That’s laughable. No wonder you are unemployable – you are not even willing to make a serious effort at finding work.
So get off your ass and move out of cental Florida. Just don’t move to Ontario, for we don’t need any losers from south of the border taking low end jobs away from overqualified people.
What the hell is a “serious effort” then?
Serious effort? All day, every day. All evening, every evening. National and international searches. Hit the road for work. In short, pull out all the stops until a job is found.
Think of this this way: the loser spends a couple of hours each day searching online, and a couple of full days each week physically searching. That adds up to about thirty hours per week – significantly less than what one would expect a full-time employee to put into a regular job, and no where near what one would expect a go-getter to put into a career based job.
Anyone who is not willing to put more effort into finding a job as a one would be expected to put into a regular job is not willing to make a serious effort at finding work. The loser is not even up to that level.
Hell, I’ve had a beard most of my adult life* and I have to beat the women off with a colander.
At least I think that’s the word.
By the way, there’s a Jean Shepherd story in which he was in fifth grade or thereabouts, when he got ahold of a copy of Boccaccio’s Decameron and wrote a book report on it, to the consternation of his teacher. A lot of it flew over Shepherd’s head, including the cuckolds, which he got the idea were some kind of bird.
*Family rumor has it that I had the beginnings of a five o’clock shadow at age 3.
Did I miss something, or are we all being left to imagine how Acid Lamp looks with and without a beard? He’s made some claims about how shaving it off messed up his appearance, but where are the before and after pictures? Or, in the usual words of the Dope… cite?
(My husband grew a beard in 1989, and it was a lovely shade of dark red. He still has it, but it is white now.)
You say going back to school isn’t an option because “you worked hard to get out of debt” and don’t want to live with student loans. I get that because I felt the same way but as someone who didn’t even finish college and is now realizing the gravity of how much my life could suck if I continue going from shitty job to shitty job as I have been these past couple of years, going back to school is looking better and better every day. And I’m already applying to schools now for the next possible term I can get into.
Point being that having some skills is an immense investment in yourself and the student loans are worth it. Especially if you go to a state school, get financial aid etc… the debt should really not be that life-breakingly awful.
I humbly suggest that you use some of this time to learn Spanish, since it seems to be a desirable job skill in your area. If you study three hours a day for ten weeks you should become reasonably good at speaking. I also suggest you stop trying to blame immigrants for your woes, since you know and I know that isn’t the real problem.
Go read a copy of What Color is my Parachute?. It will teach you why you aren’t getting the jobs you are applying for, teach you some new stuff, and give you some hope. It was tough for fresh college grads to find jobs before the economic crisis, too. Don’t just keep telling yourself the economy is making things impossible. Also, look up my Craig’s List technique. Every single time I have used it it has gotten me a job within a week.
Off you ass! Self pity and blame tossing never got anyone anywhere!
Look, it’s very simple.
A man whose wife has been unfaithful to him is known as a “cuckold.”
A woman whose husband has been unfaithful to her is known as a “wife.”
Acid Lamp, have you considered “dumbing down” your resume when you send it to the entry-level places?
Doing that got me several jobs. At least three of the people in my current 8-people team don’t list all our degrees.
Six months, 400+ applications, four interviews, one part time job. Believe me, you aren’t the only one having trouble with today’s economy. I feel ya on that.
If speaking Spanish is as desirable a job skill as you portray, learn Spanish. Problem solved.
Dude, I feel your pain. I’m in NW FL. I think I’ve worked a total of about five weeks all year. Everybody who’s piling on you needs to STFU. No one has made a fucking peep about the beating your self-image takes when you’re constantly looking for employment that isn’t there. People, the man could use some moral support here, not your snark and vitrol-ish tripe.
Really sorry about the beard…kinda like being kicked when you’re down, no?
Best of luck. I’d say it’ll get better, but that sounds a bit hollow right now.
And to those of you who are going to pile on me, STFU!
Anyone who shits all over Latinos the way this loser has gets no moral support from me.
I’m willing to cut him a bit of slack as being unemployed for a significant period of time can do strange things to you. That being said, you need to go into interviews projecting confidence. Also, he may need to move to another part of the U.S. is the job market really sucks down there.
What really surprises me is how professionally useful Spanish would be down there.
I’m going to make one more post regarding the snark, and not address it further. While I went off on a few tangents, the point was to vent my frustration at being unemployed and having to sell myself out visually. If you want to debate immigration, take it to GD, and I’ll be happy to argue all day
I didn’t blame my problems solely on immigrants, so shut the fuck up about it. Only two out of the twelve things I bitched about were aimed at them. We aren’t going to agree, and unless you happen to be unemployed, NOT in IT or medical, and living in an area where job loss is at record high; I don’t think you either understand, nor comprehend the massiveness of the problem.
Moving is not an option. We can’t afford it, and Nashiitashii is still finishing her master’s degree, which requires occasional visits to her campus. We WILL be moving as soon as she’s done and one of us can locate decent employment.
For those who said look farther, I am and will continue to do so, but the pay has to justify the commute. To get around here you have to use either toll roads, or take the freeway which bogs down terribly during the usual rush hour. We figured out that at the base end of it 7.50-8.50 hr, It is only worth me going less than 30 min. If I go any farther, I *lose *money on gas and tolls.
For those who suggest I learn Spanish, I am. I speak haltingly and understand most of it if spoken slowly. I lack sufficient vocabulary depth, and have problems with the tenses a lot. It takes time to learn it though, and I can’t compete with native speakers in that arena. Considering that we don’t plan to be here longer than another year though, I’m not certain that a concerted effort on my part is worth it.
Muffin, you can eat a shit-slathered necrotic donkey cock. Besides searching for work, I’ve been making calls to my clients trying to get contract work (which usually carries me this time of year and has completely dried up), dealing with the deaths of two immediate family members, their estate issues, minding the house, and picking up the slack for Nashiitashii since she had lost her mother and couldn’t do her share for a good while. You can only do so much, and calls and personal visits can only be made during open hours and you know it. When all you get is rejections or apologetic admissions that they can’t hire right now, 30 hrs a week is enough of getting shit on.
Nava, I hadn’t considered dumbing down my resume’ as everyone had always told me that listing your degrees is a good thing. Perhaps I’ll give that a shot.
Thank you for confirming that you are not willing to put in full-time effort at finding a job.
Nice cherry pick, fuckwit. :rolleyes:
I ran into a similar problem as he did when I graduated college in 05 (I’m in Michigan, and the job market and economy has sucked here for a lot longer than in other areas). I’d literally run out of jobs I could apply to that were posted. I’d apply to anything I was vaguely qualified for… and what do you do when you don’t have any new job postings? You have to wait for any to show up (and yes, I was searching newspapers, craigslist, careerbuilder, dice.com, etc.).
I love when people say to pack up and move. There’s this thing called money. I didn’t have any because… I didn’t have a job. Therefore, I couldn’t move. Then I couldn’t get a job because I couldn’t move to a place that had more jobs… And no, I couldn’t borrow moving money from anyone else (like my parents). They had about as much spare money floating around as I had.
If it wasn’t for an awesome doper here who I ended up networking with, chances are decent I’d still be a part time teller at a credit union (which was the only job besides seasonal retail I had been able to get).
Which is why you keep harping on Latinos: