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Dang..9 pages worth of telling the OP to get a grip on himself/herself and take the job and move forward with life. There is nothing out there to prevent you to keep looking. Why not work and earn while looking then sitting on the couch getting fate, not earning anything, and looking?
I take it I'm the only one who changed the settings to 30 posts per page. Too much clicking and loading otherwise.
Get used to it pal...low pay, crap benefits(if any at all), bad hours will be staples of the new emerging American economy. This is why I quit working jobs and do my own thing now. Not worth it...
I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. You said you applied for 75 jobs and this is the first offer; after being unemployed for 6 months. I've applied for over 170 jobs and had 4 interviews (with another one in the near future). No job offer.
^ Close to the same here. In the last 7 months I've applied to about 200 jobs. Got 1 offer that I took for the time being which pays half per hour than what I use to make at my previous job kind of like the OP. Have had a total of 8 interviews, offered a 2nd one then while they were writing me the offer letter their quarter budget came in and they had to rescind the offer due to budget cuts. Working deep into the process of a potential 3rd offer now.
This is why people are still unemployed, 60 minutes ran a story on this. All the former people said they felt they were too good for that lower pay or lower line or work, and guess what, they never received any offers other than the one they passed over, even after being on unemployment for 2 years.
Yo, Squall, congratulations on taking that new job and having the whole thing work out for you! Making a move to an unknown place -- I did it myself when I was young -- can be scary, but there's nothing like the feeling of contentment when it all works out.
And that salary you're earning is nothing to sneeze at!
33.5-36 from my own research and as I stated above, two managers gave me quotes of 33-37.
Average is 35ish.
Also, I responded that I have a unique set of abilities that the company seeks to profit off of and streamline their operations, giving me a skill set that the average tech does not have that they want.
Please remember that this is not a benefit position, and there is no premium for it (which, in my experience there usually is), so that's another part of my issue with the salary.
Back in the late '90's I worked at a job that paid me extraordinarily well. I got used to it. It was a great job, but it went away (New England Tel & Tel) after merger after merger and changing technology. It took me over 10 years to earn that salary again. It was actually a detriment in job hunting if hiring managers asked my current salary. When I told them, they immediately told me that the salary they were offering was no where in the ballpark. I had to convince them that I understood that, and was not expecting that salary.
Take the job and keep looking. It may be a sign of the current market. It may be that you quit your last job and have been out of the market for 6 months and they want to make sure you are stable before offering you a raise. It sucks when you are used to earning a certain level in your career and then you have to take a step on two down on the salary rung. If the market is still paying what you were making 6 months ago, then a job with that salary will come along, but in the meantime, you are gainfully employed and you will look more enticing to other employers.
That doesn't work. I networked and I volunteered, still nothing. So I take your advice with a grain of salt, congrats it worked for you but it certainly didn't work for me
Knowing someone never guarantees you will get a job, but it helps. Thinking back over my 30 year working career, excluding promotions, there's my score.
Jobs I got applying off the street: 4
Jobs I got knowing someone: 7
So knowing someone got me 63% of the jobs I had.
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