Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 03:37pm)

I've been working since I was 15. I worked at a carry out pizza restaurant for 8 years, including thru all 4 years of undergrad. Graduated in 2011 with a bachelors, 2013 with a masters in business administration. I worked a 40-50 hours+ a week white collar sales job from 2011 -> including when I got my MBA full time at night.

I got fired on New years eve 2013 when the start-up I was working for collapsed due to the CEO being raided by the SEC and FTC for taking money illegally from a gov't program. I got a new job 3 days later as a commission-only salesperson. I didn't make a lot, but I made about $350/week while applying for better jobs, and that kept some canned veggies in my mouth and a roof over my head. Then I landed an awesome job in early February and I'm making beyond 6 figures. So yeah, it took me over a month to "find a new job" but I worked at a job that I snagged in 2 days after being fired because I didn't mope. I literally went to a temp agency the day I got fired and they connected me with a sales company that had nothing to lose hiring a commission-only sales rep, so of course they hired me in 2 seconds and I started the next day. I could've just as easily gotten a serving job, retail job, etc. Just drive around and scour Craigslist for 12 hours a day til you land something. It's way easier than people make it out to be.

My point is, get a shitty job temporarily while you find a good job rather than mooching unemployment while you interview/apply.

In your case, when you graduated you should've gotten a restaurant job or retail job for 3 months until you could find a job that suited what you got your degree in, or whatever your goal was. Not sitting on your ass applying and interviewing and doing no work for 3 months.

Quote (ozzyarmy3 @ Apr 8 2015 10:43am)

You seem like an intelligent person, but man you lack common sense.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 10:37am)

I've been working since I was 15. I worked at a carry out pizza restaurant for 8 years, including thru all 4 years of undergrad. Graduated in 2011 with a bachelors, 2013 with a masters in business administration. I worked a 40-50 hours+ a week white collar sales job from 2011 -> including when I got my MBA full time at night.

I got fired on New years eve 2013 when the start-up I was working for collapsed due to the CEO being raided by the SEC and FTC for taking money illegally from a gov't program. I got a new job 3 days later as a commission-only salesperson. I didn't make a lot, but I made about $350/week while applying for better jobs, and that kept some canned veggies in my mouth and a roof over my head. Then I landed an awesome job in early February and I'm making beyond 6 figures. So yeah, it took me over a month to "find a new job" but I worked at a job that I snagged in 2 days after being fired because I didn't mope. I literally went to a temp agency the day I got fired and they connected me with a sales company that had nothing to lose hiring a commission-only sales rep, so of course they hired me in 2 seconds and I started the next day. I could've just as easily gotten a serving job, retail job, etc. Just drive around and scour Craigslist for 12 hours a day til you land something. It's way easier than people make it out to be.

My point is, get a shitty job temporarily while you find a good job rather than mooching unemployment while you interview/apply.

In your case, when you graduated you should've gotten a restaurant job or retail job for 3 months until you could find a job that suited what you got your degree in, or whatever your goal was. Not sitting on your ass applying and interviewing and doing no work for 3 months.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 10:44am)

youre gonna have to expound upon that before making a generalization about common sense in this scenario. Make an argument on why it is difficult to find a job in less than 1 week and then maybe i'll give some due credit.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 03:44pm)

youre gonna have to expound upon that before making a generalization about common sense in this scenario. Make an argument on why it is difficult to find a job in less than 1 week and then maybe i'll give some due credit.

Quote (duffman316 @ Apr 8 2015 10:44am)

lol.... i've never been on unemployment

though you do have an interesting concept of what it means to sit on your ass for 3 months in applying/interviewing for jobs

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 8 2015 10:45am)

If a fast food restaurant asks a person with a masters degree if they're going to stay with them long, should the potential hire lie to them about that? Or say no, I'm leaving in three weeks to be whatever, which is probably how long the training program is?

Your whole idea depends on the idea that people who hire for jobs are idiots.

Quote (ozzyarmy3 @ Apr 8 2015 10:47am)

In my state, you are required to keep a log showing that you've applied to at least 3 jobs in a month, and if you don't, you don't collect unemployment.

Your idea of 500 bucks a month is rediculous, what about people who have more than a condo? I own my house, I'm married and getting ready to have a kid, and I'm on unemployment right now. If you paid me 500 a month, I'd lose my ass. Everything I worked hard for would be lost. Unemployment goes away, and I paid into the program. Unemployment isn't a problem, welfare is.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 10:49am)

What did you do for the 3 months after you graduated? Interview/apply right? Why couldn't you work? I'm assuming you were granted the benefit I did when I graduated, I was living at home and didn't need to. I worked by choice anyways though because I wanted to own my own home by age 23 (which I do.)

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 10:52am)

If finding a job is too hard for you, do what I did once. I took the Mark Cuban approach once. Went to a local shop with $100 in my pocket and a box of shoelaces. I had them print "Richard Montgomery High School" and "Go Terps!" on a bunch of shoelaces. Then I took those shoelaces and sat outside gyms and stadiums pitching them $5 per set of shoelaces. $10 if you want me to lace them up in a fun/funky way for you.

I made $820 in 2 hours sitting outside Byrd Stadium at University of Maryland selling fucking SHOELACES.

Use your noggin and don't be lazy. Easy.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 8 2015 09:52am)

If finding a job is too hard for you, do what I did once. I took the Mark Cuban approach once. Went to a local shop with $100 in my pocket and a box of shoelaces. I had them print "Richard Montgomery High School" and "Go Terps!" on a bunch of shoelaces. Then I took those shoelaces and sat outside gyms and stadiums pitching them $5 per set of shoelaces. $10 if you want me to lace them up in a fun/funky way for you.

I made $820 in 2 hours sitting outside Byrd Stadium at University of Maryland selling fucking SHOELACES.

Use your noggin and don't be lazy. Easy.