Job Hunting anyone?

Miscellaneous General
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I’ve finally given up after searching for 4-5 months, I can’t say I didn’t try hard. Its ridiculous, I looked everywhere and there isn’t anything new. All I can do is fucking sit here an d wait until employers are willing to hire people my age which is a year from now when the Economy has recovered. Its annoying as all hell, there’s nothing I can do about bettering my chances of employment when all I have is a High School Diploma. [:@]

Getting jobs is very competitive here, it feels like if you want the reward of buying something with your hard work you need to be really lucky or have opportunities through your parents. The min. wage here is 7.25/Ho. Which is also because the cost of living here in Connecticut is extremely high.

It really sucks seeing all your friends buy everything they want, even if they aren’t happy with the jobs. I am not going to be able to buy new video games coming out, or better musician equipment. My anger is almost big enough to make me say Socialism is a solution to this by forcing employers to hire people and cut back on other expenses in their budgets. “People before profits” right?

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  1. If employers cut back on other expenses, then the companies that supply those goods and services that are being cut will suffer. Remeber, there is the “seen” and the “unseen.”
  2. How will socialism be better?
  3. Sell on eBay.
  4. Do random jobs, for example, carrying your neighbor’s groceries into her home.
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Heaps of work out there if you are willing to hustle. There always is. The problem is, if you don’t have any productive advantages over general labour, then you will have to work hard and cheap. Connecticut sounds like opportunities for snow clearing soon.

Instead of being frustrated try to be positive. No one gets anything done when they are frustrated.

When firms start to cut employees, that means there is no work for them. If there was work, firms would hire workers, particularly with labour costs getting cheaper. Firms make more money when they have more workers doing more work, not less workers doing less work.

You want a job. Enough apparently to debate having the state force someone to hire you, even if they don’t have work for you. It would be like the state forcing your family to take on another person (or a couple persons) to clothe, feed and house.

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I am jealous. If I had time to study more and gain a degree or certification, I would consider the effort invaluable.

Perhaps your standards are too high?

If there are no jobs to be found, entreprenuership is a noble venture. Make a business model and pursue a loan. The entrepreneur must first ask; “what kind of laws must I contend with, and where will I get the capital?” The damned interventionist market stifles job growth, and enterprise.

I think a real labour theory of value would say that anything worth having is worth working for, and say nothing else.

If you want better musical equipment use your computer? “Tis the poor carpenter who lays blame upon his tools.” Perhaps just spend that vast amount of free time becoming more skilled. Learn theory, study compisition. When I was a teen a stole a hymn book from a church. It has made a nice tool for learning cord structure, and modulation. The internet is full of free classical music in which to study. The computer is an excellent device for effects.

Good luck in your pursuits. I suggest you work harder.

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Hmmm. You want firms to be forced to abandon profits because, although you are living perfectly fine you want more commodities… Consistent! Trust me in a free market you’d be employed and if you weren’t everything you wanted would be at minimum 25 to 30 percent cheaper

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I did the whole entrepreneurship thing, doing odd computer-repair jobs to earn some cash and free meals (or both, from some people). I do everything by word of mouth. It doesn’t get me much, but it’s better than nothing.

What spurred me on this path was a rejection from Staples after applying to be a computer repair guy. They have an online quiz that you have to take, and this quiz decided I was unqualified. Instead of asking, “Have you ever fixed a computer?” it starts with “Have you ever fixed a computer for a job?” Yes, I have fixed a computer, but no, not for a job. And so on and so forth for all of the questions.

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You must be joking. With that for a plan you are going to be unemployed for a long, long time. Sorry to tell you but “The Economy” isn`t coming back. And why the capital letter anyways? Is Economy your personal idol at whose altar you pray?

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Try setting up posters around universities and schools. If you have literally nothing else to do you could hand out flyers at the mall.

You could learn a new skill, perhaps by going to school.

The foolproof solution is to move!!! There are many jobs available for unskilled workers that pay pretty well, it just depends on your willingness to relocate. Try looking for the nearest oilfield and seeing if they are recruiting hands/guagers. Every oilfield i’ve been at or heard of has problems attracting people. Those jobs pay $10/hr with plenty of overtime and advancement opportunities. They especially want young guys like you to train because the majority of folks in the fields are getting pretty old.

Also, its not near as dangerous as it used to be. Statistically, you have a greater chance of getting in a car accident than an oilfield accident (if you are an oilfield worker :stuck_out_tongue: )

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Although you may be a victim, I can’t feel bad for the fact that you can’t purchase the same videogames as your friends. There are people in a worse situation than you. It would be smart if you could feel compassion for them.

Your feeling of helplessness is normal. Anyone up alone against a greater power faces the same. I have faced it before. It is not the most productive.

You are young. You have nothing to lose. It’s the perfect time to make some trouble for the authorities. Keep it organized and popular. Meet some people. Don’t stay alone.

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This is a dangerous system for them as it only recruits people who have the reflex to lie.

Unless that’s the kind of employee they want.

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You gotta be f&cking kidding me.

Your dad needs to slap you so hard your teeth rattle.

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/popcorn

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What you can do is what I have done.

Learn technical analysis.

Using technical analysis and a simple charting software, you can start doing a trend trading of stocks with a small trading account, and you’ll be making money gradually from time to time from trading stocks, with earning enough every month to pay your bills and buy what you want.

Believe me, learning and implementing technical analysis was the easiest thing I ever did.

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I’m sorry to hear things are so tough up in Connecticut. Though, sitting and waiting is not the right answer. There are other options as some other people have pointed out. You may not like the other options but they are there. Just to throw this out (and I know this is not popular around these parts) but you can always join the military. You get a job and college money. Again I know its not a popular idea around these parts but from a pratical standpoint it could be a good option for you. You can always move to where the jobs are. Millions of people around the world do it every year.

Or you can stand still while your parents or the government enable you to do nothing to improve your own plight. Is this how people “learn to be helpless”, to steal a phrase from another of your threads. Not trying to be rude but its your life and you are in control of your own destiny. Blaming others and looking to them for your salvation will gaurantee that you are at their mercy. I vote for self reliance.

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That’s actually what I’m in the process of doing. The computer repair stuff is to have money to live off of while doing it. [:)] I also am working on a few mod tools and contributions to open-source projects to add a few things to my resume – who’d want to hire a CS grad without any useful programs? I certainly wouldn’t, especially not in this climate. I believe a grocery store might open up around here soon, so I might be able to find some work there.

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Well, at least you don’t have it as bad as this person.

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Murder and theft are practical options too then.

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I wholly approve of this post.

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I figured this would come up. We live in the system we are all part of it. Even the most pricipled of us here. I know that some here disagree but you dont actually have to kill to be a member of the military. Therefore you dont have to be a murder to serve. As far as the theft goes (I assume you mean living off tax dollars) we are all guilty everytime use a government service. From a pratical standpoint in our present society there is nothing wrong a military option. Of course my arguement is something that yall have heard more than once as well. Hell if the traditional military is a problem, join the coast gaurd. They conduct almost exclusively domestic operations and more times than not are helping those who are in trouble.

Hopefully yall wont run me off because of this opinion. :wink: