Can't find a fucking job

[Dawdler]

I just got offered a job while buying car parts. I didn't think situation was this dire. Honestly felt like a boomer moment: "Just walk in and ask for a job" advice.
Good luck Fellen, hope you find what you want.

 

[FieldPiece]

Very real and true. Spent a few months apprenticing in HVAC and the thing that got me out of it was meeting so many dudes who were either fat or permanently injured/handicapped to some extent. A lot of dudes with major hand injuries, and the things I heard about heatstroke were horrible. Those jobs and the hours they demand can destroy your health easily. Unless you’re literally crawling out of a slum or something, HVAC or jobs like probably aren’t the best idea. PS: you’re also going to be working 10+ hours for most of the year, possibly for the rest of your life depending on where you work.

Seriously, unless you have some autistic passion or no other option, you can probably do better, and I imagine that goes for most “skilled trade” jobs.

As someone who does HVAC that's mainly service guys. At least in my experience. Commercial instal really isn't that hard on your body for the most part. I work with guys in their 50s who have been doing it since their teens and they're no worse for wear than a normal 50 year old. All the service guys I've worked with have had shit like electrical panels blow up on them or capacitors zap them. The biggest danger for commerical install is metal shavings getting in your eyes, falling, or power tool accidents. Closest I've come to death is a guy accidently dragging a 12ft ladder I was on with his scissor lift for a few feet. HVAC and Plumbing aren't as hard as people make them out to be, neither is being an electrician. Because for the most part it's like baking, follow the instructions and there won't be too many problems. The people writing the instructions are the ones who need to know most of the crazy hard stuff.

Edit: Oh by the way, a good way to get a foot in the door is if your family or friends have a plumber/electrician/HVAC guy come to work on their home ask if you can shadow them. Ask questions about what they're doing and why. Ask if they're hiring apprentices. Help them out, they drop a screw? Pick it up for them. They need a tool out of their truck? Offer to get it for them. It may sound like you're being a nuisance but trades dudes generally actually enjoy explaining stuff to people who are actually interested. And the number one complaint about apprentices is that they don't ask questions and they don't do stuff unless asked. I got offered a job recently because I did exactly this.

 

[millais]

I work with guys in their 50s who have been doing it since their teens and they're no worse for wear than a normal 50 year old

And once you get too old for field work, I understand that you can try for a position with some of the bigger manufacturers and surplus dealers, who maintain regional machine/repair shops, where they send old motors, pumps, compressors, condensers, etc to get rebuilt and refurbished in a nice indoor environment. I heard those are like sinecure positions, where they pay well and there's not many openings, so they exclusively hire old hands with decades of field experience. Presumably there is higher demand for people to teach at technical college, but I'm sure that doesn't pay so good.

 

[VIPPER?]

Make your own jobs and opportunities.

Sell shit.

Scam some idiots.

Don't expect people to help you out.

this kind of thinking is why people manufacture and sell crack

 

[Sandnigger Mudhut]

this kind of thinking is why people manufacture and sell crack

Making crack and meth is one of the better jobs out on the market. You have: good pay, flexible hours, large potential for gathering connections, easy networking, high customer return rates, etc.

 

[VIPPER?]

Clearly me and a group of my allies have to start a series of businesses dealing in unregistered firearms, stolen vehicles, mind-altering inhibitors, and only accept cash for financial purposes.

 

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I'm really struggling to find a job right now. Someone near the start of the thread said that you can get a job if you know javascript. Is it really that easy? Can I get a job without a degree? How much do I need to know to get a job? Any tips?

I want to get into computers and if I can get a job without a degree that would be awesome.

 

[Advent]

As someone who does HVAC that's mainly service guys. At least in my experience. Commercial instal really isn't that hard on your body for the most part. I work with guys in their 50s who have been doing it since their teens and they're no worse for wear than a normal 50 year old. All the service guys I've worked with have had shit like electrical panels blow up on them or capacitors zap them. The biggest danger for commerical install is metal shavings getting in your eyes, falling, or power tool accidents. Closest I've come to death is a guy accidently dragging a 12ft ladder I was on with his scissor lift for a few feet. HVAC and Plumbing aren't as hard as people make them out to be, neither is being an electrician. Because for the most part it's like baking, follow the instructions and there won't be too many problems. The people writing the instructions are the ones who need to know most of the crazy hard stuff.

I just quit doing residential hvac after around 8 months of doing installs, it was awful crawling around in attics and under houses. Boss didnt really care so I would often find myself breathing in toxic shit and being told I needed to peel off asbestos tape before an inspector came to a job. I have some shitty tech stuff im trying to learn online I really want to find literally any tech job it doesnt need to be online.

 

[1rd Worlder]

Anybody got any good notes on making resumes (eg: layouts, how to describe previous jobs)? I'm changing careers and I've come to realize it's been several years since I've had to write a good one.

 

[Dawdler]

Making crack and meth is one of the better jobs out on the market. You have: good pay, flexible hours, large potential for gathering connections, easy networking, high customer return rates, etc.

You forgot Work From Home in a dynamic diverse and challenging environment. Your employer will even let you keep some of the stuff you make!

Anybody got any good notes on making resumes (eg: layouts, how to describe previous jobs)? I'm changing careers and I've come to realize it's been several years since I've had to write a good one.

Honestly, chatgpt. Blabble something in about what you did and it will build you a whole cv.
Don't be too weary of using "ai" - content generation tehniques as all cv's are processed by computers before they even reach a person.

There are a ton of people retiring right now. Workforce will go like 20% down in 5 years. Entire departments will clear.