Thanks so much for all the support since I both finished my course work and work term – yup, thanks for returning my emails and phone calls – Your support is sooooo appreciated!
I have tried to find a job in the field I studied so hard for and haven’t had any luck at all due to a lack of any real experience – experience I should have got on a better work term!
So now I am still at my crappy part time job, and in a pit of depression and despair so deep I am not sure I am going to get out of this one. Thanks again for not caring. —Thought that this would work
This article appears in May 6-12, 2010.
Welcome to the grown up world darling where things aren’t just handed to you. You must go out look, seek and hunt and fight for a job. Did you research your job placement to see if they are known for hirring afterwards? better preperation on your part may have led to a different outcome.
Don’t let Enough Saids embitterment get to ya.
She’s/He sounds like a presumptive bitch/asshole.
No room for that shit here, as I understand.
HAHA Bitter…not so much Nobro! More of a realist, I’m not in OP’s boat for a reason!!! I got my job.
Nobro…should like you fellas should go job hunting together.
Key of advice: No one owes you anything…you want something you better be willing to work hard for it.
Or go cry to mommy and daddy how life just isn’t fair.
hahaha
Go West
sounds like the proverbial fair weather friend lose them and find real ones
There is no such thing as a realist. Most so-called realists are unpractical.
However, dude does make a point. Work terms in university aren’t considered “real” experience although they do provide some experience. Also, finishing a course/work term doesn’t exactly prepare you for the business world as much as you’d love to believe. I have two degrees, a mix of experience and diversity and I’m still doing internships while I complete a Masters degree in a professional discipline.
And really, I don’t think that I’ll be landing a $100K gig when I’m done without getting more real-life experience. Another thing, kid, a lot of businesses are very busy and have time constraints. Some may not bother to call you back if you’re not the selected candidate for a job and won’t especially if you don’t make it beyond the first screening.
Nobody here is being rude, OB. The fact is it’s a competitive world in the job hunt and you have to go where your experience (if any) will be an asset. If you don’t have any worthwhile exprience, don’t expect the employers to be fighting over who is going to make you the new CEO right off the hop.
Listen OP, when I first graduated it took me 6 months to find a job. In that time I got lots of experience in interviews (believe me, experience in interviews helps when you’re finally interview for “the” job), and tried to get volunteer experience. It does help, because at least then you get to know people in your field. They’ll be more likely to help you out when the time comes. Just try to be patient and remember that just because you deserve a job doesn’t mean there’s a job out there for you at this moment.
Dude, I Don’t want to read this bitch right now. I’m just doing my work term now and I need a job ASAP. I got bills to pay and a kid to feed.
I agree with Sebastian. Go West. You’ll find it easier to find work out there. The pay is better too.
Fuck out west you assholes. I just had this convo with a fella at the bar. FUCK out west. You go there, and good luck finding good, honest, half paying jobs for for 4/5ths the pay back home
Idiots.
Live the long term. Have goals. Achieve them. Money isn’t all there is for success.
SUCCESS, my friends, is a MOOD that you CHOOSE.
Deal with it.
And what angels said is totally true. Whatever his/her (her) situation is. Go out west and leave your family… but it’s like the military, or at best, JAIL.
Time in isn’t always time spent, keep that in mind.
Donkey, for somebody that bitches about all the bitching, you do a lot of bitching, just saying!
i have 10 years experience and have been unemployed for 6 months … who am i supposed to call and whine to?
Seriously, go west! Yes, it’s me, qpmzwonxeibcruv, but I’m not the underemployed bum living in Mom’s basement back in Halifax I was only several weeks ago. I’m now living the Maritime Dream (or, well, Maritime Reality) and working in Alberta in my field making four times as much money as I was making at my shitty job back in Nova Scotia. I tried so hard to get work back home, but literally exhausted all my options there. It still wasn’t easy to get this job, don’t get me wrong, but it feels sooo fucking good when you finally do get it after trying so damn hard with so many let-downs and realize you are making twice as much money as you’ve ever made before. The cost of living is a bit higher, sure, but I’m still way better off financially out here. Once you get your experience out west, you can more easily find a job back home or choose to stay here if you want to.
Downsides to Alberta: no ocean, colder weather (it snowed in May!), more hicks, and Nickelback.
In any case, no matter where you are, you have to work for what you want to get. Well, maybe not as much in… err, certain places…
Stone the bleedin’ Crows! (just an expression PG), the Q-man’s back. Figured you got sent to Botany Bay for internet luring. Glad you’re doing well but sorry to hear it’s out in oil-land. Welcome home brother.
sorry to hear that q. glad to hear you again. out west was great a few years back, but now the price of go go juice is fucked. and to the o.p., what chosen field were you taking, arts, or even liberal arts. if one of those flunky courses,i fear you will be unemployed for a very long time. i laugh at people who say there is no work here. there is plenty, just not all glamourus high paying jobs. if you want to make a mint, go to work in one. there are literally hundreds of jobs everyday, on the job bank site, check it out, and don’t look so high for a few years. you have to eat, and welfare won’t help you forever,o.p.
Q, do me a favor.. burn that province to the ground, would ya?
downsides to alberta: it’s alberta.
and I’m taking a page outta io’s book… no more capital for alberta… that shithole
OP, sorry to hear your support system (family/friends?) let you down, but hang in there.
My first job after graduating with a math/physics degree almost 30 years ago was waiting tables in a Mexican restaurant, and the job after that wasn’t much better.
You do what you gotta do and eventually things come your way.
Thank you, thank you everyone – it’s been a while and I missed this lovely place!
Things aren’t the same out here in Alberta but hey, I can’t complain, I’m making good money now and we all know that money is the only thing that matters in life. Sure, money can’t buy me happiness, but I’m happiest when I can buy what I want, anytime that I want, and get high when I want (Japan to Amsterdam, mic in my hand!).
I’ll work on burning every 661,848 square kilometre of Alberta once the money runs out, I promise. It’s really not that bad though. I like the river, the giant mall(s), and the money. Did I mention the money?
Q what about money’ are you making any money; i hear the money is good ; yep alberta=money 🙂
Money doesn’t buy you happiness Q, but you can buy a boat and park next to it.