I'm trying to be more dedicated than ever to looking for a new job, but it's taking too long. I wonder how much longer I will be looking, or when I will finally be able to give notice here. I have the impression that everyone else has managed to get a better opportunity faster than me. How is your job hunting experience?
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Couldn’t agree more. Trying to give people free houses regardless of income, relaxing underwriting guidelines and incentivizing lending to people who had no prayer of meeting obligations. Then leaving the whole CMO mess to Bush to clean up. What a disaster that was. And what a disaster this is becoming again.
Anyone who says the job market is tight hasn't lived through the lost decade of the Clinton administration.
And the media really hypes up these so-called tech layoffs when for the most part they're just getting rid of token hires like their brand evangelists or chief purpose officers.
The market is tight and getting tighter and leadership here knows this and are using it to their advantage.
Apparently Arrested Development is not just a band but a movement.
In my experience I’ve always had great difficulties with formal job hunts. That’s odd as when I’m in a job I’ve always pretty much been the rock of the team. But I’m not political and don’t spend my day gossiping and networking. I’m heads down & work my tail off.
If that’s you my advice is contracting. Contracting is great because you grow a network without the politics and it’s easy to land a contracting job. It also allows you to start your own business as well allowing you to to jump onto numerous projects. It’s not for the typical BONY (or any other large corporation) slacker whining incessantly about their RSUs etc. it’s for a solid worker with a great skill set. Few of my jobs ever came via a normal interview process. Most all came from my reputation
Drive Uber evenings and weekends. Provide daycare in your home. Do seasonal odd jobs. Examine your expenses and learn the difference between necessities and luxuries. Do anything but bemoaning the lack of “a living wage.”
There’s no such thing as “a living wage”. There is only the compensation that a job provides. To live you might need to have several jobs. Life can be hard and for those bringing up a family it’s not unusual to have multiple jobs.
It’s always been this way and it always will be. The only thing different these days is the sense of entitlement.
Whenever I feel that way I ask my maw maw to dust off my participation trophies, the awards in my old bedroom and the movies of my first steps… all of the unique things that I’ve done that nobody could ever equal…
A Primal millennial scream of rage against the system which boomers came to understand in their teens and twenties.
In IT $200k is the new $100k and those jobs are a dime a dozen.
To be honest, the job market sucks a$$ if you are looking for a living wage. If you live at home with mommy and daddy and are looking for pocket change jobs , there are a ton of them. There is low unemployment BUT the jobs themselves suck. THIS is the main reason why so many stay, unhappily or not.