# Anyone want to join my job search pity party? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871 "2007-06-05T17:32:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/41 "2007-06-06T19:11:01Z")
Gah, put me in the catch-22 category of needing experience to get a job, and a job to get experience. ☹ It doesn’t help matters that I’m not going to settle for help desk work. At least there have been enough positive signs to keep me motivated in my search: all indications are that my skillset is good, but someone with more experience is preferred. Eventually something’ll turn up. _settles in with a carton of Rocky Road ice cream and offers to share_ * * * \<\< I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe. \>\> ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/42 "2007-06-06T19:23:04Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Have you thought about spending a few weeks with a career counselor? [http://www.right.com/ca/ab/calgar/lac/lac.htm](http://www.right.com/ca/ab/calgar/lac/lac.htm) These folks are very good. Don’t be fooled by the managementese on their web page; they know how to get people to find jobs. [/QUOTE] I have thought about that. This is an ongoing issue for me, and has been for years. I’ll have to go look at that website. **fuffle** , that is some serious hoop-jumping. Best wishes for you getting something that makes it all worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/43 "2007-06-06T20:57:07Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Have you thought about spending a few weeks with a career counselor? [http://www.right.com/ca/ab/calgar/lac/lac.htm](http://www.right.com/ca/ab/calgar/lac/lac.htm) These folks are very good. Don’t be fooled by the managementese on their web page; they know how to get people to find jobs. [/QUOTE] I liked Right Management’s tests best of all; I felt they did a good job of helping me pinpoint career interests. I think you might have to pay them, though, and I’m guessing they’re not cheap. [ALIS](http://www.alis.gov.ab.ca/hotline/main.asp) is an excellent resource. The Calgary office had lots of programs and the ALIS site has tons of information. I’ve used their stuff doing my papers for my courses in career counselling. ---
**Author:** ![mack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mack)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/44 "2007-06-06T21:43:36Z")
I was laid off at the beginning of April. I had an interview Friday that went well until I got to the last one - in the cramped cubicle of the HR guy. If he wasn’t asking convoluted questions he was being un-funny or going “Is that it? Is that it?”. I could picture whatever momentum I had from the other three interviews swirling down the drain. I guess it wasn’t as bad as the one before where the interview team wasn’t even clear what job I was interviewing for. They had two positions open and I came in interviewing for one and went out interviewing for the other. My old company uses Right Management for outplacemnt. I like them a lot. Mainly I use their jobs bank and e-learning. I should take advantage of their interviewing classes. I don’t think I’m very good at it. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/45 "2007-06-06T22:14:04Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] My brother-in-law is an Oracle programmer here in Calgary. He makes an extremely nice living working at contracts from a placement agency. With all the high-tech in Ottawa, I can’t imagine that they don’t have something similar there. I could ask him if he knows anything about that, if you’d like. [/QUOTE] Sure, why not? You never know. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/46 "2007-06-06T22:29:17Z")
Been looking to hire someone for quite a while, but can’t find anyone. People misrepresenting themselves, people with bad personalities, people who are unenployed and you understand upon interviewing them exactly why, etc. etc. Do I get any pity? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2007, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871/47 "2007-06-06T22:34:20Z")
NO PITY FOR YOU!!! Okay, maybe a little. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-want-to-join-my-job-search-pity-party/406871.md?page=2)