How's everybody doing with the job market?

[Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story]

I just graduated college in May with a degree in Film and Broadcasting, was the Editor-in-Chief of my college's newspaper and left a decent paying part time job at a law firm for an internship at ABC-7 here in New York. Today, I'm jobless and trying to find positives in the situation.

How are folks dealing with unemployment or otherwise crappy job situations? I'm feeling quite useless right about now.

[AriadosMan]

You're never useless as long as you can get some heel heat on this board.

That's what I've learned.

And you'll never fight alone, no matter how many enemies you make.

[Jay Carroll]

I blew a golden opportunity to make 1500 a month starting with Verizon earlier this year.

Right about now, I'm sludging thru the unemployment process and hoping that the interview I had with Sprint last week went as well as I hope it did.

I'm not trying to settle for the "the econony is horse poo" arguement, but there's definitely mounting evidence, and most of my ignorance of that fact stems from me wanting a job badly.

[Push R Truth]

You know, considered how bad the economy is.... there are a lot of HELP WANTED signs downtown that are not being taken down.





This weekend I witnessed a girl bitching that she can't find work... get offered a 9$ an hour job (base, before tips) at the bar she was bitching at... and she turned it down.

I'll never figure some people out.

Her reason for not working was "I can't work nights, that's when my shows are on".

And the world gets one step closer to DOOM!

[Pervy Stone Cold]

Jul 27, 2009 15:15:26 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

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And the world gets one step closer to DOOM!

Get your shotgun and BFG ready then.

[AriadosMan]

You're lucky then, alot of places in my downtown have simply closed.
Nice way to make the "we're not working hard enough" argument for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression though

[Push R Truth]

Jul 27, 2009 15:18:37 GMT -5 AriadosMan said:

You're lucky then, alot of places in my downtown have simply closed.
Nice way to make the "we're not working hard enough" argument for the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression though

Yes, god forbid I post on the forums of an event that I found amusing from this weekend.

[Big BosskMan]

Doing everything I can to ensure I stay gainfully employed, especially with a daughter on the way in September.

[D2: Sweet & Sour Edition]

I'm collecting unemployment.

And putting about 10 applications in per week.

[i.Sarita.com]

I'll be in college for the next 8 to 10 years, all for free.

[Samoa Kenny]

I went back to school, but I feel for all you guys out there. I had a job paying $500 a week sitting at a computer. I really should have kept it, but it had no future at all so I figured I'd give a masters a shot. I'm much happier in school, but I am BROKE

[bob]

I graduated with degrees in both Communication and English (Writing) in May 2008

I was involved with the campus radio station and paper

Since April 2009 I've been writing various things for a non-for-profit semi-pro football team

STILL looking for a paying job

[theryno665]

Working a part-time job, roughly getting between 30-40 hours for about $9 an hour (starting last week, before that I've only been making $7.50). But the job market has sucked around here even before the recession was official, so I'm keeping it just so I don't have to move back home with my parents. I'm keeping an eye out for jobs but not actively looking like I used to, especially after one day when I bought a Sunday paper for the classifieds and they were literally less than a page long (and that's for ALL the classifieds, not just jobs) when they used to have their own section. I kinda want to go back to school but I also like being debt free.

[ziggy1987]

got layed off from work over 2 weeks ago, sent out loads of CV's and application forms, got offered a job in John Lewis (a shop in england) was only 20 hours so i had to turn it down, cause id be taking home like £30 a week.

still unemployed and looking for a job

[Head Detective Aaron Enigma]

Looked for a job over summer, didn't find one. Been focusing on making my portfolio so I can start applying during the fall semester.

[EAT IT]

I ain't got no job.

[sunwukong]

I've got loans and my assistantship through May of 2010. After that, who knows. I'm not looking forward to it, though.

[The Line]

couldn't find a job this summer, but I think that's more to blame on the fact that a large portion of the people my age, rather than move away and go to college or join the military or something decided to stay here and get jobs, so once summer rolled around, there was only a couple of openings for quite a few people. Really sucked.

But I have a job lined up for when I move back to college.

[wrasslinmachine]

I got a summer job but it won't last long. I will be receiving my degree in human services in august so I am trying hard to search for a job.

[Lupin the Third]

Finally found a damn job after about 2 months of unemployment. I'll be working as a roving teller at a local bank. So, I'm pretty happy.