Sunday June 15th
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I got a FT job working at a computer store but it's unpaid. With the price of gas going up every day I wake up, I decided, "Why should I waste gas driving on the west side for a job that's not paying anything?" I'm not some lazy bum, I do want to work, but gas is going up every day and they wasn't going to pay me $300 a week for gas or I am able to get more certifications. And, the owner, he sounded like one of those snobby jerks. I decided, forget this, I'm running back to the nearest college starting August to further my education and work on my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I don't care how hard it is. I'm sure I can do it! I got two PT jobs so there's nothing to worry about money, and I can get scholarships from the CS Department, grants, and loans to help pay for college, credit hours, laptop, and textbooks. Why did I decide to do this?
With a Bachelor's degree in CS and an internship at Payless Shoesource, etc., I'm able to find IT jobs faster and I won't continue getting turn down for the neighbor, best friend, or relative of some idiot already working there. I am going to send my student loans $100 every two weeks, but I am still going to college to further my education. If I can't find anything after going to college in two years, I am applying for an IT job with the federal government or move to where the Tech jobs are! I am not about to be stuck in the same town I was born and raised in. I turn on the news or read the newspaper, it's the same shootings, assaults, police chases, stand offs, stabbings, robberies, murders, etc. That's why I stopped watching the news a long time ago. It got kind of depressing. My mom, a teacher, and sister told me to go to college and that was two years ago. I wish I should listen to them because I would have two years to go. I'm going before I get too old. There's nothing wrong going to college in your 50's or 60's but employers won't hire you because they feel you are too old and age discrimination does exist. |
posted Sunday June 15th, @11:45AM
Saturday March 1st
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Job interview number 5: the fifth time is the charm!
After applying for jobs from the local newspaper, sending rèsumès and applications online and snail mail, trying different state agencies, the city, etc., I always keep getting turned down for the lack of actual experience and qualifications. How does one get the experience and qualifications when no one wants to hire them to gain experience and qualifications? I remember eight or nine
years ago, you can have no IT experience and still get a job in my town. Today, it's different, you need years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree and experience before someone will hire you. After wasting my time going on four job interviews, instead of getting hired for a job to start
the process of gaining invaluable job experience, I end up passed over for someone's best friend, nephew, neice, or whoever the HR Department decides to hire. Frustrated, I applied at one of the local hospitals for a Desktop Support Analyst position on a Saturday afternoon, got a call from the hospital two days later, had a job interview set up Tuesday March 4 at 4PM. The job starts at $20/hr but can go up to $32 an hour, got more benefits than a local computer store which pay $15/hr and sometimes got benefits. Wish me luck and pray for me to get the IT job at the hospital!! Woot.
Out of desperation, I was willing to work as a computer technician for three years, I had called three local computer stores, and they weren't hiring or not interested in hiring me. This was after I spend my time going to college classes and gotten A+ certified! Oh, well. Or, they think because I am a young woman, I must not know what the hell I'm doing and talking about. Being a young woman of 25 years old, it's true, the hospital will probably hire me on the spot faster than a computer store. The only education I got is an Associates degree in Computer Network and A+ certificate. Those should be enough for an IT job at the hospital. Once I am employed at the hospital, I'm keeping the job until I retire.
I'm sorry I offended anyone by calling them a hillbilly in my past journal. I am very, very, very sorry! This town I live in is still stuck in the 1940s and don't want to see minorities and women better themselves any further. That's why Topeka has lots of crime problems because people of all
color can't better themselves when you have employers who don't want to hire people for jobs. I mean, I'm not implying that all Topekans are backwoods, toothless morons, but you got the employers who are set in their old ways and refuse to give you a chance and hire you for a job to start gaining experience. |
posted Saturday March 1st, @09:47PM
Tuesday February 19th
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Getting to where I need to go part II
I got an error message about my old journal being too old.
I have been out of classes two months, trying my best to find an IT job in this town and it's getting frustrating everyday. Yes, the college has help me found a job, but it is an hour drive back and forth to the employer, but the job does have good benefits and pays very well being an Indian reservation. In Topeka, I feel it's either that no one is hiring for anymore help or not interested. In an hour, I am going to see my counselor, she's going to have someone help me find an IT job, get my foot in the door, work experience of three years, more IT certs, pay off my student loans, save up the money and move to where the IT jobs are. Or, reapply at the state again. IT jobs aren't in this town anymore. It was when I was in high school in the late 90s and early 2000s, looked in the newspaper and I saw plenty of IT jobs that didn't need experience. What Tech jobs that are coming back to this town, you have to compete for them with all the other techies, or you need 2-5 years of actual work experience, education, certs, etc., before employers will give you a job interview and hire you.
I have a strange feeling I'm going to land a job by early next month. Don't give up. Someone has got to be hiring for something IT related in this town. I was reading the "I cannot fix your f%%%% computer" forum here, someone was looking to change to IT, and one of the posters recommend them to take a computer technician or help desk job to start out in the field. If the job person can only find me a $15-$18/hr computer tech job at a local computer store, guess what? I'm not going to be picky and complain about the job, I'm going to take the job because it's going to help me acquire experience to move up in the IT field, and any IT job is better than none at all. My college instructor was a computer technician before he got a job with the state. He started in IT at 19 and it took him 5 years to make the big money in IT. He's now 30. As for the computer store, I am not going to be working there for the rest of my IT career or life. Just to help get experience if it takes two or three years. But try to get more certs while working at the shop that will help me more than anything. |
posted Tuesday February 19th, @02:32PM
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