I put both ‘‘full-time student’’ and ‘‘unemployed,’’ because both are technically true, though I have an internship for 24 hours a week on top of full-time coursework.
I am in my last week of graduate school and currently looking for work. So far my search has been relatively half-assed - I applied to one job that is my absolute dream, and I have a lead on another at my current internship. I plan to devote the entire month of May to job applications and volunteer work. So only time will tell how discouraging this process is for me.
Employed full time and also part-time student. I went back to college after dropping out ~20 years ago, finished my BS about a year ago, and leapt right into an MS program.
I chose “unemployed” and “other”. I voluntarily left the job in IT I’d been in for 7 years at the beginning of April because I’m immigrating to Canada, and need the time before then (beginning of May) to get stuff done. I’ve been laid off three times, two of those times were by the same company that went under, and one was by another company that went under (I graduated college in '99 so joined the work force right in time for the dot com boom/bust), but it was never for any significant length of time, thankfully. When I hit Canada, I won’t be able to work till I get Permanent Resident status which will take some time, so I’m going to be a housewife, more or less. My husband makes enough to support the two of us, so I’ll be able to take my time and figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I’m damn lucky.
I am almost full time (.9) at one job, have a 10 hour a week just-for-fun job at my friend’s coffee shop, and took 2 classes last semester, though I’m planning on waiting until the fall to take 2 more classes. And I’m not sure I’ll be able to do both part time job and classes then- it’s too much.
During last years unemployment thread, I had been unemployed for almost a year. However, shortly after, I finally found a job! Since then, I have been employed full time at a job I like. Yeah!
Underemployed. As in I have 10 years experience as an RF engineer and I’m being paid, according to city surveys, a pretty good entry-level wage for someone in my field.
I’ve been employed by the same company (although it’s gone through several mergers and buyouts) and supervised by the same boss for 16 years. In software development in the Silicon Valley, that’s pretty amazing.
Full-time student for another 2 months, then unemployed by choice over the course of the summer (complete with trip to Europe!). I’m looking at starting to work in August/September, and I don’t anticipate any difficulties in landing a job in my field, since there is currently demand and I have several “ins” at the company I’m looking to work for (where I spent 3 summers working as well).
I consider myself “under employed” so I checked unemployed and part time. I have a masters and should be teaching college classes, but right now I am just a lowly high school substitute teacher.
I looked for the poll option of “underemployed,” but didn’t find it, so I chose “employed, part time.” I work 4 nights a week as a hotel night auditor. This was the first job I found in my industry, almost a year after being laid off. Previously, I was the corporate director of sales and marketing for a group of 14 hotels.
By the summer, I could choose (definitely) student, at least part time, and employed (hopefully) full-time. The spousal unit and I are moving at the end of the school year, and my first two goals after unpacking are to return to school and find a job. (We are moving to a different county, approximately 60 miles from our current location, so that the kids will be in better schools. Cheaper than private school!)
I tend to describe myself as working 65% of full-time, but according to my employer I am working 40% of full-time plus five hours of substitute teaching with lesson planning supplement per week. What this means in practice is that I am getting paid for fewer hours than I am, in practice, required to work. Ah, the pampered life of the teacher…
Full time I’m a nurse. After work I may work anywhere from 5 to 30 hours /week helping the beau with his business. (I put in these hours often doing office type work, driving, or attending meetings usually for free which means, NO his business is not self sustaining…sometimes it is very profitable, but those times are often back-filling holes from deficits he runs elsewhere.) I also have one course on the go. And I’m a mom, and do stuff for my son’s school…(I will probably end up “running” the PTA equivalent next year) and …
So wonder I’m so tired. Holy crap. I set my alarm for 8 to do two loads of laundry this morning. And smarty pants me decided to pull up the old lino and re tile my back entry. This weekend.
Full-time but my school makes us work for different companies in the last quarter of the first year of my program. I’ve been working for eBay for the last couple of months, have another couple of weeks to go on my practical/school assigned internship, have 5 weeks off and then start up my full-time summer internship in June.
No idea what I’m going to do full-time, which is probably stressing me out unnecessarily.
