Alright, so sometimes I honestly feel like I'm the only 20 year old in the world who doesn't have at least a part time job (or is off traveling to other parts of the globe on internships and such). I am a student so I certainly keep busy and am working toward a higher goal ( most jobs around here just don't mesh well with my personality), but I can honestly say it sometimes feels pretty depressing when you get the feeling your friends parents think you're a loser.
On a somewhat brighter note however, I AM happy that I think if I balance school well this will give me some extra time to write next month!
So, anyone else in the same boat (PLEASE say there is someone else out there!)? Is it something you feel you have to 'deal' with or do you simply focus your energy elsewhere and enjoy it while you can? And of course, any relationship of your joblessness to NaNo? ;)
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40,353 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 17 51
I don't have a job either. I moved back home to Texas three months ago and I'm still unemployed and have only had one interview since I moved back. I sell Pure Romance, sorta....I just gotta get people to book parties with me.
I was going to school, but that fell through (a really BS-worthy story goes with that), sadly. So, now all I do is sit around my house alone or I spend time over at my friends' house drinking and generally being bored.
----------NaNo 2006: The Clearing of Lindsey (psychological thriller/drama/whatever)
NaNo 2007: ZOMBUNNIE! (satirical horror)
NaNo 2008: Sunny Side Up (romantic comedy drama thing)
NaNo 2009: Candy Land Dandily Dies (fantasy/adventure/kind of satirical)
795,008 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 18 38
No job.
Ridiculously no job.
Sometimes, I feel like no one in the world is hiring people without 3-5 years of experience.
----------So Many Words, So Little Time
40,202 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 19 06
I don't "technically" have a job. I say technically because the job I do have, a freelance writing job with Examiner.com, pays next to nothing. Literally. I've been writing articles for them since the end of July and I've earned about ten bucks. Totally doesn't count. But...yeah...no part-time OR full-time job, although I'm already out of college and am desperately in need of one. I hope I can get one soon, just to get my parents off my back.
----------NaNo '04: Band is Such a Soap Opera
NaNo '05: Life in the Bubble
NaNo '06: 101 Ways to Kill Your Roomie
NaNo '07: Good Idea at the Time
NaNo '08: Disfunctional Novel
NaNo '09: The Missing
60,048 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 19 14
Ridiculously no job.
Sometimes, I feel like no one in the world is hiring people without 3-5 years of experience.
I know exactly how you feel. How are you supposed to get experience when no one will freakin hire you in the first damn place! Grrrr. Job hunting is soul crushing.
----------Long live me and long live anarchy!
- Drunkard, for whom the bell tolls...
14,801 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 19 24
Yeah, 20 years old and still no job. Living with the rents isn't helping things either...
But I have a plan. A plan that might generate the much needed income that I need. A plan is a plan is a plan. Who knows what will happen.
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Okt 2, 2009 - 19 26
Ridiculously no job.
Sometimes, I feel like no one in the world is hiring people without 3-5 years of experience.
I know exactly how you feel. How are you supposed to get experience when no one will freakin hire you in the first damn place! Grrrr. Job hunting is soul crushing.
I know this feeling too! I have an unpaid internship at the moment as an attempt to get experience and so I don't have to say "Yeah, I totally chilled out while unemployed", but if I don't find a job soon, things are going to get ugly. ----------
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Okt 2, 2009 - 19 57
I just turned 20 two months ago and I left my last job in february (co-op with my school). Couldn't find a job over the summer to save my life. I'm back at school now and I think I'll at least be during some volunteer work in the near future (i hope).
----------"It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions."
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Okt 2, 2009 - 22 07
Me. Jobless and beyond broke. Miracle that I'm able to pay rent and electric every month. Nearest family member is something like 9-10 hours away. Need a job. On-campus jobs are no bueno. May have to go for the one that would mean staying up until all hours of the night working at the library. Ugh. I love the library, but wouldn't want to work there until 4 am, then go to class at 9:30.
EDIT: Never mind. That job is now apparently filled. Crap. Oh, and I'm 21. >.<
*munches on chocolate and ice cream*
----------Don't ever give up, no matter what happens. You just gotta push a little bit further. You gotta get to that cliff and be willing to jump off. Because it's always when you take that next step that actually the good stuff starts to happen.
~Eric Lochtefeld
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Okt 2, 2009 - 22 11
Me. Full time student doing an accelerated degree (technically my third, which is a scary thought) to be a teacher. I'll have a proper career in a year's time! :D
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Okt 2, 2009 - 22 24
I don't have a job, and since I'm well-provided for, I'm just fine with it. I get bored easily without stuff to do, but I fall under the "devote my energy elsewhere" category. School is among my top priorities along with writing-related pursuits, weight loss and the can of worms which is the sex change process. Writing is going to be my primary career, so it's not like writing and work are separate spheres to me. In a way, NaNo is job-related. I need an excuse to sit my sybaritic butt down and write my awesome first draft while I'm still enthusiastic. What better time than November?
I'm a little concerned about classwork and NaNo coming into conflict, but this year I think I can manage. The first year I tried NaNo I was a college freshman with a ton of classes I hated and synthetic hormone-induced clinical depression. Things are different now.
----------All Crimes Should Be Treasured if They Bring Thee Pleasure Somehow...
2007--Untitled Crapheap (Epic FAIL)
2009--Mister Schismatic
5,852 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 22 27
My last job was about a year and a half ago, I quit in order to move to Pennsylvania to be with my fiance. Haven't gotten a job up here yet. First time I've been jobless since before I turned 16, and though I've enjoyed the freedom, it does get boring at times. Should give me plenty of time to work on the novel though >.>
----------2003: Til Death Do Us Part (~20k, lost in computer crash)
2009: (with moar backups!)
51,440 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 22 46
I'm 27 and jobless. I try to keep myself busy but what I do doesn't put money in my pockets.
----------I would insert a signature here but a dancing chicken stole it.
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Okt 2, 2009 - 23 01
I know the feeling. x__x It's ridiculous. I have had precisely one job in my life - the rest of my experience has come from volunteer work. I most want to work in a bar, but it's pretty much impossible for me to do that - I don't have any experience in that industry, and employers only want to hire those who have experience. *headdesk* ----------
32,577 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 23 09
20 years old and jobless. Not going to school, either.
And I hate job-hunting.
----------"I want to do something splendid...something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I think I shall write books."
~Louis May Alcott
618 / 50,000
Okt 2, 2009 - 23 56
Chiming in as 20, jobless, and living at home. :( I'm enrolled in a trade program though, and should be finishing up pretty soon. I definitely feel you on the depressing part. A lot of other people my age that I know are doing amazing things like studying abroad every year, going to Harvard, etc, and I'm not doing much of anything it feels like. We'll all get there though, someday!
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Okt 6, 2009 - 18 09
EDIT: Double post, oops!
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Okt 3, 2009 - 00 26
Yup, me too.
I do love the can't get a job because I don't have experience, but can't get experience because I can't get a job circle I'm in.
Currently I'm waiting on hearing back from substitute teaching, which I don't even know if I want to do, but money would be nice.
It would probably help a bit if I had any idea of what I actually wanted *to* do with my life and all.
Cursed real world.
----------2008: An Initial Love; 50,048 words; Region: Seoul, South Korea
2009:???; Goal of 100,000 words; Region: Las Vegas, Nevada
59,913 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 01 05
*waves* Me too!
I graduated from university this July and since then have been unwillingly adding to the Government's unemployment statistics and getting increasingly frantic and depressed about being unable to find a job... Had a couple of interviews, but no luck so far.
I'm seriously contemplating applying to be one of 'Santa's helpers' at those Christmas grottos they have. At least it would be cool to put 'elf' on my CV...
At least we should all be able to finish our NaNos, right? No excuses!
53,409 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 03 57
I'm currently job-hunting. I left my office job in December to pursue TEFL teaching, had a brief teaching job this summer, and nothing since. This sucks, because I'm moving in with my boyfriend and I really *need* money. Damn you, recession.
42,140 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 05 09
Two years ago when I first did nano I was jobless as I was recoving from a long term illness and my doctor was being reluctant about allowing me to work. I was finally allowed to halfway through November and picked up a temp job straight away cold calling people for Market research purposes. Due to odd hours, nano sadly went out the window.
This year I have a job I fell into. I have also experienced the problem with lack of experience, but was lucky as I got into the company in another department and managed to get noticed by the department I wanted to be in and was transferred after six months. I'm rapidly aproachibg the end of my contract again though so fingers crossed that something comes up by the end of the year.
My partner on the other hand is an unemployed student, but does have a grant that just about covers half of our living expenses. He also gets paid a fairly good wage for a couple of months supervising undegradute labs each year.
Jim
----------2007: Spirit of Omega - 25k (FAIL)
2008: In Two Minds - 50k (WIN)
2009: On Four Wheels (in progress!)
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52,015 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 06 27
Count me in. 24-years-old, jobless, full-time college student, and still living with my grandmother.
I get a lot of flak for being jobless, I tend to ignore it because I got flak for being jobless even when I had a job.
My last job ended on June 2 of this year because I graduated from the community college I was employed with as a Work Study student. I applied for other jobs at that same college over the summer (jobs with salaries), but received letters in the mail telling me they filled the positions about a month after I applied. One in particular astounded me as the job required at least 2-years experience as a cashier, which I had 4-years experience in, but apparently they decided to give someone else the job.
In previous years of NaNo, I was jobless the first time I attempted NaNo. I attempted NaNo twice so far, but only one of those times was I still taking classes. I took one fall semester break in 2007 and was also jobless, but fall 2008 I had classes and a Work Study job. It didn't seem to make any difference in the outcome of my NaNos though. Of course, I was told for Work Study I could only work 10 hours per week...
----------My Personal Blog: http://jk-pim.net/blog (still under construction, but available to visitors)
My Writing Blog (for NaNo, Screnzy, and Everyday Writing): http://jk-pim.net/nanoblog (still under construction, but available to visitors)
8,056 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 10 12
I'm jobless. I haven't had a steady job since Christmas :(.
36,951 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 10 44
No job. Just a poor and lowly student. Although its the lack of job that's giving me the time to write NaNo so can't complain too much xD
----------A Murder of Crows - A plot by Pieces
Characters killed: 15
Cups of Coffee drunk: 22
Cups of hot chocolate drunk: 35
Meals skipped: 4
Games of Mahjong played in procrastination: 54
Horror films watched whilst writing: 4
5,167 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 11 00
I have no part-time job.
It is very sad-making sometimes.
But it always, always works out that when it gets close to Nano-time, I magicially become unemployed for some reason.
The job search isn't going too well, either. This is irritating because I need to get a job to get the experience that I need to get a job.
It's frustrating sometimes. Knowing my luck, I'll have one before January.
----------~To learn your ways, I don't mind cutting the roots of the future~
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Okt 3, 2009 - 12 59
I'm 27 and have been jobless for 9 months. No job, no studying, no travelling. Luckily I have some experience and a small financial cushion from my last job. I don't mind it, in fact it's been a very productive 9 months on a personal level. But it does get boring and frustrating when everyone is on your back to find another job.
To have any chance of completing my first NaNo I would have to remain jobless. Knowing my luck the offers will start coming in on Nov. 1st. And I don't think I could turn down a job with a clear conscience.
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Okt 3, 2009 - 13 17
Ridiculously no job.
Sometimes, I feel like no one in the world is hiring people without 3-5 years of experience.
I know exactly how you feel. How are you supposed to get experience when no one will freakin hire you in the first damn place! Grrrr. Job hunting is soul crushing.
These comments perfectly describe my life for the past ten months.
40,353 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 14 09
Yeah, this lack of a job is pissing me off.
----------NaNo 2006: The Clearing of Lindsey (psychological thriller/drama/whatever)
NaNo 2007: ZOMBUNNIE! (satirical horror)
NaNo 2008: Sunny Side Up (romantic comedy drama thing)
NaNo 2009: Candy Land Dandily Dies (fantasy/adventure/kind of satirical)
31,670 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 14 56
I probably would be (slowly into getting more hours). I don't *dare* apply to anything I'm really interested in because of "lack of experience" or rather "official training". It's definitely hard to find someone who'd be willing to take a chance on you, but when someone does, well :). So far jobwise, I've only had a couple of baby-sitting jobs. Volunteer-wise, there was one thing for high school graduation requirements and others from a volunteer program (all spread out)
----------~Louise
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Okt 3, 2009 - 14 57
25 years old. Haven't worked since January. Put in about 50 applications, if not more. Went on around 10 interviews. This recession thing sucks. All the jobs I could've gotten a few years back are really tough to get now.
I do, however, work Special Events for my college, but I don't really count 4 days a month a job. If I can't pay rent with it--and I can't--it doesn't count.
42,218 / 50,000
Okt 3, 2009 - 15 18
I have a feeling this thread is going to become very full :P
I just graduated college with my bachelor's in May. Haven't worked since. College is so not helpful in finding a job :P
I've definitely had to get used to being unemployed/not a student. It's been hard for me to sit around the house feeling useless all day. But I've recently started doing some volunteer work which is great in so many ways. It makes me feel useful and gets me out of the house, it helps out others AND it looks GREAT on a resume. Still searching for that paying job though.
I am SO tired of filling out applications.
The good news is: lots of time to focus on NaNo. My bf joked that if I don't get a job soon, I'll be finished NaNo in three days :P
----------*lures my sanity into a cage* I love you, but you'll have to stay locked up until the end of the month.