AW:work stuff

divinemsbee

Nickel and Dimed is an excellent book and I highly recommend it.

If anything, the situation is worse now (than when the book was written, 2005, I think) because the economy is worse. It's harder to even get a job waiting tables (as I mentioned earlier, especially in a tourist-based economy area). It's harder to get jobs teaching or nursing, both of which were the magic bullets for a while, because the older people aren't retiring as they can't afford to and there are a ton of younger people who got these degrees or certifications because they thought they would be guaranteed a job (not talking about you Hike, you're obviously in it because you love it based on what I've seen), hell, I'm on substitute rolls and I really don't want to teach. I'm not even looking for something field-related, and it's a nightmare.

Ideally, I'd like to work in an office or retail-like scenario where I wouldn't work around food again. People talk like "I'd just go work in a bookstore, I could do that..." but there are 40 other people who also want to work in a bookstore, because that seems better than alternatives. Just because I say I don't want to wait tables doesn't mean that I won't, it's just further down the list; fast food is at the very end, after gas stations and liquor stores. A starting wage is lower in the South, almost always. I'd love to make around $10 an hour (much less than I was making before), but that probably won't happen. The two things I will not do are put my own (non-existent at this point) money into something or work completely on comission.

Amanda- Yeah, I went from UT, which I think has one of the lowest, if not the lowest unemployment rates to FL. It's not fun. Especially as they make most of their money about 4 months of the year.

calindi

There's also the problem of being over-qualified.  I have my real resume and a true but slightly dumbed-down version (leaving out the achievements, the languages that I speak, etc.).  I've been rejected from lower-level jobs like nannying, administrative assistant, data entry positions because they realized (correctly) that it isn't what I'd really want to do based on my experience and qualifications, and that they likely wouldn't keep me long.  I've been told as much.  Job market is a double edged sword - can't go up, but you can't go down.

SamiJoeB

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/special-topic-wedding-boards_military-brides_awwork-stuff?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Special%20Topic%20Wedding%20BoardsForum:13Discussion:a26bd224-3f3a-40c1-876a-cc2acacaca3fPost:edd2c74f-669c-46b6-b187-ce2ed56cbc67">Re: AW:work stuff</a>:
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: AW:work stuff : I don't have a team yet. I start learning to train people. I start shadowing a trainer. It'll be about 2-3 months before I even start interviewing to build my team
Posted by KendallR10[/QUOTE]

But your original post said that you got promoted.  So you went from what a level 1 trainee, to a level 2 trainee? That is sooo not a company I'd have anything to do with.