Sunday Fun-day! (job applications)

[Zoe Girl]

Yeah! This is my job for today, push my rear through applying for jobs. Maybe do some laundry and spend some time with grandbaby.

Meanwhile I asked some advice of my job coach and she asked if I needed it at Spring Break, um no. I am not waiting on anything that long! So she is not that available right now.

I have moments of total excitement, and other moments when I feel that I am ready to be living in a van down by the river (if you know that old SNL skit).

[Tybee]

Me too, applying for jobs today--just got applications in for two., and it feels good!

[Zoe Girl]

Okay, keep checking in if you need encouragement. I love to hear, i have too many people around who talk and never do

[ApatheticNoMore]

I used to wonder at my coworker 2 jobs ago at a dead end job (we joked about how bad it was to make it bearable - dead-end and no raises). I used to wonder at them not being more ambitious (they are so underemployed and so over-educated also) as I kept periodically trying to get out of there. I don't wonder now. They are working after all and I'm 4 months unemployed.

It is true if everything goes right I might still end up better off in the long run (because a dead end job still goes nowhere even if it's a darn bit better than no job). But maybe not.

[Zoe Girl]

ANM I have been there too, a little judgy for people who are not trying. However the higher up you go, the farther you have to fall. I was at Target for years after finishing my masters, and it sucked. But I stuck with it. I am thinking that if this goes to crap before I feel solid where I will land I will get a weekend job and pay into Social Security or just use all that money to pay off the student loan. At least I can show I am always employed.

Then I read something that one hiring CEO type person didn't want someone who was already employed, go figure.

Applied for an Americorps Program Manager job, have a few more to work on today.

[Yppej]

A treeplanting job sure looked good to me, get out of the office and accomplish something that will last for generations, but it was only a summer gig. I can see the appeal of Americorps.

[Zoe Girl]

I had city year at my school doing programming for 2 years1, and had a great collaboration. They had the same dress code as the ones who worked outdoors however. There is a big variety of programs under the americorps umbrella. It pays what i basically need and i could still qualify for loan forgiveness programs. It feels like a very good fit with som e growth.

Now for restorative practice jobs, lotsof those. But not on this tablet which isa pain and typesup badly!

[Float On]

I have had a couple of weeks of no replies to apps I've sent, to be honest I'm not sure I would of enjoyed them anyway. Need to get back to applying.

[Zoe Girl]

These are the times that I really want someone like a partner, boyfriend, spouse. More to just do some fun things and distract myself, focus on another person more. And encouragement is also helpful,

[Yppej]

I got an offer today but turned it down. During the interview they asked what pay I was expecting, then offered me $1.00 an hour less and their employee portion of medical premiums is twice what I am paying now. Plus they had said they typically do not give annual pay increases, whereas where I am now word of mouth is everyone gets something. I will find out soon.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Expectations for any type of job in my field are really incredibly high and I try to meet them, but basically it's often they want you to have done that exact job before more or less but even when you've done a somewhat similar role in another company it really isn't that exact job ...

In person interviews very hard to land as EVERYTHING is phone screenings first these days (and not that those are easy to land either at all, but getting to in person very hard - and it seems sometimes that then there are still sometimes multiple rounds of in-person if you get to that point). Just incredibly harsh job market. Worst I've ever seen.

So do something new? Well that's the obvious solution. Only I fear something new will be equally hard to get into and I can't even sell my experience if it's something new, so that would make that even more impossible to break into (I can't imagine purely having training in something being worth much when decades of experience aren't).

[Tybee]

I already got online-rejected for the job I wanted--boy, that was incredibly fast. I wonder if it is because I turned 62 today. I had all the relevant qualifications and then some, and would have worked for less money than at my old job.

[ApatheticNoMore]

I already got online-rejected for the job I wanted--boy, that was incredibly fast. I wonder if it is because I turned 62 today. I had all the relevant qualifications and then some, and would have worked for less money than at my old job.

I don't know, I think age discrimination is real (though I think I'm a bit young to be hitting it in full - ie I'm under 50). They might think you want to retire soon. But I think also it's tough out there in many areas (maybe not all, there are probably some people who find work very easily).

My boyfriend is employed but is also looking for work sometimes pretty intensely without much luck but one interview he never heard back from. And that baby (my bf) hasn't even turned 40 yet. Neither of us have ideal career paths though, I guess, but we've both pretty much always worked. He applied recently for a "perfect fit", we'll see if he hears from it, it seems we both have applied for what we thought were near "perfect fits" before only to hear nothing.

[Teacher Terry]

APN: since you appear to have many years yet to work I would get some short term training in area where it is in high demand and age won't make a difference.