Now out of work and needing some advice.....

Okay so I had been away for a while since getting a new job and having worked at it for the last five months. I know, you all missed me, right? Well I was fired. Whatever, shit happens, right? Now I need some advice on the job search which I intend to get right into. I was thinking of looking at something outside of locksmithing. I'm open to anything, smart, literate, clean, a hard worker, good attendance record, computer literate, good work ethic and am well spoken. I heard a local cable company that pays well and offers continued training to it's employees is hiring. Talked to one of it's employees and they said it was a good place to work. I was also thinking of being an insurance agent or even applying for a job with Homeland Security. I live in Austin Texas which is the state capital so that means a lot of chance at a government job of some kind.

Plenty of people in life get hired for jobs they are not, on paper, apparently qualified for. Yet they thrive in them after being hired and are paid well. Some of you have such jobs, I am assuming. How did you get them?

Thanks, any help or recommendations are appreciated.

Jeff

I knocked up my then girlfriend, now wife... That will make ya grow up and get a real job.

Can a spoof hold a job? This is all so very confusing.

Um, yeah, well fuck you to two of you, and i think you know who I'm talking to. As for killing myself, come on man, I don't need that shit right now. Being out of work is a pretty shitty place to be.

As to everyone else: this was a real job,m and my first foray into working for someone else in my entire adult life. Mostly it worked out just fine. Now I'm concerned with getting another, prefferably good job. Just asking some advice as to how others did that without having a shitload of degrees or other credentials under their belt.

I have found that it seems easier to find employment when you are currently employed, so take whatever makes an income and keep looking for what fits

when you get jobs that youre not qualified for on 'paper', i find that alot of the times its not what you know but who you know..

my sister works for the Dept of Defence in Administration....before that job all she had was retail experience (shes 19) and got the job through and old friend of my dads, his son was leaving thr department and found out a bunch of others were too, told her...got her an interview and she started as a cadet (entry level) and they trained her up to level 1, then 2 and now 3...earning $50k a year

you're computer literate and in Austin - why not try out Dell there in red Rock? oops - that would be round rock.

I knocked up my girlfriend and took her job after her time with the kids she didn´t wont it back, lucky me.

And yes it´s all true.

Hello jeff

long time no see..

my advice to u is blow up an ATM... thats what they do in South Africa lately.... easy money...

Two words......Employment Agency........you're welcome.

Employment agencies don't generally work. They are for employed people looking to go someplace else. You are right, it is who you know. Use any contacts you have and push them. It is the only way to get a real job. Ads in the paper lie. "We are looking for a PhD ME to make widgets" then they list pay as like $15 hr. Many times it is a legal requirement to post publicly. Some ads are "We are looking for someone with 3.25 yrs exp. in widgetology and a degree in Marketing from UT" avoid those ads as the job is tailored to somebody. We make nothing in the US as good paying Manufacturing jobs have dried up and gone to China. Get a job talking or in sales as that is the future. Useless but pays good.

it's a shame you only worked for 5 months, otherwise you could collect unemployment. as far as getting a job.... it's all who you know.college education can help as well.

Jeff, start up your own locksmithing company. being Self-Employed is hard work to begin with but you'll soon reap the rewards

Yep gotta agree with tickles,you can't beat being self employed.You are probably going to have to fork out for tools,and a vehicle,but once you start to get established you'll be laughing.

Then there's the downside of govt.paperwork and taxes ya bloody hoo.

How did you lose your job in the first place or is that too embarrasing . You weren't going through private undie collections were you?

fuck me! some of you fucktards are hard. regardless of how easy a job may seem it is a shitty place to be when one gets fired.

jeff, you got anything that you have always wanted to do? perhaps, try that...

Whatever you do, stay in the trades! My brother makes about 5 times what i do and he never went to university or college.

i dont think you will find sympathy. I too am curious as to how you lost a job being a locksmith ... its not like thats a 9 to 5 job ... you just work when some poor bastard locks the keys in their car or home and waaay overcharge them for the service of simply drilling through the lock.

People get jobs they aren't qualified for because of politics. If you don't know anyone ..or if you don't look good or sexy ... or you have an annoying personality ... you're pretty much shit outta luck.

Go apply for college aid and invest in yourself. I don't know how old you are ... but I'm guessing you aren't older than 30.

I used to work for Exxon Exploration and traveled all over God's green earth working ... simply because the work wasn't 2 minuts from my home. If you really want to work ..there is a job for you.

Hell ..be a truck driver. I see they hire people ...no experience necessary ... and while you are doing that ... driving around humping lot lizzards and goin without showers for weeks at a time ... you will have plenty of opportunity to rethink your present situation ...how you got to that very point ..and how to correct it.

Hey man, I know exactly what you mean, out of work is a hell of a shit place to be. Well listen up, this may give you an idea or two. I'm 39 yo and have no degrees or anything in anything, yet I'm management material, or seen as such by all my employers over the past 10 years and I get good money to move from one company to the other.How does that come to be? Well, there business out there that the world is not aware of. I got a job, many long years ago, as a desk clerk at a freight forwarder, learned the basics over some time and became an organizer, not so hard to do, transportation will never stop, there willallways be work and if you're smart flexible and hard working you don't need degrees and years of study to get the job done. Most of the work you can't study anyway, look around you for professions that nobody pays any attention to yet we just can't live with out them, find something you really really like and do it as best as you can. Texas you said? There's a lot of work in the transport business there both national and international and it pays well in most parts of the world too. If it's of any interest to you look for "national transports", " freight forwarders" and/or "cargo handling", judging from experience, 16 years on the job, i can say this, it's a good market to be in and it will never die on you. Well i hope I've been some help, for any more thought on the subject feel free to PM me. Good luck and happy job hunting mate.

Around here, the only thing that can be done in that situation is to learn to say "would you like fries with that?".


Seriously though, it's hard. Best of luck, bud!!

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Whatever you do, stay in the trades! My brother makes about 5 times what i do and he never went to university or college.

that's right, years back (in the 80's) i got thrown out of school, took no exams, have no qualifications at all and spent most of my life taking hard drugs!!! 10 years ago i gave up drugs, blagged my way into plumbing which i found i was pretty good at and it has given me a good living ever since!! have a go at anything, theres usually a back door into most jobs!!!
be lucky Jeff, something WILL come along!!