nexus said:
Same old story.
If you have problems then you're just "complaining" and boy you should be lucky you weren't in your great-grandparents generation, because they had it bad!
Besides, stop trying to get a 1% job, you should be getting a trade.. that's your problem you're just a snob!
(Despite the fact blue-collar/labor jobs are in very short supply too.)
In short, it's not society's problem, it is *your* problem.. so just go to a therapist and get dosed with high-potency psychotropic medication. In other words, be quiet so no one ever acknowledges the problem. Haven't you heard, the stock market is doing awesome!! So shut your face and know your place!
I seriously hope you are joking, because that is bad advice.
The therapist part is okay, because it does seem like the OP needs someone to lift him up, but not because he needs to face that it is his fault.
It is not the OP's fault.
If you really think it is his fault then you really have never faced a recently graduated from college with no field experience situation.
It is a real thing that degrees mean shit about getting a job these days. Back in the day(oh yes I used that phrase), degree's were the proverbial golden ticket. Employers then would look at a fresh college graduate and say, "Look at this person with all that knowledge and training fresh in his mind." They would hire the college grad right off the bat. It didn't matter if the other applicants had experience working in a previous similar job, if they didn't have the degree, they didn't get the job.
Fast forward decades to now. Employers look at a fresh college grad and say, "Aaaannnd, I'm suppose to be impressed? Have you held a job exactly like this one for at least 3 to 5 years? No? NEXT!"
College degrees went from being a sure thing to get a job to the shitty icing on the cake that nobody wants to eat.
This is the way the hiring works(at least in the US):
1.) Inside connections: If you have a buddy on the inside to get you in, golden. From plenty of witnessing experience, I would say 99% of the time if you have an inside connection, it doesn't matter if you have experience or anything else, you are in.
2.) 3 to 5 years of experience. For the first 1 to 2 years, employers think that all you did at your previous similar job was that you were twiddling your thumbs and pissing on the bosses desk/workspace. So 1 to 2 years don't count.
3.) Internship.
4.) The degree that has the least leftover debris from wiping with it, get's the position if the applicants are tied with all the things from 1 to 3.
A friend of mine went to college and got an engineering degree. His job positions in order after graduation were, Target stocker(Had inside connections, minimum wage), technician at an oil refinery(had inside connections, over 14 dollars an hour), cashier at a grocery store(had connections, slightly above minimum wage).
Right out of college, 90 percent of employers in his field outright told him, "your degree means nothing when trying to get a job, if he didn't have 3 to 5 years of experience he shouldn't apply because he is wasting their time."
The other 10% told him, "your degree is important, as a deciding factor if you have the 3 to 5 years of experience and they need a tie breaker."
He was able to get that job at the refinery only because a friend of his worked there, told him outright, "So and so says you are a hard-worker and know your stuff, you are hired." He only got to work there for less than a year because supply talks for the refinery went badly and they had to lay off most of their workforce.
After that, again employers told him his degree meant nothing and then on top of that, since his experience wasn't at the 3 to 5 year level, that refinery technician experience meant nothing.
As for me, it took me two years to find even a basic retail stocking job, because the only previous work experience I had was 6 months as a grocery stocker.
Applying for jobs on my own didn't work. I didn't want to, but a year and ten months into looking for work, I had to actually make a big deal of my social anxiety disorder to get combined help from a government work agency and a private work searching firm for "disabled" people. After dealing with all the paper work, two months later I got a part-time job as a stocker at a home improvement store(only because the firm I was using had deep connections with sending workers to that store).
So in the end, it is society's fault for the most part, for mixing up and turning the hiring process upside-down. Degrees have about 0.05% influence on getting a job. The only time degrees work is if the job you are trying to get is one where you absolutely can't get experience outside of degree training, like becoming a teacher/professor.
