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Topic: so sick of unemployment!
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virgotaurustaurus
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From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted January 26, 2005 09:04 PM
 
*runs around screaming head off and throwing things around the room*burger-flipping at McDonalds is looking pretty nice lately! -disgruntled VTT IP: Logged |
NeoKitty
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From: Heaven
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 27, 2005 12:49 AM
Hey VTT,
I was out of work for 6 months looking for the right one...I know how frustrating it can be  I flipped burgers for about 2 weeks, then I worked in a fruit shop- and then applied at a local supermarket- and finally into progect management. Patience is a virtue! -err sometimes- only convenient if you have time to waste though. Not working can get pretty expensive.  What are you looking for? I hope something comes your way...  ------------------
"And dreams, don't ever forget, are the first step in manifesting wishes into reality"-- Linda Goodman's Star Signs IP: Logged |
Randall
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From: Columbus, GA USA
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posted January 28, 2005 10:08 AM
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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
NeoKitty
Knowflake Posts: 595
From: Heaven
Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 30, 2005 12:11 AM
How's it going VTT?------------------
"And dreams, don't ever forget, are the first step in manifesting wishes into reality"-- Linda Goodman's Star Signs IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted January 30, 2005 09:04 PM
Not so good! Still unemployed, however I picked up an application at a local coffeeshop, that'd be cool to hold me over until the future. I'm reading the book 'What Color Is My Parachute?' and it has actually made me stall even more, as I feel like every place I look at, I need an elaborate cover letter along with my resume and I really should be "aggressive" and try to hunt down the hiring manager and not stop till I get to talk to him/her. And all I'm trying to get for now is a receptionist type of job! GAH! IP: Logged |
dorkus_malorkus
Knowflake Posts: 695
From: west siiiiide!!!!!!!!!
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted January 30, 2005 11:16 PM
I hated working in fast food and will never do it again (too stressful.) However, 3 of the 4 jobs I've had have been in the food service industry. Cheer up though, you'll find something soon.IP: Logged |
delerious
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Registered: Dec 2004
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posted January 30, 2005 11:44 PM
Oh VTT, I'm reading that book too!!! It does give you a tremendous headache, never been much of one to sell myself - seems like the whole world of business can be so foreign... fighting your way in to talk to someone, feel like I'm being dropped on a alien planet and nobody talks my language!!! I do a lot of creative stuff which is hard to make a living at, so how do I act fired up enough to get a job I don't really want in the 1st place?!!! (When its just a matter of survival)Labors of love is such an appropriate title... dreaming of finding such work....  IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted January 31, 2005 01:15 AM
dorkus, one of my friends has worked at taco bell for years he's always telling me to never do it haha! Retail is pretty scary too sometimes. Blah!!delerious, I almost want to burn that book at times! I'm horrible at selling myself, I'm not very good in interviews. When they ask me to tell them about myself, I freeze. Yeah, excitement and motivation looking for a job you don't really want is my problem too! I can be aggressive/assertive if there's something I want...but to push my way into say...a medical office? HAH. I can't imagine calling the receptionist and asking to speak with the manager. I'm even still just trying to figure out what skills I'm strong in, so I'm taking forever getting through the book. IP: Logged |
delerious
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posted January 31, 2005 01:58 AM
You gotta let me know how you come along with his "flower" chart - Skills? I suppose I've developed tons of them, but how to put them together in this rural area where I am and every job is fought over into something meaningful is beyond me right now....Must keep the faith... Funny, I've been thinking of office work myself (wow, can hardly bring myself to say the word secretary, too many negative connotations?) cause I am good with computers and have some problems with my back and need something more mental for work rather than physical. Have had experience with computer graphics, but putting my artistic energy into selling things I don't necessarily believe in all day seems a slow death to my artistic sensibilities..... Have signed up for a training course for "Springer Miller" "Host" program - for use in resorts which there is a pretty good call for cause you need the special training and people can't afford to have it on their PCs. Plus you can take it anywhere there's resorts. Not that I'm that excited about dealing with sometimes grumpy tourists all day, (but having grown up doing just that, know what I'm in for) at least I would have a chance to deal with people and not be just at a desk in front of a computer all day. So, would have to say it would be better than flipping burgers...  Am gonna keep at the parachute book though, maybe develope a five year plan - (my daughter graduates highschool next year so my horizons could broaden!  ) My biggest problem is do I want to try to incorporate my art into my living or keep it personal (as in "fine" art) till maybe I can sell it, and try to get the kindof job where I can pay the bills and save my real energy for my work at home? Or should I strive to "commercialize" my artistic strengths and meld the two? (that is where my strength lies, would probably have more $ that way) And if I do get the more "regular" job, do I want to work with people or do I prefer to work alone? (boy, that really depends on what day you ask me!!!!) Maybe we should start a "parachute" club to help each other through that book!!! 
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Yin
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Registered: May 2004
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posted January 31, 2005 09:48 AM
VTT, check this book out:
Do what you are : discover the perfect career for you through the secrets of personality type / Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger. After you discover your personality type they give you a list of jobs that you can possibly do. I used it more as a reassurance that I'm walking the right path for me. I'm still uncertain about what I really want to do but in the meantime I do something close to my heart. I work with books. Good luck to you!
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Yin
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posted February 01, 2005 10:45 AM
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 514
From: north of Boston, MA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 02, 2005 01:08 AM
I'm Type 4, subtype 5.
Individualist-Investigator
"The Bohemian"
My life IS my work.IP: Logged |
delerious
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posted February 02, 2005 01:39 AM
I have taken alot of the tests, answering the questions is really difficult for me... always want more details on the situation they present... and my results always come up that I'm just one point or 2 away from being any of their types...One of the most frustrating things for me is it seems everybody knows exactly what I should be when I grow up... some of the suggestions are pretty ludicrous!! They mean well, but seem a little insulted when I don't jump on their idea, or accuse me of being negative when I list what (to me) are reasonable objections. Wish they'd give me the credit that I have put alot of thought into many different occupations!!!, and am not rejecting their ideas out-of-hand. (I'd be going a million different directions if I followed all the suggestions!) IP: Logged |
dorkus_malorkus
Knowflake Posts: 695
From: west siiiiide!!!!!!!!!
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 02, 2005 02:37 AM
I'm really into enneagram typology and myers-briggs typology as well.HSC,
I am type 4 as well  Yin,
Good book  I'm an INFP
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Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 514
From: north of Boston, MA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 03, 2005 06:04 PM
INFP's rule, Malorkus!
Introverted... 22
Intuitive... 44
Feeling... 33
Perceiving... 44
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"I want to love first,
and live incidentally."
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virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted February 03, 2005 06:29 PM
delerious...omg the flower chart...I stalled for a WEEK on the skills part! I have a lot of them, but to be able to define those that I actually enjoy doing is a project in itself...I'm sort of happy know with what I have, but it's a huge list that I need to narrow down. Office work is okay, I have been searching more and more, and it's amazing how diverse field-wise office work can be, so it appears to have a lot of options. I've had a similiar idea about how to put art into a job! I want a job that pays the bills and then sell my artwork in my other time. My career counselor suggested medical illustration in a way to meld art and a field...just throwing that out there A parachute club would rock!! That book is insane...I've been spending hours just doing the activities...I want to be super-complete too though, so I sit there and think for hours on the tiniest things...like interests. Gah! Yin: I really liked that book! I should go back to it now that I understand careers in general a bit more. I'm an INTP I'm also a Type 4 subtype 5 like HSC! My life is my work as well! delerious, I avoided the tests and went straight to reading that entire book. Well, most of it hahaha, I knew that I am an introvert. I then had to narrow it down by reading about all the I types. Everyone seems to know what I should be too! A biology teacher, a deejay, I should go work in labs...blah blah blah. Hahah I just babbled...but I'm doing a lot more work this week looking...I have my resume up on some national job search sites (Monster, HotJobs), I look for jobs on there. I look at the local paper. I am going to get my resume into places that don't necessarily have openings, but I am interested in. I signed up with the department of labor to use their computers. I am looking for civil service tests. It's a lot of hard work, a lot of trying to stay one step ahead of the employers and fellow jobhunters, and no one has bitten yet. I even filled out an application at the local coffeeshop in hopes they could hold me over for a bit! IP: Logged |
Yin
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posted February 04, 2005 09:15 AM
VTT, just a suggestion, you may want to use Best career and education Web sites : a quick guide to online job search / Rachel Singer Gordon and Anne Wolfinger to help you with your research. It's a great book, compiled by a librarian  BTW I'm an INFP for the most part but some days I test INTJ or INTP  IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted February 04, 2005 10:54 AM
The worst thing is feeling like you are stuck in a job field you hate, or have to take the first job that comes along (even while still job searching) even though you know you'll hate it. The job staffing place I signed up at found a medical billing job for me that starts Monday. Instead of being excited that I have an open position to fill somewhere, I am already dreading it because I hate working with accounts/billing.  IP: Logged |
Yin
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posted February 04, 2005 11:16 AM
VTT, you are worrying too much! Cheer up!IP: Logged |
virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted February 04, 2005 12:02 PM
lol that's so true Yin! (I actually worry about everything hahahaha it's kinda sad!)The funny thing is...just now, this upscale hotel I applied to just called me and wanted an interview when I'd be starting the job I already feel like I wouldn't like haha so now I get to tell the job staffing place that I have to let go of their opportunity. So funny! I love how they all start to bite at once! IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross
Knowflake Posts: 514
From: north of Boston, MA
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted February 05, 2005 04:09 AM
vtt,you may as well sleep on it,
It doesnt sound like a bad job,
and it might sound even better tomorrow.
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virgotaurustaurus
Knowflake Posts: 1136
From: Fart Ann, NY
Registered: Oct 2004
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posted February 08, 2005 01:31 AM
Hooray! A front desk hotel job called me Friday just after that billing job I didn't want...and the times conflicted for today, Monday, so I HAD to let one go, neither would compromise. I decided to try the front desk interview, and I've passed elimination round #1! This is actually a huge thrill for me...it reminds me of the TV show Survivor haha. Even if I don't get this job, I feel better knowing that someone at least wanted me enough to get me past the first interview, and I feel that I have a wider range of skills than I let myself think before they asked me.IP: Logged |
delerious
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posted February 09, 2005 12:00 AM
 So happy for you!!!  you'll have to keep me posted how you do, my "host" program class starts Mar 3 and goes 6 weeks, then I might be doing front desk!!! We could share war stories! Good luck... remember there's plenty more out there if this doesn't work out (just like men, right?!!  IP: Logged |
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