I’m 28 years old and I’m unemployed.
My fiancee was unemployed for eight months and recently found a job. She’s elated, and we have some income rolling in, but I have to always cash some of my stocks in my IRA brokerage portfolio, which was meant for our future retirement fund and I’ve been out of work for four months now. I have a BA in English, but I’ve worked as a handyman, I know how to lay tile, all the traits affiliated with carpentry, I speak four languages fluently and cannot find a job, here in Tampa, FL.
After I had graduated, I couldn’t find a job stateside, so I lived in Madrid, working for the Spanish Ministry of Education, teaching in a bilingual public school. Six months later, when the program ended, I couldn’t find a job, so my fiancee’s mom got me a temp job working at Lockheed Martin, as a shipping/receiving clerk, for barely $13 an hour, but a year later, I got a job at L’Oreal, as a procurement analyst, making $38,000 a year. I lost that job six months later, due to a massive layoff within the company.
So, I find myself unemployed, unable to find work anywhere. I’ve applied to gas stations, manual labor jobs, construction. I would even dig a ditch if somebody paid me. Also, my friends, who have degrees in Chemistry, Engineering, etc, cannot find jobs either and I have friends that used to be electricians, plumbers, welders, and they are jobless as well. There are simply no jobs stateside.
What are some tips to keep out of depression? What would be some job tips you would use in a situation like this?
I also worked 80 hour weeks at Lockheed Martin and didn’t mind it one bit, because I was being paid. I’m not lazy.
Thanks.
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OK hold on to your booties.
here there is Work (TX). u just have a degree that is
not a job degree.
so u in nearly the same class as a high shcooler, sorry.
know where library is?
go there, get, read, study, take notes
then apply info from these at least.
48 days to work you love, dan miller.
total money make over, dave ramsey.
what color is your parachute, r.bolles.
quitters, jon acuff. his new one is -‘Start”.
then get your walking shoes on and apply
every where with new knowledge on how
to job hunt. the game has changed.
apply at least 50 places a week and u will get employed.
if in USA contact your community college
for courses programs leading to IN DEMAND jobs
that pay well 30,000 – 60,000 and u can cash flow
through waitressing, security, night morgue attendant.
newspaper delivery.
visit BLS.gov/OOH occupational handbook
for careers/jobs u may like. educations needed,
job environment, job incomes, Growth and
important which ones are in demand.
now for simple cash flow, here u would show
daily 4.30 am at day labor ‘manpower’ agencies
ready to work and get paid.
as for your ability to speak/read spanish,
visit library to find out how to create your own
income doing Translations in the hood/businesses, teaching
ESL independent classes, tutoring for folks wanting
to learn Spanish. here tutors earn 25 -30 hour for singles,
15 -20 per person for groups.
so groups of 5 at 15 = 75 “cash” after work.
2 groups daily? $$
stop thinking like an employee unless u want to b one.
good knowledge is good luck.