I open up the mail today and get another potential job turned down in my face. This time–it was a minimum wage, no-experience-required, thankless, labor-intensive, COUNTY job.
The fucking COUNTY GOVERNMENT won’t hire me! They don’t even get paid living wages! They scrape around trying to find anyone pathetic enough for the fieldwork!
DISNEYLAND won’t hire me! Chrissake! The place hires 8000 people every season for slave-labor doing temporary, or part-time work!
And it’s not that I don’t just get hired–I haven’t even been given an -interview-!
Bloody Hell! This is just getting stupid! I’m scraping at the most pathetic jobs the bottom of the barrel has to offer, and I’m getting turned away!
But why?! I had 3.3 GPA…I’m attending college…I got an IQ over 150…SAT scores over 1100 I don’t have anything bad on my insurance record…never been charged with a crime…never smoked, drank, or used drugs.
I’m self-taught with a lot of computer clerical skills, am versatile with different OS’s both old and new, and have even begun to learn Unix through a shell. I even have some -volunteer- work experience to my name! Don’t I have anything -marketable- to offer? I’m the best goddamn desperate pathetic candidate for -any- loser job out there! So why can’t I even get hired to wipe toilets at the Happy Kingdom?! Somebody tell me -PLEASE!-
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*Originally posted by Ashtar *
I had 3.3 GPA…I’m attending college…I got an IQ over 150…SAT scores over 1100 I don’t have anything bad on my insurance record…never been charged with a crime…never smoked, drank, or used drugs.
I’m self-taught with a lot of computer clerical skills, am versatile with different OS’s both old and new, and have even begun to learn Unix through a shell. I even have some -volunteer- work experience to my name!
You just answered your own question as to why you can’t get a “shit job,” or whatever they’re called in California. You are overqualified and the employers know you’ll quit as soon as something better comes along. Some people can’t hold a job, but some jobs can’t hold people.
Yea—maybe…
But the sad part is–there are no entry-level places that are hiring clerical workers or data workers or something that I -would- be qualified for.
Everybody wants somebody with experience…and I can’t get experience because nobody else will hire me!
Anybody out there need a volunteer worker? Maybe if I do enough of it–then it’ll count as ‘experience’.
-Ashley “Pakistani dirt vendors make more than me” Tarquin
Seriously though, If they don’t provide you with a reason that they’re not hiring you, beyond the standard “not a good match for us at this time” garbage, call 'em up and ask.
have you tried out temp agencies? They are sometimes helpful.
An easy way to get experience.
If you are in college, you might want to look into getting an internship somewhere that specializes in your major. I was never a big propenent of working for free, but sometimes it pays off.
Um, Ashley? Um, you probly don’t wanna, like, include your last name? In, you know, a post where, like, you promise to like drop your pants? For like dog food?
Look in the yellow pages for a few temp agencies. Go talk to them. A good one will help you prepare a resume. They’ll test your basic office skills (typing, Office) and anything else you claim to do well (better wear some fast-droppin trou). Then they’ll send you to work on short assignments on really shitty office jobs. You’ll get a little more experience, and not have to hang around too long if it’s a really shitty (i.e., filing) job. And if you really are as good as you say, one of the places that just buys your ass for a couple weeks may want to hire you more permanent-like.
Leaving aside the subject of ventriloquism with a dead Siamese twin (now I have to go scrub my mind), Ashtar, might there be something wrong with your resume or cover letter? Not to say that I think there is, but it sounds like you have marketable skills, but you’re not getting even an interview . . . . In my office, we automatically round-file any applications that include typos grammatical errors, or style errors. Maybe your materials could be improved? Just wondering. Oh, and I also think temp agencies might be a good bet to get experience; in fact, my brother got a really good job in Dallas by starting as a temp and then being so personable and professional that the firm hired him outright.
Freshman? Forget it, enjoy your classes, enjoy being young, concentrate on getting work later.
About temp agencies:
You go in, tell them your qualifications, drop off a resume, sometimes they have you take general office work tests, (Typing, excel, filing) Then they try to match you up with temp jobs in the area. I think they usually concentrate on full time temp jobs. But, they also offer temp positions that are part time.
I hope I explained that halfway competently. I still say you shouldn’t worry about a job until the summer time. But, thinking about it, I worked when I was a freshman, money is nice, and you can still do well in classes and have fun with friends while working. So, through the course of this message I changed my mind.
Anyway, be happy about not working at Disneyland. Just ask CowboyGreg, its a company that takes your brain an injects corporate slogans while you work there.
Disneyland hires almost entirely on enthusiam. If you send them a resume, inlcude a cover letter that says you love everything Disney, and would be a very happy worker. At the interview, smile and say how wonderful it must be to work in the Magic Kingdom. It works. Oh, and you have to have a really clean cut appearance.
I take it you’re at CSUF, aka Cal State Disneyland?
I should note that Disney is hiring big time anyone who has construction experience for it’s California Adventure section. Before it opens they will have to hire a huge number of people to staff the new place.
Try going back to them and give the impression that your only goal in life is to work there. If they believe, they will hire you regardless of what else is on your resume (provided you have no convictions for any major felonies, etc.)
Ashtar… you’re still just out of high school… it’s a long haul to get ‘experience’… I went through the same thing 30 years ago when I first started job hunting… the trick, like someone else said… is a first class snazzy resume’.
I’ve written resume’s for several years. When you’re just starting out… list everything you did as a kid… from a lemonade stand to a paper route… and put your best picture right there at the top on the left… makes it stand out among the ‘throng’… also use a pastel colored paper… makes it stand out among all the white, grey, and ivory printed resumes…
Engineer Don: Actually–I’m a bit farther north and to the east–in the San Bernardino area attending CSUSB. It’s kinduva long commute to Disneyland–but I’m desperate enough to give it a shot anyways.
As for the temp agency deal–I will -definatley- check that out. Especially if it’s only temporary, contractual work. If I get accepted to the other school I applied to–I’ll only be in California for a few more months or so.
Matt_Mcl: I don’t know french–but if you’ve got a job for me, I’ll learn it as I go.
Angkins: If you can supply some hot water and a can of Columbian Roast–you’ve got a deal.
Jodi: I try to double and triple-check my papers–but I guess it wouldn’t hurt to have somebody else look it over, too–thanks fer the idea!
To everyone else out there–thanks for your support! It is -much- appreciated!
