U.S. woman has submitted 1,862 job applications to no avail

finance.yahoo.com...

This is pretty crazy. I feel so bad for this woman. She cannot get a job for the life of her! She spends 4 hours a day over the past 3 years doing job applications.

The article states that she claims government benefits, but those too are apparently are being targeted for reduction. Are people in this situation just going to starve to death homeless on the street?

Is this the typical dilemma of most Americans today? Have any of you been caught in this vortex of unemployment and cannot escape?

Usually in situations like these she is being picky. She's a secretary and an old one at that so she isn't that marketable in an overcrowded field.

She probably is too proud to take a job at mcdonalds and would rather live off the government.

She get's no sympathy from me whatsoever.

she should come to england... we give away houses, money and free health care to people from all over the world..
she doesnt need a visa or permit.. just turn up at our door, saying she is being persecuted in her own country and is afraid to go back... and we will give her a life of relative luxury free of charge, courtesy of the british taxpayer..

reply to post by kro32


I strongly doubt even Maccas is going to give a 60 year old woman a job

I am sorry for her, but sending out a million resumes online is no substitute for going out and knocking on doors. It is no substitute for networking and no substitute for making one to one personal contact. She needs to get up off her rear end and go out the door. Let me put it this way. The word has already gotten out in my industry that I am leaving my current position in October. They even know that the reason I am leaving is due to TSA BS. I am being "headhunted" and contacted by recruiters constantly even though I AM NOT LOOKING FOR A JOB. The work is there, the money is there if you have a skill that is in demand.

Originally posted by bluemirage5
reply to post by kro32

 

I strongly doubt even Maccas is going to give a 60 year old woman a job

Not true. When I was in college, I worked as an MIT and rose to second assistant at a McD's. Teenagers and the elderly were the main demographic of the majority of our workforce.

She is probably waiting for a job that gives her the same thing she had before but doesn't realize she may have to lower her standards.

And your right, she sounds lazy spending only 4 hours a day at a computer? Get serious.

She should be in community college improving her skillset at the very least instead of mooching of her friends. And don't tell me she couldn't be waitressing or washing dishes to pay for it.

She is lazy

She should just create her own job, doing something she likes.

reply to post by sonofliberty1776


Those days are gone. If Maccas had a choice of dozens of young applicants v a 60 year old....they are going to take a youngin.

reply to post by bluemirage5


Your wrong on this. They like older people since they are more reliable and tend to stay longer and not quit cause their boyfriend/girlfriend broke up with them or stupid stuff like that.

Tell her to recycle scrap metal or mail envelopes from home,sell water on the street,

Originally posted by Misterlondon
she should come to england... we give away houses, money and free health care to people from all over the world..
she doesnt need a visa or permit.. just turn up at our door, saying she is being persecuted in her own country and is afraid to go back... and we will give her a life of relative luxury free of charge, courtesy of the british taxpayer..

Hey mind if I join?

I use to teach Employment Skills at
a community college. Sending all those
applications will do absolutely nothing
if you don't follow up with phone calls
and or go to the place with the opening
in person. You just have to do the
calling and leg work. I know that can
be difficult but over the years of helping
find employment for graduates or other
people I have found it works best.

Tariff!

We need tariff's yesterday...especially for service oriented jobs.
You use some 3rd world nation for your tech support line or coding, expect to pay a crapload of money to uncle sam.

Got to figure out a way to keep jobs here...no, turning into a 3 dollar a day poverty nation is not a option.

Oh, wow, she should lower her standards and accept 12 hour shifts making 50 cents to buy a rat she can eat...

get the f out of here with that attitude

I don't know...I don't want to judge.
I know how it USED to be, but things have changed lately.

I have been seeing jobs for people with BSN and MSN degrees, wanting experience, and paying 8.00 a hour.

There's hardly any job offerings locally for people without college degrees. It's really screwy, because you can have very skilled, very, very competent people without degrees!

reply to post by SaturnFX


You skyrocket tarriffs and company's just locate their whole operation overseas...need to think things through before you speak.

And if this lady doesn't lower her standards than she will continue sucking the lifeforce out of U.S. taxpayers.

Originally posted by hadriana
I don't know...I don't want to judge.
I know how it USED to be, but things have changed lately.

I have been seeing jobs for people with BSN and MSN degrees, wanting experience, and paying 8.00 a hour.

There's hardly any job offerings locally for people without college degrees. It's really screwy, because you can have very skilled, very, very competent people without degrees!

But employers don't know that skill and seeing a college degree shows them some things. It shows that you have the ability to put your mind to something and see it through to the finish. It means you should have the basic skillset's that getting a degree requires and it means your motivated.

If this lady doesn't have a degree, which we don't know, then she is purely out of luck.

Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by SaturnFX

 

You skyrocket tarriffs and company's just locate their whole operation overseas...

Good...perfect...excellent...that is the goal
Then tariff them when they try to import their crap

You honestly think if a company leaves for greener pastures in cambodia, there won't be someone else that jumps in their shoes and keeps the work local?

There is more than one person whom knows how to sell a pizza...you don't need a mega corp to do it all...it will be the return of small town businesses.

And a demise of walmart inferior chinese crap.

Tariff...Tariff today!

Read the article. I wonder how she targeted her 1,862 job appications? the article doesn't say, but I think it is safe to say her approach isn't working. Like Einstein said, the definition of "insanity" is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Both the examples in this story are of women pushing sixty, probably the most unemployable demographic ever, though teenagers might be worse. And also, neither have marketable skills. One woman was an "administrative assistant.' at $70K per year. What's that? The problem is that it is not definable. It could be anything and there is intense competition.

This also shows what happens when people rely on government to bail them. Then government can't handle the load, so you blame government. It could happen to anyone, of course. There are no guarantees, and even if you planned for yourself, you could have planned wrong. However, I see no evidence for either one of these people that they did anything but spend all they earned and figure life would go on forever like that. There was no backup plan, no alternative.

If there is any lesson at all here of a realistic nature, it is that one ought not to rely on government for anything. You can go around claiming government "should" do this or that, but if the bottom line is that they won't or can't, you're left with the consequences. The government is more broke than these two people; it's just tghat the government and Congress are in denial of it.

An example around my place is the Indian tribes. Dependent on the BIA for decades, most reservationbs were dismall places where crime, suicide, and alcoholism were high, everyone was on government assistance, and the future was bleak. Then came the casino movement. (Yeah, I know that is a mixed blessing.) But what happened? The tribes suddenly had their own money--lots of it. They gained business sense and opened up everything from seven-elevens. In one case here they bought up a bankrupt golf course they had vehemently opposed for pennies on the dollar. Now being a tribal member gets you a fine income. The tribes are a part of the greater community, wield economic and political force, and are a force to be recognized.

The turnaround in economic development, education (free college for all the kids) is amazing, and it took place in less than a generation. The difference? Economic self-sufficiency and a weaning of the tribes off government assistance. With an attitude change and some hard work the two tribes around here have turned the tables. IMO that's the kind of attitude shift we need to do as citizens. If we choose to work for corporations and governments, we'd darn well better have a Plan B in place in case it all falls apart.

Hm. This makes me a little leery of coming back to the US.

Although, I have never in my life gone to apply for a job and NOT gotten the job. NEVER.

I looked on Craigslist looks like there are plenty of jobs. Are there like eight million applicants for each job?

Ah, even so, I will win, cause I've got TIGER BLOOD!