moving back to Cali as a student, question about transfering jobs (Sonoma: school, living in)

[mir86]

I will be moving to Sonoma county at the end of the year. I'll start school in the spring semester so I have to be there by early January, no later. I have a part time job here where I currently live, in retail that will transfer as long as I put a request in for one so I plan to use that job to hold me over until I can find a better job. The x-mas shopping season is in full swing by November so in order to guarantee a transfer, I think its a better idea for me to move in November, but i worry I won't be financially stable enough by that time to make the move. So that means, financially, its a better idea for me to move in early january, but I can't move with no job. I worry that I won't be able to transfer within my company in January.

I tried to transfer with a retail job this past January back to my hometown where I'm back at now (Tucson, AZ) and due to the slow economy, none of the stores here had room for transfers. I don't know how the Tucson economy compares to Sonoma county, but my biggest worry is that since my job is retail, will it transfer in january when all the x-mas shopping has died down, or does it vary by location of store and should I just check with the store at the location? Does anybody in the area have an idea of how the retail economy is in the area? If its slow then I definitely need to figure something out obviously.

this post is probably a shot in the dark, but maybe someone out there has a clue!

thanks!

[grapico]

For what its worth... From what I've asked people living in the area, it is pretty slow... My gf and her brother have both been looking for retail type jobs for months with no luck.

[mir86]

ouch, so am I better off transfering during xmas season?

Is the hospitality industry better? I also waitress and am looking to work at a local chain here so I can easily transfer with that, but if the restaurants are slow, they may not take me either.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by mir86

ouch, so am I better off transfering during xmas season?

Is the hospitality industry better? I also waitress and am looking to work at a local chain here so I can easily transfer with that, but if the restaurants are slow, they may not take me either.

Waitress jobs in California are also hard to come by. You may have trouble period unless things change a lot in the next few months.

Nita

[mir86]

Originally Posted by nmnita

Waitress jobs in California are also hard to come by. You may have trouble period unless things change a lot in the next few months.

Nita

hmm..ya I don't plan to move until between november and january but it looks like things are slowing down right now more than earlier this year, but could it pick up in a few months? I could also do administrative jobs, but I don't have very much experience there which is why I'm sticking with retail/hospitality until things get better. Retail here in Tucson was extremely slow until march, then everyone started hiring again so I'm wondering if that's the landscape across the country since retail seems to be the same, where as hospitality tends to vary locally. Here in Tucson, nobody hires in the hospitality industry during the summer no matter what the economy looks like, just because we are a snowbird town and nobody lives here between may and September.