Thread 83036587

How is the job hunt going, /r9k/?

>>83036587 (OP)
Still working for the railroad as I have been for seven years now.

>>83036587 (OP)
whats the actual meta now? just die? I'm about to go back to college and I want to get something actually useful

>>83036636
Trademaxxing rather than college, see >>83036629

>>83036640
If you graduated college 7 years ago you could be makes 300k/yr now. New grads are getting ass fucked now, they weren't a couple years ago.

>>83036682
>If you graduated college 7 years ago you could be makes 300k/yr now.
You "could" but you wouldn't. The vast majority of college grads never made that kind of money.

>>83036629
All the live-long day?

>>83036737
Any cs grad who put in an ounce of effort did. What do you actually do for your job on the railroad?

>>83036636
>whats the actual meta now
Riding out the storm. Hoping it gets better. Acquiring more credentials for when the market bounces back.

So glad I can't afford anything but much worse now

>>83036629
JohnHenrymaxxin

>>83036769
>Any cs grad who put in an ounce of effort did.
Cute meme, but no. The vast majority did not. And not because they don't work, but because there just aren't that many jobs that pay that much.

>>83037052
You were late to gold rush, it's okay anon. I was too. Now we're fucked.

>>83036797
why do people think like this? the world has been getting more hostile since 2008. we got a break during the pandemic because the government decided to baby us

>>83037067
No, anon, there was no period where "every cs grad who put in effort" was making 300k per year. A few high earners were, and immediately spending it on the insane cost of living in Silicon Valley. The vast majority of computer science graduates, no matter how skilled, were never making that kind of money. I genuinely hope you aren't stupid enough to take /g/ memes at face value, but if you were, then you weren't "late" to any gold rush because you never would have been one of those lucky few anyways.

>>83037081
Whatever helps you sleep at night lul

>>83037081
not the other anon, but cs grad living in a tier 3 city and you're right. Shoot people making 200k after a decade are rare here. Never really interested in living in one of those big cities that all the fags who wanted to work in big tech flocked too.

>>83036636
Accepting that you will be poor and own nothing seems like the most popular build.

>>83037081
>>83037129
Idk how much of a silver spoon you were born with but six figs of any kind is incredibly rich in my view. I was always at the top of my class and I'll never get a good job.

>>83037151
I agree anon. I actually have always been underpaid relative to other software people for this reason. When I got my first job I was so excited I was making money I didn't complain if everyone else was making more.
I didn't break 6 figures for years into my career since if I could afford a place to stay where I could sleepy comfily and video games, I was pretty happy with what they paid me.

overall private employers added 42,000 jobs in October. which suggests that bullshit jobs were lost but good jobs were gained.
42,000 isn't great and one hopes they weren't simply handed out to jeets. I concede.

>>83036587 (OP)
I am currently working at a warehouse/vendor of sorts for deli meat. Want to go to something else since the pay is $1+ above minimum wage where I live.
Applied to entry level jobs. Haven't heard anything back from them in weeks. Applied to Sam's club and within a week get the email that says " At this time we have decided not to move forward with your application."

>>83037238
kek it's so fucked it's unreal. If you're not an iqmaxxed competent stemfag it's over for you. Tradies are still doing alright but fuck that, "tradie just" means trading your body for betabuxx cash.

>>83036587 (OP)
been unemployed ever since i moved back to my home country for family reasons. 18 months, thousands of applications. not even fast food wants me. considering just roping atp

>>83036587 (OP)
I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour
But heaven knows I'm miserable now
I was looking for a job and then I found a job
And heaven knows I'm miserable now

type shit

>>83037260
It's honestly either just signing up for the military or doing some trade job.
>If you're not an iqmaxxed competent stemfag it's over for you.
I think the its oversaturated in that field. even if i wanted to do something thats skill based it'll probably get taken by AI in a few years.

>>83037395
No, no way. Idk about any other trades but there was an anon who said he got into trucking and was making 70k a year as a 33 year old ex-neet.

>>83037364
damn dude, how old ARE you
/51 year old here

>>83036636
The Trump effect just keeps working.

>>83037682
The rate of inflation in Groceries has been cut off, but they're not going down

>>83037802
12-month inflation for 2024->2025 was already at 3% under Biden. I've seen you post this dozens of times coping because your guy couldn't fix anything, but cmon man lol.

>>83036629
Paul Bunyun lookin' ahh

>>83037831
Report this subhuman for political advertising

>>83037963
All I am advertising is the inflation rate under the last guy

>>83036636
The new meta seems to be to get a visa and live in a low cost of living country while working remotely in the US.

>>83036587 (OP)
Had an art job since 2018, just finished a second children's book for someone, probably gonna try and make my own project now that I don't have a retarded foid gf eating up all my resources and ruining my weekends.

>>83036640
>Millions trademaxx
>Trades wages drop

>>83038041
>I am advertising
K*LL

>>83037081
If you could have made a decent living in your hometown with it then it was gold. Now this doesn't exist anymore

>mfw going to college next september and will finish just in time for the coming recession to finally end and be on the upswing

bubble pop & recession in 2-3 years
RETVRN to normalcy in 4-5

>>83036587 (OP)
>since 2003
what the fuck happened in 2003?