Cannot find a job, despite lots of efforts

[MayorQuimby]

I have been trying to search for a job, for many months. I remember a few years ago, I would send out resume to a few postings and would easily get like 5, 6 interviews. But now, there is pretty much nothing. I made compromises, made sure my availability was good, and tried the best I could to make myself attractive to employers, but still nothing. And it's not just me, people I talk to online also seem to be having trouble finding jobs. It just seems that the economy is really bad right now.

I think a lot of people are happy that Trump won the election. I am sort of happy, in the sense that I am glad it wasn't a Dem who won. But I honestly don't think Trump would do much to make things better for the average people. It's the same in my country. Politicians, they are all the same. They talk a great deal, promising us this and that, but at the end of the day, they enrich themselves and their campaign donors, reward their cronies with money that comes from us, and they don't care about us at all. Nowadays I would settle for a prime minister that does not shaft us too badly. This is a sad thing to aim for, but it's how bad it is.

 

[lg325]

Look into being self employed. No contractor would give me a chance at a job with higher pay and I found out I made more money doing a one day side job than a weeks pay from my contractor boss.

 

[toobfreak]

I have been trying to search for a job, for many months. I remember a few years ago, I would send out resume to a few postings and would easily get like 5, 6 interviews. But now, there is pretty much nothing. I made compromises, made sure my availability was good, and tried the best I could to make myself attractive to employers, but still nothing. And it's not just me, people I talk to online also seem to be having trouble finding jobs.

You ain't gonna like this, but recently I was talking to a young fella and he confirmed my suspicion that many companies are not hiring Americans, even firing a lot of them, and filling all positions with illegal foreigners.

 

[Concerned American]

I have been trying to search for a job, for many months. I remember a few years ago, I would send out resume to a few postings and would easily get like 5, 6 interviews. But now, there is pretty much nothing. I made compromises, made sure my availability was good, and tried the best I could to make myself attractive to employers, but still nothing. And it's not just me, people I talk to online also seem to be having trouble finding jobs. It just seems that the economy is really bad right now.

I think a lot of people are happy that Trump won the election. I am sort of happy, in the sense that I am glad it wasn't a Dem who won. But I honestly don't think Trump would do much to make things better for the average people. It's the same in my country. Politicians, they are all the same. They talk a great deal, promising us this and that, but at the end of the day, they enrich themselves and their campaign donors, reward their cronies with money that comes from us, and they don't care about us at all. Nowadays I would settle for a prime minister that does not shaft us too badly. This is a sad thing to aim for, but it's how bad it is.

I empathize with your situation and can only offer my take on it. I have survived many ups and downs in the job market and my experience has always been, if you can't find gainful employment in your occupation of choice, change your choice. I started my working life as a journalist. I quickly came to the realization that it would never offer the compensation or opportunity that other occupations might. After working as a laborer, I pursued the trades and worked for thirty plus years in them resulting in a comfortable retirement. As a smart man once told me, "You cannot starve a machinist because when things get bad, they will make a tin beak and pick shit with the chickens." Find something that others will not or cannot do, and prosper.

 

[Concerned American]

You ain't gonna like this, but recently I was talking to a young fella and he confirmed my suspicion that many companies are not hiring Americans, even firing a lot of them, and filling all positions with illegal foreigners.

Americans have forgotten how to compete. Twenty dollar/hr burger flippers is ridiculous. Anyone can perform these duties. There has to be value.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

I have been trying to search for a job, for many months. I remember a few years ago, I would send out resume to a few postings and would easily get like 5, 6 interviews. But now, there is pretty much nothing. I made compromises, made sure my availability was good, and tried the best I could to make myself attractive to employers, but still nothing. And it's not just me, people I talk to online also seem to be having trouble finding jobs. It just seems that the economy is really bad right now.

I think a lot of people are happy that Trump won the election. I am sort of happy, in the sense that I am glad it wasn't a Dem who won. But I honestly don't think Trump would do much to make things better for the average people. It's the same in my country. Politicians, they are all the same. They talk a great deal, promising us this and that, but at the end of the day, they enrich themselves and their campaign donors, reward their cronies with money that comes from us, and they don't care about us at all. Nowadays I would settle for a prime minister that does not shaft us too badly. This is a sad thing to aim for, but it's how bad it is.

Well.......What is your line of work history?

Mayor is a tough sell.

 

[Donald H]

I empathize with your situation and can only offer my take on it. I have survived many ups and downs in the job market and my experience has always been, if you can't find gainful employment in your occupation of choice, change your choice. I started my working life as a journalist. I quickly came to the realization that it would never offer the compensation or opportunity that other occupations might. After working as a laborer, I pursued the trades and worked for thirty plus years in them resulting in a comfortable retirement. As a smart man once told me, "You cannot starve a machinist because when things get bad, they will make a tin beak and pick shit with the chickens." Find something that others will not or cannot do, and prosper.

I empathize too but I'm confident that there will be lots of jobs available after millions of illegal immigrants are deported.

Just as long as the unemployed aren't too fussy.

Sadly though, unemployed lib'ruls are going to still want better wages than the dole provides. :-(

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

I empathize too but I'm confident that there will be lots of jobs available after millions of illegal immigrants are deported.

Just as long as the unemployed aren't too fussy.

Sadly though, unemployed lib'ruls are going to still want better wages than the dole provides. :-(

Sure...............Let those fruit and vegetable farmers harvest their own fields.

 

[Concerned American]

I empathize too but I'm confident that there will be lots of jobs available after millions of illegal immigrants are deported.

Please keep up, duck. The OP is in the UK. Your post, as usual, is uninformed and irrelevant.

 

[Donald H]

Please keep up, duck. The OP is in the UK. Your post, as usual, is uninformed and irrelevant.

It's not a day for me to be renegading against the flow. I can share in the joy too!

(and the water's high in the corn fields!)

 

[toobfreak]

Americans have forgotten how to compete. Twenty dollar/hr burger flippers is ridiculous. Anyone can perform these duties. There has to be value.

Seriously. Just a few years ago (very few), a trained and highly knowledgeable automotive parts person who had to be familiar with all cars and all parts and how everything worked able to give advice to customers plus had to know a massive inventory of parts and supplies and keep it all stocked was only making $8:50 an hour!

Flipping burgers is braindead work. They even make the register brainless with pictures and it figures everything out for you. These jobs are just meant for students in school living at home as a means of getting their feet wet earning a little spending money, not as CAREERS.

I remember a time thinking that making $5.00/hour was living like king shit.

I think my very first job paid $1.85/hour and it required more work and skill than flipping burgers.

 

[Donald H]

Seriously. Just a few years ago (very few), a trained and highly knowledgeable automotive parts person who had to be familiar with all cars and all parts and how everything worked able to give advice to customers plus had to know a massive inventory of parts and supplies and keep it all stocked was only making $8:50 an hour!

Flipping burgers is braindead work. They even make the register brainless with pictures and it figures everything out for you. These jobs are just meant for students in school living at home as a means of getting their feet wet earning a little spending money, not as CAREERS.

I remember a time thinking that making $5.00/hour was living like king shit.

I think my very first job paid $1.85/hour and it required more work and skill than flipping burgers.

You're not quite onto something important.

If you ask the hamburger crew boss at MacD's to leave off the pickle, she will have to ask the manager if it's possible?

 

[initforme]

People aren't going to be applying for low wage jobs.

 

[Concerned American]

People aren't going to be applying for low wage jobs.

Then homelessness is going to increase and more people will be on the dole until the gov't shuts that down as unsustainable. People won't work until they're hungry as the great depression showed. People have forgotten.

 

[1srelluc]

The OP needs to go to where the jobs are.

 

[Concerned American]

The OP needs to go to where the jobs are.

I've never gone more than a week without a job unless I wanted to over my 60 years of working.

 

[Arlette]

Then homelessness is going to increase and more people will be on the dole until the gov't shuts that down as unsustainable. People won't work until they're hungry as the great depression showed. People have forgotten.

If you work for 10 bucks an hour you're gonna be homeless anyway, or live with someone else. You're not gonna have your own place and eat. It's a waste of time.

 

[Concerned American]

If you work for 10 bucks an hour you're gonna be homeless anyway, or live with someone else. You're not gonna have your own place and eat. It's a waste of time.

Flipping burgers has never been a career. It is an entry level job. Those jobs have, historically, been held by entry level workers to learn work ethic. There is very little value that can't be done by the least skilled worker. On the west coast those jobs are getting $20+ an hour. Try again.

 

[Arlette]

Flipping burgers has never been a career. It is an entry level job. Those jobs have, historically, been held by entry level workers to learn work ethic. There is very little value that can't be done by the least skilled worker. On the west coast those jobs are getting $20+ an hour. Try again.

Didn't you just advocate to take the burger job in order to eat? To learn the hard lesson?

 

[Concerned American]

Didn't you just advocate to take the burger job in order to eat? To learn the hard lesson?

Please link to that. You folks really need to get a grip and stop running around in your own empty heads. You've been listening to democrat lies for too long. The democrat party aborted itself during this election.