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post 1641516393 06-24-2021, 04:43 AM
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Graduated with an engineering degree in 2020 and jobless (srs)

Well brahs this is my current situation srs, I’ve been unemployed and underemployed since I graduated last year, getting very depressed now with my situation.
I’ve applied at dominos pizza cuz atleast some income is better than no income.
I did some work in warehouses and minimum wage jobs since I graduated but I’m still in this depressing situation.
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post 1641516663 06-24-2021, 04:54 AM
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post 1641516703 06-24-2021, 04:56 AM
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lol welcome to the modern world where idiots are presidents and educated, competent people settle for underemployment

had a couple of classmates who were grad students in math...one ended up at jp morgan...another couldn't find work and became a schoolteacher

it's a crapshoot
post 1641516713 06-24-2021, 04:57 AM
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software engineering?

top school?

good gpa?
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Originally Posted By mesobuild⏩
software engineering?

top school?

good gpa?
Mechanical engineering , average school ; yeah 3.5 GPA but no internships srs.
Had a few interviews but didn’t get a job so far.
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post 1641516783 06-24-2021, 05:00 AM
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Fellow mech e brah here. If you want I can take a look at your resume. Sounds like its decent enough to get you interviews. What type of jobs are you looking for?
post 1641516833 06-24-2021, 05:02 AM
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That's a pretty long time. Something is not right

How's your resume? Are you getting interviews? Are you applying to everything remotely related to your degree? Are you applying to jobs all over the country?
post 1641516843 06-24-2021, 05:02 AM
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First of all stop being depressed and man up bro , its pretty hard landing first job after college especially if you don't have any internship experience or anyone to refer you. Do you have any college friends that got a jobs and can vouch for you?

How often are you applying to jobs should be treating it as a job and applying 8 hrs a day.

Maybe use linked in and connect with recruiters and managers in your area and send them a msg, you can get premium LinkedIn 30 days for free.
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post 1641516853 06-24-2021, 05:03 AM
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Bro I got a temp job as a temp at a temp agency?

Plus I work at Quiznos...

What do you want dog? I can get you double ham... ham as a mother fucjer you want it?

https://youtu.be/pI4K9ormy_M

Imma get a job investing in stuff? I’m thinking about buying the Grand Canyon and crayols and having a merger. I’m going tj call it the grand cranyon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I...ature=youtu.be

Jk

I have a slave job at the department of defense
post 1641516883 06-24-2021, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted By pantiespending⏩
Bro I got a temp job as a temp at a temp agency?

Plus I work at Quiznos...

What do you want dog? I can get you double ham... ham as a mother fucjed you want it?

https://youtu.be/pI4K9ormy_M

Imma get a job investing in stuff? I’m thinking about buying the Grand Canyon and crayols and having a merger. I’m going tj call it the grand cranyon

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=I...ature=youtu.be

Jk

I have a slave job at the department of defense
I can see you're trying to communicate dude, and I know you're in there. Please go to a doctor as soon as you can.

GO doctor. Please.
post 1641516923 06-24-2021, 05:06 AM
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Ring up firms you would like to work for and ask if you can do unpaid work experience deadly srs.

Come in a couple of days a week etc or work there for a few weeks.

Like I said unpaid but you need any experience you can get in the field and this is the way to do it. Shows employers you are motivated.
post 1641516993 06-24-2021, 05:08 AM
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Just start g4p like the rest of
post 1641517033 06-24-2021, 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted By Weezy32⏩
First of all stop being depressed and man up bro , its pretty hard landing first job after college especially if you don't have any internship experience or anyone to refer you. Do you have any college friends that got a jobs and can vouch for you?

How often are you applying to jobs should be treating it as a job and applying 8 hrs a day.

Maybe use linked in and connect with recruiters and managers in your area and send them a msg, you can get premium LinkedIn 30 days for free.
I try applying to about 10 jobs a day (srs) it takes me about 2-3 hours to go through the whole creating an account on their system etc, editing cover letters and CV and so on.
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post 1641517063 06-24-2021, 05:11 AM
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Keep applying/interviewing brah SRS. Literally apply to every single Engineering position in your area. One of them will work out
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post 1641517073 06-24-2021, 05:11 AM
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Originally Posted By wincel⏩
I can see you're trying to communicate dude, and I know you're in there. Please go to a doctor as soon as you can.

GO doctor. Please.
I am a dr, but I don’t have a pad I still have cvs trying tj? Entrap me? For looking into the 3:09 30 crimes fiasco China and the mob?

I’d been given my numbers with zero instructions tj try tj do damage control? Yet they don’t like it, so all they really have done is harass me...

Guess I have a resolution tj that today Idk it’s just every doctor I’ve gone tj see over the past 5 years had either tried tj sexually assault me, make me fat, be connected tj street drug dealers? Or? Be under the influence of bill gates or Google?

Idk hasn’t gone well for me... the dea doesn’t like accountability though? So it’s like? Not something they’d looked into.

Hopefully given the circumstances the New York Fbi will have had that resolved for me
post 1641517113 06-24-2021, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted By Omnivium⏩
That's a pretty long time. Something is not right

How's your resume? Are you getting interviews? Are you applying to everything remotely related to your degree? Are you applying to jobs all over the country?
So far I had gotten about 5 interviews the past year; but I didn’t succeed any of them.
My cousins were saying to do a course in IT or data science and I can get a job that way.
However how is it possible I can’t find a job with a degree but would find a job with just a cert??
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post 1641517203 06-24-2021, 05:14 AM
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Originally Posted By pantiespending⏩
I am a dr, but I don’t have a pad I still have cvs trying tj? Entrap me? For looking into the 3:09 30 crimes fiasco China and the mob?

I’d been given my numbers with zero instructions tj try tj do damage control? Yet they don’t like it, so all they really have done is harass me...

Guess I have a resolution tj that today Idk it’s just every doctor I’ve gone tj see over the past 5 years had either tried tj sexually assault me, make me fat, be connected tj street drug dealers? Or? Be under the influence of bill gates or Google?

Idk hasn’t gone well for me... the dea doesn’t like accountability though? So it’s like? Not something they’d looked into.

Hopefully given the circumstances the New York Fbi will have had that resolved for me
You need medical help. You may have an infection or tumor.
post 1641517523 06-24-2021, 05:28 AM
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If your success rate for getting interviews is that low you need to fix your resume. Do you have any college friends who went into HR roles that could read it for you?
post 1641517603 06-24-2021, 05:30 AM
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Originally Posted By DanSDA⏩
So far I had gotten about 5 interviews the past year; but I didn’t succeed any of them.
My cousins were saying to do a course in IT or data science and I can get a job that way.
However how is it possible I can’t find a job with a degree but would find a job with just a cert??
5 interviews in a year is kind of low, no offense. You probably need to work on your resume and getting past the application filters (using the right keywords etc) so you can get more interviews

And make sure to apply for EVERYTHING even remotely related to your degree and be willing to move
post 1641517653 06-24-2021, 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted By DanSDA⏩
Mechanical engineering , average school ; yeah 3.5 GPA but no internships srs.
Had a few interviews but didn’t get a job so far.
Have you tried for internships now as well? Even unpaid, they can lead to job offers.

Edit

5 interviews definitely isn’t enough. Do what the guy above me said
"One day I won't be able to lift any more. Not I won't want to lift. I mean physically unable. That day could be decades from now or it could be tomorrow. All I know is that's the day I'll wish I could lift more than ever. The day I'd give anything for one more workout, one more set, or one more cardio session. So go hard and enjoy every workout, every set, every rep. Because one day you will wake up and you will never get it back."
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Consider CNC programming. It's hands on mechanical engineering.
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post 1641517773 06-24-2021, 05:35 AM
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Lol'd @ Domino's pizza with an engineering degree



If you went a year without a job that's entirely your fault

Haven't gone more than 2 weeks without work in my life


You're probably sitting at home shilling a bad resume into an online pile of thousands for jobs you either under qualify or over qualify for like Domino's

If you wanted a job you'd be handing your resume over in person like the rest of us
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What kind of engineering? Sorry to hear that brah
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Originally Posted By blissful88⏩
Lol'd @ Domino's pizza with an engineering degree



If you went a year without a job that's entirely your fault

Haven't gone more than 2 weeks without work in my life


You're probably sitting at home shilling a bad resume into an online pile of thousands for jobs you either under qualify or over qualify for like Domino's

If you wanted a job you'd be handing your resume over in person like the rest of us
Yeah just stroll into JPMorgan hand the receptionist your resume and your set mate.
post 1641518043 06-24-2021, 05:48 AM
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Join the military, even if you don’t make a career out of it you get valuable experience and VA home loan benefits. While others are struggling to scramble their Starbucks change to buy a home, you’ll be flexin’ on the rest of your peers with your VA benefits (semi-srs).

On a more serious note, I’m in the army reserves and I love it. You could try to become an engineer officer which is what I’m doing now. Although as an officer you’ll be doing very little engineering and more administrative.
post 1641518263 06-24-2021, 05:53 AM
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Originally Posted By blissful88⏩
Lol'd @ Domino's pizza with an engineering degree



If you went a year without a job that's entirely your fault

Haven't gone more than 2 weeks without work in my life


You're probably sitting at home shilling a bad resume into an online pile of thousands for jobs you either under qualify or over qualify for like Domino's

If you wanted a job you'd be handing your resume over in person like the rest of us
Handing over my resume in person?
So what just walk into an engineering company and give my CV in person to the receptionist?
You are probably right about the bad CV, I’ll need to fix it up more but not sure what more I can put onto it, when my work experience is basically warehouse and retail etc.
I don’t have an internship or engineering experience (mechanical)
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Do you network? Seems like Engineering is one of those fields where its all about who you know. I was in the same situation as you having done a masters degree on top of a bachelors to become a clinical Dietitian and was still working as a labourer a year later and getting pretty depressed; applying for jobs everyday, sitting interviews and getting nowhere. Eventually got myself a mentor who got me a foot in the door as a casual at a hospital he worked at for a couple of days a week, worked there for a year and got another full time job through word of mouth at another site. Did not have to interview for either of them. Networking is far more valuable in certain fields than applying for jobs relentlessly
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Did you try moving to an actual city with jobs? Preferably one with freedom
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Originally Posted By DanSDA⏩
Handing over my resume in person?
So what just walk into an engineering company and give my CV in person to the receptionist?
You are probably right about the bad CV, I’ll need to fix it up more but not sure what more I can put onto it, when my work experience is basically warehouse and retail etc.
I don’t have an internship or engineering experience (mechanical)
The thing you also have to keep in mind is that there has been a pandemic where businesses have been closing and not hiring, people being laid off and not as much jobs going. Whilst yes with your engineering degree you will be fine and will get work but you can't compare the past year to regular times.
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Originally Posted By AJ1528⏩
Join the military, even if you don’t make a career out of it you get valuable experience and VA home loan benefits. While others are struggling to scramble their Starbucks change to buy a home, you’ll be flexin’ on the rest of your peers with your VA benefits (semi-srs).

On a more serious note, I’m in the army reserves and I love it. You could try to become an engineer officer which is what I’m doing now. Although as an officer you’ll be doing very little engineering and more administrative.
Something to consider, it will suck ass but will help propel you forward if you do things right. The Navy would be especially good and have some serious options if you're willing to Commission and pursue something Engineering related (which again would suck, but you would get a lot of valuable experience).

At any rate, yeah it can be brutal out there and some people are very out of touch with how phucked the job market can be. Especially getting the initial experience. Brb "entry level...3-5 years experience required". Everyone wants experience, but no one wants to give it. As I've mentioned before, I finished a Masters in Accounting post Navy and it still took me almost two years of working shyt jobs or being unemployed before I finally landed something good.
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