Jobs/Pay in Orlando (University, Longwood: travel, income, university)

[sentiment2012]

I just moved here and I want to leave again pay is not that great here, and I pay way to much for a crapy appartment

[kloud9kutie]

I too have noticed..FL is very hard to find a good paying job. My BF just got his masters..took him 4 months to find a DECENT paying job (by no means a WELL paying job)...and its not even in his field of study...and they ALL ask for like min 4-5 years experience..for entry level positions (kind aironic eh??) He was showing me some jobs REQUIRING a master degree and a ridiculous amt of experience and only offering a starting salary of 30k (it might of even been lower! i cant remember)....Luckily i got into my job field as a student temp and have since transfered to full time after i graduated in Dec with my bachelors and and starting off around 37k with yearly salary promitions for the next 4 years....i don't know WHERE i would be if i never got into this position while still in school...i still look for jobs because this isn't my DREAM job..but good lord...FL job market is scary, unless you have a remarkable job history/resume!!!

[hopeful_1]

how is the Florida job market for young professionals, such as an entry level attorney?

[Fnix]

Originally Posted by hopeful_1

how is the Florida job market for young professionals, such as an entry level attorney?

check out craigslist and look

[**NoodLes**]

You'de be better off waiting tables or bartender or taxi driver or.........basically anything else will pay just the same or better.

[StarJacks]

I was raised in Orlando, Fl and NYC throughout my life and Im 24 now. What you have to realize is that major cities in Florida are just starting to get crowded and over populated. When i was growing up down there the cost of living has always been cheap therefore jobs didnt have to pay $15-20 an hour in order for someone to be able to survive. Most people could have worked at Walmart or Winndixie, have had there own place, a car, etc and lived comfortably. I live in New York now and I'll soon be moving back to Florida because NY is just tooo expensive. I look at apartment listings down there compared to up here in NY and you cant compare them. You can get a 2 bedroom for $800 with living room, dining room, w/d, EIK where here in NY some studios start at $800. Its just a different type of living. Like someone else commented Jobs in central florida are starting to pay more just because times have changed and the cost of living is starting to go up a little. More people are moving there that do have college educations so jobs have to compensate where as when I was a child down there college was a foreign word people graduated highschool and thats all they really needed.

All I can say is that its just a different type of living down there compared to other major cities thats been overpopulated for years.

[kingtodd]

Originally Posted by bdpop

Employers can be picky because there are so many people down here that need jobs. It's a situation of supply and demand.

I think their is a fundamental difference between an Employer being picky and simply being unfair - What most, not all, employers ask for borders unfair in terms of required experience, education vs. pay. I'm not asking for a NY salary and FL economics. They play this card because they know they can and that to me is not only unfair but unethical. Then again we are all puppets in the same sick play as someone once said.

[kingtodd]

Originally Posted by VaNative

Hey Todd...from another Todd.

You're right about that...it seems that employers make the job requirements such that NO ONE can qualify for it. I have 3.5 years of purchasing experience at UVa and almost three years at my current job and yet the ads I've seen want someone who has experience in construction or food service or retail.

I think employers are using the job title of "Buyer" pretty loosely...kind of like "Account Manager" is really nothing more than a Telemarketer.

Hey you do have a pretty cool name. What about a 'Business Analyst' and you're really a salesman being asked to push vacuum sales to your friends/family on commission only. I should know - been there b4.

[moonbeam]

Originally Posted by StarJacks

I was raised in Orlando, FL and NYC throughout my life and Im 24 now. What you have to realize is that major cities in Florida are just starting to get crowded and over populated. When i was growing up down there the cost of living has always been cheap therefore jobs didnt have to pay $15-20 an hour in order for someone to be able to survive. Most people could have worked at Walmart or Winndixie, have had there own place, a car, etc and lived comfortably. I live in New York now and I'll soon be moving back to Florida because NY is just tooo expensive. I look at apartment listings down there compared to up here in NY and you cant compare them. You can get a 2 bedroom for $800 with living room, dining room, w/d, EIK where here in NY some studios start at $800. Its just a different type of living. Like someone else commented Jobs in central florida are starting to pay more just because times have changed and the cost of living is starting to go up a little. More people are moving there that do have college educations so jobs have to compensate where as when I was a child down there college was a foreign word people graduated highschool and thats all they really needed.

All I can say is that its just a different type of living down there compared to other major cities thats been overpopulated for years.

Starjacks,
There are multiple OPPORTUNITIES UP NORTH FOR JOBS, not so here in Orlando. There's more industry up there in the way of manufacturing, legal, property management, medical, clothing, financial district. Yes, maybe you pay more for an apartment but your QUALITY OF life is better. In Orlando maybe it's a bit cheaper but you cannot get a decent job right away if at all anymore. Don't forget to speaka spanish...there goes more jobs, if you're not bilingual. You usually have to take 2-3 jobs to get by until you get lucky and some never do. Then you're stuck here.
Miami, Fort Lauderdale aka the south Florida area has been overcrowded for years that's why people are leaving there... Now they're all-mostly hispanics moving north to Orlando but this place has been overcrowded for quite a few years, it hasn't JUST happened.
No, it wasn't always like this. It used to be pretty much a retirement state, never known for good pay, jobs, etc. Some things never change....
The one blog is right. They keep on raising the bar on positions so you cannot get in...3-5 year requirements then 5-7, this place does a number on your head.....take heed. College degree is meaningless, I personally found that whatever you did in your life before was meaningless in this town. Up north they let you work at a medical office if you had ANY OFFICE EXPERIENCE unlike this place...you must have medical experience.
I'm seen as multi-faceted and very talented up in the north and here you're NOTHING and NOBODY. It seemed to me when I lived in ORLANDO nobody ever gave you a break or a chance. Like I've said before...when looking for a job here whatever experience you have they need more....better Excel scores, typing 100 words a minute, a bachelor's degree, must know Access, must be willing to work for low wages if you're coming here and NOT TRANSFERRING into a job. Let's not forget that many times you may be offered a job, notice I did not say good but it will be in "Timbuktu" which means an hour in the traffic, paying huge amounts of tolls too.
Get it people this is FLORIDA REALITY. You think the weather up north is dismal and worth leaving well, that about sums up the job market in central Florida. Benefits, what are you kidding? The majority of people here don't take the day off for Xmas or Thanksgiving to quietly spend the day with their families because you get time and a half-wow, a couple of days out of the whole year you get paid what you're actually worth! Holy smokes. I'd think twice....about that grass possibly looking greener. Possibly being the key word......
I never had so much trouble in my life trying to get a decent job with decent pay. Service based industry...cleaning jobs, customer service, landscape, office work, telemarketing, receptionist $7.00 an hour, airport jobs. A student of Rollins college(a prestigous school in Winter Park)told me that most of the 4-year graduates were working at Chili's. moonbeam

[**NoodLes**]

Originally Posted by moonbeam

Starjacks,
There are multiple OPPORTUNITIES UP NORTH FOR JOBS, not so here in Orlando. There's more industry up there in the way of manufacturing, legal, property management, medical, clothing, financial district. Yes, maybe you pay more for an apartment but your QUALITY OF life is better. In Orlando maybe it's a bit cheaper but you cannot get a decent job right away if at all anymore. Don't forget to speaka spanish...there goes more jobs, if you're not bilingual. You usually have to take 2-3 jobs to get by until you get lucky and some never do. Then you're stuck here.
Miami, Fort Lauderdale aka the south Florida area has been overcrowded for years that's why people are leaving there... Now they're all-mostly hispanics moving north to Orlando but this place has been overcrowded for quite a few years, it hasn't JUST happened.
No, it wasn't always like this. It used to be pretty much a retirement state, never known for good pay, jobs, etc. Some things never change....
The one blog is right. They keep on raising the bar on positions so you cannot get in...3-5 year requirements then 5-7, this place does a number on your head.....take heed. College degree is meaningless, I personally found that whatever you did in your life before was meaningless in this town. Up north they let you work at a medical office if you had ANY OFFICE EXPERIENCE unlike this place...you must have medical experience.
I'm seen as multi-faceted and very talented up in the north and here you're NOTHING and NOBODY. It seemed to me when I lived in ORLANDO nobody ever gave you a break or a chance. Like I've said before...when looking for a job here whatever experience you have they need more....better Excel scores, typing 100 words a minute, a bachelor's degree, must know Access, must be willing to work for low wages if you're coming here and NOT TRANSFERRING into a job. Let's not forget that many times you may be offered a job, notice I did not say good but it will be in "Timbuktu" which means an hour in the traffic, paying huge amounts of tolls too.
Get it people this is FLORIDA REALITY. You think the weather up north is dismal and worth leaving well, that about sums up the job market in central Florida. Benefits, what are you kidding? The majority of people here don't take the day off for Xmas or Thanksgiving to quietly spend the day with their families because you get time and a half-wow, a couple of days out of the whole year you get paid what you're actually worth! Holy smokes. I'd think twice....about that grass possibly looking greener. Possibly being the key word......
I never had so much trouble in my life trying to get a decent job with decent pay. Service based industry...cleaning jobs, customer service, landscape, office work, telemarketing, receptionist $7.00 an hour, airport jobs. A student of Rollins college(a prestigous school in Winter Park)told me that most of the 4-year graduates were working at Chili's. moonbeam

Couldn't have said it better myself. People think I'm crazy when I tell them stuff like this but they never listen. They soon realize it when they move down here though.