate of 9.4 percent.
More than half of graduates in the class of 2007 had job offers in hand when they finished school, the association said. That figure dropped to one-quarter of 2008 graduates — after the recession began in December 2007 — and for the class of 2009, it was fewer than one-fifth.
Volunteering and public service programs are turning out to be popular options, and they’re reporting a significant spike in applications from graduates.
At Teach for America, ... For the first time in its 20-year history, it said, the program had to reject prospects who met all of its rigorous criteria.
Final data aren’t yet available, but the Council of Graduate Schools reported that applications for graduate schools were noticeably up this year, by as much as 20 percent at some institutions.
Kaplan Inc., which helps students study for graduate school admissions exams, found that 40 percent of students who took the Law School Admissions Test in February said the recession was a factor in their decisions to apply to law school.
Wow, I feel a little bit better having read this thread. Not happy that we're all experiencing such shit times finding work, but feeling a bit relieved that I'm not alone. I've applied for every job I'm qualified for (from dishwasher to secretary) since Oct 2008, almost a year. I've gotten a few interviews but no job. I only managed to get a short job delivering phone books for pocket change back in January.
I've been pounding my brain and torturing myself thinking "There's something I'M NOT doing", but I've joined job finder groups, haunted online job sites and the classifieds, literally went door-to-door in town. There's just nothing where I am.
The jobs I've gotten in the past were all sort of lucky breaks, so this is the first time ever in my life I've done resumes and cover letters, all of that. I keep thinking I'm behind the game and not doing something else I should, but maybe I need to chill. Not stop looking for work but stop obsessing so much over it.
It's bad here, too. My friend applied to several hotels for a housekeeping position. Even the ones that pay below minimum wage under the table are not hiring. It's very scary.
That sounds like a good idea. Skills, especially on-site skills, are good things to have.Yeah, it seems like the low-end of the job market has been the hardest hit. There seem to be plenty of openings for competent people with experience, but then those people are always in demand.
I figure I should give up on the lower end jobs that I hardly want anyway, and just push straight for being a network administrator or a related low-level job. I can get several certifications while I'm trying to make me feel like I'm doing something, and it's one job I can improve my skill in at home by messing around with networking equipment, which I've actually been advised to do.
Relevant to this thread, this news article was sitting on my homepage:
For class of 2009, degree doesn’t mean a job - Reinventing America- msnbc.com
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