C-SPAM's Book of Job (Also Sob) Hunting

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Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

I've never had trouble getting a job for more than a month or so but I get to claim the epic veteran card so scumbag business owners love me for the tax break. I still get fired a lot because I can't keep my mouth shut lol. I had a job as a security guard where I ended up getting fired but I threatened the owner (who gave people lunches, but expected you to stay on the jobsite and be available to work) with coming after him for like 100+ hours of missed wages and he instead just left me on the books at 0 hours lol. Anyway now I got this pizza boy job which is complete trash and rough as gently caress on my car but I like my coworkers and it's easy.

I'm amazed nobody's yelled at me for constantly pointing out that the owner's policy of making all the men shave and nobody having 'unprofessional' hair styles is racist, though

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Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

have you guys tried enlisting for 2 to 4 years. I've been hired first try at every job I've tried to get since leaving the military

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 01:51

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Peanut President posted:

some guy manages an IT department at some shithole in germany and suddenly he's a vet and deserves 3 or even 4 jobs the bastard

it's even better. i was a phone operator

# ¿ Mar 13, 2019 23:55

Larry Parrish: Jul 9, 2012; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Pretty rad dad pad posted:

I have repeatedly experienced the boomer fever dream of walking into a business with a smile and a firm handshake and walking out employed and folks, the one weird trick is: small, popular national park-adjacent but remote towns

everywhere's so desperate to hire people since the local unemployment rate is like -25% that they're as willing to take risks on unknown people as your demented grandparents think every business in your midwest hometown is, and though they still won't offer to pay you decently upfront because of ~the experience of being here~ they pretty much all have some way of making stuff work out reasonably as long as you realise you have bargaining power. I have a house that I live in, alone, for like $200 a month, along with an immigration tickbox allowing me to be in canada instead of the UK at brexit o'clock, because the alternative is that I leave and go to one of the other jobs I could be doing and the business falls apart for six months, and I'm a stupid loser nerd who never did anything useful in my life except get 80% of the way through a university degree and then quit because of sadbrains. if you have actual skills or experience doing anything at all, oh boy

it is not for everyone, you'll have a better time if you're young and of a wandery sort of mindset. the visitors are generally horrible and you'll hate their guts. you will want to have a car and at least a bit of money saved up ahead of time, moving isn't free. it could all come crashing down if 2008 happens again. but, it beats the hell out of answering phones in a depressing brexit call center until the baked bean riots start

also houses in most of these places cost like a million dollars so you can't stay there forever. at least you can go back to wherever you came from with some money in the bank though.

(this is in canada idk how applicable it is to the US. presumably only particular places, might have to go to alaska or montana or something like you have to go to alberta or BC here)

also second the 'moderate lie' advice. I personally did not but wish I had because like 20% of the jobs I've ever had ever checked anything at all and it cost me 5 years of being unemployed and spending every penny I had just to stay alive, which I don't recommend

this is 90% of my advice too. although if you're going to try this you have to be in what most city slickers would call a small town, but for someone like me who's from a very small town, then its really a small city. like, a county seat thats got 10k people in it has this somewhat unique problem of crippling unemployment but plenty of (unfilled) minimum wage jobs around. a town as small as where i'm from has the crippling unemployment but its too small for large corporations to bother setting up franchises and such so theres no jobs either

# ¿ Mar 14, 2019 11:51

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