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easiest way to get a job is to have daddy hire you at his company or call a friend to get you job at theirs.

and then lecture and look down on folks who are struggled to get jobs because they don't have a daddy like that.

otherwise you're gonna struggle and struggle until you get a lucky break. the average job search is 3-6 months, which mean often it's longer than that. a lot of places will take 1-2 months to hire you from start to finish. my first job took 3 months to hire me from first interview, which was in late oct, and I didn't start until Feb. and of course once I was hired in December, I got multiple interviews and 2 more offers... because that's how life works. after months of nothing.

The only 23 year olds who didn't go through this phase... were the people who had family connections to get them a 100K job after graduation.

rest of us took 6-9 months to find work, often while doing part time stuff to pad or resumes. if you don't have connections getting a job is difficult and takes a lot of work.

we also had degrees from frickin' Harvard. but we had no connections and no idea how the real world worked. I got my first real job 8 months after graduating, after working full time all summer and part time the entire fall. and i was living away from home, off my savings that entire time.

First job out of college was a tiny Medical IT company with maybe a dozen employees. Started at $15/hr while they billed me at $80. Spent seven years polishing my resume (should have been out the door at 3, but I was naive and they did up my pay to $35/hr before I'd finally left).

All that is to say, your starting salary isn't forever. Five and ten years of experience counts for a lot.

But staying in the service sector is a dead end. The most dogshit small time IT job is better than carting boxes around, if you want to work in IT. The grungiest nursing job is better than flipping burgers if you want to work in medicine.

Put years on a resume and keep looking for new opportunities. But don't get stuck in the quagmire of retail, unless you actually want to try and climb that career path into management or supply chain or whatever.

And absolutely, stay the fuck out of masters programs. That's for people who have a job lined up, not people looking for work.

Pretty sure wanking doesn't take him all day. Jerking off is not the problem.

Just as soon as the porn stops being so abundant and interesting to occupy all of OOP's free time

My group of buddies always say that if gaming hadn’t become so wildly popular a revolution started by young men would have happened already.

The US is really good at placating the masses with media. Stay distracted, stay oppressed.

4chan and reddit were instrumental in the election of Trump (45). CMV.

Reddit's boner for Ron Paul in 2008 was a proof-of-concept for leveraging social media to astroturf. CMV.

Why is learning a trade only considered a last resort?

Because a lot of trades are pretty bad for your health. They require getting in potentially unsafe environments, dealing with substances or byproducts that can lead to cancers or other occupational diseases. They also require a lot more physical work. So of course people would prefer a cushy office job to trawling through crawlspaces lined with asbestos to plug in a light. Not to mention that a lot of trade jobs are not that great paid when starting out, the good pay comes with years of experience and until you get there you have to suffer through all the above. Sure some office jobs don't pay well starting out either but you just sit on your ass in a air conditioned office instead of nailing 2x4s in the hot sun for 8 hours.

People always ask this question but they never consider that there are actual valid considerations that make trade jobs unattractive compared to other jobs.

Edit: Oh also a lot of well paid trade people run their own companies which is an additional stress and a lot of people don't want to deal with that. My father is in trades and he ran his own company and I watched him age 20 years in the span of 5 due to all the stress and physical work he was doing. Running a company, even a small one is no easy job.

do you know any mechanics?

every mechanic I have met hates their life, unless they work for like a really high end place. and those jobs are far and few.

i had family in auto work, electricians, and line workers. they all basically said 'go to college working in the trades is fucking shit.'

working in an office is a lot easier on your body and doesn't leave you with medical problems. my electrician uncle lost one leg in his 50s and then other in his 60s. the mechanics i knew all worked for their dads and were townies we never left where they grew up, etc.

they made decent money, sure, but i would never ever want to trade live with them. i'm in my 40s and healthier than I was in my 20s. money isn't everything.