I can't find a job (recent college grad)... am I done for?
I'm in same situation like you. I graduated with bachelor degree in math way back in may 2008. After that I also completed my masters degree in math. My GPA was very high but still no job. Really have no suggestions. Just try tutoring and it may bring some income. Go for master's or phd in the meanwhile. Really awful to see millions of grads unable to find work. Someone needs to be held accountable for this mass failure of the system
Recent college graduate, I dislike my office job. Should I go back to retail?
I m 22. I graduated with a BS in accounting this past May. I found an entry level bookkeeping job paying $13. Every job that I found wanted + years of experience so I was lucky to have found this one. I used to like accounting but once I hit my junior and senior level advanced accounting courses I dreaded them so much. Even though I m doing basic level accounting, I forgot so much. It s funny how I remember a lot about my other classes but not much from accounting. When I started this job I thought I was gonna like it a lot. This is my second week and I m dragging myself and crying myself to sleep. It s a very easy job, everything is organized for me already but I just hate it. I d rather be in retail. I applied to a retail merchandising job and have an interview this Friday. If I get the job, I ll be driving from store to store in my own car fixing, putting, organizing cards. I worked at CVS and always saw this magazine lady and asked her about her job and she said she enjoyed it because she wasn t in one place all day, and I myself get bored so easily. I finished CVS with a pay of $12.55 and Hallmark (the one I have the interview for) their pay starts at $11. I live with my parents so I m not financially stressed much. My student loan repayments do start in November though. I plan on going back to get my Masters in Spanish sometime next year. I know I should of switched my major but I was scared and wanted to graduate *on time* which there is no such thing...
Why are California community colleges so packed?
I tried to add some classes and (NO LIE) I spent 58 minutes looking for a parking space. I even drove around the vicinity of the school within 1 mile only to be confronted with construction signs and civil signs saying "NO PARKING - violators will be towed." I eventually had to give up even though I am tenacious about my desire to go to school. I feel really discouraged. I've tried to register with different schools but the registration date that I'm given is waaaay after everyone else's date(s) thus when mine finally does come around I CANNOT get in any of the classes. The wait list is full, the class is closed, etc. I feel like I'm locked out of the doors to my future. What else can I do? I'm so good at school...its disheartening to watch thousands of students who really don't want to be there get admitted and take up seats from the students like me who would love to have an opportunity. I just want an opportunity but California community colleges are denying it to me. Is this normal of the your experience in california community colleges or did I just have a bad experience???? If you have a good suggestion for a community college (in california) please let me know! ;) Thanks in advance!!
I got my degree but don't have a job?
They lied.... Thousands even hundreds of thousands of people who have a degree are not getting jobs. I have a degree in computer information technology which is a broad range and still haven't gotten a job in the field. It's been about a year. Tbh you're probably going to have to look elsewhere and move. I'm in the same situation even though I am changing my career path.
Some say Electrical Engineers have many job options, others say they can't find jobs. What's the problem here? How can I find secure, well-paid work?
Most EEs can readily find jobs, as my co-Iowa Stater Mr. Lies stated. It depends, of course, on where you are. But in any area of diverse industry — meaning pretty much anywhere in the nation — electrical engineers are needed, as part of the industrial network.Those who find it difficult to get jobs may be having trouble for any of several reasons.They want to stay in a particular area — for example, close to friends or to mommy and daddy or the ski country they love. If you are not willing to go where the jobs are, very often you won’t get a job.They are too particular about the type of work they will consider. For example, if someone says he is interested only in computer systems design, he is going to miss a lot of exciting jobs in aerospace and communications and renewable power and many others.They do not conduct an effective job search. Some young engineers have the idea that they only need to mail out resumes, or answer postings on internet job sites, and that people with available jobs will come hunt them down. Won’t happen.They actually don’t have very much to offer an employer. Some guys drift through college, racking up a 2.2 GPA. They have good experience in drinking beer and in sleeping late, but nothing else. No campus activities. No internships. No meaningful summer work. No hobby interests, no social interests except chasing women. So there is nothing to put onto their resume, hence no one is interested.They shoot themselves in the foot. It is incredible how inept and unskilled some guys are at interviewing. They don’t know why to say, they say all kinds of wrong things, they act arrogant, they tell the interviewer how much they expect from the company, their skills and their world view are limited to solving textbook problems, and so on. After 20 minutes with such a person, the interview wants to blow his own brains out. Or else the candidate’s brains, such as they are.Do you get the idea? Usually, far more often than not, when you find it difficult to get a job, the cause is almost certainly you. Not the industry, not the economy, not the excess of competitors, not the Russians or the Iraqis, not the bad weather.There is plenty of market demand and job opportunity for highly qualified electrical engineers, who have achieved a reasonable state of personal maturity.