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I finally got a full-time job offer after a year and a half of looking. Aside from when I first lost my job, things were very quiet in terms of employer responses, until I managed to find a part-time temporary job, with pay only scarcely higher than what I earned in high school nearly 10 years ago and part-time hours. However, that job was doing similar work to what I wanted to do professionally.
After I started working there and had enough time in it to put it on the resume, I started getting a lot more responses, and I'm also quite sure that I got the interview, and more importantly the offer, because I already had a job, and had experience with in their desired skillset because of it.
So, starting next week, I'll be happily (hopefully) and full-time employed.
If I ever become unemployed again, I'll do my best to get "a job, any job" as soon as possible...even if I'm practically (or even, actually) volunteering to get it.
It could be true in a sense but I dont think just any job would work. I believe you would have to get a job with the same skill set to make this true and getting that to happen is what everyone here has already been trying to do. I dont think many here are sitting on their hands trying not to get a job for the last 2 years or more.
Well, yeah, it was more than just "any job". I approached a non-profit to do volunteer work related to my field, and they gave me a job offer (however low-paid it was).
It's like trying to pick up women. It's easier if you already have a wife or steady girlfriend since you'll feel more confident and won't come off as being desperate, and some women find married men to be more exciting.
Not in my case. I send resumes daily from this call center Cubicle and no one responds. So, I am resigned to being a prisoner of the call center. The key for me is to enjoy time off from work and maximize all social opportunities for a better sense of well being.
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. Things are pretty bleak where I live
