Sick of unemployment

[BogusOwnz]

I graduated almost a year ago and had a cool job right away. Due to department mergers I was laid off in December and have been jobless ever since, I've had a few multi interviews for positions but just havnt had one stick. Sure being unemployed made me find homebrewing, I'm tired of being a 23 year old college grad who is unable to find a job I don't care if unemployment is 13% in my state.

 

[Walker]

I know your pain.

I was three years out of college with my BS degree when the tech bubble burst in 2001. My company folded up and everybody was laid off. Same thing happened at a ton of other companies, which created a situation where there were only a few jobs and a bunch of people wanting them.

It got ugly real quick and companies flat out told me that they weren't going to interview anyone who had less than 5 years of experience unless that person had a MS degree. I was two years shy of either of those things.

I had been given a generous severance package, so I wasn't strapped for cash in any way. I spent a long summer drinking and laying in my hammock job serching on a laptop until I got my foot in the door at a start-up company. I informed them before they hired me that I was due to get married in a few weeks and they were OK with that.

I worked for two weeks (mostly reading documentation) and then went off on 2 weeks of borrowed vacation to get married. When I got back to town, THAT company had folded up, too!

But, I managed to get another job a few weeks later and I have been at that once ever since.... almost 9 years at the same company, which is very rare in my line of work.

Keep your chin up. Things will work out.

 

[GregR]

am I the only person in the world who is completely and utterly content with being unemployed? yes, I've been going to school more than full time for the last two years, (maintaining a 3.75 GPA, 71 units) and have only 1 year left of the G.I. bill, but I LOVE not having a job. everyday I think about how I could possibly keep this going. I have so much stuff I want to do and hobbies I want to pursue that I know a job, other than being a means of finance, will just be a hindrance to anything I really want to do. I hate the prospect of employment and working for the man. hopefully my prospective career of engineering will quench my need to tinker and solve problems while giving me some money to brew, travel, race cars, boogie board, golf, explore the city I live in, find good new music, engage in friendly debate, take classes, exercise, read, fix up old anything, sail, hike... you get the point.

sure, most of those things can become a career but as most anyone knows, the quickest way to kill a hobby is to do it for a living.

I don't want to work, I don't want to worry about a 401k, I don't want any of that crap. all I want is spend time with my girlfriend, tinker around with my hobbies, and see the world. work never has, is not, and never will be something I want to do.

call me what you will, but I think this is all we got. no after life, no second chance, no salvation, just this life. why spend 30+ years in a career that you will most likely be unsatisfied with at some level for the entire time when there are so much more enjoyable things to go. if it weren't for needing money for the things I want to do...

 

[SwampassJ]

That's the reason I'm cleaning pools and going to Paramedic school. No city down here will hire a Fire Fighter with only EMT Basic, I would have to go up to the boonies 2-3hrs from here.

 

[dougf]

Keep looking. If your interested, Uncle Sam needs some young men

 

[Laughing_Gnome_Invisible]

Keep looking. If your interested, Uncle Sam needs some young men

I'd always suspected that about him. You can tell by the way he dresses. very "Flamboyant" to say the least.

 

[AnonyBrew]

am I the only person in the world who is completely and utterly content with being unemployed?

Make that 2 people. Me & you.

 

[Walker]

am I the only person in the world who is completely and utterly content with being unemployed? yes, I've been going to school more than full time for the last two years, (maintaining a 3.75 GPA, 71 units) and have only 1 year left of the G.I. bill, but I LOVE not having a job. everyday I think about how I could possibly keep this going. I have so much stuff I want to do and hobbies I want to pursue that I know a job, other than being a means of finance, will just be a hindrance to anything I really want to do. I hate the prospect of employment and working for the man. hopefully my prospective career of engineering will quench my need to tinker and solve problems while giving me some money to brew, travel, race cars, boogie board, golf, explore the city I live in, find good new music, engage in friendly debate, take classes, exercise, read, fix up old anything, sail, hike... you get the point.

sure, most of those things can become a career but as most anyone knows, the quickest way to kill a hobby is to do it for a living.

I don't want to work, I don't want to worry about a 401k, I don't want any of that crap. all I want is spend time with my girlfriend, tinker around with my hobbies, and see the world. work never has, is not, and never will be something I want to do.

call me what you will, but I think this is all we got. no after life, no second chance, no salvation, just this life. why spend 30+ years in a career that you will most likely be unsatisfied with at some level for the entire time when there are so much more enjoyable things to go. if it weren't for needing money for the things I want to do...

I agree with a lot of your philosophy and used to feel the same way, but I now have three children that I need to think about and provide for. I had to give up some things in order to give them the best and most that I could.

 

[mosquitocontrol]

I feel your pain. I've been unemployed since December also. But I don't even receive unemployment. I've only been on one interview and there are no jobs in my field or my degree in the area. The few jobs available everyone wants someone with exact specific experience which is impossible. I don't have the money to relocate. I'm going stir crazy from having no one to talk to all day.

This month is the first we are breaking into savings to live. We are spending our wedding fund I used all 2009 to save. And to think I worried about money constantly when I was working... I just want a paycheck again so I can start paying off my crushing student loans.

I'm also sick of my mom nagging me for not having health insurance. And to go to Vegas to get married just to get it.

I guess I should go 'apply' to more jobs. As in send my resume thru the internet to a blackhole to get immediately deleted.

 

[hal2814]

I got a Computer Science degree in 2001. At the beginning of the year, things looked great for jobs. By the end, it was real bad. (I know the technology bubble was going to burst by itself anyway but did stupid Janet Reno have to pop it with the Microsoft anti-trust case right before I graduated?) I ended up working full time for the university I graduated from. I was lucky to have a post-graduation job lined up and only got it because I had the connections to get my resume past the HR drones and did a good job of interviewing. The pay was terrible but the experience I got helped me get a much higher paying job 3 years later.

You're going to have a tough time getting your foot in the door cold right now. Do you have any connections? Do you still keep up with those you graduated with or others who were also laid off from your previous employer? Is there anyone else who can help you get a foot in the door? Have you considered moving? I don't know what field you're in but there are parts of the country with much lower unemployment.

 

[TxBrew]

I graduated almost a year ago and had a cool job right away. Due to department mergers I was laid off in December and have been jobless ever since, I've had a few multi interviews for positions but just havnt had one stick. Sure being unemployed made me find homebrewing, I'm tired of being a 23 year old college grad who is unable to find a job I don't care if unemployment is 13% in my state.

Is moving not an option? My folks had to move 1000 miles away to find quality employment. Was tough but I was raised much better compared to stay living in small town Iowa.

 

[RC0032]

IL's rate is below 13 (Chicago below 9)

What was your degree in?

 

[DeathBrewer]

I'd always suspected that about him. You can tell by the way he dresses. very "Flamboyant" to say the least.

Ha! Flamboyant patriotism!

Is moving not an option? My folks had to move 1000 miles away to find quality employment. Was tough but I was raised much better compared to stay living in small town Iowa.

That's one of the many reasons I moved from small town Iowa to Big City California

I'm trying to start a brewery right now. In the off-chance that I did get laid off or fired, I would have plenty of time to get things taken care of (which I'm having trouble with now.)

What is your dream other than the job you were trained for? What do you enjoy? Although I've had continuous jobs since I was a teenager, I bounce from place to place and try to always keep my options open.

Try to make some money on the side doing what you like and maybe it will turn into something bigger. No reason to stick with your educational goal if it's not getting you anywhere at the moment.