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TopHat213 78 points ago +81 / -3

Full-time job? You will be lucky to get one of those in blue shithole states. As it stands, that is only reserved for the peons that served maybe a decade of their time on part-time labor to those who already have a degree.

I know of too many people that have at least 3 jobs just to barely get by. The crazy policies that the communist leadership have made acquiring a full time job significantly harder. Clearly this was by design.

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KekistanPM 47 points ago +49 / -2

As a blue city resident, I totally concur.

I know two liberals and one conservative who are jobless. The conservative is pissed that he got laid off from his last opportunity due to downsizing, and is job seeking with a passion. The two liberals don't seem motivated and they're also depressed. I've been nudging them both to take it seriously and look hard. One of them is now trying to get into a trade, the other one is still relying on a government service to find them one despite no success for almost six months. I'm trying to meet them in person to try to help them get out of their funk.

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Ben45 20 points ago +20 / -0

you sound like a good friend

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learntocode 17 points ago +18 / -1

Working as unskilled labor for someone w regular work as a mason, drywaller, roofer, painter, etc. is better money and waaaaaay more fun than soy-tier retail. You do have to stop being a little bitch though, so most modern Americans cant take it and prefer being service employees.

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Gnometard 6 points ago +6 / -0

Manufacturing is getting too woke. I'm thinking about finding my way into working with this stuff. I'm currently an industrial electrician so learning to wire a house shouldn't be a big leap.

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Destineed369 6 points ago +6 / -0

I disagree. I’m a chef. Restaurant work is service industry. Hotel work and convenience store work is service industry.

Trades usually involve the creation of more. House. Infrastructure etc. trades are a net positive (in addition to the fact skilled tradesmen make great money) where as service industry is just static economy.

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Dontdoxxxmeplease -10 points ago +2 / -12

Trades are a service You dumb mouth breather.

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learntocode 1 point ago +1 / -0

I am pretty dumb. I also can be correct on something from time to time. When a company builds a house for a client, they are performing a service but they are assembling and manufacturing a finished good on site. That is a special kind of "service" and thus placed in a special category apart from something that is purely a service with no tangible manufactured goods at the end. Plus, I didnt come up with labels but they seem to work, so whatever.

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Junionthepipeline 4 points ago +4 / -0

Liberals dont do well in trades.

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Destineed369 1 point ago +1 / -0

Except when trading for sex

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MuhFreeStuff 4 points ago +4 / -0

Get a job, get a house, get a coffin;

Don't stray from the path, remain where you at,

That maximizes our profit;

Is that blunt? Oh well, hell, so's this boot;

We live to hear you say "please don't shoot";

A pure delight, c'mon, make my night,

When I file reports what's right's what I write.

~ RTJ

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n3IVI0 1 point ago +1 / -0

It's sad. There were jobs everywhere under Trump. Now, those jobs are going away, because that's what Democrats do - give all the jobs to foreigners.

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ManateeRanMild 19 points ago +19 / -0

I am in the Soviet State of PA. Been a temp at a major company for 3.5 years with no sign of getting hired. No temps get hired, ever. We make up about 40% of the company's workforce. No sick days. No vacation. No 401k. No future. There are 2 other biotech companies in my area, and they only hire temps too. There are no permanent jobs.

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learntocode 15 points ago +16 / -1

Guys that build block walls, driver commercial vehicles, trim trees, pave roads, repair electric and plumbing, they have work, no? Go waste some time there. Same benefits package and you will learn skills that can carry you somewhere other than pointless office work.

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ManateeRanMild 15 points ago +15 / -0

I am a woman and weak as hell. I am a biochemist, so it's not office work. Given the chance, I would rather be a housewife. Trying to sock away some money so I can quit this BS. I was way happier as a stay at home mom.

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Farmerbob1 5 points ago +6 / -1

Have you considered moving? I would think biochemistry might be a useful skill in states with large farming communities, like Nebraska, Iowa, Montana, etc.

No clue what your specialty is though, or of it has overlap with pest control or crop yields.

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Pede3 1 point ago +1 / -0

I would say that outsourcing and importing tons of H1Bs (supply>>demand) drove wages down more than anything. People come from China newly married and go to grad school here, get their buddies to hire them at big pharma and bring the rest of their family to the US. Pharma is happy because they don't have to make any long term commitments/no severance or benefits and can obviously pay much less than a FTE. The FTE positions can go to PhDs in management. I was also fooled into thinking this would be a stable life, and have been spending the first half of my 40s working in an unrelated temp job without any future as well.

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Ktt8404 -2 points ago +4 / -6

Don’t use the “I am a woman and weak” excuse. Barring a medical condition there is no reason you can’t learn a trade like Commercial driving, or electrician. I drive trucks for Amazon until I get some more OTR experience and am more employable but I see several smaller women driving the big scary trucks.

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Fabius 4 points ago +4 / -0

This is the new way.

If you're white man and expecting to have some office career, you're fucked. It's all about "diversity" and women now. They pay them less, they treat them like shit, and unlike white men, they put up with it.

Learn a trade. Make money. Buy a house. Have a family.

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Romanfun61 3 points ago +3 / -0

And all the companies that do that type of work eventually get to the size of needing cubicle hamsters AKA pointless office workers. So unless you're a sole proprietor which by definition means you're not creating jobs office work is not pointless. Coming at you from the point of an RGN Heavy Haul truck driver.

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Ducki305 14 points ago +14 / -0

That sounds like Hewlett Packard. Over 40% are contractors with no benefits and shit pay. They won't even let contractors use the Hewlett Packard facilities like the employee gym.

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Pede3 1 point ago +1 / -0

If the temp workers are given the same access to benefits as a FTE, there are potential legal ramifications. They will try to argue that they are a regular employee if they have the same access. I heard this once when we couldn't let a contract worker even go to lunch with us (not HP).

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Major_Nutt 18 points ago +18 / -0

The entire way we handle employment in this country is bullshit. One shouldn't have to spill their entire life story, have a resume, and enter all of that information again online, just to bag groceries.

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Yeeticus 9 points ago +9 / -0

I’m applying to jobs right now and the number of employers asking for references with the initial application is too damn high. Giving out my personal info is one thing, but giving out the personal info of others in an initial app is sketchy. I’ve already had one place I applied to (who never contacted me) pass on my contact info to someone else without my permission. I don’t appreciate it.

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justicein2020 6 points ago +6 / -0

I'm also pretty sure some of those places turn around and sell your references contact info.

Because why wouldn't they? Ethics? lol!

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BadManOrange 6 points ago +6 / -0

References are a ton of horseshit anyway. I get it for an executive level position where people need to know that you're legit. However, anything else? Bunch of bullshit.

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Romanfun61 3 points ago +3 / -0

The only reference a person needs is there work history unless it's an entry level position. But that's why it's called an entry level position so you can build a work history.

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24601 7 points ago +7 / -0

Only legal citizens of the USA need to do all that...

If you want a real job, you need to renounce your USA citizenship and move to Central America... and then come back in through the open border as a "immigrant"

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operatorstorm712 2 points ago +2 / -0

Worse than that -- they can go check out your social media too. References are one thing (I don't mind giving them; they've been rather necessary in my profession along with background checks), but combing through your social media is something else.

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kyblugrass 13 points ago +15 / -2

The highlight of the Obama era economic and healthcare policies, creating regulations for markets that discourage offering any fulltime entry level work. The real entry level then required a Masters and 10 years pertinent job experience.

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Pede3 1 point ago +1 / -0

Many places require a PhD for scientists now. Supply>>demand.

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Transgirl_4_Trump 5 points ago +5 / -0

Yup. The goal is to make it impossible to have a wife and kids. Destroy God and destroy the family. After that, all else crumbles.