I guess first quarter is usually the worst time in the year to job hunt but holy shit it’s fucking bleak out here. I live in a well populated college town in the south and 90% of job listings are nursing or something highly specialized. Slim pickings for the rest of us. Feels like my biology degree is totally useless when I can’t even get a call back from McDonalds lol. I’m so cooked
: “Silly wokist, have you even been listening to us? It’s STEM only, why would you get a degree in bio…oh…I mean, you should have just read our minds and realized what we really meant was engineering or GTFO.”
Even engineers are struggling a bit right now. My sis is an engineer and she just landed a job after 9 months of unemployment after a lay off.
In a cruel irony this economy is better for baristas looking for work than it is STEM nerds. Just learn to make lattes!
Actually college was wrong all along obviously I should have gone to trade school
Oh yeah, I forgot that’s the new thing. Everyone and their mother is now “supposed” to learn a trade because porky decided college should not be an option anymore because…reasons. Capitalism literally wants to decide people’s careers for them.
I wonder what the next excuse will be when they refuse to hire people in trades.
EDIT: Wait…inb4 social media gets flooded with the same picture of some smug military recruiter with a shit-eating grin poses at a table gloatingly gesturing at a chair.
: “Awww, the professional world didn’t want you? That’s okay, you can be porky’s personal hitman! Have fun getting traumatized for life if you’re lucky, or having your life cut short. You snowflake do-gooders care the environment, right? Think of it as solving overpopulation!”
Feels like my biology degree is totally useless when I can’t even get a call back from McDonalds lol.
I have a similar experience…it fucking sucks
It sucks because I feel totally trapped. I can either go back to school and live off student loans and accrue a shit load of more debt, or I can keep working retail or in kitchens for pennies. I wish I had just stayed in the workforce post high school instead of bothering with higher education at all
I’m starting to believe Biden was referring to all those children who are working (and dying) in factories because he’s lowered/allowed republicans to lower the age of employment.
Why don’t voters understand that the economy is doing great???
Have you looked into medical labs? They’re perpetually understaffed and some will hire Bio majors and train them on the job.
