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Bodyhammer86 · 01-18-2010, 10:46 PM

I feel your pain, bro. I got my Bachelor's in Criminology back during the summer of 2008 (had a 3.4 gpa and did two internships as well) and I'm struggling like hell to find a job somewhat related to my field now that the economy's in the shitter.

I want to be a police officer, but in this area (downstate Illinois, where the job market was mediocre at best before the economy collapsed), departments everywhere are on hiring freezes or laying off officers, and the few that are hiring have like only one or two positions open, but a hundred people who are just as qualified, if not more so than me, apply for them. Sadly, it's also not as simple as relocating since the public safety field in general is being hammered everywhere by the current recession. I've made a few eligibility lists, but that doesn't mean a damn thing unless the department in question actually has openings or plans on hiring sometime in the near future. But sadly, I've gotten many more rejection letters than eligibility list positions. To add insult to injury, it doesn't help that getting a job as a police officer is a LONG process and if you don't make it through a step of the hiring process (written test, physical agility, interview, etc.), you'll have to wait at least six months for the next process to start.

So in the mean time, I'm stuck living at home and working at Wal Mart for minimum wage, since as much as it kills me inside to say it, it's literally the only place to work and shop where I live. Like you said, I don't believe I'm above doing my current job, but at the same time, the pay is horrible, benefits are non-existent, and last but not least, it's not what I went to school and struggled for four years to do. I really don't have any advice to offer but to keep plugging away and applying. But the bottom line is that I'm just as angry and frustrated as you are in regard to getting a serious job.

01-18-2010, 10:46 PM	#15 (permalink)
Bodyhammer86 Insane Location: Mattoon, Il	I feel your pain, bro. I got my Bachelor's in Criminology back during the summer of 2008 (had a 3.4 gpa and did two internships as well) and I'm struggling like hell to find a job somewhat related to my field now that the economy's in the shitter. I want to be a police officer, but in this area (downstate Illinois, where the job market was mediocre at best before the economy collapsed), departments everywhere are on hiring freezes or laying off officers, and the few that are hiring have like only one or two positions open, but a hundred people who are just as qualified, if not more so than me, apply for them. Sadly, it's also not as simple as relocating since the public safety field in general is being hammered everywhere by the current recession. I've made a few eligibility lists, but that doesn't mean a damn thing unless the department in question actually has openings or plans on hiring sometime in the near future. But sadly, I've gotten many more rejection letters than eligibility list positions. To add insult to injury, it doesn't help that getting a job as a police officer is a LONG process and if you don't make it through a step of the hiring process (written test, physical agility, interview, etc.), you'll have to wait at least six months for the next process to start. So in the mean time, I'm stuck living at home and working at Wal Mart for minimum wage, since as much as it kills me inside to say it, it's literally the only place to work and shop where I live. Like you said, I don't believe I'm above doing my current job, but at the same time, the pay is horrible, benefits are non-existent, and last but not least, it's not what I went to school and struggled for four years to do. I really don't have any advice to offer but to keep plugging away and applying. But the bottom line is that I'm just as angry and frustrated as you are in regard to getting a serious job. __________________ Pantera, Shadows Fall, Fear Factory, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Dimmu Borgir, Watch Them Die, Motorhead, Beyond the Embrace, Himsa, Black Label Society, Machine Head, In Flames, Soilwork, Dark Tranquility, Children of Bodom, Norther, Nightrage, At the Gates, God Forbid, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, All That Remains, Anthrax, Mudvayne, Arch Enemy, and Old Man's Child \m/ Last edited by Bodyhammer86; 01-18-2010 at 10:52 PM..