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Can't Find A Job
GirlPants
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I have a bit of a problem. My work history goes like this: I graduated high school in 2004 and for the first year I worked as a painter for a residential painting company. After that I immediately got a job working as an Autocad draftsman for a civil engineering firm. I've worked for about 3 different companies since then, usually for a year at a time. Well I was laid off two months ago due to a massive shortage of work.
I've been looking for a new drafting job but since the economy is terrible there is no new building. Basically my position doesn't exist anymore. I'm coming to the realization that I will have to find a "shit job" to pay the bills. Herein lies another problem. I have 0 experience in the retail or hospitality fields. I've never worked for a restaurant or clothing store or anything. I'm basically straight out of high school all over again. I'm living off unemployment right now but it isn't paying all my bills and certainly isn't going to last forever.
What I need is advice on where to look for jobs that don't require experience or ideas of what to do in this situation. Specifically ones that offer full time hours. Working for 15hrs a week at 7.50 at starbucks isn't going to cut it. I'm open to anything at this point, I'm pretty desperate. I need to make about 1000$ a month to survive.
I've been looking for a new drafting job but since the economy is terrible there is no new building. Basically my position doesn't exist anymore. I'm coming to the realization that I will have to find a "shit job" to pay the bills. Herein lies another problem. I have 0 experience in the retail or hospitality fields. I've never worked for a restaurant or clothing store or anything. I'm basically straight out of high school all over again. I'm living off unemployment right now but it isn't paying all my bills and certainly isn't going to last forever.
What I need is advice on where to look for jobs that don't require experience or ideas of what to do in this situation. Specifically ones that offer full time hours. Working for 15hrs a week at 7.50 at starbucks isn't going to cut it. I'm open to anything at this point, I'm pretty desperate. I need to make about 1000$ a month to survive.
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Failing that, go get some retail experience. You're on PA, so you must have at least passing knowledge of games, TVs, and computers. Throw your resume at BestBuy/FutureShop/etc. If there's nothing like that in the area, just go after every retail store in the shopping mall.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
I don't think you'd need much experience to work in retail, but good luck getting full time. Getting a job is a bitch these days.
Another sucks-but-it-beats-being-Blowbo job, if you have a car - pizza delivery.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
I'm in Tampa, FL area. This is the first time I've had a hard time finding work.
I've thought about call centers but honestly I don't think I have it in me to do that. I really despise scams and ripping people off. I figure if I'm going to do that I might as well just start robbing liquor stores.
The hospital? Really? Morton Plant is near my house, could I just walk in and ask if they are hiring?
Also, I had to sell my car when I was laid off. I have a motorcycle I use as main transportation now..
Edit: Ugh found this site - http://www.mpmhealth.org/body.cfm?id=434 There doesn't seem to be any hospital job openings.
You could prolly just give HR a call or check out the website.
... and the problem now is that a lot of jobs hire pt employees. Sometimes you have to bust your ass until you can get a ft position. Or just beg your boss for extra hours.
Work incoming calls. It's still got more grind than a coffee shop in fast-forward, but at least you're not pushing stuff on people or getting yelled at for calling during dinner.
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
if that doesn't pan out, hospitals and schools are great places to get job security
nope, usually no degree is required and most firms will train you to use AutoCAD or whatever systems they use
Know of any near tampa, fl?
As much as it sucks, have you considered two retail/hospitality jobs? Grocery stores aren't that bad if you can get the hours you need (or get in the department you like) and gas stations were another one that are tolerable but not exactly high paying.
Well honestly I've been looking on Careerbuilder, hotjobs, monster and tboonline for anything and everything.
Also I got kinda lucky out of high school. My friend got me a job and I just steamrolled from there.
Don't use monster for job applications -- only use it to find companies which do work where you might be able to help them, then look up the company and apply directly to the decision maker.
Try to find every company in your town which might use someone who has some type of drafting skill in anything (there are lots), try to find out who the decision maker is, and mail them a letter/resume. Keep in mind that doing this, itself, is as much work as a fulltime job -- but way better than using monster.
Or, consider applying in different states or different countries. Canadian and Australian engineering companies would be good places to try.
I know, I know. Your first comment is "But I'm not qualified for that, I don't fix computers and stuff." I say "The hell you're not". I've called tech support. I've worked tech support. 90% of those people don't know a damned thing and are likely less qualified than you are. They hire people with little experience and little technical knowledge. That is who they WANT to hire. You know why? The people with experience and knowledge want paid too much and they want promoted to real tech work asap and the companies want people who want to stay there, not people who want to move on to higher paying, more technical jobs as quickly as possible.
http://tampa.craigslist.org/search/jjj?query=AutoCAD