Okay, so I recently TOTALLY scored a majorly cute dress-- BCBGeneration Half Peplum Dress-- in my favorite color (lilac purple) because their store at Westfield Santa Anita in Arcadia, CA is going out of business and the dress was an amazing 94% off, so it ended up being $2.81. I shit you not. I may end up getting one for my older (and shorter) sister Melissa so we can be TWINSIES!
But "the search" I'm referring to is the job search. As of four days before Christmas, 2016, I am no longer with PetSmart, though I cherish the time I was there, loved my job and my coworkers (except for one store manager here) and have maintained contact with the ones who are important to me, and I'm presently engaged in a job search.
One would ASSUME with an "American" name, being in the second largest metropolitan area in the United States, and my unique skill set (ha ha), finding another job would be easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.
NOPE. It's not. I'm technically a millennial (aka, Generation Y), possibly Generation X, because I was born in 1981 and MOST figures include '81 as Generation X. We're also part of the "Oregon Trail Generation", which was one of those awesome sauce MECC computer games I played starting in second grade... and ultimately won a national contest (Battle of the Network Stars) based off of a MECC computer game of European geography.
I guess it's partly due to the competitive environment. People competing for ENTRY LEVEL jobs down here often have four year college degrees, which I don't have (and should, because, well, as I get told, "I'm too damn smart NOT to have one"). There's also something like 15 million people here. Say that half of those are in the workforce, and shave off another half million due to, well, OTHER reasons, and you're looking at 7 million workers. Say there's 6.75 million jobs. That means 225,000 people like myself are ABLE AND WANTING to work, but don't have a job because there ARE NOT the jobs available. And while there is job creation, it isn't at the pace to adequately make sure that everyone who can work can find employment.
This article, Job Growth in LA County-- but in low wage jobs, study warns -- is a great article from a great publication.
I'm getting disillusioned. And with my husband and I moving in about a month back to my hometown, I'm not sure if my job search is as zealous as it could be. I just may expand my search to my hometown and abandon all hope for down here.
I can only imagine that if I struggle, how others are also struggling.
So may God help us all... because He can open doors where we didn't think doors were. And He alone can raise us from despair.
But "the search" I'm referring to is the job search. As of four days before Christmas, 2016, I am no longer with PetSmart, though I cherish the time I was there, loved my job and my coworkers (except for one store manager here) and have maintained contact with the ones who are important to me, and I'm presently engaged in a job search.
One would ASSUME with an "American" name, being in the second largest metropolitan area in the United States, and my unique skill set (ha ha), finding another job would be easy-peasy, lemon-squeezy.
NOPE. It's not. I'm technically a millennial (aka, Generation Y), possibly Generation X, because I was born in 1981 and MOST figures include '81 as Generation X. We're also part of the "Oregon Trail Generation", which was one of those awesome sauce MECC computer games I played starting in second grade... and ultimately won a national contest (Battle of the Network Stars) based off of a MECC computer game of European geography.
I guess it's partly due to the competitive environment. People competing for ENTRY LEVEL jobs down here often have four year college degrees, which I don't have (and should, because, well, as I get told, "I'm too damn smart NOT to have one"). There's also something like 15 million people here. Say that half of those are in the workforce, and shave off another half million due to, well, OTHER reasons, and you're looking at 7 million workers. Say there's 6.75 million jobs. That means 225,000 people like myself are ABLE AND WANTING to work, but don't have a job because there ARE NOT the jobs available. And while there is job creation, it isn't at the pace to adequately make sure that everyone who can work can find employment.
This article, Job Growth in LA County-- but in low wage jobs, study warns -- is a great article from a great publication.
I'm getting disillusioned. And with my husband and I moving in about a month back to my hometown, I'm not sure if my job search is as zealous as it could be. I just may expand my search to my hometown and abandon all hope for down here.
I can only imagine that if I struggle, how others are also struggling.
So may God help us all... because He can open doors where we didn't think doors were. And He alone can raise us from despair.
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