• daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    18 days ago

    I’m going to post this fyi just in case because it’s related.

    Do not use job posting websites to find jobs.

    They just steal your information plus full of scams.

    Here is how you find actual job openings.

    Go to individual company websites and navigate to their “careers” or “join our team” page.

    Yes it’s more work as you have to make a list of companies that have the kind of work you are looking for and then manually go to each of their websites.

    But you are wasting your time using job hosting sites like monster or any of those other ones.

    The posts are made by bots and scammers.

    And less and less legitimate companies use them for that same reason as well.

    If you need ideas for companies , I suggest opening up Google maps and looking around for companies near you and then spread out.

  • phar@lemmy.world
    131·
    18 days ago

    I mean…when I was 23 I worked shit jobs for a while too until I found an industry I liked. Now I have a good job. But it takes years, they don’t just hand it to you when you graduate undergrad.

    It would be nice if the lower end jobs paid better, that’s the bigger issue. Pay people fair wages.

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
    8·
    17 days ago

    1.) Go find a temp agency, apply to get some job, any job, in a fabrication shop or machine shop.

    2.) Show up every day mostly sober, even if you’re sweeping the floor or running a grinder.

    3.) Take an interest in thr equipment. Learn about it. Learn how to use calipers and a tape measure.

    4.) Eventually they will train you on a machine. Maybe a mill, maybe a lathe, maybe a plasma cutter or brake or laser. Learn how to run it, learn how to run some of the other machines.

    5.) Keep learning and never want for a job again.

    • CaptainMan251@lemmy.world
      4·
      16 days ago

      Better plan:

      1. Slowly take the parts of each individual machine

      2. find a secret lair to bring said parts

      3. build a suit

      4. fly over the corporate and political leaders, and shit on them.

      I think that may be less feasible though. We’ll go with your idea, for now.

    • CaptainMan251@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 days ago

      People start revolution when they get hungry and desperate.

      But for the Americans, I feel like most of them will just give up - actually give up - and do nothing for how jaded and worthless they feel. Its disgusting to see what their leaders and oligarchs have done to them.

    • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      16 days ago

      He has mom’s furnished basement to lose. OP is golden, just chill until parents pass away and then inherit the house, he’s not revolting against shit ever.

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
    51·
    16 days ago

    Trades are great for breaking into the job market but you MUST have an exit strategy by age 35. No body (sic) lays tiles until age 67.

    • Doomsider@lemmy.world
      2·
      16 days ago

      Are you serious? I know plenty of guys in their sixties still doing floor work. I have never heard of a guy transitioning out at 35, but it is probably not a bad idea if you can swing it.

      • BenLeMan@lemmy.world
        2·
        16 days ago

        Yes, Doomsider, I’m serious. I happen to know plenty of guys who never made it to their sixties doing that kind of stuff. As in, I work with people whose health has failed to the degree that they cannot continue in their line of work.

        And this is one of the most common things I’m seeing. Craftsmen who never invested in education or any kind of further qualification and are suddenly unable to work. Many are in their forties but I’m also getting lots of men in their mid-fifties.

        You might get lucky and make it well past forty as a craftsman. But even just the pain and discomfort of the slipped discs, ruined knees, or carpal tunnel syndromes that these people get should give anyone reason to think twice about trying to make it all the way to retirement without shifting from pure physical labor to something else - be it as an instructor, salesperson, or manager. Anything that lessens the physical burden.

        The 35 figure I gave was about having a plan by then. It might take a while to set in motion but I firmly believe it’s best to start developing it sooner rather than later.

        • Doomsider@lemmy.world
          3·
          15 days ago

          Makes sense and although I know a lot of older craftsman in the trade there are plenty of guys who can no longer do the work they used to. Also, a plan by 35 makes a lot more sense then exiting by 35.

  • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    16 days ago

    The job market is a lie, there is no market except a market for minimum wage/gig labor. Everything else higher than that requires a human connection and you get hired by someone looking for a friend they can chill with at work.

      • blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        16 days ago

        Did u have any significant experience in Software Engineering from like, private projects? Cos otherwise that’s like winning the lottery, to exaggerate a bit lol

        • onceandfuturealice@lemmy.world
          2·
          16 days ago

          I had some experience as a compliance manager. My prior role was not technical.

          Most junior engineers at my company have been hired through cold applications straight out of school.

          1 day a week in the office, a couple weeks of travel a year, company is pretty chill with workload.