Career and Life Help

[DJTJ]

Get your paycheck, smile, shake hands with everyone, and then bounce..

Exactly what I did. Freest feeling ever.

 

[Hurl Bruce]

How old is your daughter?

Almost 4.

 

[gourimoko]

Almost 4.

Oh wow.. and you're separated from the mom?

 

[Hurl Bruce]

Oh wow.. and you're separated from the mom?

Yup. It was coming for a while, then we had a surprise near the end.

 

[gourimoko]

Yup. It was coming for a while, then we had a surprise near the end.

I hear you bro.. That's rough, and I know what you're going through..

All I can say is try to make the best of it. Do you have friends and family in the area where you're living?

I used to live in Detroit, and I was also an instructor for Cleveland Public Schools for awhile, so I know how it can be.. It sucks. Maybe you can get a job at a private school? What do you teach?

 

[Steve_424]

I hear you bro.. That's rough, and I know what you're going through..

All I can say is try to make the best of it. Do you have friends and family in the area where you're living?

I used to live in Detroit, and I was also an instructor for Cleveland Public Schools for awhile, so I know how it can be.. It sucks. Maybe you can get a job at a private school? What do you teach?

Second on knowing what you teach. Might be able to help. Send me a message.

 

[Pick6]

Coming here for some advice for my girlfriend. She graduated in May with a Bachelor's in Psychology (I tried to warn her) and is having trouble finding anything related to her degree....shockingly. Currently work as a nurse's aid at Cle Clinic (has been there for about 5 years) making $14/hour..however only 4 days a week. She is the only one in her unit but they won't hire her full time due to budget reasons. It's not horrible money, but also not really enough, especially with her student loan payment about to come up. I already cut her a deal with living expenses and pay for most of our entertainment.

I guess what I'm looking for is if anyone knows anything about the job market for someone with her resume in NE Ohio, because I really don't know jack about it. Current options are 1) to keep applying for whatever she's been applying for. 2) Go back to school at UA's accelerated nursing program (1 year completion), go to graduate school to be a PA. Note that she is already 50k in debt from undergrad. However, she is no longer supported by her parents and will be 24 in January, so I think she may get a lot of help from FAFSA if she starts next year. 3) Apply for something that doesn't really have to do with her degree, but pays well and gives a chance to have a career. I think I recall Quicken Loans being brought up on here before, but something like that is what I'm looking for.

This is kind of taking its toll on our relationship. I can't deal with the woe is me attitude nor do I see myself supporting her anymore than I am now, even though I could.

 

[Chris]

^ That's tough. I wish I could help.

I graduated with a degree difficult to get a job in, back in 2011. Went back for engineering for two years starting in 2013, got shot and went through all that shit, then started again in 2014 after recovering. Went through a lot of shit between those two college stints, worked a garbage retail job barely scraping by and having to take help from parents and friends. Felt like a schmuck loser and thought I'd never find a career, never make money, felt like I was so much better than what I was doing. Two years into my engineering studies my friend landed me a job with the company he works at. I made the decision to just go with it because it's a stellar career opportunity and I didn't want to spend more money and time on school. I wouldn't graduate with my engineering degree until like 2018 if I stayed the course. So, here I am moved to Florida, in that situation starting a new life across the country (and I'll be moving again at the end of my 2 year training, which I'm not upset about). Its scary but exciting. A little sad about not finishing my engineering at OSU, but my #1 goal was finding a career and making money so I can accomplish all my other goals, and I'm finally where I need to be regarding that.

My point is, I guess you never know what opportunities will pop up and where life will take you. College was the best time of my life, but ever since graduating in 2011 it's like I was struggling to find my way. Maybe I wouldn't have had to go through those times if I'd played my cards different, known what I wanted to do out of high school, or gone to the Marines like I wanted to and THEN gone to college a more mature man. Maybe I'd never have had that 5 year period of struggle and I daresay despair, but hindsight is 20/20. It worked out in the end. An opportunity arose and I struck while the iron was hot. Words to live by.

Totally empathize with people going through similar career and life struggles. Good luck to everyone. People always told me it'd work out and I didn't believe them. Then one day back in January I just said fuck it and took a shot, and it paid off. They were right. Keep grinding, it'll pay off.

 

[TheLand1287]

Coming here for some advice for my girlfriend. She graduated in May with a Bachelor's in Psychology (I tried to warn her) and is having trouble finding anything related to her degree....shockingly. Currently work as a nurse's aid at Cle Clinic (has been there for about 5 years) making $14/hour..however only 4 days a week. She is the only one in her unit but they won't hire her full time due to budget reasons. It's not horrible money, but also not really enough, especially with her student loan payment about to come up. I already cut her a deal with living expenses and pay for most of our entertainment.

I guess what I'm looking for is if anyone knows anything about the job market for someone with her resume in NE Ohio, because I really don't know jack about it. Current options are 1) to keep applying for whatever she's been applying for. 2) Go back to school at UA's accelerated nursing program (1 year completion), go to graduate school to be a PA. Note that she is already 50k in debt from undergrad. However, she is no longer supported by her parents and will be 24 in January, so I think she may get a lot of help from FAFSA if she starts next year. 3) Apply for something that doesn't really have to do with her degree, but pays well and gives a chance to have a career. I think I recall Quicken Loans being brought up on here before, but something like that is what I'm looking for.

This is kind of taking its toll on our relationship. I can't deal with the woe is me attitude nor do I see myself supporting her anymore than I am now, even though I could.

Does she know what she wants to specialize in if she goes to graduate school? If she does, I would pick that over just applying to other random unfulfilling jobs just to apply. It's easy to say to not worry about $50k in student loans for the undergraduate degree, but there's ways around paying for all of the grad school tuition. She can potentially apply for a graduate assistantship which is basically a paying part time job with the university that also covers tuition. Also, if she works for a non-profit organization for a certain amount of time after graduating unpaid amounts on her loans can be forgiven. You mentioned FAFSA as well, so there are options.

 

[Pick6]

Does she know what she wants to specialize in if she goes to graduate school? If she does, I would pick that over just applying to other random unfulfilling jobs just to apply. It's easy to say to not worry about $50k in student loans for the undergraduate degree, but there's ways around paying for all of the grad school tuition. She can potentially apply for a graduate assistantship which is basically a paying part time job with the university that also covers tuition. Also, if she works for a non-profit organization for a certain amount of time after graduating unpaid amounts on her loans can be forgiven. You mentioned FAFSA as well, so there are options.

Thanks for the response. I don't think she really knows what she wants to do. Something in the medical field. She changed majors quite a bit in undergrad and had some misfortune along the way as well. She's the first in her family to go to school, so she had to learn the hard way on some things. Good point on the grad school tuition. I am going to tell her I think grad school can be a good idea if she doesn't find something, but she won't be doing it right if she is paying for it. Her undergrad GPA and work experience would be good enough to land her a GA I would hope.

 

[FiveThous]

Tell her to get into some type of therapy, they make insane money even if she doesn't get a PhD

 

[brodel34]

theres lots of stuff that you can do to make money online man. create a website of some kind that sells something and then drive traffic from instagram or some other social channel. Money.