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Career - job/career advice and other related stuff from a leftist perspective. EX: How to get a job, promotion, skill, switch companies, resume, life hacks, etc.
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>>137
Boring as dark and likely to be replaced by AI

>>137
dogshit and temporary. you will be laid off once the project is done (even if they claim it will "never be done" and your job is "secure"), so if you do take one make sure to keep looking elsewhere

>>138
>>139
Guess I'll keep my current job for now then.

>>135
Revolution in Turkey

>Look for jobs in my degree field
>2 years experience for entry level
>Pay less than what I make at a grocery store
>send resume
>then fill out an online application that asks for all the same info anyways
>Ghosted
>”Looking for candidates with experience using the [random piece of software it seems only this company uses] system”
>Family can’t offer advice beyond “have you tried calling them?” Or “give their manager a firm handshake”
>Other advice: “Why not go back to school and earn your masters?”
>More debt, not even all that good at my degree field
>Friends in the same boat as me
>Best he can come up with is either becoming a cop or doing dangerous contracting work
Jesus fuck they really don’t want anyone escaping the service sector.

>>142
Yuhh fucked up when you didn't get an internship while in school.

>>142
Check to see if they're demanding more years of experience than the technology existed for.
If they are just lie, anybody else who is getting that job is going to do the same thing.

>>144
>just lie
literally this. most of the time they don't even check for a diploma

I didn't fall for the meme and didn't get a CS degree, but I'm in mathematics and I'd kill myself if I ended up a programmer. I think I'd rather be a tutor to rich kids.

>>146
>I didn't fall for the meme and didn't get a CS degree, but I'm in mathematics and I'd kill myself if I ended up a programmer. I think I'd rather be a tutor to rich kids.
Ain't a math degree even less employable. I only know one chick who got a math degree and she works for Apple as a programmer lol.

>>143
To be honest my college experience was mostly my family going directly to the administration and saying I’d take accounting (later marketing when I flunked out of that) and kind of strongarming me through a mix of social and financial pressure to go along with it. I was an idiot kid who went into college right out of highschool and didn’t really stand up for myself.

>>144
I just might. At this point I’m so fucking exhausted with this horseshit I’ll do just about anything to escape it.

>>148
>To be honest my college experience was mostly my family going directly to the administration and saying I’d take accounting (later marketing when I flunked out of that) and kind of strongarming me through a mix of social and financial pressure to go along with it. I was an idiot kid who went into college right out of highschool and didn’t really stand up for myself.
Yeah that's understandable. My cousin I was about to tell you about went to UTAustin and she works in marketing now for HEB which is like the biggest Texas grocery chain and she did it by getting an internship while in college. I remember I saw this guy who does graphics programming talk about how he was all stressed about making sure he got an internship before he graduated because he decided it was over for him if he didn't get one because no job will hire you if you haven't interned already and no internship will take you if you aren't still in school. But on a side note, her older sister, her dad kind of strongarmed her into doing pharmacy because her HS had some kind of program where you could start while still in school and now she's sick and tired of pharmacy and doesn't think it's a good career path because the only ideal is to become a pharmacist for a hospital and now she's finding that it's almost impossible to get past the CVS Walgreens level.

>>146
<I didn't fall for the meme and didn't get a CS degree, but I'm in mathematics and I'd kill myself if I ended up a programmer. I think I'd rather be a tutor to rich kids.
uh… whats wrong with programming? sure its boring but so is every white collar job and at least it pays (or did, until every programmer started getting paid off in the last few years)

>>147
If you're really good at math you can pivot to finance/quant finance and make a ton of money

>>149
In my case it was a mixture of boasting about how good I was doing in a beginner’s accounting class at a family event (mostly to prove I wasn’t wasting any financial help) and then kind of lowkey assuming “autistic people are good with math like Rain Man or The Accountant”

What’s really killing me is I’ve got this dead end retail job, and I’m still talking with my mom and she’s all “But you’re so so so smart, don’t wind stuck in this like us.”

Fuck.

>>152
Eh bro, I'm in your shoes but I'm older than you and I don't even have a bachelors so chin up. There are other things besides math. I was done with math in 6th grade. I'm not sure if you heard of "math field day" but it's a math competition and I was on the team in like 4th and 5th grade then in 6th grade, my first grade in middle school, I was put as an alternate and I just sat at the comp doing nothing the whole day and that was the last time I really invested in math. I'm alright math but I like to learn it as I need it and that works perfectly fine for me. I always was too critical while learning: "What do I need this shit for?" and really I don't need any of that shit and I can just look up equations and plug in variables as I need it.

>What’s really killing me is I’ve got this dead end retail job, and I’m still talking with my mom and she’s all “But you’re so so so smart, don’t wind stuck in this like us.”

Be smart with money my friend. That's the main smart you need. Be smart with money and in business. A lot of people got rich who aren't super geniuses. Yes, to have a pure idea you can take to someone and sell for cash is nearly impossible. With business or money you can just invest in someone's idea, steal someone's idea and do it/promote it slightly differently or even the same and get rich. You have to have resources to invest yourself unless you have some rich benefactor or something. My dad's friend from the old country that lived in the same neighborhood as us, he got in the cab business, buying a cab, leasing it to a driver. My dad tried the same business at that level and only got as far as owning the cab and he had to drive it when he couldn't find a driver so he end up selling it, well his friend turned it into owning a cab garage, he bought a second home in the neighborhood while my dad sold our home and bought a house in another state for less than half the price. He also has some friends that got uber rich of real estate investments. Money, money, money. Go into business for yourself.

>>153
I can't tell you what the perfect business is otherwise that's what I'd be doing myself, but I know that is the move, especially for those without great employment prospects. Investing is also a good move, but I can't tell you what to invest in otherwise I'd be an investment guru. I don't know if there is any money to be made on these crypto scams. Just got to outrun the bear.

>>153
Well at least I'm not in debt. I do feel above those guys with useless bachelors and negative -100k net worth. I'm glad I'm not in debt.

Stress levels through the roof because I missed work yesterday due to too much alcohol and weed day before that. Didnt get yelled at like I expected so thats positive. Need to get my shit together.

>>69
>Entry level cybersecurity is flooded
entry level cybersecurity doesn't exist. Cybersecurity is not an entry level role its for people with years of experience in roles like sysadmin / network admin or similar.

>>114
good job but you will stress over people overdosing

>>43
it is better to have a bachelors in compsci even if you dont go into it - even a finance bro is better off having a compsci degree and learning finance on the side

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>graduate this May
>have bee struggling to find a job
>now have thousands of former federal workers in the same boat
I will not say "compete" because of solidarity and all that, but this is so frustrating.

There are manufacturing jobs out there in the US but they’re virtually all in small batch and prototypes of whatever so the workforce is less than 20 and it’s incredibly difficult to unionize. They managed to recreate the social isolation of cubicle office work but in a “real” industrial setting. Hiring is also incredibly tight because the workforce is mostly boomer or older and they’re hanging on to these jobs with all the force left in their bodies (even if they have to switch to part time). The only reason I managed to get in is because the factory owner is something like a family friend.

>>169
Go for federal work.
Serious they'll be needing applicants soon.

>>259
Why wouldn’t the current cuts stay permanent?

>>260
The cuts were deep enough that they're either going to have to bring some of their former employees on as consultants for exorbitant fees or bring in some fresh blood.

>>258
i assume most of these factories supply box springs or one obscure part for a defense contractor?

>>259
Trump signed order freezing all hiring which is still in effect so you're unlikely to get hire right now

>>259
could it finally be my chance to get a do-nothing government IT job

How the hell do you find a job? I have no idea what I should be looking for.

>>263
Metal wire, some of which definitely becomes springs in guns but there’s a lot of civilian use for it too

>>266
spam apply on the job sites?

>>264
OK OP hang in there long term career wise your future is looking 👌
After what's happened who wants to work in the public sector, the only benefit over the private sector it had was job security and a sense of purpose in public service.

Just spam apply, lie on your resume if you have to to get interviews, just use those interviews as Training runs.

As in, you don't want this thalomide job anyway but you want to do a bit of basic research about the position and the specific enterprise beforehand and bombard them with questions, pay conditions, what do you do? Why do you do it and if it's for this reason this way would work better.

>>127
Somewhere in Africa or Asia, some random dude hired themselves by building their own home outside of a city’s borders and digging their own property.

It’s never over as long as you still have your body

>>272
>Just spam apply
Literally the worst thing you can do right now. Everywhere you're automatically filtered for doing this. The best thing you can do if you're a PMC/Labor Aristocrat is reach out directly to hiring managers. I don't know about service and manufacturing sadly so can't give any advice there.

>>274
Why would that be the worst? IF they're gonna turn you down anyway, might as well maximize your chances

>>274
i think spam applying is more for new grads. Yeah you can 'reach out to hiring managers' if you have 5+ Years of experience and/or you personally know them

Barefoot Investor.

Yea or Nay?

>>274
>yo this person applied to too many jobs, filter his ass
What a stupid myth you're trying to create.

>>274
>>276
You can also go over their heads.
>>286
Just use different accounts for your resume spam and for serious business.

>>271
Sorry I mean how the hell do I find a job I want to do?

I work in automotive and a company-wide e-mail sent by the CEO just announced a total hiring freeze because of the trade war, lul.

>>76
its in your rational interest to look for higher income as long as you dont sell out your coworkers and, if you reach a higher up position, help them as much as you can. There are human bosses but never forget that in a systemic and global way, the class struggle is still real even if you got the better cut as a laborer.

>>77
wrong, to be a petit burgeoise you have to own means of production, a high salary worker does not own anything besides his technical skilled labor

>>92
Stop using anime. You're outing yourself as a right-winger.

>>379
>Anime is fascist

I remember when anime was considered "commie"

>>379
Please go outside

>>64
How did that go?
>>76
> IT support 1st level here for a company
> Am i being turned into a labor aristocrat?
Anon please, the labour aristrocracy is an abused classification. You're just a prole who was lucky enough to get a decent boss
>>77
>>80
Why do all morons think that proletarian, bourgeois and labour aristocrat categories are descriptors of one's side in the class war, instead of being the various factions of society than already exist?
You can have class traitors all over the place, from police to Engels

>>446
>Engels
???

>>451
Famous class traitor


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