hop on the band wagon!

5/3/2009 11:31:19 PM

OH NICE CROSS POST LADY.

[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 11:32 PM. Reason : .]

5/3/2009 11:31:52 PM

uh oh, you've done it now

brace yourself

5/3/2009 11:32:20 PM

you could always become a dancer

5/3/2009 11:33:01 PM

good luck to yall

my advice: settle for less, it is an employer's market.

grad school is a good option too

5/3/2009 11:33:07 PM

Most people dont have a job lined up immediately after graduation... dont worry

5/3/2009 11:34:02 PM

or now for that matter.

5/3/2009 11:34:45 PM

I thought you got one a while back...

5/3/2009 11:35:24 PM

actually

roughly 10% of the population is unemployed

and something like less than 5% of college educated people are unemployed.

sure it sucks, but it could be worse

5/3/2009 11:36:55 PM

^^ i did. i got laid off again.

5/3/2009 11:38:43 PM

yeah but i wonder how many of those 95% of college grads have jobs in their field or are looking for a better opportunity somewhere else

5/3/2009 11:39:40 PM

if you are looking for better opportunities then quit complaining

take what you can get thesedays

5/3/2009 11:40:54 PM

^^ what?!?!?! why so soon? poor planning on their part?

5/3/2009 11:40:56 PM

I would like to say, i graduate saturday, and i have a job with great job security, I cant/wont be fired unless I fuck up bad between now and retirement in 20 years.

5/3/2009 11:42:26 PM

^^^ truth. now's not the time to be picky.

^^ yep, that's the long and short of it. (i worked there for 3 months)

[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM. Reason : k]

5/3/2009 11:42:49 PM

it just sucks to have to "take what you can get" since graduating itself felt like it took forever

[Edited on May 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM. Reason : its like you have to take it in the ass cause "the economies bad" ...]

5/3/2009 11:42:50 PM

Attn: graduates with < 1000 posts.

5/3/2009 11:43:02 PM

Cool, I'm safe.

Yeah, I'm graduating with nothing lined up. I don't know where I'll be living at the end of May, either.

5/3/2009 11:44:40 PM

^^^^ what do you do again?

5/3/2009 11:45:32 PM

Quote :

"it just sucks to have to "take what you can get" since graduating itself felt like it took forever [Edited on May 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM. Reason : its like you have to take it in the ass cause "the economies bad" ...]"

graduation does not guarantee employment. college is fucking easy compared to the real world. just be glad that you are less than retarded and can get an education. imagine being a fucking laid off auto worker in bumfuck indiana with two kids and a 10th grade education.

imagine having a house payment and getting laid off, fuck that shit

5/3/2009 11:46:41 PM

thats another thing...i hate paying money to rent...i'd rather pay money and fucking own something

5/3/2009 11:47:43 PM

owning something is not what it is cracked up to be -

try being 40K upside down on a house and renting looks like a fucking great option right now.

5/3/2009 11:49:21 PM

yeah, finding a way to pay my mortgage is definitely stressing me out more than anything else right now.

5/3/2009 11:50:48 PM

yeah, owning can be nice, but there are a lot of bad things associated with it to... renting allows a lot of freedom, especially when just out of college

5/3/2009 11:51:13 PM

speaking of... anyone want to rent a house?

5/3/2009 11:51:47 PM

i'm locked in at 500/month til the end of july '10

5/3/2009 11:52:15 PM

^ you arent as locked in as you would be if you had a house and had to move

5/3/2009 11:52:55 PM

truth. and now is not exactly a seller's market...

5/3/2009 11:53:23 PM

i hope they dont raise min wage anymore

5/3/2009 11:56:25 PM

i graduated in december and didnt have a good job til about end of feb

5/3/2009 11:57:49 PM

any advice for those graduating without a job? (ps-I want a job as a medical assistant..that's all!! not picky!)

5/3/2009 11:58:22 PM

don't get discouraged.

5/3/2009 11:58:53 PM

totally off topic and from my post in TT, but this is the reason I just bought an iphone




^^ move somewhere big, and in the south (lots of old people)

Atlanta, Tampa, Miami, etc.

[Edited on May 4, 2009 at 12:00 AM. Reason : d]

5/3/2009 11:59:28 PM

oh, and how can I get $200 by next week?

5/4/2009 12:00:32 AM

5/4/2009 12:02:01 AM

^^^ pretty good advice.

5/4/2009 12:03:52 AM

200 by next week? now, thats something else entirely

ps, are you LF? Im one of the newer guys on the team

5/4/2009 12:09:46 AM

my advice would be just dont be picky

dont think that just because you have a college degree you are qualified.

at my current job, a lady was telling me a story the other day where she applied for a job in a medical office and 256 others had applied for the same job.

unless you are collecting unemployment, some job > no job

5/4/2009 12:10:19 AM

just work on getting inside the head of whoever your interviewer might be and make yourself as marketable as possible. try to have a good answer for every question you might get asked in advance. focus on key points and do not ramble on. learn "STAR" interview process and any others that get thrown at you.

i spent october & november looking for a job hard core, ended up taking one for way less money than i wanted part time, worked that one for a month and in the mean time landed one where i am happy with the money and its full time. left the part time on on very good terms, they asked me to stay and offered FT to get me to stay. i feel like i could go back if i needed to.

the job is not what i want to do forever by any means but its paying the bills right now and i feel very fortunate to have it.

make yourself sound as passionate as possible about what you are going to be doing

5/4/2009 12:16:08 AM

Quote :

"try to have a good answer for every question you might get asked"

I somewhat agree. Not so much memorizing answers as just be ready to think on the fly. Most of the questions I have asked people I have interviewed hasnt so much been to see what they told me but just that they can interact with people, think on the fly, and hold a good conversation and not be like "uh uh uhhhhh uhhh"

5/4/2009 12:18:47 AM

I've got a potential lead that seems like they basically are going to hire me, but I still have to have one more interview with them. So I technically still have no job.

But I'm actually a little scared that I won't graduate. I haven't done all that well in my classes this semester.

5/4/2009 12:22:00 AM

you mean.....

graduating this Sat, without a job and moving in with the parents?

[Edited on May 4, 2009 at 12:44 AM. Reason : w]

5/4/2009 12:44:22 AM

Quote :

"(ps-I want a job as a medical assistant..that's all!! not picky!)"

Lucky for you there are a good number of medical jobs around here compared to other jobs.

What sort of assistant job?

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/hea/

The number of listings there is absolutely amazing compared to other fields.

5/4/2009 12:49:51 AM

i kinda want to get completely out of nc

feel like theres gotta be somewhere better than anywhere in nc

5/4/2009 12:51:51 AM

im moving back to raleigh on wednesday and i can't wait

i want to stay in the RTP area forever if i can, after being in Central VA for 2 years

5/4/2009 12:54:11 AM

^you got a job lined up?

5/4/2009 12:55:17 AM

nope, might go to grad school though

5/4/2009 12:55:38 AM

so you quit a job to move to Raleigh with no job lined up and maybe grad school?

5/4/2009 12:56:21 AM

BA in Psych=USELESS

melanndelyn=a waitress

5/4/2009 12:57:22 AM

i got laid off from a job

i thought i had a job in DC, but the day i got laid off, that job called and said there was a hire freeze

i have a sister in raleigh that owes me $texas, so i can have free rent for a while

5/4/2009 12:57:43 AM