[ladytiger]

Hello. I am almost at my job for a year and have been thinking on the possibility of relocating to Las Vegas. My sister is in North Vegas, she has been telling me about jobs and how I could get a job in the school district. She was telling me about jobs with the colleges as they are wanting 3-5 years of experience which is something I don't have.

She told me I could get a job in IT, not sure about that since I don't have a lot of IT experience behind me just a little bit from my current job. I have a lot of customer service experience on my resume more than technical, but I do need more skills. I want to stay working in a college environment if possible I love working in that kind of environment.

Sister told me there's jobs available unlike AZ which is true; very hard to find any job in AZ. I was in LV back in 96 when I was 10, of course economy has really changed. I am on linkedin joined some LV groups to make connections and get info from professionals that can give me some ideas as to employment and cost of living. I would love it if a company can relocate me and pay for housing temporary until I get the income to pay it myself.

I gotta finish this later going to work.

[CANDC]

lady tiger,
I don't know how much your sister knows about labor market, but I would look at unemployment rate of Las Vegas 7.3%
https://www.google.com/search?source...ate&gws_rd=ssl

that is up from 5% in 2008. They still have not recovered from the slow down.

One thing to watch out for is your sister being objective or does she have a vested interest in you moving there? Sounds like she is glamorizing IT. It is very competitive and people are begging for jobs in some locales with plenty of experience.

A friend made a 3-5 year plan with their current job to beef up the savings account 5000-10,000 dollars before moving in case things took a dive. They also planned to establish network connections with prospective employers ahead of time.

Sounds like you are happy where you are. Honestly what you mentioned does not sound like a resume that is ready to dive into IT in my opinion after talking with IT professionals as clients for 20 years.

Be careful of a whitewashing by your sister. Her need may outweigh her knowledge of the IT market.

[ladytiger]

That is true. She told me that jobs start at over 10/hr she and her kids just moved down there 2-3 months ago she is much older than me and still looking for work. I'm not really happy, what happiness? l Don't see why you had to jump to conclusions over a person's emotions you know nothing about! AZ with its lack of resources, so called low unemployment (that I don't believe, still hard to find any work here, etc.) I wanted to leave AZ a few years to another state for work. Oh guess what? All I have to do is pack my stuff and drive down to my sister's - see simple as that at least I could stay with her and find work that's what she told me - it was her offer.

Yep, I don't see myself catching up in IT because of not having any backed up experience in the past not like that's my fault I was still working on a degree when **** came down in 08! I wanted to go back to Cali (originally from) they got a bigger issue, craziness, drought issues, etc they haven't been hiring for a long time. I know a guy who I used to work with took a job in Pasadena; he got the job from a friend who worked there who was able to help him out. I am not sure how much IT experience he has, but he got a really good job offer and found out he got a promotion pretty quick.

My sister wants me to be closer to her, much closer to her I haven't seen her since 02. There's IT jobs in AZ but this state isn't an in demand state like CA and NY when it comes to IT jobs. There's nobody else here as far as "family" brother is in CO and that's even more expensive! Housing is cheaper in NV which I can see why my sister chose it as she told me she wanted to go back to CA, you need serious income. She wasn't gonna go to the South where her soon to be ex hubby is from, and definitely not the East Coast again too expensive.

That's like saying you can't go be near your sister! Anyway, this is why I am doing research. I didn't say I was gonna leave tomorrow and be hired in another state just looking at my options.

[*Laurie*]

Ha, just don't come to California...needing serious income is right. This state is so expensive, it's like real estate developers are trying to make the entire state Hollywood-land.

[emijec]

Northern California is tough too with all the Silicon Valley people pushing everyone out, drought doesn't help with the wine industry, government jobs don't exist unless you are related to someone that already works there. it's terrible

[TerriLynn]

Texas has jobs. All those California jobs are coming here too!