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I cannot find a decent job.

Posted by anonymous at July 22, 2011
Tags: Job  2011 July

I have had a good life. I am very smart and good looking. I got a scholarship to study at University. Have a Master degree in mathematics (yeah, i said i was smart). I speak 3 languages. I graduated in 2006, and since then the only jobs i have gotten are secretarial jobs. I know that when out there there is some many people with no job at all, i should be grateful to have even this kind of jobs, but i cannot. I busted my ass to get my degree, and i feel so embarrassed to tell my friends that i am receptionist. I have stayed away from most of them, since i cannot stand to hear their work stories. Most of them are not getting rich, but at least get up every day WANTING to go to work. I get jobs like this, and I take them because hey "anything legal and decent is better than unemployment", but a couple of months later I start feeling depressed, I have a very hard time getting up in the morning, start gaining weight. Until one day either I quit, or i am doing my job so wrong that i get let go. And then i get optimistic again, i start doing exercise, sending my CV, etc. Until i get no money left, and then i take a job clerical job, again. Which after some months ends up the same way.
I just cannot get a job that has to do with my career and meets my potential, and needs, and where i will possibly grow.
During my studies one time i got depressed bit time. The doctors recommended that I take a year off and live with my parents while i was in medication. It help then, but i cannot go through that again. And when i am in these jobs, i can feel like I am starting again.
I am getting older, and it will get harder and harder to get "my first job", at least the first in my area. All people my age already have some experience. I wont even be taken as trainee. Damn, i have offered a couple of times to work unpaid the first 6 months, at least to get the XP in my CV, but that is "against company policy".

I just want a job that i can keep without fear that the world will colapse around me.

My family, my teachers, headhunters etc, they all tell me that i am so smart and that i have a very good resume, and very good opportunities. But the reality is that i just dont get the job. It feels like the whole world thinks i should get a good job, but just not from them.

PS. Please dont comment that i am a cry baby. I have worked very hard since i was a teenager to be a mathematician. And I know that other people have it harder than I do, I dont need to be told that right now.


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By anonymous at 10,Sep,11 17:17

hey.. dont worry... there will be a time when u r in demand. Thanks to recession , we are all in similar shit. But wait for ur time. Ur patience wil be rewarded. u wil have ur day.. just be patient and confident


By anonymous at 11,Sep,11 00:33

dude I am in the same situation. I am an underemployed math grad who works as a teacher making $45/hr and works min wage 30 hours/week making $10.25. morale of the story, get your foot in the door and make it happen. what languages do you speak? I speak two and could learn a few more if I wanted.

they always need people who make $15/.hour like nurses, personal support workers, or min wage night shift people. too many people work 2 jobs to succeed in the one they want as a career


By anonymous at 11,Sep,11 13:31

Well guess what looks dont matter unless you sell your body and brains dont matter at all when all the jobs are going to China where people and the environment can be exploited.


By anonymous at 11,Sep,11 18:37

What about university lecturer, you have a master degree and sure it means a lot in your cv.


By anonymous at 12,Sep,11 23:59

Join the club. There are many, many people out there in your position. Working at jobs just to get by, making much less money than they should because afterall everyone has to pay bills and put food on the table and gas in the car. That's the reality of today's economic situation. Sad.


By anonymous at 10,Apr,12 10:59

I was feeling the same way, i only have a master in physics but speak also 3 languages and i'm pretty good , sadly we are in some sort of limbo , not enough experience to go into communications or subjects related with litterature (even though we both know those are piece of cake) and not enough down to earth subjects like engineering or economics as to produce something out of the abstract thought .. well, at least is that how i see it, you are not the only one in the situation though, if you want to be a professor at a university then not only your degree matters but also number of publications and people you know.. the thing is that I guess fo everything you need to develop personal skills, that they don't teach you at math and had to start by yourself, good luck on that..im on the same track


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