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Hard to find a job

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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.
 

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If you're not a people person, you could always become self employed.

Tried that. Business failed. Evil ESTP partner and clients still had to be interacted with anyway.

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I'm looking for a job again also. It's been 2 months, but it took me 6 months to find a job after college. For the record, I turned down a job offer already, but the idea of working there made my stomach churn, even if I really need the money.

The valuing of people skills and schmoozing over other skills really bugs me also. Everyone I know who is very outgoing and gets jobs easily are otherwise unreliable and unskilled. I find the more quiet, reserved people do much of the work, but often get little credit. People don't have long term vision when hiring; they just go with who they "like". :doh:
 

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Yep, same boat here.

Part-time work isn't really to come by - hell, 7 weeks ago I was rejected for a PT coffee shop gig and she ended up hiring one of the 6 others who applied for it!

And there isn't even temp work, which is a bad sign as far as jobs/economy goes.

What can you do. I maybe find one job I can apply for a week, and I have started assuming I won't hear back for the jobs I'm qualified for, simply because there are huge numbers of other people, just like me, who are also looking for the same sorts of jobs.
 

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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.
 

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I'm part of the 1% who actually quit their jobs this year. If I didn't quit I think I would of ended up breaking my leg/knee, then I'd be further fked up the ass.
 

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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.
 

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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'm good at what I do, but it also helps that most of the people in my field suck at it. They're not very skilled and not highly motivated. George Carlin said that in every field, most of the people suck and there are just a small number who are good/great. That's pretty true. Brian tracy said that the 80/20 rule applies here also: 80% of salesmen make 20% of the commissions, and 20% of salesmen make 80% of the commissions. In my field it's probably more like a 99/1 ratio.

I got a lot of helpful advice from success gurus like Brian Tracy, Harv Eker, Napoleon Hill, Brad Yates, Dan Kennedy, etc. If you don't know how to do well in your life, these guys will set you straight.
 

INTJ123

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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.

lol nah fk online poker. live play is actually better.
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edit: by the way the economy crisis has affected all areas including the poker community, it's dry except for weekends, but I havn't played in casino for a little while.
 

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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
Excerpts:
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.
 

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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.

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.

I mean, I guess I'll just have to face it... simple service jobs just aren't going to appeal to me unless I'm literally going to starve to death without getting a job (because I can literally live on almost nothing), and I've got too many family members who would never let that happen. So I might as well try appealing to a higher motivation.
 

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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.
That sounds like a good idea. Skills, especially on-site skills, are good things to have.

On the low end here, call centers still seem to be hiring. We have two that I know of, one of which provides customer service for AT&T. Their expectations are kind of high for the pay level, so they have high turnover.
 

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Catching things that open annually help too.. Like festivals that happen every year in your area or around your area.

And school districts? I know in our area Substitute paraprofessionals are always in demand in our school district. Paid by the day, easy work.

These are the jobs I landed despite the economy, if it helps anyone else. Schools are always going to need help.
 

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I'm employed, but making wayyy less than I was before. I was out of work for a year, and I landed a temporary full time job. It's easy work, but it's a paycheck. My previous job was a marketing assistant at a mining company. I had a decent salary and good benefits. I was laid off. It sucks being college educated and having some experience and not being able to find much of anything in your field of work.

Currently, I'm still looking. I've had a few interviews, but nothing has panned out yet. I've been pretty close a few times...*sigh*
 

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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
Excerpts:

Well a friend of mine is going back to uni next month as he can't find work, something is better than nothing.

Just got to share my news .. a min ago my phone rang, i have a telephone interview for a service underwriter (insurance) tomorrow. OH MY GOSH.
Lmao. Wicked.

EDIT - So the 20 min interview was over in 7. I hope that is good news. Find out in 7 working days. :)
 
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I have a job! Yipee skipee! Granted, it's temporary, part-time, and pays minimum wage, but I really don't care, I have a job. :) And one that's centered around my favorite holiday: Halloween.

So that took...4 months to find something.
 
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