Apollo
05.13.12 | what's up sputnik |
Trebor17
05.13.12 | I had a job interview for a shit job that I thought no one would want but there were 50 people there |
Sevhead
05.13.12 | listening to high on fire, bored. |
theacademy
05.13.12 | ya i herd u guys were into jobs |
Apollo
05.13.12 | yeah, I've seen 50+ year old guys interviewing for jobs that pay $12/hour....it's insane, you wouldn't see that even 6 or 7 years ago when I first entered the workforce |
guitarnater
05.13.12 | Work as a pizza delivery driver for one of the chain restaurants. Not great money, but with tips and minimum wage, I've seen dudes work well into their 40s on no other income. |
Apollo
05.13.12 | Not all of us can be born rich I guess acad |
Deviant.
05.13.12 | Yeah I've had a few friends fall victim to the economy. Hard workers unfortunately squeezed out due to businesses tightening up wherever they can. You're already working at the moment though, which is good; murphy's law always dictates that it's easier to find work when you already have it |
Apollo
05.13.12 | That's true Dev. If the job I had was giving me the hours I'd be doing alright. But yeah, it is what it is...before this I was wondering if the media was just exaggerating how bad the economy was but it's pretty obvious things are bad right now. |
theacademy
05.13.12 | actually anybody can be born rich, just not the case that everyone is... |
Ovrot
05.13.12 | Old people are taking my jobs |
Deviant.
05.13.12 | "That's true Dev. If the job I had was giving me the hours I'd be doing alright. But yeah, it is what it is...before this I was wondering if the media was just exaggerating how bad the economy was but it's pretty obvious things are bad right now. "
Don't get me wrong, the economy as a whole certainly isn't in the best shape but I do definitely think that businesses could get away with a few risks at the moment. Well maybe risks isn't the best word, but they could take on a few more employees and not have to worry too much about it. I think everyone is just a little wary of making those steps at the moment |
Maniac!
05.13.12 | Walk into your office, shoot up the place.
Problem solved, the business will need you to take up more hours.
Just don't get caught. |
Scoot
05.13.12 | "Old people are taking my jobs"
this
fucking baby boomers |
Apollo
05.13.12 | I agree with that.
The only reason I got hired where I'm at is that the provincial government regulates the sale of alcohol and is one of the largest wholesale purchasers of alcohol in the world. It's a great job, but due to being unionized hours you work are based on seniority |
Acanthus
05.13.12 | I work at the priciest restaurant in town, and so far my hours have only gone up. Started with 18 a week and now I'm averaging 25 or so, luckily my expenses are really small since I don't have a car and rent is very reasonable.
It also helps that as a dishwasher I can't be sent home early on slow nights, and since highschool/college graduation is coming up we've started to get more and more reservations. |
Hyperion1001
05.13.12 | ive got to find a job this week or im not gonna be able to pay for my house
i have no job experience and im 19
shit sucks |
guitarnater
05.13.12 | I refer you to my previous comment. |
Hyperion1001
05.13.12 | ive already applied to dominos and i never got a call back, im planning on trying both pizza hut and papa johns next
any tips on snagging the job i might not be aware of? |
wabbit
05.13.12 | I got really drunk and woke up and found out that I had a job. |
MetallicOpeth
05.13.12 | Was worried for a little while with recent cuts but we just landed a massive project so sigh of relief |
Apollo
05.13.12 | Hyp, you own a house at 19? |
theacademy
05.13.12 | have you faggots ever tried almond butter?
like peanut butter, made out of almonds?
its fucking heaven |
guitarnater
05.13.12 | Persistence, and proving that you're not a freak.
Where I work, the management, after a while just kinda loses interest in applications because of the constant steady flow of them. Go to the store one day that you know that there will be a hiring manager (or something) and be super personable and subtly ask how your application is doing, and whether their hiring. One huge thing for drivers is availability on Fridays and Saturdays which are indefinitely the busiest nights on delivery. |
Hyperion1001
05.13.12 | im getting one for next semester at college, and the one i want comes off its current lease at the end of this month, so i have to have a way to pay for it
my parents are helping of course so i was just being dramatic, but i have to get a job first in order for them to help |
SowingSeason
05.13.12 | try to get a job as a teacher...then and only then can you complain |
Eclecticist
05.13.12 | try this:
http://www.princetonreview.com/work-for-us.aspx
or try oxford learning, prep 101, kaplan, or powerscore
test prep companies usually hire and you meet awesome people at these marketing jobs
if you still have no luck
go back to school so you can get a real job |
acorncheese
05.14.12 | tell me about it i only made $133 today.... |
acorncheese
05.14.12 | "any tips on snagging the job i might not be aware of?"
step one: be a very good customer at a mom and pop restaurant
step two: ask for a job |
Eclecticist
05.14.12 | step one: be a very good customer at a mom and pop restaurant
step two: make sure that the owner is italian
step three: make sure that you are italian
step four: ask for a job
step five: wear a suit, even if you are a dish washer just roll with it
step six: just wait for it, he will eventually have killed enough of his own to need a new man to fill a higher-ranking position of some sort |
Acanthus
05.14.12 | "go back to school so you can get a real job"
And then when you're working for McDonalds, paying off the loans you took out so you might get this "real" job, make sure to remember this thread. |
Eclecticist
05.14.12 | "And then when you're working for McDonalds, paying off the loans you took out so you might get this "real" job, make sure to remember this thread."
Yea I have met people like this, they went to college. |
Cells
05.14.12 | dude ive been applying to so many places for months, its bullshit. If nothing comes up by the summer im gonna have to go back to hard labor. :( |
eternium
05.14.12 | Looking for a job now. Applied at four or five places, no interviews or anything. Went to a temp service and even they had nothing entry-level other than fucking holding signs. |
Sirob
05.14.12 | i swear it feels like half of detroit is homeless i could give away 100 bucks in spare change in an hour walking through the city. |
Sirob
05.14.12 | and hard labor isnt so bad, i might work landscaping this summer |
Cells
05.14.12 | it kinda is when your father works 5 to 9 |
AdamK
05.14.12 | I have a part time job but they give me 0-5 hours a week lately and don't care that I can't support myself on 30 hours a week |
paxman
05.14.12 | I work at walmart, getting almost forty hours per week, but on the weeks I'm only scheduled like 33 hours or something i usually stay over. Oh yeah, I've been at Walmart for over two years, pretty much run the garden center, and I only make $8.60 an hour. |
AdamK
05.14.12 | i've heard good things about working at wal mart. I work at Kohls and everyone ends up quitting the policies are so shitty |
Eclecticist
05.14.12 | I feel really bad for you guys... just don't ever turn to network marketing, no matter how desperate you guys get! |
eternium
05.14.12 | Walmart is the worst place to work. You can work there for twenty years and still not make more than $10 an hour. Plus you have to be available at all times. |
AdamK
05.14.12 | someone told me you get a raise every 4 months |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | apollo you comment on the hardships of life strangely often
i send my regards |
paxman
05.14.12 | I highly recommend everyone stay away from Walmart--both as an "associate" and as a customer. Walmart is seriously the most corrupt corporation on the planet. |
CaptainDooRight
05.14.12 | And truthfully it is only going to get worse |
Eclecticist
05.14.12 | Lol wal-mart, because the one in my hometown is so big my buddy times in and leaves for six hours, comesback and
times out. He has been doing it every day for 4 months and hasnt been caught |
paxman
05.14.12 | Yeah, if you don't have open availability you get hardly any hours at all--it's because a fucking computer makes your schedule. And you only get a raise once a year. Hell, Walmart used to pay an extra dollar per hour on sundays and they don't even do that now for new associates. You still get it if you were hired before the effective date, though, so I still get my precious extra dollar on Sundays. |
paxman
05.14.12 | "Lol wal-mart, because the one in my hometown is so big my buddy times in and leaves for six hours, comesback and times out. He has been doing it every day for 4 months and hasnt been caught"
Yeah, it's insane. we've had a few people do that, but ours is a smaller store so they get caught. |
Emim
05.14.12 | yeah i got cut down to 6 freaking hours this week |
Pentagon
05.14.12 | deal drugs |
AdamK
05.14.12 | i want to work at starbucks |
sniper01
05.14.12 | data analysis, $14/hr. expecting a raise this summer, probably will be $18/hr 40 hr/wk. gonna make some srs cash this year. |
Wolfhorde
05.14.12 | Pal of mine is working as construction worker in Maryland, he's getting 20$/h - that boggles my mind. |
Vooligan
05.14.12 | Had one of my jobs stop giving me shifts. Paid $24/hour, too but they're deliberately understaffing to save money.
So had an interview for a casual retail job the other day, I was the youngest there by far. Weird shit. |
Wolfhorde
05.14.12 | But isn't Australia also pretty expensive in general? A friend of mine wants to move there and she was like she's gonna need a LOT of money to do it properly. |
Graveyard
05.14.12 | I'm currently working at the shoppin baskit (yes it's spelled that way), getting 30-40 hours a week on 7.25/per hr |
ThroneOfAgony
05.14.12 | And truthfully it is only going to get worse[2] |
Imperial
05.14.12 | ""go back to school so you can get a real job"
And then when you're working for McDonalds, paying off the loans you took out so you might get this "real" job, make sure to remember this thread."
Only the case if you go to school for something stupid.
Also, construction, trades...unskilled labouring. |
ThroneOfAgony
05.14.12 | Yeah so far, over the course of like 2 months, I've applied at like 5 places, and none of them have returned my phonec call.
Oh well, I'll just keep trying. Most of them are fast food/retail too |
acorncheese
05.14.12 | i'm a waiter at a small Thai restaurant. best job i've ever had. not so much in terms of pay, but the nature of the work and the hospitality of the Thai people is just incredible. i work either 5 or 12 hour shifts. a 12 hour shift normally yields a little over $100 while a 5 pays about $50. all tip based, tho. free food every day. learning Thai. fuck yes. |
MetallicOpeth
05.14.12 | "Also, construction, trades"
if you can get all the certificates in a certain trade you'll be fucking laughing so hard. I know so many people who came out of high school, did 2 years at college, got all their shit in a certain trade and make sick money
|
theacademy
05.14.12 | jobs r lame call daddy |
Wolfhorde
05.14.12 | With good qualifications in certain areas you can get a proper job almost everywhere. |
theacademy
05.14.12 | lol no idiot |
kingsoby1
05.14.12 | Crane operators make mad bank, like near 6 figures. |
theacademy
05.14.12 | is that some euphemism for blowjobs because i don't think im that desperate yet |
MetallicOpeth
05.14.12 | @ soby - alot of that is probably hazard pay too |
sniper01
05.14.12 | plus being a crane operator is probably fucking hard. |
kingsoby1
05.14.12 | i'm sure it's a little difficult, but probably the highest paying job that requires the lowest qualifications. If I were starting from square 1 and didn't want to get a degree I would for sure do that. |
kingsoby1
05.14.12 | the other option is sales (non-telesales) |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | sales, driving, construction |
Wolfhorde
05.14.12 | "lol no idiot"
Great, then enlighten me with your economical knowledge that apparently includes the whole (western) world. |
Eclecticist
05.14.12 | ^you mis-used the work 'economical', js |
Apollo
05.14.12 | so yeah, sounds like a lot of people are in the same boat...fuck man |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | i wonder who the most successful cunt on this site is
from my experience wealth and success in an urban setting is inversely proportional to musical interest |
Spec
05.14.12 | Got plenty of hours so I'm good. |
Apollo
05.14.12 | lol yeah
and to ur earlier comment, I guess life has kicked me in the ass lately dude...but it has for a lot of people |
Spec
05.14.12 | That's what beer is for.
rip |
Apollo
05.14.12 | word |
paxman
05.14.12 | I want to be a home inspector |
Crysis
05.14.12 | "Anyone else been royally fucked by the job market out there?"
Just graduated from college with a degree that is neither engineering nor computer science. So yes, I am getting royally fucked right now and it sucks. Submitted easily 20+ applications to jobs that I qualify for (not aiming high at all) and only received 1 callback and interview. Expecting to take a job at ~$10 an hour doing some trivial bullshit if this keeps up. |
theacademy
05.14.12 | "Great, then enlighten me with your economical knowledge that apparently includes the whole (western) world."
thanks i needed some laughs aloud today. you're a good friend. |
theacademy
05.14.12 | this helps:
http://www.quoteunquoterecords/qur023/009.mp3 |
Storm In A Teacup
05.14.12 | "murphy's law always dictates that it's easier to find work when you already have it"
Truth. |
Storm In A Teacup
05.14.12 | "plus being a crane operator is probably fucking hard."
Lol reminds me of the War of the Worlds remake with Tom Kidman I mean Cruise. |
Crysis
05.14.12 | I'm also fucking tired of seeing so-called "entry-level" positions requiring 3+ years of experience or some other bullshit that is not entry-level at all... it's absolutely maddening. |
kingsoby1
05.14.12 | it's not as bad as 2008-09 at least. i have a degree in aerospace engineering, but i was unemployed for almost a year after getting laid-off in january 09. i'm looking around again now due to the lady getting an internship in another state, but haven't gotten any callbacks unfortunately. plus the pay is way lower than what i'm pulling in for 5 year exp positions. |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | always been curious about that genre of engineering - what's the market size like for aerospace
engineering employment-wise? would you be at a comparative disadvantage to the more general
engineering types like computer, chem, bio, material, civil etc? |
kingsoby1
05.14.12 | yeah aerospace sucks in retrospect. i would be mechanical and get a masters in whatever interested me after interning/ whatever. i'd say comp eng and biomed are the way to go. Mat-sci and civil Es make less money. Chem E isn't really even engineering as much as it is chemistry |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | yeah i myself am a chem E major, and like you said its literally chemistry + engineering classes as distro addons
for me its like doing the science i like (at least out of the 3 natural sciences) and getting a free engineering degree with it |
paxman
05.14.12 | "murphy's law always dictates that it's easier to find work when you already have it"
This is true in my experience, but I don't see how Murphy's Law correlates to any of it |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | can't see how i could pull off the degree otherwise - i switched from philosophy to economics to chem E, and naturally i really don't suit engineering all that well, so i can't see how i could ever compete with the asian machines at my school (no offence to any of yous here if you apply) and maintain a decent grade - so its a reasonable (but i think necessary) compromise to avoid being "royally fucked by the economy" |
andcas
05.14.12 | oh hey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-NqzIRmQjc |
steadyriot
05.14.12 | If you dont mind waking up at 5am construction is the way to go. Since the housing market is starting to turn around there will be a rising demand for labor. With an electrician certificate you can make $100/hour doing overtime, which of course won't be all the time but pretty much everyone on construction (union) envies the electricans and plumbers cause they make bank comparably.
Civil Engineers in construction make a ton of money by the way. CE a vague term and of course some of the fields don't pay as well. |
KotoFtw
05.14.12 | I work at Coldstone Creamery making 7.25/hr getting about 25 hours a week. It's not too bad, though I am gaining a little weight from the free ice cream. I probably should start making smoothies instead, but the ice cream is too good. I wish I could work at a music store, though, that would be a lot cooler for a part time job. |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | "I work at Coldstone Creamery making 7.25/hr getting about 25 hours a week. It's not too bad, though I am gaining a little weight from the free ice cream. I probably should start making smoothies instead, but the ice cream is too good."
hahaha this guy rules |
AlexanDerp
05.14.12 | I have a part-time job which gives me 20 hours a week right now, and when school ends I'll still have this job + a 40 hour job, so I'll be making mad dough this summer. The situation doesn't seem to be as bad in here in Canada. |
AlonsoHarris
05.14.12 | Usually the "economy" really applies to your state. I've been living on my own since the shit hit the fan in 2008 and I don't make a lot but I make enough. Fact is, there are places in the midwest (Wyoming, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas. that you would probably hate to live but there is nothing but money out there. Mcdonalds workers out there are getting paid 12-13 an hour no bullshit. The more populated an area, the less jobs there are. BOOSH |
KotoFtw
05.14.12 | Ha, thanks bro. |
Cells
05.14.12 | dude its hell over here in nj |
AlonsoHarris
05.14.12 | @Cells thats because its fucking New Jersey. Sorry man, you're fucked. Come to Ohio, we have jobs. |
KSK1
05.14.12 | I was fired from a sweet fucking job in January for bull shit reasons and just got a new job a few
days ago. It pays less than my old one but they're giving me a shot ton of hours so I guess it's
alright but damn i've never missed my old job so much. |
sifFlammable
05.14.12 | go to fucking alaska if min wage is all you need yo |
Apollo
05.14.12 | gonna become a crab fisherman in Alaska....get eaten by the Kraken |
