I'd Like to Introduce You to a Life-Changing Opportunity...

[mightyafrodite]

You know, the most irritating aspect of job hunting is the so-called job opportunities that do not really qualify as employment. The most obnoxious of these are the hundreds of ads for "marketing" positions. What looks at first to be a chance to learn about the field is in fact several hours spent at some random shopping center trying to hock crap that no one wants. I have no idea what the turnover rate is for such businesses, but from the number of ads I see out there, these marketing companies go through a lot of people. After marketing companies come the "financial services" companies, like Primerica. These outfits call any and everyone looking for a job, whether they have experience in finance or not. They will have you come to a "presentation" about their company and follow it up with a so-called interview. In the end, it's an attempt to go through as many people as possible in order to find the one or two people willing to eek out a living part time while the parent company rakes in all the cash. Why I am lucky enough to receive such calls is beyond me. Between these worthless job offers, the hundreds of IT jobs above my experience and clerical gigs for which I'm overqualified, there's hardly anything left out there. I'm trying like mad to find something that will at least keep my mother from having to subsidize everything.

Just...and I mean this...no more sales jobs, please!

Just saw a preview commercial for Point Break. Keanu isn't any more convincing now than he was when the movie first came out.