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Old 04-26-2011, 09:31 PM
 
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What jobs are easiest to get hired into if you do not have a college education or additional skills.

Alot of warehouse jobs are asking for cdl/forklift experience.

I will be graduating a vocational school in a few weeks but I need any job I can get until I can land a job as an auto technician.

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Old 04-26-2011, 09:33 PM
 
Location: NJ
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I'd try 7-11s and the like, overnight shifts are hard to fill.
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Old 04-26-2011, 09:34 PM
 
Location: Stuck in NE GA right now
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Even those are hard to find in this economy

Job Competition - TIME
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Old 04-26-2011, 11:33 PM
 
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Even those are hard to find in this economy

Job Competition - TIME

Wow manufacturing of goods are like warehouse jobs right?
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Old 04-27-2011, 12:03 AM
 
Location: Western NY
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I work in a warehouse and it sucks

If I could leave I would.
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:15 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn,NY
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I work in CVS. Retail jobs are the easiet to find.
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:32 AM
 
Location: You know... That place
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I work in CVS. Retail jobs are the easiet to find.
Actually, I was going to say that retail and lower wage jobs are harder to find right now. When white collar workers can't find jobs in their fields, they start going after lower jobs, then those people are displaced to lower jobs and it keeps rolling downhill. Suddenly you have a much larger pool of workers competing for the lower paying jobs.
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Old 04-27-2011, 11:09 AM
 
Location: Southern California
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Right, like all the teachers that have been laid off will automatically be a substitute teacher as usually the next best thing. So that leaves subs completely out to work in another field, usually retail, clerical jobs. People w/ degrees in education don't have many types of jobs to choose from either other than be a teacher.

I'd like to know the answer to this question too! People with college degrees are having a tremendously hard time, so what do the people w/ HS diplomas or just some college do? I'd say real estate is normally a good field without a degree, but NOT in this current economy.
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Old 04-27-2011, 02:23 PM
 
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Night sorter at UPS.

Helper, non driver for trash collection.
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Old 04-27-2011, 02:35 PM
 
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Night sorter at UPS.

Helper, non driver for trash collection.
I worked that position in high school in the go-go year of 2000. Even then, UPS was a valued and sought after position because they offered health benefits to part timers. I have to imagine those jobs are really tough to get even now.
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