Yes, 8 months. I’m not doing well, I haven’t found anything yet. I want something new, not in accounting which is what I’ve been in for 30 years. Not sure what I’m looking for. I’ve actually been offered one job, but I would have to move and I can’t at this time.

It took me about a month to get a job at AT&T in the spring of ‘68.

I was looking for a big company because I thought I’d have more job security and that I could get away with more shenanigans. :-p

I haven’t looked for a job in 42 years.

No, thank God. I’m retired and intend to stay that way… um… although I might run for office. : ))

I have just recently decided that I want to work in Animal conservation. No I don’t mean PETA. I mean I want to work with the Wild.. bears, tigers, lions. I have no idea where to begin looking since I don’t have a degree in this. I don’t expect to go from IT guy to handling bears over night… maybe just start with food prep / sweeping up crap and work my way up over time… but it sounds like fun to me.

@mrlaconic

Sounds like a great job to me! Good luck! : )

For a few months now. I’m about to separate from the military, so I’m looking for something related to my field of experience. Mostly using the internet along with networking with people.

If anyone knows of any information technology positions available in the St. Louis or Southwestern Illinois area, let me know!

Looking for a job? Sssh, who told you? :(

Yep been looking for a year and a half. But I figure that by volunteering at many different places, that it will help me networking skills, and give me more experience to put on my resume.

@mrlaconic I spoke to an animal keeper (I forget which kind) last summer about his work. I asked him if he had any training, and he said he didn’t. He just started doing… whatever, and learned about the animals and eventually he was promoted to keeper.

@mrlaconic My dad did that in the 60’s in Alaska when he was in the army. He didn’t have a degree but they sent him to night classes. He worked with a lot of people with science degrees and some researches doing experiments on dogs and cold weather survival. He looked after orphaned bear cubs once. My older brothers tell the story that they had to share a room with these smelly caged bear cubs for a while. I have pictures of him with a baby moose, baby twin beaver, and a kit fox. If you like the outdoors and have a passion for animals, you should go for it.

@wundayatta and @cazzie thanks! If you happen to know the names of the organizations they worked with that would be fantastic.

Not currently. I’ve got 20+ total hours of schoolwork (credit and non-credit), several ongoing service projects, American Humanics, and tutoring to do which gives me zero time to hold down a job. I’ve got plenty of money saved up, and my school is paid for, so I’m ok for the time being, but I do plan on working during the summer to keep me from stagnating.

I quit my last job as I didn’t think I could work the hours while being a full time student. That was in August.

I recently got a sweet part time job at Vector (for those of you who feel compelled to say anything yeah, yeah I know. I just work the phones). Right now I’m blasting my music in my office, Fluthering and generally doing nothing while I wait for the phone to ring.

I don’t make a ton, $9/hr right now. But within a few months I should be making $11/hr which, for a part time job as a student is kind of okay with me. :)

I was enjoying my funemployment but reality hit, I spent a few weeks looking for receptionist positions and got this. My last search took over six months. That was hell and it destroyed my awesome credit rating – now it’s just okay.

Good luck to all of you. Really. :)

Yes. I had a very rough, busy summer of long, long days and a lot of work, so I decided to let myself have a bit of vacation after I got back home. I couldn’t remember the last time I had an actual, relaxing, no family nagging me or ordering me around, do nothing vacation. At that time, I saw several jobs I wanted to apply for, but I was “on vacation” and thought, Hell, I’ll start looking seriously later.

I’m an idiot, I guess. I should have been applying when there were a bunch of jobs, cause now, there are like no jobs for me and I’ve estimated I have maybe a month or two worth of funds left before I am broke. Yikes!

@MissAnthrope Yeah, that’s the worst part, knowing the funds are running out. Luckily, I have enough in savings until about March, but I hate to spend my entire savings. If I don’t have a job by then, the house goes up for sale.

I am currently employed but am looking for work nonetheless because I am grant funded and the grant runs out in August of next year – I am taking no chances with finding the next job so am starting to look now, even though my superiors are very interested in keeping me in any way possible. In terms of how I conduct a job search, I have a pretty intense process: I begin with Idealist but also search websites of up to 100 organizations I am interested in and belonging to NYU’s Public Health list-serve is invaluable, as well. Once I narrow down jobs by deadline, I customize cover letters and resumes (I have many folders for this) and keep everything written down so that I can do follow-up emails 2 weeks after I submit each application. Then as rejections come in, I cross out jobs from the list and as I get call backs or interviews, I color code the remaining jobs and then I play ball, negotiating a higher salary or better benefits. This is a continuous, never ending, time consuming process that I keep at until I get a job I’m worth. When I was out of work, I spent days on this process and it didn’t take me long to find work. Now that I spend less time on this, I think it will take a big longer.

I got a job!

@chyna, good job!