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Good luck on your job search. I am also looking for a job nowadays and it's not fun.Subject: Re: the job-seeker\'s lament
I hear you, Al-m. I was in the belly of the beast of internet companies 2 years ago, and I threw it all away to work with nonprofits. Now, it's high time for a career change - to either library school or sound engineering. I don't think tech companies will be hiring for at least the next 8-9 mos or so (I am in SF), so I figure I'll get into something that is at least as bad as IT but also at least something I would like to do. Slim pickin's out there these days.Subject: Re: the job-seeker\'s lament
I am also looking for work. been on unpaid leave for a while and eventually lost my job because my company wasnt making any money...currently I am giving private lessons to students to get by.Subject: Re: the job-seeker\'s lament
Best of luck to you in your job search. At this time, definitely think creatively and cast your net wide... check out the opportunities in academia and government as well as the private sector. Look into nonprofits, too.Subject: Re: the job-seeker\'s lament
Thanks for sharing your experiences and advice, everyone. When will this economy start to get better?Subject: Re: the job-seeker\'s lament
I have just recently gotten out of your boat, i.e., found a job that I hope will be permanent. I do think the economy is improving. You will never find this out by looking at the newspapers who, editorially, all want things to suck so that the Demoract party can re-take the reins of pwer. You will find this out by reading all the ads very frequently. Their number is increasing but, like with all recoveries, they are increasing slooooowly. I think you are about 30 or so? and so you may not have a clear memory of previous recessions. The recovery is always slow to take off and here, with all the Boeing problems, it's slower than in the rest of the country. But based on my job hunt, it is improving. It's moving like a slug: ever so slowly but it's moving.I hope you are ignoring the requests for years of experience when you respond to ads and applying for any and every opening you can find. Also, I trust you are using whatever connetions you made with professors who have connections with those in positions to hire bodies. Right now, it doesn't matter what kind of job you get; it matters that you get a job, as I'm sure you know. Once you have a job, you can start looking for the ideal one. It's a sad state of affairs but I have learned the hard way that employers are not loyal to their employees any more so I don't think employees who more loyalty than is necessary to do the job, i.e., if you are working in the law, you must respect confidentiality, but the bosses will fire you as soon as look at you any more.
Sorry to go on for so long but, in spite of the countless ways I disagree with you about almost everything, being jobless sucks and I hope it is over for you soon.
Here is a job I found when searching for insurance jobs:
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It's a paralgel with State Farm and yes, they ask for 3-5 years experience, but no sane person wants to work in insurance so they might be more flexible. I trust that before you apply for a job, you are (1) making an individualized resume for each firm youare applying to, emphasizing the appropriate skills and knowledge and (2) if you get an interview, studky on the appropriate subject. I can advise you that if you get an interview for an insurance related fposition, go the web site of a firm called Reed McClure and read something called "The Washington Insurance Law Letter"
It's bed-time so I have to go. Good luck. I hope you find something very soon.
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Thanks, Carol. I'll take a look at the insurance position. And yes, I am doing all the things that you suggested.BTW, my lament that the economy is still bad isn't based so much on the media, but mostly on discussions with people that I meet and work with or go to school with (even my parents, who are staunch Republicans, feel that way; they don't believe that there is some sort of liberal conspiracy involved. But whatever floats your boat).