Finally get a phone interview last week

>finally get a phone interview last week
>get rejection e-mail today

How the job search going, anons?

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Took me 5 months to get a job. Took me 2 months after revamping my resume
Glad I can finally afford to feed my guns again.

Good luck bro.

Been on quite a few interviews but so far no dice. But I think schools interviews for teachers up through july. Could be worse could be better. I have a chem cert, but its alt route and I have no experience teaching. Should be able to find a place, I just dont want to teach in a city or at a charter school. I guess worse case I can get my physical science one with like 2 more classes and go where ever I want with a year of experience in a shit school

I work night maitenence at walmart.

Mfw

Anyone else working a job where they've considered putting a bullet through their leg instead of working?

Just started again after like a couple weeks.

Working a paying intern job right now and I don't think they have money for hiring right now. So maybe I got at least like 5 months.

But I don't want to get caught out in case.

think long game friend. make money now, plan for tomorrow.

>tfw u work at starbucks

Sounds like the ultimate robot job.

It sucks. I've been trying to switch to days at least for awhile, but they have me stuck babysitting my literally retarded supervisor because they feel sorry for him. I can tell a ton of stories about him.

You failed on a phone interview? What kind of job was this for?

Post 'em.

I can understand and admire hiring retards, but making them supervisors is maximum overmeme.

>tfw work as a lifeguard
Only benefits are that it's easy as hell and I usually get free food.

>tard stories
do it

Yeah that's pretty true. I'm not a robot though. I miss daylight and seeing people that aren't the creepy old men who make up 90% of the janitor workforce

Well, for one he falls asleep for hours a night and they let him get away with it because they don't have camera evidence

He also tries to come into the bathroom everytime I go in there. Sometimes you can hear him breathing outside of the door when I'm taking a shit.

Give me a little to do some green text and pound down some more beers. I took 4 days off so I don't have to deal with his shit.

Not him but ill post 2 sets i have. Some might already know tyrone and neil

Its neal not neil oops

I see people talking about job troubles and makes me grateful that straight out of high school I went to trade school and have worked the same place for 8 years.

Then I remember that I'm so specialized this job is really all I can do, and I'm topped out on raises with no real upward position to go at my work without insane luck, unless I change employers (still same job though)

I'm really against going back to school, trying to struggle living working part time, and racking up debt for the next 4 years though to probably not make what I do now with a degree

How much do you make? You could always save up to ease the pain

>tradesman
>not owner

jump in user, this is america go make your money

Oh yeah, He shits himself about 3 times a week. You can see it run down his pants, and I've had to clean it off the floor multiple times before

It was to be part of a cleanup crew for a bestiality porn shoot. I'm handy with a mop and figured I could really put my skills to the test. Those horses make one heck of a mess.

I just exited the Navy after my 4 and moved back to Georgia. I haven't actually started looking for a job yet.

Still stuck in trade school for 4 months.
I like it but I'm getting sick and tired of being poor and never having free time.

Owning an automotive repair shop is one of the worst businesses to start up in a major city, with equipment costs and getting all set up with various regulations, not to mention there are thousands of independent shops in my city, none of whom can offer near what my dealership can, who can't even diagnose or repair newer cars, which really can't even offer much to distinguish themselves from each other to the point that one has a clear selling point over the rest. Might as well pick one from the phone book and roll the dice.

Oh brother I feel your pain. I worked in lake Tahoe at a pool that catered to rich liberal retards from San Francisco. If it wasn't for the chance to bang one of their teen daughters at least once a summer I most likely would have ended it. It's so fucking boring 99.995 of the time and all you can do is watch people and think.

But then i got to college with $10k in my bank account from working 3 summers in a row, have 11 guns at home, and a used car when most kids my age don't have a damn bike. Life is fugging great for me now. Hang in there user, it gets better!

...not sure I can believe you. But I want too.

Was it grill Horse?

>Was it grill Horse?
>>>/clop/

I work at Costco in the receiving department. Work mornings - 40 hours a week, Make $24 an hour, $2500 bonus twice a year, 72 hours of personal and 3 weeks of vacation a year plus all major holidays off.

No debt whatsoever. Life's good.

Damn, that's a pretty decent gig.

$24 an hour? Shit, I need to get on that.

I work receiving at Kroger and I make like a third of that ... Fucking hell.

It's not bad considering I never finished college. Pretty happy overall. Good company. 10/10 would recommend.

Hey buddy, I live in a small time and it'd be a good place to start one.

In my town, there's 3 shops. One talks down to their customers and wouldn't even tell me what's wrong with my car after I returned it. One of the other shops charges way too much, And only has the room to fix two vehicles at a time. The third one is so horribly corrupt and overpriced the only thing people do is get oil changes there because they're fast.

Small town, and do decent work. You'll be fine.

I work CAP 1 in pets, papers, and chems. Just till school starts and I can work UPS again.

applied for 5 home depot positions because wage slavery is mindless and easy. i have an associates and cash handling/PoS experience so I'll get something, but I'm hoping for dat asset protection/loss prevention $15dollarydoos an hour because I spent most of my last job looking at security cameras, being a security camera (sitting in a pickup watching niggers nig and stopping the nigging if it was necessary), and opening/closing facilities inna shitty areas by myself and shilled hard about it in my resume.

Why?
>because I want an AR before any Clinton AWB 2: no sunset clause edition
if not for that I'd happily continue being a n33t until fall semester when I go back to college

Also to add, how the fuck do I get out of the poor people vicious cycle? If I can't hurry up and move out and be with my girl I might literally kill myself. I hate these stupid ass cleaning jobs that it seems I'm stuck doing for the rest of my life.

I just turned 20 last night and am horribly depressed over me still working at Walmart.

Nonexistent.
NEET lyf

Starting an assistanceship for $25k a year while I go to grad school.
>No funs for a while

Show up every day, on time, and work.
When you go to apply somewhere else, that'll carry you further than anything else, or fuck you harder than anything else, because the number one problem employers are having these days is employee attendance.

Certs are nice too (IT, vocational, etc). Cheapish to get depending on where you live, they don't take forever, and they're a good way to get into a new field and boost your pay.

>Thread moved to Veeky Forums
Well then

Why the fuck did this get moved off /k/?

/k/ is all about self loathing and hating your wageslave life and wishing you could own more than a fucking mosin.

You need to find a way to pick up skills.

Skills make your labor more valuable.

If you get an entry level job in sales, or one of the trades (locksmithing, electrician, plumbing) then the time you spend on the job will raise your skill level. If you get really good and save money, there's still a lot of niches for small businesses in the trades.

There are also jobs which require more education than a cashier but less than a full time degree.

Nursing, welding, EMT work, armed security.

Because mods are getting addicted to vitamin D more and more.

I feel you man. Just immigrated from /k/

I'm the guy that posted I have a masters in mechanical engineering and my PhD funding ran out unexpectedly.

That was January. I spent a month going from couch to kitchen to liquor store.
Then I decided to get my ass in gear and look for jobs. But I also got a job as a fry cook to add structure to my life, and force me shave/shower regularly
It was exhausting. I'm not used to working on my feet, and after a month on my couch i couldn't hardly do anything physical. The pay sucked (not enough to make ends meet, just stretched my savings), but the people were good
I thought if I worked hard I'd get a raise (as my boss said) and could do that for a living. It wouldn't be glamorous, but I could afford to perpetuate my simple lifestyle
Then a month or 2 in, I was cleaning a hot fryer and got grease burns on my arm. I'm not a religious man, but I literally prayed for death that night. I was up until 3 from the pain. I realised no gods would save me
It was like the lye scene in fight club. I realised that one day I would die. I realised I can't fear it, but must accept it. I stopped popping ibuprofen ever hour and just experienced the pain. It was awful, but it freed me.
The next morning I made a resolution to revamp my resume, and apply for 10 jobs a day. It took time but I had (have) scars to remind me of that night.

>hasn't managed to build a resume
stop applying for retiree/retarded people jobs.

short list of how 2 escape being a turbofag poorshit
>move in with parents because you're a millennial and the idea of anyone leaving the nest below 25 is nonexistant
>get a job with cash handling/POS, even if it is a pay/hours cut
>work that for 3 months
this proves you don't steal shit and can count
>apply for a better pay position in cash handling at a costco/home depot or try an break into retail with your resume of tard and cash handling
>save money
don't do the poorfag thing of getting a little cash on hand and spending it all
>go 2 trade school/talk with union to become a journeyman
welding, electrical, boilermaking, and pipefitting are all well paying. a master boilermaker in the right oil boom city will pull in 6 figures easy. starting you'll make 30-50 grand working 40 hour weeks with the option to work at pay and a half overtime.

I'm going to start searching in two weeks.

My resume is filled with small lies though. Just to make it look less depressing.

>friend works for the city park department cutting grass
>says he got 3000 applicants for a temporary grass cutter job
>I work as a labourer at a waste disposal facility
>we recently had an opening and interviewed an environmental engineer with project management experience...for a labour position
>recently interview for a job in the middle of nowhere northern BC
>didn't get it but the HR lady told me there was 120 people competing for it

The Canadian job market is PURE SHIT I'm lucky to be employed

I live in a tiny town of 4k people. Every other job in town is filled for the next 30 years. And walmart won't promote me because of my retarded supervisor.

My truck keeps breaking down, and I keep falling behind on being able to afford to keep it fixed.

The only way to post-highschool training is to drive 30 miles away.

I just want to fucking give up some days. It doesn't seem like there's much of a way out sometimes

Move somewhere not shit.

It's as simple as that.

You have no children, no mortgage, and it doesn't sound like your personal life is that great.

I recommend the North Dakota oil fields or the military.

Parents all moved out of town and threw my fucking teenaged brother on me.

And they refuse to move me to ANY position.

>BC

i feel sorry for you, maybe you shouldnt vote the fucks that dont want jobs to be created in

>NO! WE DONT WANT NO PIPELINE HERE! i mean theres like zero jobs here and we could use the economic boost, but a few thousand trees lives are more important!

then move
>parents moved out of town
why the fuck didn't you
>threw my teenage brother on me
das illegal

apply for something other than walmart. you need to get out of the tard jail classification of janitorial duties. Anyone can do your job, keeping it isn't doing you any favors.

Kek, I live in Alberta, was trying to escape to BC because the economy here went to shit

I've applied. Every place tells me the same thing.

That they're not hiring and have no open spots.

If I can get this fucking truck working though, I'll be out of this town in half a second.

If i lived nearby i could hook you up with some real cheap if not free service

It seems like you and your brother need to take your parents out into the woods and make them dig their own graves.

That sucks man. Have you thought about going into business for yourself? Maybe sell shit on ebay for starters (just to get extra cash)

I'm out in northern OK.

Eh, My brother is 18 though. So it's a little easier now

This is a topic from/k/
When people suggest that, we might actually do it

what are you talking about? Worleyparsons is hiring like mad, Ledcor too

I've thought about it. I'm a bretty good cook. I've thought about selling some of my product.

I can BBQ pretty decently, and I make some damn good comfort food.

Have you considered selling your car for parts and getting one of those shitty little scooters?

Or enlisting.

That could honestly put you on your feet again a lot better.

Food-truck it up man!
Ge the right permits and drive to the nice part of town
Sell bottled water for starters if you have to (20 pack for 5 bucks at home depot, cooler full of ice and salt, rush hour at the right spot). $1 for ice cold water after work sounds great
Don't quit, no matter what!

You guys are a lot more inspirational than /k/

I've been putting together a menu, and prices just as fun. Makes me feel bad that a lot of my food is unhealthy as a pound of butter. It's good though.

I'd love to own a food truck though..

use your computer to learn dude. You don't even have to leave your bed.

...

That's the gallon of salsa I made today from garden stuff.

I'm from /k/
But unhealthy is good. Food trucks aren't health food. Big portions (so bachelor's have something to take home tonight), unique menus (Mac and cheese in a semi-sweet waffle cone, Korean BBQ with kimchee Cole slaw tacos, empanadas, etc), right price (know your market), and a good publicity campaign will help. I was a fry cook for a while- presentation is everything cutesy "street food newspaper" wrapping will get you 50 cents more per meal!
Depending on your location, a cooler full of tamales outside a bar would be enough to work Friday/Saturday night (10 pm to 3 am)

OK homemade salsa all over some scrambled eggs wrapped in ... something creative. Waffle cone, corn tortillas, "home made" biscuits (bisquik). It's gotta be "hey that might be fun to try" to get them in, and "holy shit, these flavors are awesome" will keep them coming back

I love working with food. Have you considered working in the food industry? Easy way to make a living with no education and little effort. I always enjoyed serving tables, made like $20/hr and got to help people have a great time enjoying our delicious food.

Now that's a good idea.

I could take some of my BBQ pork over to a bar during the weekend. I made a BBQ taco with homemade apple BBQ sauce and and coleslaw..

And a fried pork sammich and spicy fried mushrooms.

I do need to work on finding a good presentation. I'm not good at novelties. I've always thought good food speaks for itself.

I actually take that salsa and let it sit for a day to combine flavors and mix it with some chicken broth, black beans, corn and chicken and make a really goos soup.

I've considered it to get training. I can cook decently, but I don't really know anything about the management or relations aspect.

I'm slowly coming to terms with how much it's going to cost to get that commercial pilots license I want so bad.

Hearing all the horror stories of pilots getting laid off these days isn't helping.

If all else fails, free samples will get you some interest until you develop a reliable client base.

Good idea.

Around here its not hard to do well with a food truck though. I'd say at left 70% of the ones I've noticed 5 years ago are still around. And some of them flat out suck

>food truck
>dead walmart town
these guys don't seem to get it

you need a roach coach, not a food truck.
bring one of these to construction sites or a warehouse district around noon and sell $5 pulled pork sandwiches, hotdogs, and cold drinks. outside of a major city a panel truck selling $15 burgers and shit just doesn't happen.

I work in IT at a hospital. 32/hour but dear God is it stressful. My favorite job was making 21/hour as a janitor.

I'm trying to figure out whether you could just keep cuts of barbecue in a 140 degree oven for the duration of service.

Bacteria can't multiply at that temperature, and it eliminates the need for reheating, plus you can advertise "straight out of the oven," which isn't exactly common for a food van.

I think it can overcook the food though.

>I just turned 20 last night

Stop complaining you are doing pretty good for 20. Another year or two of job experience and decent companies will see that you are dependable enough to be hired. You aren't even old enough to drink yet, and haven't proven that when you do you wont become an alcoholic or something so there isn't a lot of opportunities yet.

>Then a month or 2 in, I was cleaning a hot fryer and got grease burns on my arm. I'm not a religious man, but I literally prayed for death that night. I was up until 3 from the pain. I realised no gods would save me
>It was like the lye scene in fight club. I realised that one day I would die. I realised I can't fear it, but must accept it. I stopped popping ibuprofen ever hour and just experienced the pain. It was awful, but it freed me.
>The next morning I made a resolution to revamp my resume, and apply for 10 jobs a day. It took time but I had (have) scars to remind me of that night.

No offense but you sound like a terrible person and I would never hire you. Protip: people who hire others for a living can generally detect douche bags like you from a mile so they wont even bother to look at your resume. Protip2: learning to spell "realized" correctly would help a lot.

Why is he a douchebag? Sounds like he's just having some hard luck and trying to get back on track.

I applied to 7 asset protection listings and its been 2 weeks and no calls. How long ago did you apply?

>have 11 guns at home
Hahahhaha what a great measure of success...

Got the only job I've ever applied for. Gonna be doing risk advisory at a big 4 firm straight after I finish uni. Life is easy mates.

I've got a weird dilemma:
>stay at current comfy job with 35+ days off a year, ~$50,000 salary
OR
>Accept an offer for a ~$70,000 salary job without really knowing how stressful it might be

I'm pretty happy where I'm at, but sometimes I can't help but wish I was making just a bit more so I could spend a little frivolously and enjoy myself. I live very frugally.

what changed did you make to your resume?
also why are there no IDs in this thread? hackers?

>man I hate my shitty job so bad
>been looking for a new job for so long
>I've been serving fries and cleaning the grill since I was 16 fuck this
>I'll start my own business!
>now I serve fries and clean the grill in my food truck and I'm 20k in debt still no bachelor's
>th-thanks Veeky Forums

Because you suck.

>Move your food truck to college town
>Look for a local business near down town
>Ask them to use their parking lot at night to serve your food, promise this will help curb break-ins as well as promise a small percent of profits
>First day, when all the students are getting drunk as shit down town - literally post up on the street corner and handout 500 free tacos or whatever the fuck you make
>Make a name for yourself with said drunk college community. Don't over charge and take advantage of social media
>Keep at it for a school year, and then take what you earn to open up a restaurant of your own under the same name near campus
>Live off the campus reputation, but do some charity and social outreach to get the rest of the city in your doors

literally a blueprint to make some fucking money you sap

Been applying for half a year now. Can't find a new job even being currently employed. I've been told it's supposedly much easier to get a new job if you're currently working but I've had no luck at all.

I've applied to 100 different positions, and had limited results:

>1 phone request like two weeks into applying. didnt even bother like a fucking idiot because i thought i was underqualified anyway and figured I'd be having interviews left and right. lol
>3 months or so pass... no other interest.
>a phone interview. failed it, didn't even get an in-person.
>a skype interview a month later. managed to seem like a normal person, got in-person interview. lack of social ability probably was evident, all bro startup so probably not a good fit anyway. keep getting told somebody would reach out, month later and not even a denial email.
>phone interview recently, but fucked up because I admitted outright I wasn't looking to do the kind of work I'm doing now (instructional design), trying to get into more creative work.

just fucking kill me already. there isn't a day that goes by that I create elaborate fantasies where a mass murderer storms in the building, so i can charge straight at him and have him kill me. at least then i would look like a valiant idiot while getting myself killed.

I start a software position at a startup in NYC on Thursday, after a ~6 month search. Full disclosure, I do believe I was self-sabotaging for a time. So excited to have meaningful work and structure to my life. Once I have my own cash, I'm going to start setting up some alternate cash flows like Robin Hood. How about you, user?

>been applying for the past 2 months, or so
>3 interviews
>still looking

Welp.

LOL YOURE A KEK. From your last two sentences I mean.

Well fuck man

lol'd , this

Read the thread.

It was moved from /k/.

No one around here does seasonal employment and I'm going back to college in like two months. I'm just playing with cryptos and stocks for some income for a bit.

I have lost my job almost 4 years ago. First i thought i could be a self-employed person, it barely paid the bills and i've managed to get by, but now it's over.
And no one will hire me now because of the gap in my resume. Do not repeat my mistake.

8 years experience(military) and bachelors related to my field (Purchasing and supply chain management).

Took me over a year to get an interview (happened an hour ago) with a company while I worked my same crappy customer service job (golf course).

Interview went very well I think, they kept talking about "other canidates" but I'm 95% sure they were bluffing. Said they'll "let me know" when it's time for a second interview with the President of the company (small manufacturing company, less then 100 employees).

I hope I get the job, love what I did while in the service.

How hard is it to explain that you were attempting self-employment?

Weren't you doing something in your field?

Stay at comfy job and work on second stream of income. Youre in a good position to start a simple business.

>without really knowing how stressful it might be

If you knew it was stressful that would be one thing, but since you don't then you need to get more information. Informational interview someone with the same job.

I've been considering doing some freelance programming on the side.

I'm not really sure how to get into that.

The main issue is that I would be violating my non-compete with most of my skillset if I do my own thing on the side.

Well, I can ask until I'm blue in the face but it's impossible to really know until you work there.

Also, my company only technically offers like 10 days of PTO, but it's just a gray area where I can do whatever I want as long as I take care of business. It'd be nearly impossible to determine if a company's policy is actually a hard limit. It also varies from person to person within the company.

OP here, just got another rejection e-mail from a programming job that I made it 3 interview rounds into. Back to square 1 I guess. I have a placement agency meeting today at least.

The most common type of freelancing is webdev. Be prepared for asshole customers who want you to work for $2/hr though. Watch this video: youtube.com/watch?v=6h3RJhoqgK8