I don’t know what’s sadder, how little $18/hr really is with today’s prices, or that despite that it’s still more than twice the national minimum wage.

I consider myself lucky to have got a "sorry fam u didnt get the job" email from the shitass grocery store job.

This is why i'm trying to get published

But apparently publishers are afraid of a book where cops die by the hundreds and the ending has the protagonists taking over the US's nuclear missile silos and starting a 2nd Civil War

I figure i might need some more clout before anyone wants to touch that right now

Which is why i'm writing up something called I KILL WIZZARDS

I think it'll probably end up a comic or animated series

I have a master’s degree in physics and the labour agency has tried to push me into jobs that don’t require having finished the German equivalent of high school. It’s genuinely insane right now, I don’t know a single person with comparable qualifications who wasn’t unemployed for at least half a year.

I recently had 1 phone screen and 2 in person interviews for a fucking GROCERY STORE and still got ghosted

I be getting told i didnt get enough xp during uni despite working in the field for 2 years.

Some channel, I think How Money Works, broke down some recent statistics that were doing the rounds in the capitalist press and why they actually spell doom for the job market. New business registrations are at record highs - but that's because more and more people are giving up on the job market and deciding to try their luck at a small business instead, not to mention people who have a job but are starting a business anyway because it doesn't pay enough, stuff like that.

Anyway I'm one of those people, and I've found that I really like working for myself even if it kinda sucks at times. idk what industry you're in or what credentials you have but if you can make a play for 1099s I would do it.

I was just in a job interview cycle for a great position and after 4 rounds didn't make it. Only a full month of prep time and technical interviews wasted, doesn't make me feel like im losing my mind at all. Second position like this this year

Yeah, things are getting more and more shit. As much I get stressed out with my current job, I know that if I was to leave I would be unemployed for a while and of I did get a job there's a good chance it won't pay as much as I earn now. Everything is so fucked.

i can't even give my labour away for free (well, not quite for free - i deviously intend to eventually get a reference from them so that i can trade my labour elsewhere for food and housing when i'm well enough).

nobody. ever. responds. even the fuckers who came to an event at the jobcenter where they said they don't require references or experience and it's "basically a guaranteed position".

Seems like more and more job listings are also just fake. This year my work started requiring a full job listing and application process (including interviews) for promotions within the same role where all that changes is the pay scale. You ask the people in HR why we're having to do this for roles where literally no external candidate could ever possibly be considered (because they deliberately understaff and wouldn't hire a new employee) and they just stare at you blankly.

$18 an hour is about the most I've ever made at any job.

Until you get everything financially lined up, it's better to have work than no work.

I've been unemployed since March and sending out applications daily, the most I've gotten was one phone interview which resulted in a rejection email a week later. Shit sucks

I told an older contractor today that 6 months is the minimum amount of time to expect being unemployed and I don't know if she believed me.

Like yeah, I'm not looking forward to the next time I'm unemployed. Thanks to the ever increasing cost of living plus living in one of the worst USA states for unemployment help, I'll probably have to start paying my chunk of rent with debt 2-3 months in. I suppose I could do gig work, but then it's basically picking between ruining my car (the market for used cars is fucked rn and you absolutely need to be employed with half decent credit just to not get screwed on interest) and credit card debt.

Graduated college around 2010. It'll get marginally better. If you're lucky and get an advanced degree, you might get a job making 25$/hr like me (no bennies)

Fuck working. Find your passion and starve. If we all just work on our projects and dont go into work the US will collapse.