Job market does suck. I am blessed to hav emy job. But I can tell you I ran an ad in the paper for a Part-Time Accounting position (20 hours/week) at $12-$15/hour. I received 127 resumes! Included in them was many unemployed Bachelor's degrees and 3 people who were CPA's who were unemployed!!! Made me more thankful to have my job more than ever.
We are hiring right now....3 artists, one designer, and one programmer. www.feverpitchstudios.com DaDakota
DaDakota, That's my dream job right there! Either as a designer or programmer in the game industry! And the job is in Austin! I'll be sending you some email when I get home late tonight from work. This is the type of job that I would give away my Rockets tickets and move to Austin in a heartbeat for. B
I had a buddy who was an EE at Rice, then got a master's degree in EE from Stanford. He couldn't find a job until 2 months after graduating with his masters. You're not the only one having trouble with the job search. It's brutal. With corporate IT budgets where they are, that's just not an area that's looking to hire.
Hehe, I'm talking about the Radiography and Nursing fields. 2 years for both. Nursing is more responsiblity and more work but you start around 40 and can make up to 60. If you go and get a masters of nursing, 2 more years, in a CRNA program, or nursing pract., its anywhere from 80-120k. Radiography starts at around 35-38k, but the responsiblity is lower, lower stress(especially Nuclear medicine and it pays 50k but requires 1 more year), many different fields to work in. Hcc has a program for both, Ben Taub has an xray school thats easy to get into but I think its closing down soon. If you just want money, you can get paid the PRN rate with no benefits...Radiography is around $25-33/hr and nursing is anywhere from $33-40/hr. ...overtime really brings in the cash! Anyways I hope this helps.
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Come work for Uncle Sam! Here's the General Job Board... http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a.htm and here's the IT Job Board... http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/a14.htm and here's all the jobs in Texas... http://www.usajobs.opm.gov/alpha/a8ntxa.htm
Yeha, I'm having trouble as well. I thought a UT degree would be a receipt for a 50K a year job. Wrong. I had one interview with a NE financial company here in Austin. Thought it went well, but they haven't called back and I don't want that job enough to call and ask why they haven't called. I'm probably gonna get into real estate. Monster isn't helping me out at all and the competition is stiff.
when I graduated, a UT degree was an automatic receipt for a 50K+ job... i still can't believe how lucky i was to be as well paid as I was for a 22 year old... at least i saved well, unlike many of my contemporaries, and have been able to survive extremely comfortably since January.
drapg, a UT business degree stil goes far. Thoese people get recruited, while I try to fight for an interview. Austin job market sucks. Maybe I should start my own ad agency or something?
maybe its just us CS people? so many CS people are entering the job market... and so many programmers are getting laid off... it sucks b/c i know many managers who have taken demotions/pay cuts to become regular programmers again... there's nothing left for those of us with 2-3 years experience! ah well, guess I'll watch some more CNN and surf the web! i'm really starting to despise recruiters. I've been contacted by so many about jobs around the nation, but they never follow through... i call them over and over and over, but nothing gets done. they tell me that "i'll get right on it." but they never do. i think they're probably swamped with more experienced programmers right now.
drapg, at least you have a degree and experience in a technical field. I'm basically a waiter with an advertising degree. Maybe I should look into the restaurant business, I don't know. Or maybe I should teach for a bit. Anyone know how hard it is to become a teacher?
Not to mention those of us who just graduated. I graduated with a CS degree in May and I haven't even gotten the slightest sniff of a job possibility. I'd like to say that I have sent out hundreds of resumes, but I haven't because about 2% of all the jobs I see in my field don't require at least 2 years experience. Us new grads are getting hung out to dry.
i know what you mean Raven Lunatic... I graduated in 2000, have 2 years experience, but all the upper management and extremely seniored people are taking the jobs meant for guys like me! so people like me are forced to take jobs that are meant for entry level people. i feel for ya man!
i've considered that too. but i don't think i could be happy living on a teacher's salary. sure it sounds selfish and greedy, but its truthful.
Me neither. But it could be a stopgap type job for now. I think some teachers start at 30 K. I can live with that, for now. Not sure I can deal with kids these days, especially since I still look like a high-schooler.
Since the idea of this BBS forming some sort of Utopian society has come up before, and since someone even made a concrete suggestion that we colonize the new pseudo-planet beyond Pluto, I say we form a agricultural commune of some sort. M'kay?
