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Author Topic: Your Job: The Movie  (Read 178130 times)

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Miss Cat Ears

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1240 on: November 12, 2010, 07:50:56 AM »

His old job had never wanted him to leave and his boss had made sure he knew he was always welcome if it didn't work out.  The house situation was the hard part since we couldn't back out of the pending sale of our home as easily as he could undo quitting his job.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1241 on: November 12, 2010, 06:10:32 PM »

Yeah, I quit.  I would rather be jobless for six months than miserable, and thankfully those two things are not kissing cousins for me right now.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1242 on: November 12, 2010, 11:09:10 PM »

Good luck.

Took me a lot longer than six months to get another job after I quit my last one.  I stand by my decision to quit then (boy do I); I just hope you have an easier time than I did.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1243 on: November 13, 2010, 10:02:10 AM »

Good luck with that. I've been searching for about two months now trying to avoid that sort of thing.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1244 on: November 13, 2010, 10:13:54 AM »

I actually realized the other day that for the past eleven years, every single job I was not fired from, I would have been fired from had I not quit/been on on short term contract.

Er. Hm.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1245 on: November 13, 2010, 10:45:07 AM »

You need to see a career counselor or something.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1246 on: November 13, 2010, 10:46:27 AM »

Oh, I had security at my last job.  Partly because I was working for a family friend and partly because he was paying me about half what my work was worth.

I don't have any security at my current job; I've been a temp for two years.  But I'm making $1.50 more an hour for an 8-5 warehouse inventory job than I did for a 24-hour on-call netadmin job.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1247 on: November 13, 2010, 12:19:39 PM »

Every job I have experience for wants a degree, every job that only needs experience I don't have it.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1248 on: November 13, 2010, 02:50:22 PM »

Every employer wants to minimize his risk by hiring a guy who's been doing that job for two years already.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1249 on: November 13, 2010, 03:22:55 PM »

(Even though they are likely to be bad and inflexible at it)
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1250 on: November 13, 2010, 07:20:29 PM »

How do you get experience doing jobs that require a degree you don't have?
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1251 on: November 13, 2010, 09:50:18 PM »

Oh, that's easy, you just-
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1252 on: November 13, 2010, 10:18:03 PM »

1. Be persistent.
2. Follow every lead.
3. Don't be afraid to embellish your accomplishments.  It's expected.
4. Don't take job requirements literally.  Employers always overshoot on the off-chance that somebody matching them actually walks in the door.
5. Oftentimes you can get a lower position by applying for a higher one.  The lower position you get is still probably better than the listed one that "matches" your experience.
6. When all else fails, freelance - it looks good on your resume when you get sick of it, which you probably will.

Always remember that an employer can do no worse than reject you.  Even if you do make a complete ass of yourself by applying/interviewing for something you're not even close to qualified for, you'll only end up in exactly the same position you would be in if you had kept sitting around like a spineless schmuck (minus some time which you have plenty of and maybe some gas money).

Pretty much everybody who's graduated or left college since the 60s has had to find a way to break through the same catch-22 scenario.  The fact that there are successes in the world proves that it's certainly possible.  The business world chooses to keep perpetuating the social barrier as a sort of rite of passage into post-educational life.  It sends a clear message: "We could give less of a shit about your actual talents, knowledge, or work ethic.  What we need to know is how much you're willing to prevaricate, kiss ass, and focus on your goals with a bloody-minded intensity, because you're going to find out real quickly that that's the only way to get things done in the real world."
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1253 on: November 13, 2010, 10:58:56 PM »

So I got a job at the local movie theater (just a part-time thing, nothing fancy) and I started there today.

I may have alienated my co-workers as an ivory-tower intellectual by casually using the phrase "invoking the tetragrammaton".

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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1254 on: November 13, 2010, 11:44:26 PM »

ONLY THE WRETCHED REJECT KNOWLEDGE
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1255 on: November 14, 2010, 06:18:53 AM »

So I found out when Kroger doesnt have enough hours available to them the people with the lowest seniority get fucked by having no hours that week. Which I was raging about in #FF yesterday. Well I was raging cause Ithought I was the only one who had no hours.. I went to every department to find out about 15 people even though with higher seniority had there hours reduced to 0 for a week.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1256 on: November 14, 2010, 07:56:22 AM »

Yup, that's retail.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1257 on: November 14, 2010, 10:00:35 AM »

How do you get experience doing jobs that require a degree you don't have?
Interning and apprenticeships that turned into real jobs but now those guys that hired me way back when no longer work in the field to rehire me now that I'm looking to take the jobs back full time / forever.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1258 on: November 14, 2010, 06:40:10 PM »

Always remember that an employer can do no worse than reject you.  Even if you do make a complete ass of yourself by applying/interviewing for something you're not even close to qualified for, you'll only end up in exactly the same position you would be in if you had kept sitting around like a spineless schmuck (minus some time which you have plenty of and maybe some gas money).

Plus you shouldn't let that keep you from applying to the jobs anyway.  My current position had mandatory accounting experience, but I went in and told them what I DID have experience in and why I would kick ass at the job even without the accounting classes.  Obviously it won't work every time but you really have to put yourself out there and get told No a lot so you have the opportunity to be told Yes.

It's also employment law that states you have to be reimbursed for gas money to your interview if it's over a reasonable distance but I don't think you'll make a good impression by asking for it.
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Re: Your Job: The Movie
« Reply #1259 on: November 14, 2010, 07:27:33 PM »

Obviously it won't work every time

It's more accurate and helpful to say it won't work most of the time, but that's okay, because you're, again, not out anything if you fail, and you only need to succeed once.  Which leads to:

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but you really have to put yourself out there and get told No a lot so you have the opportunity to be told Yes.
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