Daily Archives: February 12, 2009

Sometimes, you just have to give your friends the chance to rant. Please welcome guest blogger TB (or as I like to call him “caliboy”) as he shares his woes on job-finding in the post-recession economy.

I hate it when no one wants to offer you a job… yet  people expect you to pull 5 years of work experience out your *ss. I’m pretty sure work experience comes from WORKING. Maybe I’m missing something. Oh yeah, a bachelor’s degree… right. Well I guess it’s my fault for messing around from ’02 – ’07 but come on… I’m sure there’s some way a former screw-up can find the job he wants. How can I get a decent job without a bachelor’s degree?  How can I get a bachelor’s degree without going to college? How can I go to college without getting a loan? And even with the loan, I still need money. And how can I get money without a f*ckin job? *(Excuse the language… very pissed off here).

Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com seem to cater to the bachelors/ 5 yr work experience crowd and every job agency I called said they can’t help me because my work experience is very random and all over the place.

Maybe moving to the East Coast was a bad idea…although I was talking to some friends in California and they were saying the job market is terrible over there as well. I’m guessing its like this everywhere. All I can do is sit back with a 24 pack of Yuengling and wonder where it all went wrong. Visions of standing at an intersection with a cardboard sign asking for spare change are starting to seem like a disturbing possibility.

Can’t give up…