I still can not find a Job!!!!

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Originally Posted by mews2much

I am using craigs list and snag a job. I tried monster and Career Builder too. Even my Sister can not find a job and she has a BA.
I also have a BA... and yes, it's tough all over... I'm now looking at jobs I'd never consider... Cube City types of things (I'm an uber-creative sort who can't stand small spaces)... just to make enough money to pay my rent and bills all by myself... it's tough out there...

Just remember one thing I heard many years ago: only about 15-30% of jobs available are actually posted somewhere, like the papers or online... find some companies (this will probably work better not in retail) that you think you might like to work for and do some digging. For example: I wouldn't mind working for a newspaper or magazine... so instead of perusing the ads, waiting for one to show up, I'm looking at their websites... sending my resume, offering them my services...

Since you've done food service... how about the kitchen of a hospital? I've worked in one, back east... it wasn't bad... and you have lots of that type of experience... and the uniform is typically very comfy... scrubs!

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Oy I know the frustration. I got laid off last June and didn't get a job till the end of January. (Well except for one job that was so awful I was in tears there after a couple hours!)

Hang in there; something will come through soon I'm sure!
 

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Originally Posted by abbycats

Times are hard!!! The only thing that pays really good in my area that is hiring is the Union Pacific Railroad.
Actually, what I have read is that railroads really need to hire because they have so many employees that are retiring. They are willing to train,
and they have great benefits. I'd be willing to bet that the railroads that run into our big Central Valley may have some job openings.
 

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Originally Posted by mews2much

Thanks,
My typing is slow. I would love to do Medical Billing. I have only worked in food though. I Cooked and was a Cashier. I ran the Store and did the Payroll and alot of Paperwork. I did the food cost too. Hired and fired.
Medical billing is pretty easy and I enjoyed doing it (just not necessarily with the people I was doing it with or some of the stupid rules they had there). I'd really like to do it part time from home in addition to the FT job I have now.

I feel ya on how hard it is to get work! It took 7 months for me to even get a call from a potential employer once I moved to SC. I had to apply to at least 70 jobs and even signed up with a staffing agency and a temp agency with no results. Finally the medical billing company called me and I was just so happy to get a call back I would have taken anything
I worked there for 6 months before my current employer finally called for an interview after 18 months and 7 applications! Can you work at a retail store or something and continue to apply to other positions you like, just to make some $$? If you like the idea of medical billing - go for it! Granted I'm a very fast typist, but they also like to see high accuracy rates - they dont want you billing the wrong codes, it could mean a difference between $50 and $500! So if you're pretty accurate, I dont see why you wouldn't have a good shot
Some places you don't even need to know the coding system (I didnt at my job, we had coders and people who entered the information after.) But learning codes wouldn't hurt either. I started to before I left also.

Persistance will pay off, I'm sure. It sucks because of the huge slump in everything right now
My dad went without a job for 3.5 years in North Carolina because no one was hiring and there's not many jobs available in the area (until the Bio-Tech Research Campus is finished - but he's always been an auto mechanic!) He finally found one after some persistance at a storage unit/u-haul company.

Many for finding a job soon!
 

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Retail is slow right now. I work in a call center for a large Sportsmans outfitter, I won't say the name of the company but I am sure some of you know it because they cater to clothing as well as hunters, fisherman, campers etc. I am cut down to 2 days a week, and usually 1 of them they are cancelling or sending people home early. Right now my job just pays for the cats food for the month!

I would think anything medical would be a good place to start.
 
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I had a few Jobs say I am to Short to work at their place. I will keep trying. My Sister is trying a wing place today. They want people around her age or younger. My plan is tp get whatever I find now then try to do Medical billing.
 

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Originally Posted by Cat Mommy

for job hunting!

I know it is tough, especially reading all the news stories on the net about jobs, housing, etc going down. I'm in the same boat. I do consulting/web design business and I love it, but it is tough waiting for that money to come in.
Did you know the economy has been better for the last year, and the unemployment rate is better, than it was on average during the whole Clinton administration? It sure seems the media want us to believe the economy is terrible.

But, fortunately, we are in an area that hasn't been affected much by the mortgage problems. House prices are holding pretty steady here, and you have to hide to keep from getting a job.

But it's always seemed like recessions haven't affected us much, personally.

We have friends, however, who are mobile depressions, always out of work, losing their cars, etc.

And one really good economist once said that looking for work is the hardest job you can have. I hate looking for work, so I probably don't quit as soon as I should.
 
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Some of my friends could not find a Job and moved to another State. They got jobs fast there. It must be my area.
 

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Originally Posted by mews2much

Some of my friends could not find a Job and moved to another State. They got jobs fast there. It must be my area.
It is not just your area, my area is too, plus with housing going down, but yet my rent goes up?

Keep trying. I'm still waiting to hear back on one interview that went really well, I just emailed her a just checking on status email.
It has been a week, so I hope she is still interviewing or something and that doesn't mean I'm out of the race, just because I've not heard anything yet?

Sorry...
over.
 

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Originally Posted by mews2much

I had a few Jobs say I am to Short to work at their place. .
In most every job I can think of that is quite illegal since it is discrimination.
 

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Originally Posted by cococat

In most every job I can think of that is quite illegal since it is discrimination.
what exactly did they mean? the only job i've ever heard of where there was a height requirement was flight attendant - they had to be tall enough to open/close the overhead compartments w/o standing on the seats [which is what i have to do!]... anyplace on land, you can get a stepstool!
 
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