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Not to be rude, but eight years have gone by since you turned 18 and you have nothing to show for it except a generic degree that is all but useless. Why would an employer take a chance on you, a completely unknown quantity that looks negative by virtue of your lack of experience, over an experienced candidate? They won't. At the best, you will have to start at the absolute bottom of the job market and work you're way up.
At worst, you're doomed. Because you didn't follow the standard path and are now older with no experienced, you're probably locked out of the job market. I'm not saying things should be like this, but that's the way it is.
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I have thought about being an academic librarian but applying to grad school and getting through it seems to daunting of a task. Also the job market for librarians is not very good and I think it might be a shrinking profession.
Librarians are actually an expanding field at the moment, especially in academia, because library science has jumped into the area of digital data curation. At a GIS conference I attended recently, the keynote was the new head of libraries at Washington University in St Louis, who spoke on the rapid expansion in library sciences he just led at McMaster and had underway at WUSTL.
What has your experience been with any of the on-campus recruiting/job fairs? When I was in school, I found those amazingly useful in terms of finding out their hiring requirements and feedback on my resume.
Not to be rude, but eight years have gone by since you turned 18 and you have nothing to show for it except a generic degree that is all but useless. Why would an employer take a chance on you, a completely unknown quantity that looks negative by virtue of your lack of experience, over an experienced candidate? They won't. At the best, you will have to start at the absolute bottom of the job market and work you're way up.
At worst, you're doomed. Because you didn't follow the standard path and are now older with no experienced, you're probably locked out of the job market. I'm not saying things should be like this, but that's the way it is.
I wouldn't say its as hopeless as you put it. But you most likely might have to start at minimum wage and try to work you're way up. Probably have to live with 4 roommates, maybe share a bedroom with a random person just so you have somewhere to sleep/eat. Considering you have no job experience at all. Alternative as I suggested try to launch your own company providing a service to people.
I wouldn't say its as hopeless as you put it. But you most likely might have to start at minimum wage and try to work you're way up. Probably have to live with 4 roommates, maybe share a bedroom with a random person just so you have somewhere to sleep/eat. Considering you have no job experience at all. Alternative as I suggested try to launch your own company providing a service to people.
Minimum wage jobs tend to be very interested in work history, since there are no other qualifications to sell yourself other than having a history of being a reliable employee.
OP is probably going to have to get a skill from a vocational training program and get a job based on their skill rather than their resume.
Librarians are actually an expanding field at the moment, especially in academia, because library science has jumped into the area of digital data curation. At a GIS conference I attended recently, the keynote was the new head of libraries at Washington University in St Louis, who spoke on the rapid expansion in library sciences he just led at McMaster and had underway at WUSTL.
I agree that librarian can be a competitive field - but the OP didn't study library science -- they just got a basic liberal arts degree (unless I read incorrectly)..
There actually is a field of library sciences, and most of the librarians I know actually got degrees within that field. Its not just a fall back for "liberal arts grad who doesn't know what to do".
I will be graduating from college soon and I'm scared to death because I don't if I will ever get a job.
I'm a Liberal Arts major and I have no work experience. What I want to know now is how should I go about looking for a job. A skill that I have is research (I was told by a teacher in high school that I was good at finding information and should consider a job doing that) What worries me is that I'm 26 and have absolutely no work experience I only have a bachelors degree. I've read so many news stories about college grads working at Starbucks and that are unemployed that. I have become depressed about what's going to happen to me. If anyone can give me advice on what I can do to help me I would appriciate it. Thank you.
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