If you apply to 759 jobs and get 0 is it you or the jobmarket?

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I bet she just sucks, honestly. Just a mindless drone who lacks the capability to seperate herself from the herd. Lots of people like her, none of them will ever "get it".
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What a shameful attitude! I bet she's just fine.

I don't know how useful a marketing degree is, but the same scenario is being repeated, many times, for people of nearly all backgrounds. Especially in the sciences and engineering (as I described above) where job offers have been fairly rare for the past decade to new entrants.
 
Quote from KINGOFSHORTS:

She is 29, Graduated in 07 making her 26 when she graduated.

8 years in college??? for an MA in marketing?
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How do you know when she started college? She could have started college at 21-22, which is exactly what I did.

Anyway, the job market is shit and a marketing degree is useless. So, it's a double whammy.
 
Quote from Lethn:

Naw that's people like you who pretend to be better than everyone else on the internet.
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Not better but definitely smarter than some. I had my turn at being homeless in the 80's, had to live off odd jobs to make ends meet and went days without eating but I never gave up and busted my hump to succeed.

They interviewed a 26 year old guy in D.C. on the news the other day that had been looking for work for 2 years and his employment was about to run out. An exec told him he would hire him at an entry level clerk position. The unemployed guy turned the job down because he said he was qualified for a better position.

I'm definitely smarter than he is.
 
Anyway, the job market is shit and a marketing degree is useless. So, it's a double whammy.
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Yeah no kidding, if top-quality engineers can't find jobs, what hope is there for the rest of the graduating class in the past decade?

The collapse started in 2000-2001. By 2002, people were being mass-layed off. 2004-2005 rolled around, a few of the people laid off earlier were hired back, along with tons and tons of foreigners. 2006-2007, same deal. Hiring came to a standstill in 2007-2008, and workforces continue to contract.

New grads haven't been able to enter the job market in the past decade, older people haven't seen appreciation in their stock portfolios necessary to finance a retirement. Everyone else stuck in the middle is unhappy. And only a lucky few in the financial industry have made out like bandits.
 
They interviewed a 26 year old guy in D.C. on the news the other day that had been looking for work for 2 years and his employment was about to run out. An exec told him he would hire him at an entry level clerk position. The unemployed guy turned the job down because he said he was qualified for a better position.

I'm definitely smarter than he is.
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No you're not. If that 26-year-old had a degree, than an entry level clerk position definitely would be a waste of his time, and a waste of the company's time in hiring him. The 26-year-old would have demonstrated that he is a poor allocator of capital, and is willing to sell himself, and his future employer short.

Fortunately, for the exec, the 26-year-old kid turning the job down probably saved his dumb ass from having to re-train someone for a clerk's position a year or two down the road when the economy does actually pick up. There are many people who are better qualified to be clerks more likely.
 
Quote from ProfLogic:

Example: My youngest daughter, with a 4 year degree, couldn't get a job in her field in LA. I found her a job in the Mid East at a great wage but a wage far less than she might get, if she could find a job in LA. She refused to take the position and stay in LA where 2 years later she ended up taking a job at less than the position in the Mid East was offering. Her reasoning . . . people in the Mid East are all clothing challenged.

Moral of the story . . . if you need a job bad enough . . . you can find one.
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Anyone who suggests that an American woman, especially their own daughter, move to the Mid East needs to have their head examined. The only place worth visiting is Dubai, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there.
 
Quote from aegis:

Anyone who suggests that an American woman, especially their own daughter, move to the Mid East needs to have their head examined. The only place worth visiting is Dubai, and I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there.
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And chance are, the daughter wasn't able to find a job in LA precisely because somebody from the Middle East moved to the USA, and was willing to work for cheap.

We see it in the high tech industry all the time, and our 'leaders' have the gaul to suggest that the kids, who are some of the brightest grads ever to emerge from the Universities, aren't trying hard enough to find jobs, when it is the politicians and 'leaders' who have been shipping them overseas or giving them to foreigners domestically for years.
 
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