job complaining thread
This doesn't really have much to do with 6:35. I just felt like coming in here and talking about how I can't find a damn job. Maybe it'll touch off some kind of discussion about jobs, or about job searches. Maybe it'll make everyone here hate me. I don't know.
Is everyone here in college? Do you guys have jobs?
Is everyone here in college? Do you guys have jobs?
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I work ticket redemption at an arcade, but only
A) When my brother's working (I can't drive yet).
I've held the job since November and actually worked twice. I don't mind, it's the easiest job ever.
I'm very frustrated, though, because getting an M.S. in engineering is supposed to open professional doors. It did not. I constantly worry that my degree is going to somehow 'expire' as I work jobs that do not require math or analysis.
As JC and a few others here know, I'd really like a nice administrative job at a university-- a job that values education, allows me to make decisions, and makes me feel as if I'm contributing in some way to the quality of the organization. So far, no takers.
This week I found out about something that made me a bit less worried about my degree expiring-- I'm going to join Engineers Without Bounds, the group that contributes engineering work to third-world communities who request assistance. I'm not sure that my skills are a great match, but perhaps I'll learn some new ones.
Leesh was actually offered an awesome job pretty recently, JC.
it's true: i was offered a pretty awesome job (i start in june)--but of course, it took me TWO master's degrees to actually get it. i have had a lot of odd (seriously, odd) jobs in the past, though.
for people looking for jobs, maybe talking to some temp agencies (at universities and elsewhere) is something to think about. ok, there's no health insurance, but i know a lot of temps who have been hired full-time (i would have been, had i not been about to start my second master's degree). it just depends how desperate you are, i guess.
and seriously, you never know what skills employers may be looking for--i actually have relevant work experience for only about half of my future job, but they recruited me due to my awesome language skills. skills that will, in fact, be paying the bills. starting in june.
EDIT: You also get to meet some really smart people if you work the right jobs. Most of the guys learned the same things working that they would've learned in an engineering school or electical engineering, but they got to earn money at the same time. BOCTAE, there are also plenty of guys from the lower rungs of society.
But you do get sexy working construction 60 hours a week in the hot sun. And the money is good too.
Just don't work fast food. I've done that in the past. I once worked with a guy who broke his wrist, because one night he was really high and drunk, and he tried to clothesline a stop sign. He said it was talking shit to him.
I like the idea of building stuff, though.
leesh- thanks. I haven't tried a temp agency in a while (the last time, I KILLED their tests and they didn't offer me anything), but it may be time to try again. If it's not prying, I'd like at least some clue as to who recruits based on awesome language skills. I can totally fake those for almost a whole interview!
Stef- I am totally with you on the administrative college job. I am looking in the same direction. A nice campus environment, quiet office-- rather like grad school, except you know how to do the things you're supposed to do, and everyone else there is not a hypercompetitive genius.
Okay, I'm glad I made this thread. It is making me feel somewhat better to talk to friends about this stuff.
Right now I am an assistant to a pr-executive-type. I mostly enjoy my work because I have an excuse to dress up every day.
It's pretty vapid but it's all I have right now.
All my friends who do have jobs seem to spend all their time working and not enjoying the money they actually get.
Admittedly I'll have to get a job eventually to do the whole 'own a house' thing, but for now it's all good.
if you want to do admin stuff at a university, definitely look into their temp agencies--and if you don't hear back from them, call and see what's up so they know you're interested.
Hopefully the interviewin' suit is actually giant mech armour so that Stef actually survives.
Most of the applications I have put in were out of desperation, but I put an application in at a nice sandwich cafe to be a cook and at a quaint little coffee shop to be a barista, I'm hoping I can get those two jobs.
At this rate, everyone on the forums will be a barista at some time in their life!
Soon I'll be doing SOMETHING in the air force! Possibly engineering based. I want to use it as a springboard into NASA - the dying space program that our government and people see more as an organization worthy of charity than as an organization worthy of proper funding and national support.
It's not exactly my dream job.
I now work in a job that can best be described as "ridiculously wonderful," but I had to go through six months of hell in another, far less enjoyable job before I found it.
-- Nato