Caroline's statement screams * discinplinary issues. * I hope she's not using that excuse with prospective employers. And, at her age 41, she never should have left her job without having a job to go to. Unfortunately, that's a reality for people over 40 who lose their jobs.
Both of the people depicted in this story need to take * a job * * any job * in their field and work their way up to better jobs, e.g. get a job and on the day they start said job put out resumes.
It's much easier to get a job if you have a job.
Not very good planning skills...
most of the people losing their jobs are wall streeters. wapo would rather pave the streets with their carcasses (and cite them as statistics when convenient).
The flip side of that is if I'm an employer and I get even a whiff of that idea going through a potential employee's head I have only two options. 1. Hire and put him into a short term, no career advancement position with the expectation that he'll leave with little or no notice. 2. Just hire someone else.
Probably a lot of ‘web-designers’ out of luck who thought it looked like a good field to get into in 2000.
“Bad fit.” Sounds like attitude.
Nothing wrong with looking for a better job but you don’t quit the one you have until that better one is in your pocket, it’s just common sense.
Anyone who quits a job before having another one lined up runs the risk of (re)discovering just how marketable they REALLY are -- the hard way.
Oh, so you'ra a "coulda woulda shoulda" kind of commentary. Me? I avoid those words. They are useless or worse: poison.
Bear up to the consequences, sure. But life is too short to waste a minute of it!
Bump
Dumb broad. Unless you’re independently wealthy and don’t care; or are a brain surgeon or have another **serious** degree in engineering or accounting, then you’re going on work experience and personality. To do that you need to network and the best way to do that is-—while you’re still working!
It ain’t rocket science. Or is it?
But that is not true! Not true for all, and I do not know if it is true for even most. For many it seems true -- but that does not mean most, and it certainly does not mean all.
What is the biggest thing that keeps people from being happy in their jobs? A sense that they are stuck there because they can not risk losing that hated, self-harmful, misfit job!
In any human endeavor a positive attitude is a big force multiplier. A person is stuck -- who *thinks* he/she is stuck -- in some lousy job in which they are misfit, mis-appreciated, wasted, out-of-place; that person becomes hobbled psychologically, emotionally drained, unable to sustain the energy needed to find other, better endeavors.
So leave! Jump!
Then, and only then, in many cases -- will you have a chance.
Never, ever, ever, never ever, quit your job without having another job already lined up and ready to go. Do people have a fundamental lack of brains or what?
I think I agree with your disciplinary issues theory.
Seems like the dems and the gop turncoats will get thier wish, the only ones working will be the illegal aliens, doing jobs the American public wont do!
Just as you have to have a good financial portfolio, you must also have a good skills portfolio, and not be so dependent on one area.
Not necessarily. There are jobs that are a bad fit, either work or co-workers or supervisor. It wasn't a wise decision to just quit, however.
All state employment agencies track the number of people who exhaust benefits. For Oregon, the exhaustion rate is up 22% from last year. That's probably due to the rise in minimum wage.
I didn’t go to college to get a job. I went to college to be an educated person. I never took a class I didn’t like, and that includes a couple that I failed.
I don’t think anyone does that any more. Too bad, their loss.
Unemployment insurance. The alcoholics friend.
Naylor Road... just a hair east of Anacostia.
Charming part of DC.