Can't find a fucking job

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Never saw a rich trucker and they are all overworked to hell. There's a reason why there's a lack of truckers.

Lol. If you can't get by on 80-120k a year, fucking neck yourself.

If you can't handle sitting in a chair for 8-11 hours a day, what kind of gamer ARE you?

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Go on...

In general, two rules:
1. Be wary of Indians, Jews, and Armenians.
2. If you don't know anyone in the "family" don't bother.

 

[cybertoaster]

If you can't get by on 80-120k a year

Most truckers don't make half that, what you saw an ad and thought it was real? did you click on "free iphone" links too?

I've driven my car cross country, 14 hours non-stop, several times, its not the same than you playing rocket league while sharting on your chinese gaymer chair.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Most truckers don't make half that, what you saw an ad and thought it was real? did you click on "free iphone" links too?

I've driven my car cross country, 14 hours non-stop, several times, its not the same than you playing rocket league while sharting on your chinese gaymer chair.

I make $1,500 to $1,600 a week with a very easy day cab job with no weekends. A guy who used to work here suggested I move to where he works, making consistently over $2k a week, but I don't feel like working nights or driving a forklift. If I went OTR again, I could easily beat that, as well, but getting home to my house and stay at home wife and child is more important to me than stacking paper.

I drive a semi over 100k miles a year, but I haven't driven a four wheeler more than 6 hours at s stretch lately, so what do I know?

 

[Dawdler]

how bad is a 8 month or year gap of work on a CV? had medical and mental shit come up and back to job hunting and competing against economic migrants

You can write down you took a sabbatical or some other nonsense. It's not important anyway.

 

[Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds]

I'm sure it's been said but it helps to learn to fluff up the language of your resume/applications just a little.
Don't go all Sherlock Holmes autistic about it but 'inventory management' sounds more professional than 'shelf stocker.'

Also unironically lie; unless it's a highly corporate job or government, or it requires very specific skill sets you cant learn on youtube in a week or a college degree, almost nobody is going to call your references or check your work history to confirm anything, and even if they did it's not like they're going to call the cops on you for saying you have more experience in Excel than you actually do.

Most importantly, apply in person as often as you can. Ask for the hiring manager and tell them your name before you even hand them the application so they can put a face to it, they are much more likely to pick you over the 300 faceless applicants they have.

I highly recommend looking for manufacturing jobs. There are plenty that require no previous skills and do on the job training and you have the added benefit of not having to interact with customers or the public. Screen printing (making printed t shirts and stuff) exists in every city in America because of its relatively small scale and they are usually looking for assistants in some capacity.

Spoiler: Relevant PL

I'm a full blown moron and used to work in a print shop and made around 35k/yr. The skills I learned there allowed me to transition into a different type of manufacturing, and now my boss from the print shop is asking me back for literally double my previous salary to be the primary darkroom tech because I did it so well. If you git gud at what you do, you will be graciously rewarded. Manufacturing rules.

 

[CryptoHermit]

There's a very seldom talked about role in logistics that are essential to specifically island nations that basically outsource this job to foreigners since the natives keep stealing everything not nailed down if given charge.

Agri Import Liaison or Import/Procurement Co-ordinator (the person who makes sure the food comes in at time and checks boxes) since 80% of food for caribbean islands comes from the us. They literally beg white people to join those jobs since the natives are so ridiculously corrupt as well as inept.

The living prices are dirt cheap (a two bedroom apartment would cost you like $1000/year), the weather (apart from one/two cyclones) is fine all year, there's no income tax and you can export all the homemade liquor as well as sell back all the scotch and other pricey imported liquor to the cargo ships (who will sell them back someplace else which have high import duties).

 

[TheSilentKing411]

Most importantly, apply in person as often as you can. Ask for the hiring manager and tell them your name before you even hand them the application so they can put a face to it, they are much more likely to pick you over the 300 faceless applicants they have.

The problem with that is that, at most places nowadays, that's not an option. Always some "submit an application on our company website" or "go to this third-party and apply" etc etc... In the current year of our lord, the only place I know of that still takes paper applications anymore is a sandwich shop chain that hasn't updated any of their site design or software since the late 2000s

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

The problem with that is that, at most places nowadays, that's not an option. Always some "submit an application on our company website" or "go to this third-party and apply" etc etc... In the current year of our lord, the only place I know of that still takes paper applications anymore is a sandwich shop chain that hasn't updated any of their site design or software since the late 2000s

I got the best job I ever had when I walked into a store for a snack, and saw a little printer paper sign saying they needed a truck driver

The whole economy is not giant soulless corporations.

 

[Fear&LoathinginMcDonalds]

The problem with that is that, at most places nowadays, that's not an option. Always some "submit an application on our company website" or "go to this third-party and apply" etc etc... In the current year of our lord, the only place I know of that still takes paper applications anymore is a sandwich shop chain that hasn't updated any of their site design or software since the late 2000s

I won't deny most places still require some kind of online application, but if it's for a local branch of whatever then it'll almost certainly be a hiring manager at that specific branch that makes the final decision, so having a face to a name still helps. Even if you just go in, say 'hi, I put an app in online but just wanted to come in and introduce myself in person' that makes an absolute world of difference to a hiring manager. Having been in a managerial position before I can tell you with certainty that I will ignore 100% of online applicants if I have one dude come in and shake my hand. It shows a willingness to do and not just wait around for something to be done.

 

[CHARizard]

My job is imploding around me, luckily my position is "secure" but I am going to be job hunting ASAP to get out. They decided to take the CEOs wife, who was already the head of HR, and make her also head of operations.

I am fully remote so my job hunt is gonna extra suck, luckily theres no real rush besides the sense of impending doom.

Just wanted to put an update out here. I just had an extremely dramatic job change, with my old client straight up poaching me with better pay, benefits, pto and full work from home.

Apparently due to non solicitation rules written into the contract, they werent allowed to do this. HOWEVER, because I reached out to them first and asked for references and thanked them for the years of service, they were able to get around it since I contacted first. Old employer was extremely pissed, with my supervisor not even speaking to me. I ended up waiving my 2 weeks and just quitting on the spot with how poor their attitude was.

This all came about from a simple email, sometimes networking really does help.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

There has to be a better place to find a job than Indeed or Linkedin, where is everyone else finding their jobs

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

There has to be a better place to find a job than Indeed or Linkedin, where is everyone else finding their jobs

Friends and directly from the employer's website. Also, there's Discord/Facebook groups for sharing vacancies privately for some industries in certain locations. Depending on your university, it might also receive exclusive job offers for starters.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

All my university ever does is beg me for money.

 

[ChefBourgeoisie]

Depending on your university, it might also receive exclusive job offers for starters.

I worked for a university for the better part of a decade. From what I could tell, the only job placement program they offered students was to nag them to take a job, any job, so they could mark them off as "employed" for their promotional statistics. Wonder how it feels to graduate from law school for someone to bully you into taking a burgerflipper job because they don't want to admit that their law degrees are worthless and that they're not even in the top 20 regional schools. You'll find no help there, they're done with you and you have nothing more to offer them.

Well.

Unless you were thinking of returning for a masters. They have one of the most exciting MBA programs in this part of the country and if you were to complete it (there's even an accelerated 1 year schedule!), then certainly the right opportunity would come your way pretty much immediately. Financing is available.

 

[YHWH's Strongest Soldier]

Wonder how it feels to graduate from law school for someone to bully you into taking a burgerflipper job because they don't want to admit that their law degrees are worthless and that they're not even in the top 20 regional schools.

Yeah, those schools are pretty much worthless. I know it's usually seen as shit advice, but you really should consider the prestige of your university/program before signing up even if the quality of education seems adequate. What you want is positive name recognition and for companies to put offices and labs directly on the campus. Then you'll get stupid shit like free/discounted daily lunches just to get students into the building. I've also come across internship programs where a call from the university's career center will either get you into the company immediately or drastically shorten the selection procedure.

If you follow specialized programs, you will also get companies knocking directly at their door because there aren't many other graduates with a suitable profile. On the other hand, law is offered everywhere and is the basic bitch choice if you can't do basic math but want to make money. Not to disparage those people, but usually it's either children of immigrants or local rich who have no idea what they want to do in life.

All my university ever does is beg me for money.

Also, how the fuck does this work? Are they asking you for donations or something? I know American universities are shameless, but that's just a bad look. All I get from mine are invitations to alumni events and occasional requests to give a presentation or two for the career center.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Also, how the fuck does this work? Are they asking you for donations or something? I know American universities are shameless, but that's just a bad look. All I get from mine are invitations to alumni events and occasional requests to give a presentation or two for the career center.

They send me both junk mail and junk e-mail. Considering I didn't even live in this county when I was in college, and gmail didn't fucking EXIST when I graduated, it's pretty creepy. Well beyond a simple "I forgot I was on this mailing list" situation.


Fucking Skynet asking for handouts.

 

[ChefBourgeoisie]

They send me both junk mail and junk e-mail.

If you were rich, they'd offer you free golf outings, free fishing trips on yachts. Wine tastings. I almost went to work for that office at my university, interviewed for a job there. Best they could tell was $60k. By that time I was fed up with their bullshit, and had several other offers up towards $90k. Technically a state employee, I'd get 1.5% raises every other year when things were good. Stayed way too long.

Like, I would've been mining data there bringing in either hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations per year, or maybe low millions. And the best they'd offer me after being there nearly a decade was $60k? Fuck that. Not that any other place has been great since, just relatively better.

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

I have a ckose family member who works for a university. I was complaining about my "insulting" 3% raise this year (a.k.a. a pay cut) and she got all sniffy about "I'm always grateful for any raise."

 

[Sperg_rancher]

I've driven my car cross country, 14 hours non-stop, several times, its not the same than you playing rocket league while sharting on your chinese gaymer chair.

what kinda car gets across the country in 14 hours?