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K7IA:
Furiously looking for a job, filling out applications forms and liquidating your assets that ends in series of failures to get a job will only increase your frustration. At some point, it will cause you to underperform in a key moment, make a mistake or even irritate the person who will give the verdict on you :)
Instead - even if you are a professional - getting to know people with common interests, in that sense socializing but with real face-to-face communication, being there when you are needed with the necessary skills and know-how yields better results and doesn't happen in only hollywood movies. Utilizing what you have got - along with your assets - does not require scientific knowledge.
Determination, openness to communication and the ability to comprehend what is going on around you are key factors if you want to be successful. You don't need to be uber-skilled to earn a living.
Believe me, get some expertise while you are young, don't just work. It is immensely more difficult to seek a job when you are over 30 with no concrete and noteworthy work experience.
relic2279:
--- Quote from: K7IA on May 29, 2010, 10:39:47 AM ---Furiously looking for a job, filling out applications forms and liquidating your assets that ends in series of failures to get a job will only increase your frustration. At some point, it will cause you to underperform in a key moment, make a mistake or even irritate the person who will give the verdict on you :)
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I completely disagree with this. Because I've done just that and it has worked.
You say "not to do it" but you offer no reasonable answer, recourse or alternative.
A person has bills to pay, perhaps kids to feed, a car payment, maybe a mortgage, or at the very least, rent. How do you suppose a person stay afloat financially in a situation like that with no job or viable income, while waiting for your "communication, comprehension and networking skills" to payoff?
Eventually, you will lose everything. You don't take risks with your life. Find a lower paying, low skill job to keep you afloat until you can land a better job.
K7IA:
--- Quote from: relic2279 on May 29, 2010, 10:51:18 AM ---
--- Quote from: K7IA on May 29, 2010, 10:39:47 AM ---Furiously looking for a job, filling out applications forms and liquidating your assets that ends in series of failures to get a job will only increase your frustration. At some point, it will cause you to underperform in a key moment, make a mistake or even irritate the person who will give the verdict on you :)
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I completely disagree with this. Because I've done just that and it has worked.
You say "not to do it" but you offer no reasonable answer, recourse or alternative.
A person has bills to pay, perhaps kids to feed, a car payment, maybe a mortgage, or at the very least, rent. How do you suppose a person stay afloat financially in a situation like that with no job or viable income, while waiting for your "communication, comprehension and networking skills" to payoff?
Eventually, you will lose everything. You don't take risks with your life. Find a lower paying, low skill job to keep you afloat until you can land a better job.
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I have done what I have said, and it has worked. In fact I am just like Morita of Honey and Clover, I disappear for a few weeks and return with $.
Why would I write something that is doomed to fail? It is only natural that people have different experiences, don't you think?
I stated a reasonable answer to "not to do it", in fact this is the alternative. I am not trying to save the world with a single opinion.
Accepting the immediately available lower paying job is an option and has nothing to do with taking risks. You take risks by planning or by becoming an entrepreneur. What risk do I take by applying for a job in the nearest McD ?
You loose everything only when you die.
surdumil:
When you are just starting out after coming out of school, you are at a pretty sizable disadvantage since many employers prefer experience over credentials.
Be prepared to move to where you can find employment. As you accumulate experience, your ability to win a job offer near your preferred location will improve.
If you can manage to come up with membership fees for 6 months or a year (which is a pretty meager fee, really), join a Toastmasters club and improve your impromptu speaking and business meeting skills. The impromptu speaking skills are invaluable for handling job interviews and for functioning within an organization. For most professions, employers will be looking for that.
relic2279:
--- Quote from: K7IA on May 29, 2010, 11:18:31 AM ---I have done what I have said, and it has worked. In fact I am just like Morita of Honey and Clover, I disappear for a few weeks and return with $.
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Yes, but that is more like the exception to the rule, rather then the norm.
--- Quote ---I stated a reasonable answer to "not to do it", in fact this is the alternative.
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Yes, but you worded it like a fact, rather than an opinion or alternative
--- Quote ---You take risks by planning or by becoming an entrepreneur. What risk do I take by applying for a job in the nearest McD
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When you are down and out, you don't take risks. You cut and accept your losses. You build back up what you lost and recuperate.
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