I've been looking since I graduated from b-school in June 2009. Getting my MBA was the worst investment decision in my life. My net worth went from +$125K to -$70K in debt in 3 years. I'm not really sure what I am going to do when I run out of money, which will be a few months from now. Either I live off my parents or become homeless.
2 months. Summer vacation, between graduating/getting my teacher certification and the beginning of the school year. Two very tense months, because if you're not employed by September, you're in deep kim chi for the rest of the school year. Fortunately, I lucked into a GREAT teaching position, which I occupy to this day.
Been out of work since February. I've been working for the Census off and on since March. Prior to that I've always been employed since a few months before I finished college.
i quit a good paying job last summer...I dont plan on working anywhere anymore. Feels good not to be bossed around. Im not good with taking orders.
Started my first real job at 19 when I got my first IT gig. Worked as a contractor for a year, so I'd have a little time in between contracts but never more than a week (this was 1999 - the good old days.) At age 20 I started working as a full-time salary employee, and I haven't been unemployed for a day since. Been at my current job for 5 years now and feel extremely fortunate to be where I'm at.
i've been very fortunate that my number is 0 days (if we're not including summers during college or high school). had a job when i graduated college and major hired me about five months after that. worked that job and got an office job as well about five years later which i've been at for five years now. just got a nice raise/promotion, so things are going pretty awesome. i do realize how lucky i've been!
I bet everybody that decided to go to grad school in 2007 is kicking themselves right now, myself included. When these mysterious jobs do come back from wherever they went, I'm willing to bet they go to newly minted bachelors degrees first, then newly minted post-grad degrees, then those with post-grad degrees that got them in the down years. I'm finding any professional certification I can get my hands on until then. Finding some way to stay "fresh" is going to be our biggest challenge. my kids are definitely going to trade-school.
16 months but I had severance and some fat savings from a business I ran on the side for several years. In fact, I didn't even seriously look for another job for over a year after I got laid off.
Everybody wasn't spoon fed growing up. I know my dad made me start working when I was 15 and I lived in a nice suburban house. I'm talking at least 20 hours a week too. I bought just about everything I "wanted", but that's just how my parents went about things.
I started work at 18 but my brother started at 14 because my mom stopped buying his video games. It was if you want to spend the money you will earn it.
It depends if you consider Beaumont the country. I bummed rides to my job at the car wash until I turned 16, then alternated bumming rides and borrowing the one of parents' cars until I bought my own. I'd think it would be easier to work at 15 if you lived in a bigger city, as there's better transit and more minimum wage jobs within walking/bicycle distance. (Although I did bike to work a few times.)
Hey, McDonald's hires 15 year olds. I use to love that job...free McDonalds food at 15 with a few hundred bucks here and there? "What could be better?"
