seeking employment and rising cost in LA (credit, debt, degrees)

[felix1962]

I am a unemployed college graduate like my children. My husband died, Jan 2005. Since, I am head of a household like all of you. I been trying to find work with my bachelor's degree. You listen to your former college advise you that it doesn't matter what type of degree you have that all employers just want a bachelor's degree these days, to get out of college and finish soon. Yeah, I sit here like all of you day and night even when there wasn't a recession searching my fool head off for work since last summer. I am told no experience. I don't think employers know what they want anymore. Maybe I will clean other people's shoes for living, using my elbow to polish in making sure my reflections shines through, because I have a four year degree not what I wanted in the first place and not a job, no support from my former school.

Try this, get ready to graduate and the college fails you in your last course in mathematics to find it taken away in two days, before you walk for it. I to declare another junky degree to tie my credit hours up and a full-back ground in mathematics and in debt with a student loan and no job? I been unemployed 3.5 years to find myself out of college in a recession and our auto insurnace rising higher than our groceries in the great state in LA baby. we are paying $500 a month, with a good driving records, me and my children and rising again in Jan. I can say this when my student loan comes due the $68,000 this year that I am in debt for a degree in mathematics I do not have, I will tell them about this degree I cannot use and can't find jobs with and more so due to the recession. I can say this cannot expect me to pay for something like this when we can't even pay our bills. Everyone is having a bad time and very competitive the job force has become for us all. How ridculous.

[mwv]

From where did you get your degree? Your post contradicts itself - you write in the first paragraph you have a Bachelor's but then say in the second paragraph you don't have a degree.

[felix1962]

I have a degree, but wasn't what I wanted. I figured some of us were in the same boat. That was all I was trying to say. But when you lose your spouse who was the bread winner and within 5 days to find no income in the household for 6 months to alot longer it can be hard, yes indeed. but we are only trying and being self sufficient.

[gigi1985]

I am this ladies daughter and all I have to say is that it is a really wierd situation by far. I saw what happened in the beginning with her degree. Since my father's death, all we had was our college education. I have two degrees that I cannot find work in either. We will just have to pick the pieces up ourselves. We do not expect anymore responses. My mother had to get a general studies degree and all she wanted to say is that she wanted to get her math degree which what she payed for in the beginning. Again do not worry about this post, we rarely come on here. We are really explain ourselves in real life really well.