Thread 60714252

>Spend 4 years working for an IT degree I don't really want
>Cant land a job in the field i studied for
>Try to settle for minimum wage jobs
>Rejected from White castle
>Rejected from Dunkin Donuts
>Warehouse Jobs are crickets
It's actually over for me isn't it? Should I just kill myself or is there any actual hope left for me?

>>60714252 (OP)
How about working?

>>60714266
>How about working
Im trying man

>>60714252 (OP)
you're a fucking lazy NEET, go to work you faggot

>>60714252 (OP)
You're aiming too low. You need to go apply for a job a technician for a bug company. It's not glamorous, but it's pretty comfy. Drive around and spray insecticide on some houses, clean up some spider webs. Collect a paycheck.

>>60714252 (OP)
become a cybercriminal

>>60714252 (OP)
>gig jobs

>>60714290
IT isn’t coding lol

>>60714252 (OP)
No it's not over. Pic rel.
This happened to you because boomers saturated the market with jeets instead of passing the baton on to their children. A lot has to do with luck and it has also gotten really bad lately, my whole work place has been infiltrated by them.
>be me 10 years ago
>most of the way through IT degree
>oh fuck oh fuck it's not a real degree no internship call backs and job listings are shit
>*bright idea*
>put "CS IT" on resume
>get engineering job
>larp as cybersecurity
>10 years of economic bull run

>>60714252 (OP)
what's wrong with you aesthetically?

>>60714252 (OP)
The job market is just crap for most people right now. It’s not only you.

I would say look for contract roles or try to get into freelancing. The application / interview process for traditional employment has become so cumbersome and a waste of your time that I would say to not even participate, unless you enjoy spending all day tweaking your resume to get past the company’s ATS system and then getting strung along for 5 rounds of interviews per position only to get your inbox flooded with emails that contain the following phrases:
>after careful consideration
>at this time
>Unfortunately,

>>60714290
IT support doesn’t program at all. They’re the ones that you call when your printer doesn’t work or whatever.

>>60716796
>quoting a domestic terrorist, top kek.

>>60717028
they call you a antisemite but they don't call you wrong

>>60716993
All you need to do IT support is an A+ cert. LMAOing at OP if he spent 4 years studying for what he could have in 2 months.

I fucking hate this place. I wrote up a huge detailed post and the system called it spam. I reformatted in ChatGPT and it still got called spam.
This isn’t as good but it gets the general point across.

>>60714252 (OP)
>4 year degree in IT
Holy shit you what? You got into debt for fucking IT?

>>60717445
what do they even teach you, how to plug in a monitor or something?

>>60717453
I imagine the finals is just one open ended question where the answer is "turn off and turn back on"

On point 9. I’m saying the manager likely will duck you if you just say “I’m here to apply” so if you want to get face to face with them you should just find any employee and tell them “I was in the other night and I wanted to talk to the manager about it”.
That will get them in front of you, then give your pitch.
If they deflect and say “well I’m not the hiring manager” ask when they’re in.
If they’re still playing games you have two options
1. You can just bounce because if they’re going this out or their way to avoid hiring then they’re probably toxic and the architects of their own misfortune anyway.
2. Say you understand they’re busy and that you’d like to leave your resume with them and they can reach out if they need you.

As a disclaimer some restaurants are seasonal so they may be entering either a contracting or expansive phase with hiring.
When you interview you should ask the manager if the restaurant is seasonal and if so can they describe the seasonality to you.
If you’re working on mostly tips you don’t want to be filling the shoes of people who left when all the meat came off the bone and walk into the slow season.

>>60717473
>>60717434
You do any of that, they will tell you to apply online, then they will outright deny you because you were dumb enough to go into apply when it is clearly online.

>>60717478
Are you legitimately retarded?

>>60714252 (OP)

Lie on your resume

>>60714252 (OP)
You can't find a job because the market is global now, you're still trying to compete in your backyard instead of looking abroad alongside it.

>>60714301
Get nerve damage from chronic pesticide exposure.

>>60714252 (OP)

You can work for me.
What skills do you bring?

>>60714252 (OP)
You're basically competing against desperate CS grads who can't find coding jobs and who have a hundred different IT certs

>>60717785
And minimum wage jobs are much harder to get now since those places get a ton of applicants

>>60717577
You also get nerve damage from being too poor to eat.

>>60714252 (OP)

and apparently the unemployment is low.... what a load of bullshit their "data" really is.

>>60717486
No you are.
>>60717478
Correct if u bother the manager with stupid questions like CAN I APPLY IM HERE FOR LE JOB you will be denied. finding a job is just a wage humiliation ritual. This world is so cruel, thank god I retired before 30.

>>60717434
>>60717473
chatgpt forgot the most important part. a firm handshake and some strong eye contact. you're just not getting hired if you don't do this part perfectly.

>>60717939
I’m a manager

>>60714252 (OP)
Everyone is a scared loser nowadays looking for a safe and secure job.
You can make your own business or you can buy Bitcoin.

>>60718016
I'm a business owner. So yes, I have a large disdain for wagies in general.

>>60718049
I don’t care. The thread is for helping this nigga get a job

I just pulled the ethernet cable out of my computer when the interviewer asked me why I don't have a degree. The interview was going poorly anyways and felt like an interrogation. Fuck it guess I'll never get a job if they're all going to go this way

>>60718349
Good you have to control the narrative. I bombed a technical interview and while they were pretty nice an encouraging about it, I realize now in hindsight I should have halted the technical stuff they were asking that I didn't know and said what my skillset is instead. Then they could choose to listen or end it, but it wouldn't have wasted both of our time.

>>60718382
Yep I think my new strategy is going to be to just be blunt and straightforward no matter what. I never do well in situations where I have to lie on the spot or put on a fake persona, (I am a terrible actor who also gets stage fright) so from now on if it feels like the interview is going poorly im just going to end it early either by disconnecting or getting up in the middle of an interview and leaving (which is awkward, but less awkward than sitting through a bad interview.)

>>60718396
Yeah be blunt and don't overthink, fricken rules to life I need to remind myself of it too. I once unintentionally bluffed a job offer in my favor by heavily implying I had a competing offer, but it was really just me poorly describing my current work situation.
Though that was well before the technical interview became lamestream. I'm probably fucked now and would focus only on non and semi technical roles just because I can't be assed to do some gay coding challenge.

>>60714252 (OP)
>working for an IT degree I don't really want
Well there's a big part of your problem.
I can't really blame you for that, but employers look for new grads who are interested in a topic, not new grads who just gritted their teeth to get a degree in a subject they hate because they heard it can pay.

But there's been some changes in how H-1B visas are going to be allocated going forward, so you might end up losing the competition from the low-wage Poojeet crowd soon.

>>60716993
Isn't that something teenagers do on the side? How is this a real job?

xAI
Outlier.ai
Stellar AI
DataAnnotation
Alignerr
Appen if you can tolerate dogshit pay.

>>60718110
>nigga
fucking kill yourself idiot
low IQ normalfaggots like yourself are a disgusting cancer in the body of progressive society

>>60718349
>>60718382
>>60718456
>>60718396
these retards are pretty funny to read about
please never reproduce though, one of your spawn will accidentally launch a nuke trying to shove spaghetti back into his pockets

>>60719865
Oh man!

>>60714252 (OP)
>apply for clerk job with usps
>no interview to get in, just online personality test
>work 2 years, maybe less if in a shit area, as bottom tier wagie for ~$21/hr
>automatically become career, work a year for $26/hr
>apply for remote IT positions
>have le experience for hr roasties
>get a private industry job or just stay in comfy remote position doing fuck-all and getting a pension

>>60717028
>le Ted is bad
Can't wait for Shaniqua to smother you in the retirement home gramps

>>60714252 (OP)
>Spend 4 years working for an IT degree I don't really want
>Cant land a job in the field i studied for
>an IT degree I don't really want
That's why you can't find a job in the field. The days of people studying IT just for a high paying job when they have no genuine interest in the field is over, and it was only a thing for like 10 years at the most.
If you want to work in IT you need to at least feign genuine interest. Hiring managers can sniff out people who only know what they learned in school vs those who read ISO documents for fun.

>>60714252 (OP)
What was your focus in "IT" in school?

>>60714252 (OP)
bump

>>60723661
I got hired for a shitty low pay IT job, for only $24 an hour. I was told it's a "one-man show." I will probably be working with a bunch of mexican and black customer service reps. I start monday.

>>60714252 (OP)
>>Cant land a job in the field i studied for
The "in my field" thing is a meme. It's only real at companies with at least 100 employees.
Just list your skill sets and apply for any job vaguely relevant.
I studied Graphic Design.
My job for the last two years has been a mix of web dev, IT, video editor, and graphic design.
A sidejob I quit this winter was literally just IT and I wanted to blow my brains out. I had no qualifications for it, I was just trusted by the employer (not anymore, whoops) and happened to be more tech savvy than all the other employees.

>>60724151
>I was just trusted by the employer (not anymore, whoops)
lmao based

>>60714252 (OP)
Just brush up sql on mode.com and apply to insurance companies for data analyst. This industry has so many stupid roles for this shit and you can just Say you were a personal assistant working in an SQL capacity for a family friend to bullshit work experience. As long as you can show technical competence, they don't give a shit.
There's also AI data annotation monkey but that shit is mind numbing

>>60724186
I'm gonna do this if the mexican IT position doesn't work out :o

>>60717478
A restaurant that isn't a fast food chain isn't going to tell you to apply online. That's probably the one industry you still show up in person to ask if they're hiring.