Moving to Austin, TX | Any Good Employment Agencies? {VANITY}

[erod]

Hi FRiends,

I am seriously considering a move to Austin, Texas this summer and I could use your help. In a nutshell, I am tired of the bleak and stagnant Chicago economic climate, the harsh Illinois winters and the Chicago machine. It’s time for a change in my life to find a new opportunity.

I am a young marketing professional (30 years old) and have no wife or kids to provide for. Does anyone know of any good employment agencies in the Austin area to find some temporary or permanent work, so I can start my move down south? Any help is appreciated and I have taken the steps to start planning for relocation. There’s a buddy who’s opening up his apartment to me so I will have a place to stay in Austin, but I need temporary work so I can provide for myself while I look for permanent work in Texas.

Thanks for all your help,
erod

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Welcome to Texas. As others have pointed out, Austin is a leftist sinkhole, but it does have a hot job market. I recommend you make plans to move out of Austin proper as soon as you can, to one of the neighboring communities: Round Rock, Hutto, Cedar Park, Leander, Georgetown, Buda, Kyle, Bastrop, Elgin, to name a few. The traffic will suck if you have to commute to Austin, but many of those communities are large enough now (especially Round Rock and Cedar Park) that they have their own growing job markets.

As for finding a job, most are posted online now. A few people have posted links to Monster, here's a direct link to the Craigslist subsection for marketing/PR/advertising jobs in Austin: Craiglist marketing jobs in Austin.

Good luck to you!

[erod]

Thank you for the recommendation.

[steve8714]

My brother lives in Tomball. Real estate is very affordable and salaries are good, but commuting is a nightmare.

[erod]

Thank you for your recommnedations, it looks like it may be Dallas or Houston for me. Having a friend that lives in Austin helps, but I did not know how truly liberal it was and the high cost of living. Thanks!

[Professional Engineer]

About 25% of people moving here do not have jobs when they arrive.

Cool place. Don’t live in Austin itself. I live 15 miles south.

About traffic. Everyone here seems to brag about how bad it is. Dallas and especially Houston are much worse.

[Hojczyk]

Might want to look at Bend, Oregon…Montana and Idaho…stay away from Colorado..I left in 2001…another undiscovered spot southwestern Utah

[Kirkwood]

The chances of snagging a marketing job within a specific small city is about zero unless there are dozens of large corporations there. If you are seriously looking for work, you need to do a national job search.

[matthew fuller]

I live in the Austin area, in Travis County. I would agree with Paine about preferring nearby counties. Georgetown (Williamson Co) is more of a conservative community. I would also be looking for good realtors that can fill you in on area taxation rates.

[LoneStar42]

Austin is considered San fran, tx. It is no longer TX. Skinny jeans, over-priced, and the slogan is”Keep Austin Weird”.

Your call.

[Robert DeLong]

A POS in reality, but it does work more effectively than googol. Though we may all have googol bank accounts in the near future, but you will still be broke most often than not.

[5thGenTexan]

Collin County is very conservative (used to be rated most conservative in the state - just haven’t checked the ratings lately). Any town there should be fine.

Plano is in Collin Co. and has been pushing to be a corporate headquarters city for years. Frito-Lay, PepsiCo, EDS (now part of HP), etc. Toyota North America is the latest snag from CA. Should be lots of marketing opportunity there.

[clamper1797]

I’m not Chad ... I just know him

[Awgie]

“Does anyone know of any good employment agencies in the Austin area to find some temporary or permanent work, so I can start my move down south?”

Are you serious!?! You're 30 and a “Marketing Professional” and you don't know enough to search “google” at the very least.

Good luck to you, but I just found it annoying that you would ask such a stupid question.

[Guenevere]

I have family in Austin.....they’ve been there many years......
The location is beautiful......Texas Hill Country......great food!

Attracts the younger folks.....the 30 somethings

Even as liberal as Austin is......You will find conservative, Godly folks, if you look in the right places.

[ataDude]

Ha. Austin is as bad as Chicago.

[erod]

I'm not from the area, there are agencies and friends that I have in Chicago who I would recommend for people who are looking for work if they were out of state. FR is just one resource I use to get information, of course I'm going to Google places and opportunities. Come on, is the stupid comment really necessary?

[Moonman62]

Any big city, even in Texas, acts like a cesspool for liberals. That’s where they congregate. You may as well stick with Austin if you have a friend there to help you out.

[bonfire]

Move to the Dallas suburbs. Austin is a liberal bastion of queers and new age hippies.

[bonfire]

Lawd, I HATE Houston! I make sure I tell my hubby at least once a month in our many years of marriage.

[bonfire]

McKinney, Allen, Fairview, Frisco, Plano (last on my list). (all northern burbs of Dallas) Just don’t live off 35....traffic and construction is awful.