Unemployed support thread

Job searching and finding is a strange and bizarre thing. Over the years the jobs I thought I had a really good shot at or felt I was a shoo in I did not get and then boom, out of no where comes an opportunity i didn't know existed. Do you have the ability to move to find a job Bunny or do you want to stay where you are, i had a sister and sister inlaw who were both teachers and both of them has to start out by moving to small communities in the middle of nowhere when they 1st started. Then after a few years they had more experience and better job choices.

SO sorry to break the news to you, but this time you WILL NOT receive a medal just for participating. You will have to start out by eating plenty of shit, by the heaping spoonful. Things will not magically just happen for you, YOU must go out & make them happen

@kaiser Artaxerxes: I meant figurative shit

QuizzyBunny

Here a bunny picture to bring you luck - Sherlock and Bellatrix say hello

I was right there with you, on finding a job. I was un-employed for 7 and then 6 months after losing my IT postions due to company problems.

At first I had to take a job in a thrift store, just to survive. Then I was able to find a temp/placement company, that was able to place me in a permanent position.

I don't know anything about teaching, but if they have temp companies like that, you might want to try there.

edit: also, you might want to look in career fairs.  That's where I was able to find my previous IT position.  This is assuming they have teachers career fairs.

Absolutely. I have issues right now, for a variety of reasons, some that are technical, some that are understandable, and some that some might shake their heads at.

I'm a military veteran, I was an officer, I have substantial experience in a technical field that I have no interest in pursuing, a Master's Degree in an area I'm only tangentially interested in, and short list of work experience during my period as an Enlisted man (I was in the National Guard while Enlisted.) I'm still nominally in the US Army, but I don't drill, I'm not actively serving, and I only get a scant paycheck of a few-hundred dollars at the start and middle of each month. I currently do some online work for a friend who runs a local gym, and I do contribute periodically to a local foreign policy analysis website that was run by a late-professor/mentor of mine, but for all intents and purposes, I'm 'unemployed.' I've been this way since about the beginning of the year.

Due to several factors, some employers find me overqualified for the positions I put in for, yet whenever I try to go higher, I get cited as not having enough experience within the company. It's a real catch-22. Add to that some of the more 'millennial' aspects of my position (I want to do something meaningful and I admit to wanting to have my cake and eat it too.) I tend to travel a lot, and I usually keep my finances in order long enough to go off somewhere for a few weeks. This isn't exactly cogent for job hunting, as you can imagine, but I figure that wasting my time at work when I could be out exploring is more worthwhile. Of course, ideally, I'd be completely open to getting a job where I can combine the two: just earlier this afternoon, I completed my application for the Peace Corps, and, if accepted, I'll be heading out to Guyana for two years to work as a Community Conservation Promoter. If I don't get accepted, I plan on either saving enough money to apply for a temporary work visa for another country and moving there for however long the fountain lasts, or going to work as a volunteer in a National Park.

I've had my time being responsible and respectable. I thought that once it might have been for me, but I generally don't like the idea of being chained to a desk or cubicle somewhere unless it means doing something more than just handling money or talking politics ad nauseum. That's not to say that if I got a job as a correspondent or analyst for CNN or wherever that I'd turn it down, but being in a hot monkey suit all day just doesn't appeal to me.

But I'm a different case; I spent 8 years of my life figuring out that the military wasn't going to go anywhere for me, and I'm still incredibly fortunate to be in my late-twenties with time to spare for some other things. I've found that my niche is as an educated generalist, and volunteering, service, and potentially activism for a variety of causes speaks to me, as much as being a park ranger or professional adventurer. I also have a civil pilot's license, and, although I have no plane to fly, I would be interested in using that (along with other skills befitting outdoor guides and such) to make a living while I explore the world.

If I could do it all again, I'd probably want to be an astronaut.

But my thing is the inverse - be comfortable with yourself, do worry about the day-to-day, but don't let it get in the way of thinking big and turning dreams into plans and plans into action.

Kevin Spacey flipped burgers in American Beauty and he was way over qualified for the job.

So flip burgers.

I'm not talking a dead-end starter service job where you don't need a resume to apply (basically, so long as you're clean, not a thief, and not drunk/high for the interview, they'll give you the job.)

I applied about a month ago for a position as a compliance analyst for INDOT starting at $33k, had two interviews (one phone, one personal), and was informed that they were unwilling to renegotiate an appropriate wage increase since someone with my experience should ideally be paid at least $6000 more. I told them I was fine with the pay cut, that I wanted to take the position, and I never heard back. Now, it seems like it's only been a month, but I got both my interviews within days of submitting my application.