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richardhutnik on 11 October 2011
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Ssenkahdavic said:
richardhutnik said:
Ssenkahdavic said:

I dont get it.  When I got out of school and couldnt find a career, I worked at the damn bookstore for $8.50 an hour until I found a well paying job.  It would have been more demeaning for me NOT to work, than to work for barely over minimum wage.  

One thing that can happen, with individuals who say have an advanced degree, is they go to work at a convenience store or book store, the person whio sees them with their degree will feel they are overqualified, and not hire them.  Things like that do happen.  It is life.

I had that happen to me too.  The first place I saw that was hiring (about the same salary) was looking for people in school and did not want me.  They have every right to not want me.  Was I happy about it? of course not, but I still kept looking and found a job.  Of course it happens, but to let that keep you from continuing to look is ridicoulous. 

Life is far more like backgammon than it is chess.  Some people like to operate under an operational belief that somehow, they can make every single right decision and hit the jackpot.  Things happen.  People can be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  But, there is still the demand to keep on trying.  A rule of luck is, the more you try, the more chances you take, and the more likely you are to find something.  Of course, one can also benefit from improving one's odds.  On the job front, that is done by improving skills, improving references, and improving one's network of who they know.  Still, nothing is guaranteed, even if you do that.