How's the job hunt going Sup Forums?

>be me
>did everything that would make me a good boy
>went to college
>degrees in accounting and economics
>never been arrested
>never even got a parking ticket

TIME TO GET THAT JOB!
>Want to become accountant or at least office assistant where I can work my way up
>Spend several years sending out hundreds of resumes
>no reply
>no reply
>"Thanks for interviewing, we've decided to go with someone else"
>notagain.gif
>work seasonal jobs in the industry
>work part time jobs

FUCK THIS SHIT!
>Need a full time job now!
>Apply for a job at a local hardware/lumber company
>Get the job at $15/hour with fully paid for benefits, 401K, profit sharing etc unloading trucks and moving inventory.

Going to university wasn't my real mistake. My real mistake was trying to make something of a worthless degree.

Unless you really have STEM talent, don't bother going to University. A community college degree is more than enough.

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>Be me.
>Join the army.
>Be intel. Signals analyst.
>See the world. Live in Japan.
>Get out, do some college, but also try for contracting work.
>No reply.
>We want you to start!
>lol never mind we lost the contract.
>Get cleared escort job while trying to find contractor work.
>We want you
>Lol nevermind lost the contract.
>Move back to Ohio.
>Get a job almost immediately first with Verizon working at a data center making 17 an hour.
>End of job. Site was closing down anyways.
>Start the very next day as a network admin at an internet service provider.
>20 an hour plus benefits.
Moving back to Ohio was not a mistake after all.

8th year with the same company. Promoted twice. Pay has increased 38% from start. Supervisor at night. No bosses around. Only 3 employees to supervise, and they're very low maintenance/self motivated.

I'm a BSN.

>me
>work at post office temp when i was 18 for the holidays
>go to community college
>realize how retarded college is, drop out
>work at post office
>go career
>get day shift in my first 3 years


that's where im at currently. dunno if i wanna move up in the company or save enough capital to start my own business.

One thing I always heard in business classes was that the most successful people never stay at the same job for more than 3 years. They always market themselves and continuously prove themselves and leverage that at every turn.

Here's the part that wasn't told: You basically have to sacrifice your entire life to you job. Yes, that is the way to become a great success, but you have to give up everything else about your life. You job becomes an obsession, to the point or putting your very health in danger. Working 80+ hours per week, every day for years on end.

If that's what you define as success, then fuck it. Nothing wrong with just living a simple, good career, no matter what you do.

as per

no jobs

13 years at walmart. Raises don't seem to be happening this year so I'll have to find another path to the mythical $15/hr, though without a high school diploma or skills, that will be increasingly difficult.

Decided I’m going to the Police Academy after I graduate. A degree should give me more money and be easier to move up. Pretty excited to get into a uniform desu

Where and in what field?

Same degree and job hunting experience as you, thinking of doing the exact same fucking thing desu

Start a business. It's not as hard as most people think it is. Get to choose your own hours, how much you get paid, etc.

I literally work hard for like 7 days a month, the rest of the month I spend about an hour a day packing stuff and dropping it off at the post office 5 mins away.

Here's the realization I came to:

We would all like to work in a well paid/low stress environment, and we would like to use our knowledge that we specialize in. Here is the problem. A LOT OF PEOPLE WANT THOSE JOBS TOO. That is a field where employers are demanding more from you for the same level of compensation. You need to be a level 15 data entry fag to join this guild when another guild is offering you the exact same thing (and the opportunity to gain more exp) as a level 1 physical laborer.

Your degree is a sunk cost. Find a job in a warehouse or something. The compensation is the same, if not better, and you can learn about the company and move up.

Stop holding out for "the perfect job". Do physical labor for a construction company or something. Plenty of jobs, learn the business. And do it sooner than later. The longer you wait, the more you sacrifice.

Spending several years...
You're a BAD goy!

When even Canadians start to sell baby formula?! That's Aussie's job!

>mfw $16 an hour in two years with no degree at random warehouse job
What the fuck are you doing user? Are you retarded?

College is for suckers. Went for one year, put myself in 7k worth of debt, dropped out, spent another $2,500 & got my HVAC instead & am making $75k at 24 just 4 years into my apprenticeship & paid off all of my debt in less than a year. Weekends off with full benefits & work in an all white area.

>be me
>try for army right away since im a milsperg
>rejected for bad eyesight
>get hired to a shit factory job
>quit that after awhile
>work with father for a few months
>too shit at the job so im quietly let go
>pick up a seasonal job the year after
>laid off
>not smart enough for college/uni
>trade school costs 5k
>try another shitty construction job
>doesnt even last two weeks because im too soy to compete
>one year later
>gained a lot of weight, lost all the gains I had from lifting
>afraid of everything, even something as simple as driving is terrifying
>full neet mode, no ambition, no goal in life, exist solely to eat food, jack off, and play video games
>wish I could kms but im afraid of dying too
>parents refuse to kick me out despite my insistence
>feel like a total burden on everyone else
>absolutely zero friends off or online, I've withdrawn from everything
>not even peterstein's lectures are any help
no hope left for me, im a nigger and a woman in a white man's body

Lol i have a STEM degree and it is the same SHIT.

you took economics. It is all about supply and demand... with open borders and everyone and his grandmother going into stem because non-stem is "worthless"... now engineering degrees too are becoming worthless.

It all depends on the market. software industry is doing great and will perhaps do even better when AI and automation rolls out.

>be me
>apply at Walmart
>get job

Finally have a career guys

That's why I had to make a change, and FAST! The university degree was already bought and paid for, so.....I need to use it!

The whole point of a sunk cost is that you already pad the cost, and you can never recover it, so it is irrational to allow those costs to influence future decisions.

15$/hour with no degree whatsoever is pretty decent. I would raise an eyebrow as to why he would not have taken advantage of advancement opportunities, but then again, we've seen that pic before so there is some trolling going on

Just graduated in January. 4 and a half years. Degree in IT. Start this morning at 8am at a local area bank (4 in the area). 45k a year and good benefits. So I guess pretty okay, for a single guy in NM, 45k is decent. Fuck the city

You post on Sup Forums and you aren't a shill, dude...

The CIA will do everything it can to keep you unemployed.

>be me
>stay at home all the time
>have all the time to do what i want
>still have resources
>have all the time for self improvement
>don't have to work for some fuckface boss
>can wake up anytime i want for maximum efficiency
why haven't you taken the neet pill yet Sup Forums?

You should change jobs because of wage stagnation too. Easier to negotiate a higher wage with a new employer than to convince a long time employer to give you a pay increase. Yes, being successful is not for the lazy.

Well paid low stress necessary trips to nature for days. Geology.

I have an offer to get $16/hr at an old job, but there is 0 advancement so it's my fallback. The thing that is killing me is these places want multiple years experience for an entry level job.
I have been a great worker at my previous jobs, I'm just trying to find a place that's wiling to hire someone with entry level experience for an entry level position.

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>13 years at Walmart
>Never promoted to management
You're a trash employee of the highest caliber but just dumb and loyal enough to let them grind you to the bone. Let me guess, you have a thing for prescription painkillers?

You sound like me. I failed at everything and retreated from the world and developed crippling anxiety and was afraid of everything and now neet

i got out of work, whats the point when 1/3rd your income goes to shitskins and obongogees. i live a comfy life now as a NEET off my past earnings and investments. do yourself a favor and quit, your health will thank you for it

Only warehouse job offers are 90 minutes away.

>I would raise an eyebrow as to why he would not have taken advantage of advancement opportunities
Too much competition. There are over 300 people who work here, not counting the mamagement "Academy" that's in this store. On overnights only 5 people have gone to hourly management in my time here. If I am ever to get promoted, it's not going to be for this company.


>but then again, we've seen that pic before so there is some trolling going on
What you see is my night. It all looks the same night in and night out.

Welcome aboard. Pic related. Me on the right.

Not into pills. I drink constantly due to fears of being fired for mundane reasons. I work 5-7 hours for free a week. Not sure what more i could possibly do for this place.

You have a job, so you are being productive.

You chose a good subject in demand. Smart move.

Fucking CIA Niggers

to be 100% honest, I loved being NEET. I'm definitely from the work-to-live mind as opposed to the live-to-work mind

My company is REALLY good

Just do it. Think about earning that money NOW. What ever you don't spend, you can invest. Start somewhere. You may get really good at something that you never thought you were good at, like driving a forklift.

move to northwest, go tradefag. if your parents are going to support you at least do it somewhere else where you dont have your failure hanging over you every day. lots of framers looking to hire and they have to go over the cascades to hire mexicans out of the fields. theyd prefer to hire local 100%

>Find a job in a warehouse

Here let me give you a fucking preview
> Days since last safety violation:
> Zero

>3 semesters of college
>dropped out because "muh depression" and was still undecided,
>failed classes because I had no personal end goal in school
>planned to take semester off and work part time
>dad asks if I want to weld like him and big bro
>sure
>head to welding school soon to be paid nearly $16/hour while there
>moves up to $20 after getting out of welding school and working for company
>company also pays for college
>probably gonna go back to school for comp sci or something similar in the fall
>lucked out from nepotism
>work wagie job I've had since high school till welding school starts
The most high is too good brahs. Basically a neet rn. Good luck to everyone else!

White collar is about connections. Blue collar is also about connections, but less so because there is physical work to be done, and they will always need bodies.

>I drink constantly
I think I can identify the problem

Gotta do what you gotta do to break your circadian rhythm and pass out before 4pm. I haven't seen the sunset since the W. administration.

...and you want a job.

>Be in California
>Mother continuously tells me to get a job
>Years of searching, can't find shit, continue with the endless "you need experience to work here" meme
>Can't get experience if nobody will hire me
>Decide to say fuck it, get the chance to move
>Fabricate fake resume of closed down chain
>Get shitty min wage job, feels like slave labor
>Work my ass off until one day where DM yells at me for "not working fast enough" when I was working a 3 man job by myself
>Walk out
>Move to another state
>Get a job with friend as reference, now making a lot more money, opportunities have opened up and a bunch of friends will put in a good word for me, pretty comfy with job still
>Never graduated high school because of some fucked up accident, no GED

Fuck everyone that talks about college or graduation, I'm doing just fine. Getting a $1,000 bonus here soon too on top of my current pay. Soon I'll be getting a job where I can sit on my ass and get paid more, just waiting for the weed I've been smoking for years to clear out of my system.

>Fuck everyone that talks about college or graduation
college is a way of stealing money, i guess go if you care about making another 15-20k a year, maybe

>employer actually contacting references
Seriously, there is no reason to not just make up references.

Really depends on what kind of company you go with, but some actually do contact references.

A lot of jobs here don't even require degree, just proof of your skills or being trained. One job I've been looking at caps out at 25 an hour and all you need is a GED at min, which if I were to pursue it then why not.

Yeah, accounting would've been good if you graduated like 7 years ago, now you pretty much need a master's ^in accounting or business after to get any real accounting job.

Took six years to get a bachelors in business. Only got one in person interview in the last two years, never really knew what I wanted to do with this degree. rest of my family are professionals and look down on me.

>retreated from the world and developed crippling anxiety and was afraid of everything and now neet

now me no friends at all struggle to start any task

>>Never graduated high school because of some fucked up accident

What did you do.

You obviously have no passion in accounting. Did you get your CPA? There are 1000s of firms out there that will even pay for your exam. There is no way that you cannot find an accounting job with a CPA. If you didnt go for your CPA license, then that is where you messed up.

>buy online phone voip services with regional phone number
>set made up business greetings that go automatically to voicemail
>do your own reference return calls using accents
>profit

Car accident, drunk driver slammed into the passenger side of the vehicle, where I was at. Suffered severe head trauma and after that I could not retain any information in mathematics. Passed every other subject with flying colors except math, gradually got / getting better though.

Laquanda how did you find Sup Forums?

>Fucking CIA Niggers

yup.

all they do is steal, and break shit.

I think 13 years any job is long enough. What do you expect me to do? Fuck it, I'll take a trip to the projects when I get out at 7am to acquire some pills to help facilitate much needed slumber. Thanks goy for the suggestion.

The Internet in 2004.

Doing a bachelor of science in Economics now and pursuing a master's of science degree in Finance or Finance and Risk management. How did I do?

For the students here in this thread, especially fucking STEM students: make fucking connections while you're still in uni. Make friends in your department, be it with fellow students, TA's, and even professors. They will guarantee you a fucking job by the time you graduate. Also, never, EVER, give them an opportunity to show them incompetence/indifference in your field.

>Really depends on what kind of company you go with, but some actually do contact references.
I'm sure that is true for some professions. Just for an entry level position as a young person? They don't give a fuck

In a sense, you are proving my point. I went through CPA training and passed. The job market was so bad that I could not find a job even working for free because so many other people were working for free as well.

get your degree and get a job doing physical labor

I we t through that very same experience after I completed my University education. My advice to you is, apply for a customer service job, employers want to see you can communicate to customers, it’s a very important skill. Do it for a minumum 6 months and then re-apply for those same jobs.

there is something wrong with your resume. simple as that.

Pretty terribly my dude. Quants are being phased out by programmers. They really only need a handful of subject matter experts and the rest do the software.

Which state did you get your CPA license? In my state you need to have worked a certain amount of hours to get the license, therefore you would have a job already.

100% agree. Customer service is a shit job, but you have to do it. Be a cashier, or something similar. It's shit, but it is valuable as experience. It's valuable because you need to learn how to handle it.

For those jobs, yes. For my job now, no.

Washington

No larping, I dropped out of high school and make more money than all my friends who went to college except one (civil engineer) and he's still paying 400+/month in student loans and is in constant fear of being laid off.

...

You're a bullshit LARPer. You don't have your CPA.

>work several labor jobs
>this year work a seasonal job at marijuana farm
>unironically add this to my resume
>post resume on zip recruiter
>get call on Saturday
>we want you as a marketing executive
Idk what the fuck is going on with the job market but, it seems to be working out for me

Ain't going back to that shit

CPA doesn't guarantee a god damn thing

get it son

>finish MS thesis in mech eng at the end of august
>3.7 GPA
>3 years of research experience
>2 bullshit internships
>still NEET
Should I make up things on my resume for the internships? Both of them were comfy, but I pretty much got paid to sleep at my desk so I didn't get to do anything interesting. I think that's hurting me, ontop of employers not really giving a shit about the research. Also I don't want to go back to the place I interned at, management has changed over the years and it's a corrupt as fuck shithole now.

Currently on hold until this cold sore heals

Was your mos a 25 series?

>be me
>drop out of college first semester
>send resume for job in the field
>get the job
>work my way up
>help with finding other people for my department
>all of the resumes sent are some fags with useless degrees
>"spent several years partying and learning useless shit but I can use email pretty good teehee"
>can't find anyone with real skills
>end up hiring only high school graduates because they're the only ones who actually try doing something

And there are people with masters in computer science, business, etc all going for the same jobs because that is a foot in the door.

CPA doesn't mean a god damn thing. I was looking for corporate jobs, but, like i said, everyone wants those corporate jobs. That's the path to 6 figures. That's the path to the lake house.

A million people aim for the corporate dream, and some are just willing to sacrifice more.

Call me a larper all you want, but in a city like Seattle, the competition is rough. There are thousands of people willing to work for free to get that downtown penthouse.

>Never graduated high school
>Spent my highschool years being a weeb, playing JRPGs and wastching anime
>Bounce around from job to job
>Find moving job for 16.50
>Move up the ranks and become a driver at 20.00
>High turn over rate means I get a fuck ton of hours plus tips.
>Work doesn't even feel like work, I just shoot the shit with friends all day and do road trips in the summer and get paid for it while high on shrooms.
>Live at home, rent is 800$ food included.
>Girlfriend wants me to move into her apartment downtown.
>Don't want to because I have a garage at home where I can work on my nice car I saved up for.

Just look at professional resumes on google, take inspiration from them, and when you get interviews just be a confident boy.

>dropped out of hs and got ged because I never took school seriously
>get first job at 21 working fast food
>making close to 12 an hr
I dont knoww where to go from here I was going to apply to community college for this up coming Fall but I dont know what to major in & i dont want to waste my money and time

Find the engineering firm you want to work for. Find out who their subcontractors are. Work for the subcontractor first. Put that company on your resume, and the firm you want will take notice.

>look at other resumes
>be confident

Why even bother typing anything if this is the best advice you can offer?

Thats pretty weird. The only people in there late 20's I know who make lots of money are an accountant, 2 selling financial instruments, and an actuary.

Lol what? The one thing most jobs hate is you working that much unless you're doing unpaid overtime.

Then you're retarded.

> well paying trade job with lucrative company in a rural area
> pays bank as fuck for the area, well above median income for the area
> pays for my home, and enough play money to be entertained.
> been with current company a year this month, and a contracted step raise. cant wait desu boi.
> ordered some tools to start my own buisness, been going to the gym, going to look at a piece of machinery next weekend to spend my tax return on
> also building a bitching rifle because why not

Shits looking up for me finally.

>get shitty degree in psychology (I was naive, I know)
>start grad school because I really wanted to do research
>realize a few months in that academia is bullshit
>quit phd, leave country, travel the world for 5 years, visiting over 30 countries, living as an expat in 8 countries and picking up about 4 languages
>realize the always-on-the-move expat life is boring after a while
>go NEET for a full year, during which I teach myself how to program
>apply like crazy, but no one gives me a chance because no degree, no experience
>after 3+ months of looking finally get hired!

I start my first programming job next week. Rate my story, boys.

Experience > Knowing somebody > High End Degree > Minority >>>>> Regular college degree > Criminal

>bicycles are now the official transportation of the alt-right

because that's really the two most important things - i can't give you anymore realistic advice because i honestly have no idea what you're like, who you are, what you've done etc. you have to fill in the blanks by yourself

smells like larp but I'll bite. Any advice for someone interested in programming but have no idea where to start?

Programming challenges on Sup Forums. Learn to use Google and start with Python and C.

But if you are a professional in a law firm, accounting firm, marketing firm sales firm, etc, then that is the only way to reach the top.

Just depends if reaching the top is your definition of successful.

Switch experience with Knowing Somebody and I would say that is accurate.

thanks

> be me
> got a CAD cert in highschool
> got into a tool and die shop 5 years ago with the CAD cert
> started at $10/hr
> be me now, $29/hr
> this is the low end pay for my trade
> no college

G E T
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S K I L L E D
T R A D E
YOUUUU, F U C K, ING, R E T A R D S.

If you had paid a few thousand dollar and spent a year or two getting a vocational certification, you would have shit pay for about 5 years then it would ramp up to decent pay, and if you were smart and business savvy could then go on to run your own private operation, which could then expand into you owning a reasonable company. Instead we were all tricked that spending 50-100k on a business degree no one in business cares about was the right path. Now with the "everyone gets a degree" mentality, having any degree that isnt STEM is more or less meaningless. Advantage is when promotion time comes around you have the advantage over the one guy without the degree vs everyone else who does, and from what ive seen non college degree guy is usually the best in position because he has something to prove. This is reality now. Learn how to do hand on work in peoples homes fixing stuff, work towards a van and your own tools then be your own boss, be able to tell customers to fuck off if you want, and have your income tied to your ability and work. You will not find that in the slave wage office enviroment, with or without expensive degree.

You did miss the most vital aspect of finding a job: Entry level job looking for 3-5 years prior experience. Yes make 30-50k after 5 years of experience you cant get without prior experience.

>tfw accounting major
Please be larping

>missing the point entirely

How the fuck do you get rejected from the military for bad eyesight? Is that a serious thing? Go slave away for like 2-3 months full time get Lasik and then join military, pop a xanax if you're afraid.

>Biology degree at decent university
>killer gpa
>killer extracurricular
>Unhireable unless you do like ten years of grad school or med school

Don’t do biology, kids.

Two pieces of info to consider when choosing and pursuing a degree.
>1) Select a carreer field where you where it isn't possible to be replaced by software

>2) Have at least a couple of years work experince in related field via co-op or internship prior to graduating

Soumds like you fucked up at least one of these user.

True. One of my dad's buddies started doing that. Hardly seen him over the past decade. But he's happy with the money and nice things, so more power to him.

The accounting firms at the middle of the road state school here snatched up any graduate with a pulse. The ones w/o jobs were literally the ones that put in no effort into their future whether it was networking and/or getting good grades. You're either a larp considering you said you went through "CPA training", or elsewise you fall into the lazy category I mentioned

Too many non-whites in the trades. Another Sup Forumstrap avoided.

>Live in rural Australia, mining region
>Desperate for work
>Plenty of work around
>But everything requires multiple pointless bullshit certifications
>It's all 1 day courses, but they're all booked for months in advance
>And they all cost several hundred dollars each
>Need multiple pointless bureaucratic good boy tickets for even basic jobs
>Can't afford them, running low on funds
>Shit sucks

You literally need a license to pick up a box weighing 20kg or greater and put it on a shelf (manual handling ticket). You need a ticket for fucking everything. White Card, Enclosed Space, Senior First Aid, Working at Heights, Elevated Work Platform, Forklift, Skid Loader, there's literally $3500 worth of one-day courses you need to take just for every-day jobs. It's fucking retarded.

>But if you are a professional in a law firm
No, the only way up is nepotism, if you want to reach the top you start your own law firm. Either way, you will be hard pressed to find a reputable place making you work even 70 plus hours every week,
>accounting firm
Is redundant, killed off by technology and Finance graduates, so why captain a sinking ship?
>marketing firm sales firm
Alright, now I can tell you don't know what you're talking about, unless you count answering your email in your spare time as working.

key word is skilled trade.
skilled enough shit skins cant hack it.

> Terrible GPA with business degree
> Be attractive
> Be army officer for awhile
> Supervise forklift operators in rural manufacturing plant
> Supervise operations in city manufacturing plant
> Manage supervisors in same plant
> Make 80k before bonus
> Work 15 days a month, 16 hours a day
> Eh, no complaints