I Need a Job...Now!

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[quote]imhungry wrote:
PimpBot5000 wrote:
Times are tough. There really aren’t many jobs available out there.

If you can’t find something to your liking, it might be an idea to intern somewhere or take a shit job that offers good “in the trenches” experience. A degree, virtually ANY undergrad degree counts for shit these days with employers…experience is where its at.

Also, you didn’t mention exactly how you were job searching, but I would advise against online applications at places like careerbuilder and monster. Submitting your resume by email is very passive and doesn’t make you stand out against competitors. Find a company you want to work for, research it and get the contact information of a hiring manager there. Doing this shows initiative and resourcefulness.

Absolutely.

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I just wanted to reemphasize how important this is. If you want to stand out from your peers, this is crucial.

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[quote]PaddyM wrote:
I’m right there with you OP. Finishing up my last class for my BA in English right now. I can’t find anything in the area so it’s looking like I may have to move to a bigger city like Boston or Hartford to find something.[/quote]

Pick up a few legendary workout books by Ian, Arnold and such… read them… write up a review and sell it to Biotest as freelance for a few buck IMHO… or just start posting well written papers on here and maybe they will offer you a job…

to the OP… Hate to echo what everyone else said, but “business” really is kinda a joke degree… Everyone I know graduating with a metallurgy degree right now has a job long before they graduate… mainly because there are only a few true metallurgy programs left in the united states… ever consider graduate school? it pays ok and you get a more advanced degree…

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Join the military or become a restaurant manager.

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Are you unemployed are you unwilling to be underemployed? I have more sympathy for one than the other.

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Move to a more metropolitan area. Definitely jobs here in the D.C. area. Of course, the cost of living is also painfully inflated.

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Honestly you should think about applying to maybe a fastfood chain such as a mcdonalds, and with your business degree, you could probably get to manager in about half a year, and possibly store manager. And even if you dont like working there, you can still look for a better job and make money at the same time. You can say what you want about working at a shitty job like that (I work there) but it beats being broke, I always have money.

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It’s a tough time to be a recent graduate, the jobs aren’t plentiful like they were a few years ago. My wife has an English degree, but can’t get the type of job she wants right now, so she’s struggling through the weeks at a job she hates because it pays ok.

Things will get better, just gotta ride it out. Shit right now, it might be a bad idea to stay in college and get your masters, and wait until the market picks back up in a few years.

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Go be a grocery store manager.

I’m unemployed now, have been for too long, but things look to be loosening up in my field, knock on wood.

A few more weeks and I’ll become a stripper.

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If you get an interview you should hand write a thank you letter. Almost a guarantee as long as you have the qualifications.

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I am still unemployed but I definatley second the notion that its all about contacts. You have a bigger network than you think. All those hours on careerbuilder should be utilized talking to people. In fact I dont know a single person ever who got a job off career builder.

For the online route, craigslist is probably the best. Indeed.com is decent because it links you to company sites. I have so many damn business cards but you bet your ass I am contact these people frequently and pestering the shit out of them. The one who said find the contact info of the hiring manager and send them a personal letter is gold, if my next two interviews do not pan out this is what I will do.

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[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
Start your own damn company. You got the business degree right?[/quote]

I’m fully ready to do this…except for one thing. I would need about $500,000 (on the lower side) to get started, and I can put in about $4,000 of my own money.

Nobody is going to loan the rest of the money, so unless someone has very wealthy family, or a ton of money saved up, this isn’t happening.

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hmmm…well it appears there are two limiting factors for me…A.) I really don’t have any connections as far as networking. B.) I live in farm country, so I’m probably gonna have to move. As far as searching for jobs…careerbuilder and monster is pretty much all I have used, so maybe I should change that. I do however have a part time job workin customer service at a ymca. I dunno times are tough now, it sucks.

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[quote]SWR wrote:
and I can put in about $4,000 of my own money.

Nobody is going to loan the rest of the money, so unless someone has very wealthy family, or a ton of money saved up, this isn’t happening. [/quote]

you could bankroll the next test-fest with 4 grand

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oh yeah and speaking of the whole starting my own business…are yah freakin kidding me??? seriously cmon banks are not gonna loan however many thousands of dollars I need to a recent graduate who already owes thousands of dollars in loans for tuition and has no financial standing whatsoever. Just like “SWR” said, you need to come from money.

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[quote]Rhino Jockey wrote:
Start your own damn company. You got the business degree right?[/quote]

Generally good advice, and you’d think that would be natural, but as a Prof of mine once said,

“the biggest impediment to becoming an entrepreneur is a business degree”.

You think about all the things you’d need to do/have for the business to be successful, and blammo! Paralysis by analysis.

Edit

I didn’t see the OP’s last post.

It also leads one to put their focus on all the reasons one can’t start their own business.

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I hate to say it, but in today’s economy there are some jobs in debt collection. You can do it from home. You can see about being a process server, or becoming a notary. Those are jobs you can do out of your home.

You can buy a coffee cart.

Regarding fast food, my brother’s best friend just retired at 45yrs old from Jack in the Box. He started working in high school behind the counter as the fry guy. He got a masters in accounting and just kept going up and up. Good benefits and stock options.

We are having a lot of layoffs at my work. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

Best of luck to everyone.

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[quote]SWR wrote:
Rhino Jockey wrote:
Start your own damn company. You got the business degree right?

I’m fully ready to do this…except for one thing. I would need about $500,000 (on the lower side) to get started, and I can put in about $4,000 of my own money.

Nobody is going to loan the rest of the money, so unless someone has very wealthy family, or a ton of money saved up, this isn’t happening. [/quote]

What type of business are you trying to start… my parents started their auto repair shop 25 years ago with absolutely no money. Dad had about 200 dollars to his name.

edit: you can never start big… you have to start with what you have and work up to it. If you go with that mentality you will never get anywhere.

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just get any job right now man, you are overqualified for some shit warehouse/stockboy jobs, just get the job, have a reason to wake up in the morning, have a little humility and keep searching for a real one.

at least you will be making some money and not feel like killing yourself all day.

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[quote]goldfingers24 wrote:
oh yeah and speaking of the whole starting my own business…are yah freakin kidding me??? seriously cmon banks are not gonna loan however many thousands of dollars I need to a recent graduate who already owes thousands of dollars in loans for tuition and has no financial standing whatsoever. Just like “SWR” said, you need to come from money.[/quote]

Cliff notes:
You need to think outside the box that your never-worked-a-day-in-their-lives business teachers helped put you in, and reallize you need almost no money to start a business.
People who aren’t willing to bust their ass to be successful make excuses about why they are poor.

Anyone who says you need to come from money to start a business is a lazy fuck making excuses for their own pathetic mediocrity. You need a working car or bus line, 10 bucks worth of business cards, and a few tools to start a business. Whether it’s a couple screwdrivers and a few cables/external drives/network adapters to start fixing PCs, some industrial cleaning supplies and trash bags to clean offices, a lawn mower, weed whacker and rake, or a laptop and portable printer, you can figure out a way to make a living, and if you work your ass off, (which the people who make excuses may think they are doing but aren’t), you can build a successful business.

I come from a 1 income family, dad was a security guard. While my friends where busy getting arrested, I was busy mowing lawns and working hard in school. I worked 2 jobs and took weekend classes to put myself through college. I started my illustrious career in IT by tearing down walls and putting up sheetrock since I graduated after the dot com boom ended and there was hardly any entry level IT work. I moved to driving a box truck unloading 55 gallon drums of chemicals during the day into 120F pumprooms, while removing virus and spyware from friends computers on the evenings and weekends. I got to know every IT person and business owner I could in my local gym, at my church, and even some other IT guys I met playing computer games.

After about 2 years out of college, doing Geeksquad type stuff on the side, one of my contacts asked me if I was interested in taking a job with his company, doing grunt work, PC troubleshooting, and help desk since the systems admin/IT guy they had was overworked. 6 of hard work, 3 layoffs, and 4 jobs later, I troubleshoot network and PC issues and make a comfortable living doing it. In between and on the side, I still do mickey mouse PC repair and small business networking type work, and one of these days I’m turning it into a full time business. In the mean time, I have a contact list full of other IT guys and small companies in case I get laid off, some side customers, and a lot of confidence in my ability to survive, thrive, and not get kicked out of my home if I loose a job.

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also, from personal experience, i made the least progress in the gym when i had the most time to train in my life.