I've sent out 1001 resumes and received but one job offer...in Indiana (UGH!)!
Most positions were pulled or filled in house-mostly by people (still) expected to do their old job too. Some simply haven't hired anyone yet.
The rich are getting richer by laying off employees in droves and expecting the ones left to pick up the slack. THEY call it: "improved productivity". What it really should be called is exploitation.
What's that Bruce Cockburn song: "If I had a Rocket Launcher".........
Because there were no good jobs there for my wife, who would have had to give up her well paying job. We would have wound up making less than 10k more without her salary. We decided to tighten our belts a bit more instead. Also, my friend had an opening at his company, but his boss pulled the job literally at the last minute.
Of course, now HE does the work of two people.
So let me see - you'd have been better off, and your wife could have tried looking for a suitable job while you were in Indiana, with less financial pressure than you're under now.
Either you're henpecked, or an extremely foolish 'new man' type.
Hell, move yourself to Indiana, and go and see her once a month.
So you forgot the fact that the cost of living in indiana is probably 1/3rd that of where you are now.
so you would have been ahead.
I could have doubled my salary by miving to califorrnia... but looking at living costs, I would have been behind overall... my house payment would have quadrupled for the same quality house/neighborhood. milk goes from $1.99 a gallon to $3.50 a gallon.... etc....
only a fool doesnt look at the overall economic picture.
See, milk prices in california are regulated. So you can buy a gallon of milk for a minimum price of... oh, I forget... I think it's like $3.50. But they can offer a discount when you buy two... come to think of it, I guess it's two gallons for $4.50.
I own my condo (and bought it right) so my housing would have been only slightly cheaper.
Gasoline is much cheaper there (this was Evansville, IN by the Kentucky and Illinois borders) about 40 cents in fact. Food seemed about the same.
I've sent out 1001 resumes and received but one job offer...in Indiana (UGH!)!
If you really have sent out this many resumes then you could do a few things:
Look at your resume again. Why are people not interested in it? What can you do to make it better? Get advice from friends and family who aren't afraid of being critical.
Look at the roles you are going for. Are you being realistic? Can you do that role? Does your resume emphasise the fact you can do that role?
My guess is that it's not his resume, but where he's sending it. When I was job-hunting last year, it became pretty clear that most jobs posted online are frauds. You see the same ones appearing month after month, and you almost never get any kind of personal response.
The only way to get a job in today's tight market is to know the right person.
A very good example of how the wealth of the world is going to, eventually, contract into one person...all others will be his underlings. Look at HP. They lay off thousands of workers, send countless thousands of jobs to India, and then what do they do with their vaunted "covergence" and "symbiosis" savings? They buy a bunch of multi-million dollar business jets. Get used to this...now that unions have been trampled under, there's nothing to stop the rampant contraction of businesses and money.
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Well the trick there is, don't buy from those companies. If you know a company is outsourcing to foreign countries and screwing over domestic workers, you have to let them feel it where it counts -- in their wallets. I won't buy foreign cars for that reason.
Er, actually, I don't buy foreign cars cuz it doesn't help domestic workers. They actually aren't screwing us over, per se (Porsche doesn't have American engineers, for example.)
Should clarify... sorry bout the confusion. HP, though, doth screweth.
Check out Honda and Saturn. Both have plants in the U.S. which are staffed by Americans. I think Honda did it to lighten their tarriff costs and make it easier to deliver the cars they were selling...
Well the trick there is, don't buy from those companies. If you know a company is outsourcing to foreign countries and screwing over domestic workers, you have to let them feel it where it counts -- in their wallets
I think it's the hurting in their wallets in the first place that makes them outsource jobs overseas. It's mostly from taxes. I can't think of the exact scenario, but when you start a company in the US, you have to pay the US federal income tax in addition to all kinds of other taxes. If you m
and then what do they do with their vaunted "covergence" and "symbiosis" savings? They buy a bunch of multi-million dollar business jets
Excuse me, but quite a few people were employeed in building the bunch of business jets purchased. Not to mention the flight crews, mechanics, etc. required to fly/maintain the jets.
I'm sure that fact consoles the thousands of people looking for jobs because of the decision. I'm sure that the trickling-down of business jet purchases will heat their houses and clothe their children just fine. When your job is sacrificed on the altar of buying another gilded shower curtain or executive X-mas bash at Caesar's Palace, your view may change.
I was out of work from July -> october last year when I realized that I needed an income so I went to construction until september (just a couple weeks ago). Jobs are out there, they are just hard to find. Take something to pay the bills, look at your resume, and then keep working.
The resume that got me this job was the same one I'd been useing since the previous July. The difference is I stumbled across a little company, and that looked at my resume and litterly said "We never get coders of your qu
You do realize, of course, that many of these companies are facing declining revenues, and have the choise of "exploiting" the existing employees and reducing headcount, or running in the red, going out of business, and screwing ALL of the employees, right?
I know it's easy to be bitter when you're unemployed, but try and apply a *little* perspective.
I've sent out 1001 resumes and received but one job offer...in Indiana (UGH!)!
I stayed unemployed in the Boston area for a year. The lifestyle and physical location mean little it you have no career. I took a great job in Kansas City.
While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:5, Interesting)
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Either you're henpecked, or an extremely foolish 'new man' type.
Hell, move yourself to Indiana, and go and see her once a month.
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:0)
so you would have been ahead.
I could have doubled my salary by miving to califorrnia... but looking at living costs, I would have been behind overall... my house payment would have quadrupled for the same quality house/neighborhood. milk goes from $1.99 a gallon to $3.50 a gallon.... etc....
only a fool doesnt look at the overall economic picture.
Milk? (Score:2)
Which, if you're counting, is better than $1.99 per gallon.
-fred
Re:Milk? (Score:0)
Way in the back of the cooler is the regular milk, and it sells for $1.99 per gallon.
Well, actually, it doesn't... (Score:2)
But still, not that much of a difference.
-fred
Only partly true... (Score:2)
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:3, Interesting)
If you really have sent out this many resumes then you could do a few things:
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:2)
The only way to get a job in today's tight market is to know the right person.
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:2)
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:2)
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:2)
Should clarify... sorry bout the confusion. HP, though, doth screweth.
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I think it's the hurting in their wallets in the first place that makes them outsource jobs overseas. It's mostly from taxes. I can't think of the exact scenario, but when you start a company in the US, you have to pay the US federal income tax in addition to all kinds of other taxes. If you m
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:0)
Excuse me, but quite a few people were employeed in building the bunch of business jets purchased. Not to mention the flight crews, mechanics, etc. required to fly/maintain the jets.
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Thats all? (Score:2)
I was out of work from July -> october last year when I realized that I needed an income so I went to construction until september (just a couple weeks ago). Jobs are out there, they are just hard to find. Take something to pay the bills, look at your resume, and then keep working.
The resume that got me this job was the same one I'd been useing since the previous July. The difference is I stumbled across a little company, and that looked at my resume and litterly said "We never get coders of your qu
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:2)
I know it's easy to be bitter when you're unemployed, but try and apply a *little* perspective.
Ask for less money or agree to a salary cap. (Score:1)
Its going to take a salary cap to fix this economy.
IS THAT YOU BERNARD?!?! (Score:-1)
Go Home! We HATE Your kind here!
Re:While I remain unemployed.....since January. (Score:1)
I stayed unemployed in the Boston area for a year. The lifestyle and physical location mean little it you have no career. I took a great job in Kansas City.
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