Where are all the jobs?
I need some advice from some of you more experienced people. I've been looking and applying for jobs since I got layed off while on medical leave. The problem is, I live in a small town that doesn't have alot of employment to offer. I have applied for positions in the bigger, nearby cities. I am now running into the problem of not living in the "commuting area" for some of these positions. Can't move until I have a job, can't seem to get a job unless I move. Big catch 22!! Anyone have any suggestions?
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I am in a position that I will probably be losing my job in a month, and my fiance is not helping the situation. Where are all the jobs? There is really nothing out there, a few armed security jobs but she said that its no career. Im in school for emergency management but in chicago you need to know someone to get a job. I have no clue what to do. I sent my sesume out to at least 100 jobs on monster.com and another 100 on career builder. the blueline.com has only a few jobs and most police departments want college, not the military I have. 0 -
be a geographical bachelor.
check ads and see if there are any elderly looking for live in companions to care for them and live free or cheaper than rent. scout your interviews, take it, then move.0 -
It's hard to be a geographic bachelor when you have 3 small children. 0 -
What kind of job/s are you applying for? Skilled or unskilled? 0 -
Honestly, I've been looking for a job for about six weeks now, and I'll have an MBA in three weeks. You'd think that it wouldn't be difficult, but it is. There's a lot of people looking for the same jobs as everyone else, and everyone wants gobs and gobs of experience.
BTW, I live in a metropolitan area.0 -
You guys need to move the the Wash DC Metro area, jobs grow on trees around here. I'm serious! I am a hiring manager where I work and my wife works at Discovery Channel (lots of jobs), if anyone is in the DC area or thinking of moving here, let me know! 0 -
I have been applying for jobs where secretarial or administrative experience is required. That is what I did in the military, even though it wasn't my MOS. I have also been doing the same thing since I got off active duty. I have over 7 years experience, not to mention some of the classes I have taken. By no means am I applying for jobs that I don't have the qualifications for. 0 -
I've been in the same "catch 22"situation and my advice is to do whatever it takes to move to a better region job/wages wise.
I sold EVERYTHING I owned and lived in my car for awhile to break out of SE Ks. But I wasn't saddled w/children either. Can the wife/kids move in w/family/friends until you get on your feet?
The effort and initial hardship was WAY worth for me. Instead of working jobs where after bills I had maybe $60. a week to live on, I nearly tripled my income.0 -
I am the female in the relationship and I am a single parent. My parents have too many medical problems of their own to handle my kids and their father is no help at all. 0 -
We are about to test for police officer again. If interested, email me. It's in Greenville, Texas. 0 -
Thanks Nunn, but just getting over achilles tendon surgery. No running for a while, plus Texas is far away from Virginia. 0 -
Where in VA? 0 -
A small town called South Boston, where are you at? 0 -
I work in Fairfax - I have no idea where that is. 0 -
I live about 30 minutes from the NC line. If you happen to be a race fan, I live where Jeff and Ward Burton are from. I'm not a fan, but sometimes people have a better understanding when you say that! 0 -
Check the Columbia, SC paper out on Sunday. That is when the jobs are posted. Lots of work here. Good Luck.
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Thanks Nunn, but just getting over achilles tendon surgery. No running for a while, plus Texas is far away from Virginia.
You live in VA? Just drive up to Northern VA and plaster resumes around the companies. You will get a job. And every government agency up here is screaming for people, they are all in their retirement cycle. Did you ever have a security clearance of any level? If so, what level and how long ago? BTW: if you are almost done with an MBA and applying to secretarial jobs, the employers will wonder why? They will not hire you, figuring you will leave as soon as you find something better.0 -
marine22, good to see you posting again. Haven't heard from you in a while.
I wish I were smart enough to give you a good answer, but the best I can come up with is get one of those WAL-MART or Lowe's jobs until you can put enough back to move then check out the Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem job markets. I wouldn't move until I had a firm job offer.
GOOD LUCK! [:)]0 -
My company is hiring. West of Charlotte, NC. Need good mechanical, electrical and people skills. Be willing to work, sometimes long hours. 0 -
(One of)My ex(es) got a court order that required that I support her and care for the Kids, until she graduated from college and got employment in her field.
You could probably do the same.
Do all the Children have the same father??
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Start you own business on the internet selling other peoples junk for them.Ttakes no money and you can do it from your home. Good luck. 0 -
Thanks for all the input. Unfortunately, I lost my security clearance before I went in (alcohol related). I have tried applying for a job at Wal-Mart and can't get one. I have worked quite a few temporary jobs trying different things. That way, I would at least have some knowledge with areas that I wasn't already familiar with. I have applied for jobs as far up north as Fredericksburg and as far south as Raleigh. I have thought about going back to school, using my Montgomery GI Bill, but then I have to worry about how do I pay the bills. Scary as the thought is to me, I have even considered moving back in with my parents. 0 -
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The problem is, I live in a small town
Yep! That's the problem, alright.
Small town + small job = small life.
An unfortunate, factual, equation of life.
There are a few exceptions - but not many.
Any 'port' city or Las Vegas.
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I had (still have) the same problem, even with a completed BS from college. easily it would be 4 months between jobs. one time I went for 7 months without a job. there were times when, since I graduated from college, I actually racked up more time looking for a job than actually working in my so-called "career field". I had more experience looking for a job than doing the dang job in the first place.
I think there are TWO main factors:
1. gotta be doing something that it's easy to find a job: job market not saturated, your skills are in demand.
2. gotta be where the jobs are -your type of jobs. small towns aren't it.
if you have one of the above, you can get the other one with a little work and it's worth it.
if you have both of the above, you've got it made.
if you have neither, then you've got some work to do. until you get it going, you're going to be scraping the bottom of the barrel unless you get lucky. heed my words! start now! if you don't, you'll find yourself looking back at a bunch of wasted years and wish you did. life is hard.0 -
if you move anywhere, I'd recommend Dallas. stuff happens in Dallas. 0 -
Like I said before, it's that catch 22. I have been turned down for jobs because I don't live in the "commuting area". Can't move without a job, can't get a job unless I move. I applied for a position here and the company actually brought me in to work for a week, to see how I would like it and if I got along well with the other employees. I enjoyed the job and I can play well with others. I spoke to the manager yesterday and she told me that she was hesitant about hiring me only because of the amount of money the position payed. As I explained to her, I'm not looking for a great deal of money, I'm looking for a job. Who knows, maybe I will find something out this coming up week. 0 -
Good to hear from you to JamesRK. I thought that I might run into you here in town sometime, but I haven't yet. 0 -
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Posted - 08/03/2007 : 9:15:15 PM
Honestly, I've been looking for a job for about six weeks now, and I'll have an MBA in three weeks. You'd think that it wouldn't be difficult, but it is. There's a lot of people looking for the same jobs as everyone else, and everyone wants gobs and gobs of experience.
BTW, I live in a metropolitan area.
An MBA is interesting, but it's 2007. An MBA doesn't really tell an employer anything more than a degree in general studies did ten or twenty years ago. I would think at this point or very soon in the future an MBA would be less employable than a high school graduate.
Outragous you think?
Well here's why:
A high school grad will do any unskilled job and be more than happy with 8-10 dollars an hour working 50 or 60 hours a week.
An MBA grad will EXPECT 80-100K+ and on thier own terms as far as work week, benefits, and location are concerned.
When you started your MBA in 2005 (BEST GUESS) did you ask yourself what value it would hold in 2015? Or how many schools would be offering totally meaningless MBA's by 2010, or even by your graduation date?
I'm not being rude, but man, I like her odds as a mother of three children and perhaps no formal education or notable skills in a small town, then the odds of an extensive, but perhaps undfined formal education in a major metropolitian area looking for near or above six figure salary.
It is also interesting to note that you list your GB forum membership with New Zealand as the place you call home, but you reference the Denver area in many previous posts referencing the blog that you write. As I am quite familiar with New Zealand, if you do in fact live there, it's not a giant suprise that nobody gives a poop that you now have an MBA. Nobody in Tasmania is likely to care either.0 -
Go back to school. And work the system for all it's worth till you get on your feet! That's what it was intended for. To help those who want to help themselves. Why should it go to those who have no intentions of ever getting off it? With three children and no income you should be eligible for all kinds of assistance(housing,utilities,transportation,daycare,clothing allowance for the kids,food allotment,medical care,who knows what else.)No shame there as long as you are trying.
Pick up a state certified class that qualifys you upon completion in medical coding and billing. Then hit the local Dr's up.
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I have actually tried to do that. I've contacted different places here and no one seems to know who I need to get in contact with. When I graduated from high school, a friend of mine got over $1100 a month to go back to school because she was a single mother. Can't find out who I need to see to try and get into the program. I would like to go back to school to become a Radiology Tech. 0
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