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Originally Posted by Perna
If you cannot concentrate well now because of other issues, I would work on the other issues first, then worry about the schooling. You need a job to pay for the law suit/credit card debt and the student loan debt and therapy to work on your issues you want to work on.
I would go volunteer somewhere, for example, I just submitted my application to volunteer for my local humane society. I have a couple cats who have been having a really bad flea infestation problem and it is making them really hard to care for. I may not be able to take care of them if they don't get back to "normal". Too, I was spending time during the day watching "Animal Cops" and decided I could better use my time working to help instead of just watching other people working. It's kind of like watching Biggest Loser instead of doing any dieting and exercising of one's own, etc. Pick something you do or want to learn, etc. and volunteer for an agency where there is a chance of learning about it.
I might have to give up my cats for adoption but if I have to give them to the Humane Society, I want to get to know the people there and procedures; I'm think of myself as a "spy" :-) But instead of just sitting and watching TV alone for a couple hours every weekday, I will be with others and helping and getting to know other people and something new. I have good office skills so said I could help there. But I'd also like to work with the animals (mostly the cats) and they need people to walk the dogs and "cuddle" the cats, etc. so I volunteered for that too.
Getting out and about as a volunteer doesn't get you any money but it does get you in a place one might be able to learn of jobs in that field and where there will be people who have other stimulating ideas, suggestions, possibilities. My being home watching TV doesn't offer any of that. My Humane Society even has job openings: http://www.harfordshelter.org/?page_id=28 and volunteering somewhere and letting people get to know you and getting to know them and a place gives you an inside track to maybe getting one of those jobs.
I've volunteered before through Volunteer Match http://www.volunteermatch.org/ and even got an online volunteer job through them. Another thing I like about volunteering is that they often will teach you new skills or let you learn them yourself on the job.
Volunteer Match was showing a couple matches for my American Red Cross center, so I went to their site and they have quite a few jobs, including this one: http://www.redcrossblood.org/career-...ent-laboratory
Volunteer your way to learning or doing what you want. If you get a job with a large enough agency, they often will help with schooling, etc.
The guy cleaning my house today, he's an older guy and mentioned, when we were talking about his cleaning my house in 4 years :-) that he hoped he wouldn't be here in 4 years so I asked him what he wanted to do and he wants to go to tractor trailer school but, when he was a kid, he messed up and got a criminal record but that will be okay (after 10 years) next year and he'll be able to go to school. But he's working cleaning apartments (and private homes) with a large, franchise cleaner like "Merry Maids" biding his time and saving him money, he has a plan and he's doing what he needs to do to get where he wants to go.
Volunteer your IT/network education and skills and see if something good doesn't happen. |
volunteering not happening i already made this clear to professionals unless there is a contract with pay then i will do it. someone at shabbat is helping me with the lawsuit preparing this paperwork for me to send to their lawyers to have them back off for good. i think said i am in therapy not sure if i did or not, but that is being paid by the state of AZ. i have state insurance...
humane society it depends on what they are hiring for. i have looked at their jobs i dont come close to what they are looking for in experience. i have done my share of "research" with the companies and job market a lot of time. student loan not gonna worry about that until later on.
honestly, i live in a state where there isn't much for jobs never was anyway even in a good economy. moving is out of the question, who moves with no money? not gonna bum on my siblings. my main concern as i said this before and will say it again to other professionals is i need to build skills and an income, but doing self teaching is not working for me. volunteermatch.org and redcross not telling me anything i already know. i have an account with volunteermatch i barely read it.
money is way more important to me in order to get from A to B and there is nothing close knit here in the state i live in hence is why you need a car to get around. a mile here is not a mile in cali, it took me almost 30 minutes to walk a mile in AZ!
did i miss something? who said i am watching tv? im active in my job search i may not go to these job fairs (they dont work for me anymore waste of gas) or networking groups, again it still takes money to get me where i need to go; but, i search for jobs and apply quite a bit. yep, a boring method but that's my only method. my contacts can not help that much but they have offered some places to check always to "work with kids" no thank you, i dont enjoy kids i enjoy animals than kids any day. it is always crap jobs they are referring me to.
those cleaning jobs, guess what? they want experience how do i know that? i read their ads they want someone who already has previous cleaning experience and won't hire anyone who doesn't has it. its not getting any better out there and i sure as hell am not interested in volunteering my bills comes first. if thats the case, why do ppl still suggest to volunteer? its dumb to say oh yea, our bills come first, then you redirect someone to go work for free.
most people can not afford to do that and i am one of those people who can not afford to do that either - just being honest. if this economy was great, yea i would volunteer for free. i would watch more tv if my mom wasn't so in awe of obama i am mostly on the computer or going out. however, i know my situation and my situation says you need an income, then you can go volunteer once everything is in place.
i know about the AZ humane society not telling me anything new. that shelter all they do is kill animals it got in the news about they killed a guy's cat when they promised to help the female cat and they killed her for no reason. she was wounded but didnt deserve to die. if i was him, id be suing since then humane society here doesn't have any nice customers towards them for what they did. their message about being a no kill shelter is misleading.
IT jobs, well, even for volunteering you need certifications and that i do not have. not like i am gonna get into the field even if i had certs because they are looking for tons and tons of experience in the field, i have over 17 yrs of experience not in the field but it is old technology. that many yrs outside of the field does not count because i was not getting paid and yea i was told this by the workshops and an IT manager at my ex college when i applied for a position with them as a student.
jobs fairs do nothing for me all they have is crummy jobs or jobs that i am nowhere near qualified for them. why go to them if they are not working for me? i need the workforce connection to pay for my certs too expensive for me and its thru the stimulus money for training, but you gotta jump thru so much hoops to get it! i was gonna do training this summer if i had everything done, now i cant get everything done because i have no means of transportation (i do, but need money for either gas or bus fare) plus doing a tour with these training schools.
everything out there consists of experience. i just got my degree 2 yrs ago ive applied to good paying ($10-13/hr) to low pay (min wage) and barely had any interviews. its so hard right now to even get to where i need to go because of lack of funds for my car.
the advice is i get is "your young, you got all of your years to work. wait until the economy gets better and you will have a job like everybody else!" can you believe that? these were professionals who told me that! it's not getting better, it is getting worse but that's my opinion.
i couldn't get a summer job this year, can ya believe that? i couldn't get one 2 yrs ago! i keep applying for holiday jobs and still get turned down. now, i have a better resume a functional and very confident about it i am still not getting calls. i get emails but it is not what i am seeking.
this whole job issues is an emotional rollercoaster for me and others too. holiday jobs are coming up, let's see if i am gonna get hired somewhere or not. not really easy to stay positive when it is not getting better. i mean i just want to be ahead of the game.....