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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17060889 - 10/19/12 11:33 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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iwasaClown said: I could sell my dick to fat bitches.
amen to that haha .
I've got an interview for some graduate scheme this insurance company is doing, full time job + they put you through an insurance degree in the process.. Sound pretty dull but the pay is good. I've already made it through the initial interview / screening. I need to find a job before I answer bail next month .
Failing that, I'm going with the above .
I'm seriously considering something like that, or porn. I just don't know where to start.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: fapjack]
#17060902 - 10/19/12 11:37 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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HB said: I think the smartest thing to do when you are unemployed is to spend as much time as possible applying for jobs every day of the week and regularly checking in with jobs you have already applied for to get them to remember you and think about you, and so you can show them that you are very interested in getting the job by regularly inquiring into if they have reviewed your resume/application yet and made a decision about hiring you.
LOL, no. Unemployment is vacation time, fuck applying for work I'm sitting on my ass all day doing jack shit and banging my gf. I'm a lazy wook though and never really relied on having a real job.
You will eventually need to get a real job to support yourself (unless you have a rich family or partner who doesn't mind paying for you forever), unemployment doesn't last forever, and I don't think you are interested in becoming a bum who lives on the street. No women will date a bum also, so you'd miss out on having a girlfriend if you decide that you never want to work again in your life, for one thing. One day, you will probably become less lazy when you realize that your comfortable life is being threatened because of a lack of income. When the things you care about in life are in danger of being taken away from you (such as a place to live), you likely will change your way of thinking and doing things quickly to not lose the things that matter to you. There are no "easy roads" to making a living, you will need regular income no matter what to live in this world and survive, and society doesn't make it easy to survive without working a regular job. Everybody else works, so they are the ones who create and mold society to make it so that you have to work, as well. It's just the way the world works.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: HB]
#17060916 - 10/19/12 11:40 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'll get another job when I need to, it isn't that hard. For now I'm just going to sit on my ass and smoke pot and listen to music/watch cartoons all day.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: HB]
#17060925 - 10/19/12 11:41 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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empire537 said: I don't understand how people can be unemployed for so long.. sure there's not a lot of jobs.. so make your own.
Buy some chemicals and a squeegee and start washing peoples windows. Start mowing people's lawns. Get a pressure washer and start washing houses. Clean people's swimming pools.
There's countless things you can do, I just don't understand some people. Sure you probably won't get rich doing those things, but it gives you something to do and puts a little extra money in your pockets.
The current day and age isn't like it was in the past when people were more open to allowing random people to help out with everyday things like chores. People no longer want random people to mow their lawns or wash their windows/cars or clean their swimming pools or wash or clean their houses. They want people who do it professionally/for a living to do these things, and unless you have some credentials and lots of experience, people won't allow you to get near their things. The olden days were very different than 2012 is ... you no longer find people who are receptive to having their various chores done by a random person. And people expect more of other people who they hire to do things these days ... cleaning pools these days, for example, isn't as simple as just cleaning all the leaves out of a pool with the long pole like it used to be, it now requires knowledge of specific chemicals and knowing how to use the chemicals correctly in a pool for whatever reasons. It's like this with everything ... people just expect people they hire to have credentials and experience and be doing the job for a living, not just to make a few extra bucks. I'm just saying that making a few extra bucks is a LOT harder than it used to be in the past.
And getting a job these days can be either easy or hard, but all that matters is that you are putting the necessary time and effort into applying for work and following up with the jobs regularly. My step-dad was recently fired from a high-paying managerial job at a TV station where he made over $100,000 a year just because of lay-offs, not because he did anything wrong, and now he is just working temp jobs doing the same thing he was doing but making a lot less money, and since they are just temp jobs, it's not regular employment and doesn't give the sense of job security and financial security that regular employment would give. He has been applying for MANY jobs recently trying to get regular employment, but he can't find it anywhere. Getting a job these days can be very trying and can take a long time (even months or years in some cases) and all people can do is do their best to try to get employed. There's no guarantee that you will get employed in a short period of time these days, it can take any amount of time no matter how much time and effort you put into trying to get employed. The world isn't the way it was in the past, and many people with families to take care of can't even get employed despite having tons of experience in their job fields. I never blame a person who is unemployed for a long time unless I know that they are not putting the effort into trying to get work. The competition for all jobs these days is fierce, many people will compete hardcore for even minimum wage jobs that would suck to have to do every day, just because work is so much harder to get than it used to be in the past. Just my thoughts.
I really agree. I remember going to places to turn in applications, and they pull out a folder thats 2 or 3 inches thick with just applications. This was at places like mcdonalds, subway, wendys, grocery stores, etc... I went to many interviews as well.
thats why in my post i said i would do some work looking for a job everyday. Because that is almost like a fulltime job in itself nowadays. not like even ten years ago where you go out one day and get a handful of applications, turn them all in and then get multiple offers
You have to do like that one poster said and keep going into places to 'check the status' of your application. I never got a call for an interview unless i did that
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17060968 - 10/19/12 11:50 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm unemployed, I spend my days on the internet, watching movies, but mainly making music. My goal is to spend all my time making music, doesn't always happen, but its something to shoot for, and sometimes I really do it lol
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17060971 - 10/19/12 11:51 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I dunno... 90% of the jobs i've ever had have been offered to me by people I know, a few were from answering craigslist ads. One gig I got walking to my car after another gig, the guy just needed a hand at that moment. Point is, sure you should be actively sending out resumes and checking back with companies; but it is just as or more important to get off of your computer and go into the world. If you can't find a real job, go volunteer for something. That is way more likely to lead to a 'well, we can't pay you much but...' which leads to meeting more people, which leads to more work. Applying to the same minimum wage jobs as everybody else with a computer leads to mindfuck frustration. I work verrry part-time, but it pays rather well so I do alright. But I have a lot of time to kill, and am always looking for something more steady. The more I do- whether its work on the landscaping, ride my bike/ run, chat with people at coffee shops, or be creative- the better I feel. Just don't sit in the same room staring at a screen all day.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Lynnch]
#17060993 - 10/19/12 11:56 AM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Yeah, it's all about who you know.
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Acaterpillar said: Yeah, it's all about who you know.
For so many things too. Sucks for the people who are not as social as others like myself.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: DeadHearts]
#17061055 - 10/19/12 12:10 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Acaterpillar said: Yeah, it's all about who you know.
For so many things too. Sucks for the people who are not as social as others like myself.
Many people get their jobs through friends and family. Many businesses will only hire people who are in their family or are close friends, and that limits the ability to get jobs. It's good to talk to family members and friends regularly to ask about job opportunities, I have gotten great jobs with great pay through talking to the right family member at the right time. I once got a $15/hr job that I was fully qualified for but never expected to get in my life by talking to my cousin one day while working for not much money at a business I wasn't very happy working at. He mentioned that the place he works at is looking for somebody skilled with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and within a few days I left the job I was not happy at and was working full-time at my cousin's place of work, doing a job that I was very good at from the beginning.
So you never know where your next job opportunity will come from. I don't personally trust acquaintances who are not close friends or family enough to try and procure jobs through them, so I don't personally find being social to be a necessary skill to find work. Many people who are not friends or family are not interested in going out of their way to find you work, friends and family tend to be the only people who will have a vested interest in helping you out.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: HB]
#17061470 - 10/19/12 01:32 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Craigslist is an amazing place... Maybe everyone is just different. I've been making a living on my own since I was about 14. I learned web design super young and starting posting ads on craigslist. I would make between $500-$1000 per site project, and I could do one in a week. Sure, I'd only get maybe 2 jobs a month, but that's $1000-2000 extra cash money per month.
Just learn a skill and advertise it. You'd be surprised how much money is out there to make. As a matter of fact, I tried freelancing again recently (I have a full time job now) and just by linking to my portfolio I got an overwhelming amount of projects, I had to remove my ad.
Bottom line, if you're determined enough; you'll be just fine.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17061531 - 10/19/12 01:41 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Cepheus said: What the fuck do you do with yourselves? I've been unemployed for about a month now.. There's only so much porn a man can watch ya know?
I'm at that point where I'm scraping together my last pennies for a drink later .
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17061573 - 10/19/12 01:46 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I go to school. 
Employment is somewhat overrated and outdated. A lot of what the older folks call "a job" doesn't exist anymore.
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Skills are always useful
Jack of all trades here ;-)
Always adapting :-)
Technically I'm a business ownr, investor, manual labourer, bar tendor, distributor, marketor, roofer, plasterer, woodworker, bricklayer, IT refurbisher, IT repair
Depending on what day of the week is is 
I have friends who just odd job and live without money similar to wooffing but just by purely social networking alone. Money is the asset so much... hen you realise that its a lot easier to get through life.
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Re: My unemployed bretheren [Re: Cepheus]
#17062641 - 10/19/12 04:53 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm going on almost 18 months now. Living off of a fairly generous no-interest family loan while a personal injury suit goes through. I can't do shit physically, or at least extensively.
I've hidden in books, revisited old hobbies, reread old college textbooks, reformatted old college papers, have enjoyed very much cinema, reading up on shit that I like.
It seems like a death sentence after so long; you need to occupy yourself. Find something you love and do it. If you can make money doing it, all the better.
Keep yourself busy and keep looking for work. Always have something to do.
Right now? I'm getting all my old college shit back together and venturing realms that I hadn't before... I'm putting social discourse, comparative literature and renaissance lit down and going outside of my territory. I guess "expanding my horizons".
Next fall I'm going for my Ph.D.
Find something constructive, something you love, just do it and roll with the punches.
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