My experience job hunting.

Fill out and online form, send in a resume, come to our office and fill in another application exactly like the one you just did,
Have an advanced degree with a 3.8 or better gpa;
Have 5-10 years of experience;
Know at least 5 obscure, brand new programs at an expert level;
Have perfect credit, no offenses and 10 glowing references;
Give us access to your social media, bank statements, medical records, and what time you wipe your ass in the morning;
Be able to work nights, weekends, overtime, travel at moment’s notice at your own expense, take zero time off, ever, for any reason,
Pass a medical exam, drug test, a personality test, a skills test, and an ass kissing test;
Be a person of color, immigrant, or in need of an H1B visa,
Sign a statement you’ll never sue us for any reason, including sexual harassment or a hostile or unsafe workplace, or unlawful termination;
Oh, and we pay $10.50 an hour and the job is temporary, here sign this form that you won’t apply for unemployment when we lay you off with zero notice or reason.

Been unemployed for 5 months now. Even with my biochem degree I can't find a job.

If you aren't a leftist you should try to move to Texas.

I'm starting to see the required medical exam more and more, even for sit down jobs.

Everything you said is truth. So use your skills to build a website to document the bull shit that "educated" people have to go through to earn a minimum wage. You know, actually produce and service something. This website will become your business and watch the income roll in as you document a mockery that the US educational system has become. The entire US job market has become a grift (unless you're in a trade). Get in on the grift or learn how to use a hammer.

This is totally not true.

I've been employed in the private sector for 25 years, and this is some kind of ... sour grapes fantasy ... I'm sorry but it's just not true.

I have the kind of job where it's not only common ... it's expected we move on and look for new work every few years.

I've never worked in an office full of only immigrants or women or people willing to work round the clock or with perfect credit (that did matter in banking, but only before 2008-2010) ... it's just not true.

That is an accumulation ... an amalgam ... of every panicky HR related bulletin I've ever read. None of that bears out in real life.

If a person would simply go for it, despite what the "experts" or "peopel in the field" or stupid business articles say ... they'd see it wasn't true.

No one who has ever worked in business would say this is true.

Main reason the new minimum wage will have to be 20.25

And how the hell are you supposed to buy weed and beer, much less food to eat and a place to live, without a job?

"hunting"

job "hunting"

hunt ... how do you hunt ... you give yourself every advantage you can find ... look at all angles, make sure you don't smell fake ... dress the part

none of that stuff about they only hire these or they require this absolutely is true

pretend it's friggin deer and kill it

Hippies did not stink. They showered daily just like everyone else. They just wore different clothes, hair, beards etc.

Of course some didn't bathe regularly and stink just like people today, but the majority were clean just like people today.

The "dirty hippy" was a myth and a lie because the mainstream idiots hated them.

I'm old. I was there. I know.

you are one lying sack of shit, or your are a lazy stupid MOFO


amazon is hiring like crazy. you dont even go to an interview.... you apply online, and if you arent a convicted felon, you are automatically hired...


also, you can apply for 3rd party contractors who deliver amazon packages... they hire instantly as well.

lazy sack of shit


there are more jobs now than ever before, because the lard ass american population are sitting on their ass collecting their unemployment benefits rather than working...

Ebay? Babysit? Sell some stuff, some weed? Rent-a-rower was the local college fundraiser ... as OP might agree, women seem to have it down pat ....

For real, these replies are scary.

And how the hell are you supposed to buy weed and beer, much less food to eat and a place to live, without a job?

I don't know. Go over to the local college and ask them. they have it down pat.

People ... if you aren't trolling this is scary, this sense of "I need a job, I am able bodied and there are none" ... there are none where? to whose liking?

Food for thought

I'm a middle aged male, currently employed. I can program across many different areas, database proficiency, graphics and photography for web dev. On a more real side, material management, purchasing, logistics.

With that said, I consider none of it real skills.

No jobs.

Women have it easy.

Well, make like a woman and sell your ass.

Oh, wait ... not only is that not easy, it's not worth anything anyway.

Damn.

Lament lack of jobs.

Technical expertise will open any door, same with organizational skills. Sales is good if you're personable and speak well. There are shit jobs galore but they don't pay much.

Me too but it's real enough to fund the rest. I consider myself a business intelligence developer. It not the kind of skill im sure we both admire and aspire to, but it beats the alternative.

I take advantage of the physical/sleep/stress respite to develop real skills. My garden was nice. I can lay tile and hang drywall, too. I'm healthy and not worn out like my parents were at this age, thank God.

Skills are skills, jobs are what earn us money, sometimes they are the same, sometimes not. Need both.

True. I scan and pack my own groceries at Walmart, even when I have a full cart.

Seems like there is less and less of a need for nearly brainless "task jobs". What will all the uneducated, low skilled workers do then? These caravans coming up from Central America are full of illiterate, unskilled people who don't even speak English. I'm sure that some of them would like to "get a job" and make a better life, but the fact is, the American middle class worker bees will be subsidizing them to be here and do nothing but lay around all day and breed.

I went out with two old, male friends from high school who were in the top of the class with me, and the one who works in government complimented me .. "you have an actual marketable skill, you'll be ok"

People need to cut out the noise and make the money.

People know where their strengths are ... go for it.

Don't do a job a robot can do. It's demoralizing ... aim for your place, I say.

Sell yourself as an employment coach, with a focus on diversity, apply for every state grant on offer, hire some temporary office space for a couple of days a week and help the less privileged apply for jobs. Give back to your community. #buildbackbetter. They deserve your help.

Last Edited by DrGu on 01/21/2021 03:09 PM

o snap!

Brief's Momma so big she sells shade in the summertime!


no, she isnt really...

I noticed in my area that the Amazon delivery driver jobs are held by recent immigrants who do not speak english at all

2 different ones both look middle eastern

Both obviously did not understand English when i tried talking to them

one just kept smiling and the other grunted at me!??

You can get a job if you are a recent immigrant

I know a woman who refuses to work.. or drive or anything

She wants a man to drive her around, buy her food, buy her clothes, pay for her place.. etc

For what?

Women that do not work really are useless

sex is not a skill

absolute truth. companies want a 'good fit'.

tapped out at six

no one needs to know about my ass trumpet

I'm not making this up, either. My bahelor's degree is in religious studies. I had a full scholarship and I had NO IDEA what I wanted to do, so I took a bunch of classes that I liked and ended up with a major in Religious Studies and Anthropology and a Classics minor. I was stupid. My goal was to not lose my scholarship and graduate in 4 years.

There was no Internet to speak of when I was in college, until my senior year. But, to go to grad school for Philosophy and Journalism, I took a job as an editor at a local paper with a brand new web edition. It paid less than my bartending job, which in 98 paid me at least 40k.

I found what I was good at in the corporate world and just went with it. They are eager to help you develop your skills. It reflects highly on them, and they earn more money by helping you do better.

I decided not to go to grad school for Philosophy, but eventually went back for Software Engineering part-time.

Every day has been fun ... I couldn't work every day if it wasn't that's why I try to tell these young people ... you have to go to work and just do it. Enjoy it, always keep looking out for better.

No one who pays me begrudges me my liberal arts degree. They are grateful I am earning money for them. They appreciate the fact that I go for it.

Just go for it.

Stop listening to these people telling you the market is this or the market is that ... it is like 75% sour grapes, and 25% statistics.

They can take away your job, but they can't take away your accomplishments. You always have your accomplishments to propel you into your next job.

Last Edited by SugarSand on 01/21/2021 03:10 PM

I know a lot of bum men too, milking disability and the like. What is your point?

Do you want to work with someone who doesnt want to work?

Just let those people alone.

Ah, but many, many businesses have government contracts-- they need to meet diversity quotas-- so if one fits what they need, they are making money for the business just by being there

Hmm, keep up that depopulation agenda nonsense

OP is a mechanic?

I knew a guy that set up a business and did this out of his garage. Just a one car. Set up an account with one of the AutoZones/Advanced for the discounts, and word of mouth advertising. Customers lead to more word of mouth customers.

He secured a small business loan, and next thing I know he's renting out a building and going full on commercial mechanic gig. Has a few employees. His place is always busy, and he drives a 60k truck these days. Home newly built.

Take that skill and make it work for you OP.