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Unemployed Rant
relic2279:
--- Quote from: MerryLilith on May 28, 2010, 03:19:56 AM ---- I spend 8 hrs a day online looking for work. I fill out applications and send in resumes/cover letters. I can usually apply to 5-10 jobs a day.
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I don't mean to sound rude, cold or hostile, but I do mean to sound blunt.
If you're seriously putting that much work in, and not finding a job, then you're gonna have to lower your standards until you do find a job.
You will have to accept the reality that everyone who gets a degree doesn't "automatically get a job". You may need to quite literally suck it up and work as a receptionist, cashier at a gas station or cook at McDonalds.
--- Quote ---- As for McD's and the like: I have more education than they want.
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That's an excuse. Leave the higher education field blank. Then bask in the moral glory knowing that your bringing to the company a higher level of competence than others of your position do not have.
Chiyachan:
@MerryLilith - Sorry if I offended you. I live in Britian, like the OP. I got no idea on the situation in the US, but I know EXACTLY what it's like here in my home country.
It's probably very different.
Proin Drakenzol:
if you're really desperate, join the military. I doubt they'll turn you away. and if it's anything like the states it makes getting a job afterwards easier.
Arc-sama:
Sometimes its not what you know but who you know. I have gotten jobs in the pass because either someone I know told me about it or new employer was one of my customers (I worked in retail related businesses for a long time).
OniSamurai:
--- Quote from: Arc Da Rat on May 28, 2010, 08:23:19 AM ---Sometimes its not what you know but who you know. I have gotten jobs in the pass because either someone I know told me about it or new employer was one of my customers (I worked in retail related businesses for a long time).
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Funny, I was just talking to a friend about this. Knowing people is a great tool in finding jobs. Hell I can say that every job I've ever had, even my current job at UPS which I've had for almost 7 years now, was from knowing someone. You have to know someone who can get you a job somewhere. At UPS, we hire more people who are friends/family of people who work there, than people that apply online. I've never actually met one person at UPS who was hired from applying online, and I ask every new person.
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