Ok now, everyone is really sick of you bitching about still not having a career ever since you got this business degree a year ago. You blame NS for not having any jobs and continually threaten to move out west. Just throwing out resumes online isn’t gonna get you anywhere. I looked at your resume, which looked good and you have a little bit of experience in your field from your work placement, but you’re not trying hard enough! I told you to keep calling up companies and asking them about openings. You keep telling me you’ve tried that but everyone tells you there’s nothing. You can’t be trying hard enough because you’d have a career now. Stop pissing on NS! There are more than enough jobs here–obviously the problem is you.
Now, instead of calling up companies here, I always see you looking up jobs offered in Toronto, Calgary, etc. You’re also looking for apartments there, and banking all of your money (that you’re making from your Tim’s job you think is beneath you) so you can move. You’re in for a rude awakening. No one’s gonna hire you there either. You need to realize it’s YOU.
Just the other day, you sunk to a new low when you convinced my overly impressionable niece not to bother going to any business college because since she has no connections, she won’t get a job. She was so excited and was about to apply, until you said “Don’t do it. It’s a waste of time and money. If you wanna get ahead, don’t go to college because there are zero jobs here. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Save your money, move out west and get your education THERE.” You gave her quite the negative earful, I heard. Great job, now she’s not sure what to do. —Just Move Out West Already
This article appears in Feb 9-15, 2012.
Yeah there lots of jobs. Just no bus to get there!
There are lots of jobs in Nova Scotia.. if you like call centre work.
things are not in reality, handed to you non gratus. you have to make an effort to find your own way in this life. there are a lot of people on here, with different types of degrees and different educations. myself included. you have to strive for that golden ring, or you will fall off the merry go round, that we call life.
if i had to do things over, i would either be a child care worker in protective services, or a criminal prosecuter, not a lawyer tho.or i could have stayed in forces or police. possibilities are/were endless. see what i mean.
I agree with the bitch who dissuaded your niece, if she was talking about an undergraduate business degree. I am very firmly of the belief that business school should be matriculated after earning a bachelors degree in the liberal arts.
Education should be like a triangle with broad based learning on the bottom, then tapering to specifics—mind you, this can be too broad, such as a ‘gen ed’ major, but if you really want to succeed in business, get your MBA your Masters of Blind Ambition!) after your BA. Sorry if this disappoints, but an MBA is so valuable because the programs are so very competitive. A B school will fail the lowest 10% of the class **no matter what their grade is **
As you might expect, the people who end up graduating from these places are sharks! An MBA from Queens or Schulich or god forbid Penn would eat your niece for breakfast.
Perhaps if she is still in high school, her guidance counselor can advise her on what path to take. I wouldn’t feel great about taking a total stranger’s advice, but I am related to a couple of MBAs and I know whereof I speak.
Ya know, I wish someone with experience would have told me not to take the course I took. Or at least told me their experience. I would have never suck all that money into it. I could have learned the same shit for a fraction of the price.
Ya, there’s lots of jobs in Nova Scotia.*wink* Keep telling yourself that while all your friends move away.
education is excellent. but employers don’t hire education, they hire skills, and they will look at your work experience to evaluate your skills. If you are “Too good for the lowly jobs”, then you will never gain the experience and credibility that you need to sell your skills.
just saying.
lol no_fool
I went to “business school” in Halifax – and got a commerce degree. I had no connections when I went to school. I made connections while in school and was offered a full time job in my last year of my degree – in my field – in Halifax. Pay was a bit low for me but I was able to pay bills, buy a newish car and within a year I found an even better job – so by then I had just graduated, started my second job in my field and got a pay raise. With a 4 year business degree – with no connections.
And – the question asked will be “Well, how did you make connections while in school?” Simple -I got a job – a shitty job – while in school. A job that paid shitty – just like Tim Hortons et al. and that they would have given to anyone who applied. Then, using half a grain of sense I did that job REALLY well, impressed people and made my connections. It is such a simple formula that so many people don’t seem to get.
Oh yea – before all you silverspooners chime in – I paid my own way via student loans and PT work.
it’s easy when your ‘business’ is cold call selling phone plans n shit…