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Fellow FUSer
Posted 05 October 2013 - 10:34 PM
I'm tired of how my generation as well as myself are being labeled as "lazy" for being jobless. I'm just playing a looooooooong and boring game of hurry up and wait. This is the REAL reason.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MAKAQFQ_tXY
I'm worried this is why my generation will be known as the unemployable generation.
A petition to keep up to a third of the characters in the sonic comics from being lost forever.
https://www.change.o...-hedgehog-comic
To those who want to give this "new direction" a chance, don't say I didn't warn you.
Fellow FUSer
Posted 06 October 2013 - 02:40 AM
I was stuck in that loop for years.
The Spambot Killer.
Posted 06 October 2013 - 12:26 PM
The Trick is to get lucky. Honestly that's all there is to it.
Look in your area for who isn't quite yet hiring, but in need of some new people. Apply, and hope you get lucky. Once you get a job, great! Until then it's a lot of keep trying and hoping to get lucky.
Also don't be picky. In all honesty yes Fast Food Jobs suck, Walmart overnight Sucks, and cleaning toilets suck, but you gotta start somewhere. Don't let the worry about how bad the job will suck keep you from applying. The more places you apply at, the more chances you'll get a job.
But really Experience is the blasted key and unless you get lucky....
Fellow FUSer
Posted 06 October 2013 - 12:59 PM
The Trick is to get lucky. Honestly that's all there is to it.
Look in your area for who isn't quite yet hiring, but in need of some new people. Apply, and hope you get lucky. Once you get a job, great! Until then it's a lot of keep trying and hoping to get lucky.
Also don't be picky. In all honesty yes Fast Food Jobs suck, Walmart overnight Sucks, and cleaning toilets suck, but you gotta start somewhere. Don't let the worry about how bad the job will suck keep you from applying. The more places you apply at, the more chances you'll get a job.
But really Experience is the blasted key and unless you get lucky....
I have been attempting that for three years, and I'm not even THAT lucky. And the only ones who WOULD accept me are scams. To everything else I'm just another resume and application put away in a desk to be forgotten.
I've been LOOKING for a job for 3 years. I don't want to LOOK for a job, I want to HAVE one. I know what you call it when you do the same thing over and over endlessly expecting different results each time but receiving the same one? Insanity.
A petition to keep up to a third of the characters in the sonic comics from being lost forever.
https://www.change.o...-hedgehog-comic
To those who want to give this "new direction" a chance, don't say I didn't warn you.
Everybody's Favorite Uncle ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Posted 06 October 2013 - 01:33 PM
I got mine cause of my School, plus im going into the Navy next year so if i apply somewhere i'll basically be accpeted right off the bat
The Soothsayer of Aeons.
Posted 06 October 2013 - 01:43 PM
I made my own job as a Graphics Designer. The future belongs to those who can forge their own fates and are willing to sacrifice the time of day to get good at something they enjoy. I dumped video games almost entirely and that helped me a lot. It's a giant time and money sucker. Mostly only play Sonic games nowadays, I like the rush and the quick fix only the blue blur can provide me. I won't waste 100+ hours on brainless escapism, leveling up a pile of pixles as I slowly rot on a couch. Even in your liesure, always seek out something edifying, that feeds your body, creativity, and mind. Someday, one useless game of Angry Birds is between you and your dreams.
I also do a lot of CLT work with people with Special Needs as well. It seems years of being "disadvantaged" myself with aspbergers (which got me involved in the Special Needs Community) has lead me to a job that pays more on the hour than most college graduates. Bi-vocationalism has it's perks. And I practically make my own hours. You just have to very independant and responsible.
The trick is to give up to get what you want. Look at Ben, he works real hard and is going to culinary school to aquire skills in something he likes to do that can reciprocate. That's admriable in my book. Invest something (time, savings, student loans, effort, ect), and try to make a profit out of it. Don't look for a cheap way out, there is none. Hand outs and get rich quick schemes will drag you down. The simple awnser is this: Produce more than you consume. And, find something you enjoy and make it profitable (for example, if you like to play video games, make them and make them well).
Fellow FUSer
Posted 06 October 2013 - 06:47 PM
I made my own job as a Graphics Designer. The future belongs to those who can forge their own fates and are willing to sacrifice the time of day to get good at something they enjoy. I dumped video games almost entirely and that helped me a lot. It's a giant time and money sucker. Mostly only play Sonic games nowadays, I like the rush and the quick fix only the blue blur can provide me. I won't waste 100+ hours on brainless escapism, leveling up a pile of pixles as I slowly rot on a couch. Even in your liesure, always seek out something edifying, that feeds your body, creativity, and mind. Someday, one useless game of Angry Birds is between you and your dreams.
I also do a lot of CLT work with people with Special Needs as well. It seems years of being "disadvantaged" myself with aspbergers (which got me involved in the Special Needs Community) has lead me to a job that pays more on the hour than most college graduates. Bi-vocationalism has it's perks. And I practically make my own hours. You just have to very independant and responsible.
The trick is to give up to get what you want. Look at Ben, he works real hard and is going to culinary school to aquire skills in something he likes to do that can reciprocate. That's admriable in my book. Invest something (time, savings, student loans, effort, ect), and try to make a profit out of it. Don't look for a cheap way out, there is none. Hand outs and get rich quick schemes will drag you down. The simple awnser is this: Produce more than you consume. And, find something you enjoy and make it profitable (for example, if you like to play video games, make them and make them well).
Problem is, don't you need money to start up your own business?
A petition to keep up to a third of the characters in the sonic comics from being lost forever.
https://www.change.o...-hedgehog-comic
To those who want to give this "new direction" a chance, don't say I didn't warn you.
yup.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 01:42 PM
I made my own job as a Graphics Designer. The future belongs to those who can forge their own fates and are willing to sacrifice the time of day to get good at something they enjoy. I dumped video games almost entirely and that helped me a lot. It's a giant time and money sucker. Mostly only play Sonic games nowadays, I like the rush and the quick fix only the blue blur can provide me. I won't waste 100+ hours on brainless escapism, leveling up a pile of pixles as I slowly rot on a couch. Even in your liesure, always seek out something edifying, that feeds your body, creativity, and mind. Someday, one useless game of Angry Birds is between you and your dreams.
I also do a lot of CLT work with people with Special Needs as well. It seems years of being "disadvantaged" myself with aspbergers (which got me involved in the Special Needs Community) has lead me to a job that pays more on the hour than most college graduates. Bi-vocationalism has it's perks. And I practically make my own hours. You just have to very independant and responsible.
The trick is to give up to get what you want. Look at Ben, he works real hard and is going to culinary school to aquire skills in something he likes to do that can reciprocate. That's admriable in my book. Invest something (time, savings, student loans, effort, ect), and try to make a profit out of it. Don't look for a cheap way out, there is none. Hand outs and get rich quick schemes will drag you down. The simple awnser is this: Produce more than you consume. And, find something you enjoy and make it profitable (for example, if you like to play video games, make them and make them well).
Problem is, don't you need money to start up your own business?
Not really, when you're freelance.
The Soothsayer of Aeons.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 02:05 PM
He's right.
Also, you can always do odd jobs, sell things, and even get small, reasonable loans to supply you with the tools you need. I got my Wacom Tablet, The Adobe CS6 Master Suite, and a the parts for my custom PC just by saving money super-frugally since I was 17 (and taking advantage of student dicounts - I got Master Suite 80% off.)
I really can't wait to show more of my Sonic stuff on Deviant Art. But a lot of it is spoiler material for EoT. Been working crazy the fall semseter on my art, music, and writing. My dream job is to build my own little creative Media Empire.
Gun-toting Black Mage ^.^
Posted 07 October 2013 - 04:17 PM
Sometimes even having experience doesn't help. Around here it seems that who you know is more important than what you know. 
yup.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 04:21 PM
Yes, indeed.
The Soothsayer of Aeons.
Posted 07 October 2013 - 05:12 PM
Sometimes even having experience doesn't help. Around here it seems that who you know is more important than what you know.
Keep your spirits up. Those people get found out quick. No one likes dead wieght, especially in the search for profit. Prove yourself and get noticed and you will get the same benifit. I did (Ps. I am a Kentuckian too, Mokat, so there's hope 
).
The Soothsayer of Aeons.
Posted 09 October 2013 - 11:59 PM
I'm tired of how my generation as well as myself are being labeled as "lazy" for being jobless. I'm just playing a looooooooong and boring game of hurry up and wait. This is the REAL reason.
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=MAKAQFQ_tXY
I'm worried this is why my generation will be known as the unemployable generation.
I know how you feel; you should try my line of work: Psychology. You have to have a license to get experience, but you have to have experience to get a license to get said experience. The only way to really get in is to know someone who's willing to take you on as an unpaid intern, and, of course that doesn't count if you want to work at the state or federal lever, because it needs to be accredited. Oh, and by the way to get an accredited unpaid internship you have to: 1. be nearby where a program exists and, 2. vie for four slots that are open on a bi-yearly basis, which are fiercely fought over. At this point even papers have been written on how the internship level is at a crisis level in psychology. Right now for me it's more likely to back to school and get my doctorate; at least that way I would come out licensed by default, but that would mean moving over 300 miles.
Yes, I agree it's a crazy world.
My goodness...that is not a system that's a money grinder. You would think that needed postion would be given more flexbility and focus.
I plan have to have nice and shiny Dr. in front of my name as well someday. But I am but sophmore in college, that will take awhile (be sooner if they let me test out more classes, seriously I tested out of English 101 but they refused to let me test out of 102, even tough the work was so stupidly easy it made me want to force-choke the sophomoric teacher). I don't pay student loans to watch You-tube videos.
The Soothsayer of Aeons.
Posted 10 October 2013 - 12:40 AM
Idiotic Government rules for an outdated system; since the meltdown of '08 you are competing with psychologists with 10+ years experience for entry level position, and that's IF you have said license. Right now you're best off to hang your own shingle out, but you still need that license!
Activism would help. I just wish dumb issues would get out of the way so we could focus on one's like these.
"Non-Intruder Organism"
Posted 10 October 2013 - 05:53 PM
There's always the "crap jobs" that people generally don't want to do because they also pay crap pay. That's where you get the experience for paying jobs.
Projection: If Intruder Organsim reaches civilized areas...
Entire world population infected 2,7000 hours from first contact.
Fellow FUSer
Posted 14 October 2013 - 04:45 PM
There's always the "crap jobs" that people generally don't want to do because they also pay crap pay. That's where you get the experience for paying jobs.
Thing is I've always worked crap jobs in the past but that does not provided me with RELEVANT experience.
Speaking of which I have an interview tomorrow. Wish me luck.
A petition to keep up to a third of the characters in the sonic comics from being lost forever.
https://www.change.o...-hedgehog-comic
To those who want to give this "new direction" a chance, don't say I didn't warn you.
Fellow FUSer
Posted 17 November 2013 - 05:37 PM
I think it's a matter of laziness and the whole experience crap. People seem not to care sometimes, and there are only a select few who do and actually make it. Loans are a huge issue too, and they dump you like a sack load of bricks. For students just attending school for their BA, it's not always enough. This is why you intern for credit, and sometimes interning doesn't help either. Then you are stuck with high debt.
Going to school is not always the best answer, but right now there are no small businesses willing to hire graduates fresh out of college. I'm not saying don't go to college, but it's difficult because you cannot grow. Furthermore, businesses are supposed to help train you. The problem is right after college, the businesses feel that they don't have to provide you with more training because you paid for the training. Why should they pay for you training when you can do it out of pocket yourself? Free internships provide you the grunt work, and here again the businesses are not paying for your training either. They are just trying to save money.
[[hi btw lol]]
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