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I am in the same boat as you, I was in a Customer Service position which took a severe toll on my mental health.
After taking a LOA for a few weeks i stupidly enough decided to resign, Now for the past three-months i've been in debt applying for hundreds of jobs and going to interviews only to have my time wasted.
Head to Home Depot or the like each morning, and see if you can get physical labor job , at any rate they are willing to pay.
I disagree with this advise not only are you at risk of being ripped off but also you have no benefits/coverage if anything was to happen during this job. Lets say you fall & break your leg while helping someone move, Now you're not only hurt, unemployed but also left with a hospital bill and in worst shape than before.
I disagree with this advise not only are you at risk of being ripped off but also you have no benefits/coverage if anything was to happen during this job. Lets say you fall & break your leg while helping someone move, Now you're not only hurt, unemployed but also left with a hospital bill and in worst shape than before.
OP had $10 as of a few days ago. (see post 9 on his thread)
Precisely how long do you think the OP can make that last?
I can't possibly be the first to wonder about your username...
I make mistakes so I can teach the youth on what not to do
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Originally Posted by Milton Miteybad
No, not in the least.
I was once talking to an acquaintance some years ago, and it came up in the conversation that she was entering a mentorship program.
Considering that this person has always been a bit scatterbrained, with few discernible skills and developmentally stunted from a professional standpoint, not to mention financially illiterate (although she's gotten better about that in the past few years), I found myself silently asking the question, "This mentorship program...are you enrolling as a mentor, or a mentee...because at this point, if you are to be the mentor, I would have to have considerable sympathy for your protege'."
Good people make bad decisions too.
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I once felt that way myself. I thought I'd hit the lowest of the lows. But that didn't mean I could've stopped. Searching for Jobs on Indeed.com help a lot. Even though I had to apply to over 25 jobs a day and went to so many interviews there was one that stuck and thankfully it did because I'm now doing something I enjoy. Definitely think if you haven't to try the website out and see where it takes you. I believe something would stick for you too.
Yeah, Indeed is good, more so if you have a skill. Even better if you have a college degree.
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College isn't a must. My son didn't finish, but he can fix just about anything, and I mean anything. He's fixed my cars, computers, and major appliances. He and a friend taught themselves how to weld.
You have an English test coming up. Good luck.
I Know how to fix thing as-well. But the fact of the matter is, if you don't have a certificate/degree in something you're not gonna be first choice. I'm in the process of learning code but even if I become good at it, someone with a degree in web dev. will get hired because they have authentication(degree).
And thanks I will do my best.
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I am in the same boat as you, I was in a Customer Service position which took a severe toll on my mental health.
After taking a LOA for a few weeks i stupidly enough decided to resign, Now for the past three-months i've been in debt applying for hundreds of jobs and going to interviews only to have my time wasted.
Thats make me upset the most. People will call you for an interview act like they are going to hire you but never do. Im like "I HAVE BILLS, STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!!!" but no one owes you anything is what I have to remind my self.
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I disagree with this advise not only are you at risk of being ripped off but also you have no benefits/coverage if anything was to happen during this job. Lets say you fall & break your leg while helping someone move, Now you're not only hurt, unemployed but also left with a hospital bill and in worst shape than before.
Most jobs are crap when it comes to benefits now days, either that or its too high to afford.
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Do Uber and UPS warehouse. Then make a plan for something better.
1. Do the morning shift at UPS which is like 4am to 9am. Can qualify immediately for tuition reimbursement and 401k, after some months you'll get 100% paid health insurance.
2. Job hunt/interview during the day or take a college course.
3. Do Uber in the evenings.
I make mistakes so I can teach the youth on what not to do
Very generous, in a self-flagellating, social guinea pig sort of way, I guess.
I got a good piece of advice from another person a long time ago. He said, "Milton, it's not going to be enough to merely learn from your own mistakes. You have to learn from the mistakes of others as well, because you're sure as hell not going to live long enough to make all the mistakes yourself."
I guess my wise friend's advice to you would be: "You're not going to live long enough to make sufficient mistakes for everybody else to learn how not to do things. Your time would be better spent if you let others make some of the mistakes for you, and then you learn what not to do from them."
Ehh, To be fair most of them clear 6 figures easily. Let them tell it its not that bad of a job.
I'm not a homosexual.
I'm not trolling. A lot have changed since my move to NYC. Didn't think I would be unemployed this long.
I grew up in NYC. Got my Bachelor's and moved back in with my parents and was unemployed for close to 3 years, minus a temp job I did for 6-8 weeks and a stipend I received last summer for an otherwise unpaid internship. Felt depressed and trapped for most of that time.
It's one of many reasons I left NYC. Bachelor's are often considered worthless but beyond that- just for comparison - I started taking grad courses for a certificate program in spring 2017. Got a PT min wage job in fall of 2017 (to give a rough timeline, I finished undergrad end of 2014 which is where my 3 year estimate comes in). I still would get rejected even for things like sales associate or other basic entry level jobs while taking grad courses and having a more specialized background (not to mention another unpaid internship I'd been doing for almost 4 years...). Apparently, you need to have years of experience in even those types entry level, retail types of jobs to qualify.
My min wage job was at a poorly run little company that no one wanted to be at but we needed the money, most of us because we were apparently worthless to society college grads. And where i do have experience they typically look for a Master's so I really dug myself into a hole by pursuing my interests in a sense.
Relocated to finish out a Master's. I've been here about 5 weeks now, school's been going on for 4 (when more opportunities started coming up) and received a job offer on campus last week. I don't know how much of it has to do with moving and how much with just being enrolled in a grad program on paper. But I will say I found a job that pays higher than NYC's min wage (which is also higher than min wage here due to lower COL), in a matter of weeks. Whereas the closest I got pay-wise in NYC was that temp job and it wasn't very relevant to what I wanted to be doing. It involved knocking on doors in the projects and asking people if they wanted to take a survey... and I think you can see where I'm going.
So I do sympathize with OP. I do believe NYC can be form over function when it comes to employment (among other things), which makes it challenging for those who have a more meritocratic as opposed to image-based (e.g., "how do I look the part and say all the right things to impress the interviewer and show how unique I am?") orientation.
ETA: BTW, people do "gay for pay" (as in, they're not actually gay), but I get where you're coming from, OP, I can't get my head around how people do it myself.
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OP had $10 as of a few days ago. (see post 9 on his thread)
Precisely how long do you think the OP can make that last?
Until whoever is taking care of him gets fed up (if a relative, that will be a long time).
Not sure why OP posted and asked for help. He's not taking any suggestions seriously and not in any hurry to earn money. May be getting unemployment while playing on the internet.
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