If you go to Goodwill, they do help people find jobs in a few weeks. This will most likely mean a blue collar minimum wage job that's labor intensive, but they will help you get it. I tried to go that route, but I didn't really want to work in an industrial setting and at the time I had more options. Also, have you tried looking into UPS again? You worked at one for 2 1/2 years, so you might be able to get a recommendation to work at another.
I didn't know that Goodwill did that... still, though, the cost of living out here is ridiculous. You can't do it with minimum wage, particularly if you have college loans to pay. I don't mind blue collar work (in some ways it's actually more rewarding) but minimum wage would be hard to pull off.
As for UPS, I am told that I actually hold the highest rehireability status, which means that I'm basically a shoe-in for any job I qualify for. The problems, though, are that I don't have a car (public transportation doesn't usually work for UPS) and that it would completely immobilize me for a year. Apart from a couple of holidays, you don't get any breaks from work for the first year. That, and it actually still would only barely provide me with enough money to pay rent (screw eating).
Was the college trying to drive people to kill her? First point out the sad statistics of getting a job right now and then plug for money? In my opinion, reminding graduates of their college loans (which are probably already stressing everyone out before she opened her big fat mouth) is crass and ruins the special occasion of graduation.
Other than the division of employment and Goodwill, the only places I can think of trying are staffing companies and temp agencies, both usually offer more short term than long term, but you might luck out or after working for a while a temporary job could become a full-time one. Also, depending on state laws, substitute teacher might be an option -- my state requires a certain number of college credits to sub and a couple other basic things.
If it was, I would consider a strategic move. She's a horrible president. She also tends to lie through her teeth about school policy (that, or she honestly doesn't know it).
I've looked at a couple of staffing companies but I'm not sure about them. They seem so... fake. Like they're hiding something, and I've encountered enough fraud and scamming in my job search to feel comfortable taking the risk. I am also curious about being a substitute teacher, but apart from simply not knowing the laws about it here, it wouldn't provide any sort of stable job. Also, I don't have a car, which would make it very hard to travel to the different schools on short notice.
Okay, I feel terribly ignorant for asking this. You're a history major, right?, so what kind of jobs are usually available in a normal economy to that field? I mean, teacher or professor or writer, I'd assume, as well as museum staff (e.g. curator or researcher), but is that all
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No problem! There's really no reason you should know about history major jobs. That's the problem, though... even history majors don't really know what jobs are available. Teaching and museum work are the obvious ones, as is writing (though it's impossibly to start out that way). And archival work, wherever that happens. But there aren't really enough of those jobs to supply us
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Amen on the business major stuff. I could sleep through business classes and still ace them. Just like you, I have to work my butt off just to pass math classes, and three times as hard to do super well in them.
I believe it. Math majors and hard science majors have it by far the hardest. The time that a history student spends reading a science major will spend in lab, and the time a science major spends in lab a math major spends at a desk sifting through numbers, formulas, and... heck, I don't even know what you deal with on your level. I just know I can't do it.
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As for UPS, I am told that I actually hold the highest rehireability status, which means that I'm basically a shoe-in for any job I qualify for. The problems, though, are that I don't have a car (public transportation doesn't usually work for UPS) and that it would completely immobilize me for a year. Apart from a couple of holidays, you don't get any breaks from work for the first year. That, and it actually still would only barely provide me with enough money to pay rent (screw eating).
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Other than the division of employment and Goodwill, the only places I can think of trying are staffing companies and temp agencies, both usually offer more short term than long term, but you might luck out or after working for a while a temporary job could become a full-time one. Also, depending on state laws, substitute teacher might be an option -- my state requires a certain number of college credits to sub and a couple other basic things.
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I've looked at a couple of staffing companies but I'm not sure about them. They seem so... fake. Like they're hiding something, and I've encountered enough fraud and scamming in my job search to feel comfortable taking the risk.
I am also curious about being a substitute teacher, but apart from simply not knowing the laws about it here, it wouldn't provide any sort of stable job. Also, I don't have a car, which would make it very hard to travel to the different schools on short notice.
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