My experience job hunting.

illegals get those jobs now. even walmart. probably with my ss# too. merica

An entire generation in England never worked !

Welcome to the new 21st century . Remember when people were saying trades men would be the only employed people in the future ?

A robot cannot do trade work . Flooring and paint , carpentry on a job site , Installing windows and doors .

I suggest learn how to sell Windows and doors as a start .

I never got rich at my trade . However , moving out of NYS and to a town were there was retirement folk and beach homes helped me generate income .

Go were the retirees live , they need stuff done all the time .

theres not many of them, they just wanted trump gone,and now that trump is gone theyre slowly realizing they voted literally for the corruption lol no $2000, no BLM planned meetings, no defund the police, no arrest trump, no impeaching trump is the old senate, not creating jobs but bus in illegals to take your job in middle of a recession soon to be depression. theyre realizing this actually faster than i expected.

Thank God I get a pittance from social security. I'm a professional musician, and in PA, there's no music venues open. They are starting to open up, so we shall see. I also worked in elderly care, but since i don't ever want to take the vax, I can't work in that industry anymore.
I tried a couple of shit jobs in local deli's but they don't know if they should hire yet. They never know when the governor is going to shut them down again.
It's bad out there for some of us.
My sons have jobs that can be done on computers and are doing great. Thank God for that!

crime pays, look at the government

Baby boom booms will just say “just get a job”

Musicians are getting screwed bigtime

Hubby used to have paying gigs every weekend. In 2020 he had 4 shows total all year. It sucks

LOL....great idea.

go fish.

do yourself a favour and take time go throug, as many as possible, goddard neville videos...there's is one specific video where he guides through a visualisation process...

very powerful...

I applied for a proj mgr job in oil and gas. I have outstanding resume. There were 600 other applicants.

They tried to weed people out by having applicants submit an entire project mgt plan for a hypothetical project. 200 people submitted.

Then they did extensive video interview with top 20.

I made final 5 and didn't get the job. Had to go work shit job to pay bills.

At that shit job, there were people so way over qualified it's not even funny. I'm talking career welders, technicians, machinists, even engineers making a fraction of what they should.

Now? I moved up 3 positions so decent money but still way underpaid.

I'm working my side hustle and making a third of what I make at full time job. But when you got something that starts to work, all you have to do is scale it up. I can produce more than what I sell. Meaning all I have to do is increase my sales outlets and refine my marketing materials to improve conversion rate. Conversion rate is # of views divided by # of sales. Anything over 1.5% is considered successful. I'm at 3.3%. That's a winner. But you always strive to improve every single aspect of your business.

As far as jobs working for others?

This isn't the 90's. Probably will never return to that. Work a job that teaches you a product or service then figure out how to do it on your own and be competitive at same price.

Last, don't go opening a business you don't know shit about and are not a high performer in. You got to be better to succeed.

And just think... loser ass democrats are going to invite in 100 million unskilled illegals to suck up even more jobs.

Sucks to be you.

You could always pick up a shovel and learn to make that thing work...

Oh wait, no you can’t. 100 million unskilled laborers are coming up from Central American. So forget about that as well.

Gotta love them demoncraps though. They care.

I think the government is LYING

It might help to join a church or AA meeting group even if you intuitively cringe at either concept or would say you don't fit the bill. Either scenario is people on a daily basis looking to help get each other into a good place. You might even enjoy the company and in time be able to help others in your shoes.

I know that some will reject this flat out. But verily, beggars cannot be choosers.

Prayer and regularly seeing groups of people will, by volition of itself, drastically increase your odds of finding work as opposed to just roughing it alone, which so often leads to an perpetual recurrence of silence and despair.

My husband, 50's white male, still searching after 18 mos. Ageism + racism = no jobs for him.

Last Edited by Usually Curious 2018 on 01/21/2021 07:56 AM

^^^^THIS^^^^

One comment - I am a contract worker, working remote, for a large science/tech firm on the East Coast. I'm in the recruiting department doing admin assistant work, and they are doing a huge push for new candidates. HOWEVER, off the official record, but in the private recruiting chat channel, they talk about the quotas.

So if you're a talented, qualified white guy, you're at the bottom of the list. First, of course, are the "under represented" or "under served" people which is the new liberal/millennial code for not-white and/or gay, LBTQXYZwhatever. They even discussed that they couldn't tell if one applicant was gay or not (and they can't ask), but obviously that is a "bonus" point if that candidate was.

Next, of importance in selecting candidates, was "women," since it's a tech firm, but I'm sure they didn't mean white ones. Those are last but before white men.

I'm not trying to sound racist at all, but it just is what it is. If I were a non-white and I found out I got chosen just because I was, say, a brown, gay, woman, and not for my actual skills and abilities, I would be upset and felt pandered to.

What bugs me is *they* scream about equality but are the first to continue to reinforce differences. How about everybody is just judged by their merit/skills/background, etc. NOT THEIR DAMN SKIN COLOR, SEXUAL PREFERENCE OR AGE?

*sigh* I'm just really thankful I found this remote work gig. I'm slightly over 50 and at least with Zoom, you can apply a filter and adjust your appearance on the webcam, so these people have no idea how "old" I really am.

Edit: the recruiters mentioned above are all white and straight........FWIW

Last Edited by Lilaq on 01/21/2021 07:59 AM

What field is the OP in?

We have been advertising the same positions for months as well, problem is the labor pool.

Good work ethics have been replaced with an attitude of entitlement, and very few want to work hard in a manufacturing career.

I have been hiring 5, and then firing 4 consistently.

Skilled trades require skills.

Sweet Jesus, Are you able to even read what you write. You overthink, cant spell for shit. If you went in the recruitment process yourself I suspect you would fail too.

If everyone in your company is like you, and your HR???

DUDE start looking for a JOB, your company is going to go bankrupt with this think.

One day your employees are going to burn your business too the ground.

Because they cant perform required tasks? Refer to my entitlement remarks...

You people are stuck in a civilian world of job hunting that plainly just sux. As long as you are not a felon, have a US citizenship, and can get a simple CompTia security + cert, there are millions of jobs waiting for you in the DOD contractor field working for defense contractor companies. Easiest I terviees, no hyperbole of race, better money, and millions of jobs always ready to be filled.

I finally landed a job this time last year after getting laid off a year and a half prior. The job required college education, experience and testing. It is half of what I was making and twice the work.

I’m stuck for now. The job opportunities were terrible in 2018and even worse now.

Good luck. Direct care in residential settings are hiring with bonuses if you aren’t worried about getting sick. Alsoinsta cart shoppers and delivery jobs. Amazon is a big employer too, $17/ hour in my area.,

$15 an hour is not going to replace the vehicle you're running into the ground making Jeff bezis richer

They don't allow cars in the warehouse...Amazon drivers use company trucks...I really don't know what you are talking about...He might wear out some shoes, but the exercise alone is worth that...

NO, Because you and I both know, the job changes all the time and based on what you said, when they out live their use to you.

You boot them. (Not Training and looking after your staff gets you staff who don't give a shit about you or your business.) I bet they doing private work for your clients while you not looking. Start their own companies after they left and laugh at you every time they think of you.

But one day you going to hire a nutjob. Who wont thinks your way of business is just not required anymore.

Are you sure you not on the left? They dont grasp these things at all.

This sounds like healthcare. Couldn't find a full-time spot during the Obama years, but now it's fuck you part-timers.

I don't even go to college, I just have a life which is way worse.