Looking for a new job
06-15-2011, 03:36 PM
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I believe her numbers are based upon more than the number of people recieving unemployment benefits.
Arlington, VA is an employment destination, the same as Houston and Seattle...some absurd percentage of the population is there for high-paying jobs. The rest of the nation doesn't have centralized technology, government, nor energy to attract workers.
Arlington, VA is an employment destination, the same as Houston and Seattle...some absurd percentage of the population is there for high-paying jobs. The rest of the nation doesn't have centralized technology, government, nor energy to attract workers.
I would highly suggest that Jacob stays at his current job and sucks it up for a while. Even with my college education it took me 4 months to find a job and that is not even in the range he wants..
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06-15-2011, 04:12 PM
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I would believe her as well. The published numbers don't count people who have basically retired (I know about a dozen of them) and those who have just quit looking. The hell you do after giving up looking? Drug dealer?
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06-15-2011, 05:44 PM
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true story: I quit my job in silicon valley to move here. I took 6 months to catch up on some playstation and then found a job. I dont work for the government or a government contractor. But I do work for a company that often works for government contractors. And we do sell some stuff directly to the military.
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06-15-2011, 07:50 PM
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Right now she's really pushing to me find something with a massive pay-cut and move down there with her. That's tough for me, there's too much vulnerability if I do that.
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06-15-2011, 07:54 PM
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Lol @ NoVA.
If you have no skills in anything, get a shitty job for a few months and learn to wait tables. Shadow the best waiter in your shitty restaurant, then in about 3 weeks, quit and go to a better restaurant, shadow that best waiter, rinse and repeat until you really know your ****. THEN move near enough to NoVA that you can commute to any of the areas with $$$$$$$$ restaurants, get a job and work hard. You will rise up the server chain, get good shifts and easily pull 50k + out of that area.
Bad news is that you have to deal with people who know you are living off their scraps, the hell that is traffic, and the drug industry that is food service.
Treat it like a career and you will have a career. Treat it like a job and you will work at Crapplebees in shame.
If you have no skills in anything, get a shitty job for a few months and learn to wait tables. Shadow the best waiter in your shitty restaurant, then in about 3 weeks, quit and go to a better restaurant, shadow that best waiter, rinse and repeat until you really know your ****. THEN move near enough to NoVA that you can commute to any of the areas with $$$$$$$$ restaurants, get a job and work hard. You will rise up the server chain, get good shifts and easily pull 50k + out of that area.
Bad news is that you have to deal with people who know you are living off their scraps, the hell that is traffic, and the drug industry that is food service.
Treat it like a career and you will have a career. Treat it like a job and you will work at Crapplebees in shame.
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06-15-2011, 08:21 PM
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Here in oz unemployment rates at at record lows as well. Its friggin tough. The issue we have here is that as a younger person (Im 21, apprentice mechanic) you dont have many skillsets or great refferences you can barter with, and because minimum wage for me is almost double what a 15 year olds is, you just cant compete with school kids for even the **** part time work between jobs.
My GF has been looking for work for like a year, and time again a school aged kid gets picked over her.
Dann
My GF has been looking for work for like a year, and time again a school aged kid gets picked over her.
Dann
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06-15-2011, 10:06 PM
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true story: I quit my job in silicon valley to move here. I took 6 months to catch up on some playstation and then found a job. I dont work for the government or a government contractor. But I do work for a company that often works for government contractors. And we do sell some stuff directly to the military.
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06-15-2011, 11:30 PM
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If I have to just work my way up another company then thats what I might have to do. I'm sick and tired of what I do now. Looks like I might need to get rid of some of the toys.
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