um. you better be exaggerating about the welfare. you can certainly get temp work through an agency and not starve while you're looking for a real job. pays better than welfare.
Temp jobs can be miserably capricious-I only ever got one one month placement out of four years of looking in Boston with several agencies. If you are too smart, you can really get snubbed.
(Mr. Andrei...do you do tech writing at all? I may have a lead...)
Sadly, despite the irony of having a web loglordandreiNovember 16 2005, 21:22:30 UTC
I don't consider myself a writer. I think I've learned enough computer languages that English may in fact have dropped to my second language as far as skills go. (Looking back on this last sentance may actually prove that)
We're also kinda bent on staying in Washington (state) at this point.
ugh. how awful. i know someone in boston who's been living off temp jobs for several years -- seems to get placements one right after the other. i wonder what the secret is.
When the $5000 guy called me and started his pitch, I said that I had contacts in almost every company I had applied to, had 4 interviews lined up for the next 2 days, and several other things that he said he could do for me. Then I asked him what he could do that I wasn't already doing. His answer was, "well, I guess since you're doing x and y, there isn't much we can offer you." Right.
Certainly your experiences have helped me turn him away. Thanks. Not that it helps you, but...
It makes me sick to think that there's a bunch of bloodsuckers out there that profit off of people looking for work. And I though the recruiting agencies that get paid by the companies that they're recruiting for were bad.
It rather much irks me that you spent more than I make in a year, on getting your resume fixed. Is just ridiculously way too much. I have a friend, from high school who's been getting jobs through temp agencies, pretty much, since he graduated from HS. No college, that I know of, but he somehow gets into many places. I think he goes through volt. Or, at least, did. Dunno what his current job hunting secrets are. Me, I would go ahead and sell the car and get something easier to deal with, as far as payments go. I dunno what they are now. If worse comes to worse (this is absolute worst, mind you), you can move to what's locally known as The Jungle. I have heard stories and have been through there once, while a friend was living there, but, IMHO, it's really last resort
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I haven't found a job yet, but I am qualified & registered now to substitute-teach in the county. If I work all 22 days of a school month, I only have to spend $1800 out of my savings to make all the bills, even with all the extras cut out. The rest I can cover with the teacher's stipend.
And I'm still looking, and casting my nets as wide as possible. If I have to, I'll commute, or something until my son graduates from HS in 18 months, and I can go somewhere else if I have to.
For some of these skills, it's a hard market for more experienced folk; lots of places for entry-level skills, but lots of folks with more experience hanging on until the economy improves, and not so many jobs at the middle levels being created.
And I'll be 50 in 6 weeks: that's a challenge out there waiting for me, too, because the agist thing creeps in. Grrr.
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(Mr. Andrei...do you do tech writing at all? I may have a lead...)
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We're also kinda bent on staying in Washington (state) at this point.
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Certainly your experiences have helped me turn him away. Thanks. Not that it helps you, but...
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And I'm still looking, and casting my nets as wide as possible. If I have to, I'll commute, or something until my son graduates from HS in 18 months, and I can go somewhere else if I have to.
For some of these skills, it's a hard market for more experienced folk; lots of places for entry-level skills, but lots of folks with more experience hanging on until the economy improves, and not so many jobs at the middle levels being created.
And I'll be 50 in 6 weeks: that's a challenge out there waiting for me, too, because the agist thing creeps in. Grrr.
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