I have a bachelors of the arts, I am 31 and I only have experience in retail and food service.
I need a better paying job that won't make me want to kill myself.
What can I get into? I am short of ideas. I am a good worker.

>>33415085 (OP)
Get a trade. Sacrifice a few years now and live a decent life. You'll do something worth doing, socialise daily and get paid alright.

>>33415085 (OP)
I am thinking about going to the university to see if they are hiring anyone for any job on campus.

>>33415085 (OP)
It's not what you know, it's who you know. Go get to know someone who can get you a job you want, hope they like you enough to do so. No other way in this shitty economy.

>>33415224
I kind of know a few people but work is so slow they can't help me out much.

>>33415235
They don't like you enough to help. Sorry lil bro.

>>33415255
Explain in detail, you seem to be aware of the situation and the people involved.
Or you are talking out of your ass and don't know the situation.

You need 2+years of leadership experience with a master's degree before you can be offered an internship.
Or know someone, who do you know anon?

>>33415085 (OP)
People will post pictures like this when they really sat at home gooning and playing Siege.

>>33416447
I have almost always been working.
Just always putting off the dream job and working some dumb retail job. Now I need one that actually pays well.

>>33415085 (OP)
ever thought about going to law school?

>>33416507
I actually test well for law aptitude but I am too dyslexic for all the writing.
Can I understand legal concepts yes, just can't keep up with the reading and writing.

>>33415085 (OP)
KEK. I've been looking for work for about 11 months now and your picture made me laugh.

Trade school might be good for you. I think you can apply to local unions and see if they accept you. Then you get paid while getting trained and then you get a job making more than what you're making now. Then if you hate that you can make this thread again but with a higher salary.

>>33417259
The irony is that my friends who could help me are all union. What keeps them from helping me is union openings. I have friends in the union but the union is contacting not expanding so opportunities are shit.

The only option is none union work the thing is in this industry most private contactors want union members working off the books so it's a double fuck you.

>>33417283
Shit, I don't know then. If you're willing to move then that might open up more options. Otherwise I really only know my own field, which is IT. If you're half-decent with using Windows computers and pick up your CompTIA A+ certification, you'll be able to get an entry-level IT job. It would likely be help desk, which admittedly sucks, but you can quickly move into higher tiers of IT that shield you from a lot of the annoying work. If you do that, just be sure to not work at a managed-service provider (MSP) and don't do help desk if it requires you to support a bunch of remote users. Remote support sucks. If you're doing help desk it's much better to do it for a local company since it's much less stressful being able to directly walk up to a problem rather than having to potentially guide someone through solving it over the phone.

I gotta sleep now.

>>33415085 (OP)
Anything you want.

Except for a very few technical jobs, just about every "white collar" profession will consider just about every college graduate - THAT you graduated (which shows some ambition and discipline) matters more than WHAT you studied. Just as examples, you need no special academic training to work in banking, insurance, b2b sales, real estate, Wall Street, retail management, etc etc etc