My rut

[lurkerwithout]

Mike and mom are both still worrying about me. How I'm barely working at the job I've got (only 2 days a week) and how, so far, none of the jobs I've tried for have panned out. They both want me to look outside the hotel industry. And I do. But so far the hotels are the only ones who even call me back for interview. And not even most of them.

Mom's planning on quitting her job soon, shes tired of the constant travel. They both want to move forward on their new plan of buying and remodeling houses for resale. And my being a half-employed lump living with them doesn't help.

Mike also floated the idea of moving out to Texas, to San Antonio. And I'd love living near my little brother again. But if I learned one thing from my move to Colorado years ago, and I learned more than one thing, its that I'm not moving out of state without either a job already lined up or some significant savings to hold me over...

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Re: If I may ask two questions...

[lurkerwithout.livejournal.com]

The problem is I really have NO idea what field I'd like to work in. So I'm just going for what are essentially low-end white collar stuff. Hotels, data entry, entry level gov't...

Education wise I finished 3 years of college but never graduated...

Re: If I may ask two questions...

[ellakite.livejournal.com]

Oy. Sad to say, your lack of a college degree may explain a lot of your problems -- in the modern day, if you want to get a job above purely "menial" work (flipping burgers or mopping floors), most employers expect you to at least have an Associates Degree, if not a Bachelors'. As such, any candidate with a college degree will almost automatically get selected before you do.

My advice: In the short term you're stuck, but if/when you land a job that pays well enough, seriously think about going back to college. Check the local schools & see what it would take to land an Associates or Bachelors degree with the credits you've already earned. Preferably, you'd want to go for a degree related to your "career path", but right now you don't know what you want your career to be, so that complicates things. If possible, avoid degrees in areas like "Communications" and "Philosophy"; my friend got a B. A. in Communications, and she's been stuck doing "grunt work" for the last decade. Even if you don't know what kind of work you want to do, having a degree that involves knowledge that has "real world" applications (basic accounting, word processing, etc.) will give you a massive leg-up in future job interviews. Also, another thing I just thought of -- check to see if any of your local schools have a "Work-Study" or "Apprenticeship" programs, where they line you up with a part-time job; most of those employers tend to hire the students for full-time positions the moment they earn their degree.

I hope this helps.