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I think you got some good advice. Job's aren't that easy to get and it's VERY hard to live on a minimum wage part time job. The city is very expensive.
Both of my daughters (Just pre-University students) spent a week/maybe two weeks dropping off resumes in Chelsea, and UWS, NYC, and they both got decent sales/office/retail positions very quickly. One was a summer job, and the other was for the year saving up before College.
I have two friends that were both laid off around Christmas. One just found a job two weeks ago that is not in his field but unemployment was up so no real choice there, and the other took a part time job last week (in his field) because again, unemployment was up and beggars can't be choosers.
Go to trader Joe's on the upper west side. They will hire anyone, but be warned the captain is a complete *******. They will fire you for little to no reason; customers are ****ty too as upper west side is very entitled. Customers complain for no reason and then the managers take you in back to have a conversation about it.
Also if you are a guy, then they give you all these physical tasks that wear you down, but the girls get favored and don't have to do anything physical. I complained all the time about that, they treat you like a piece of meat if you are male.
If you need a job quick, go there and they will probably hire you as they are always hiring.
Extremely difficult. You have to remember that you're competing for work in the most populated city in the US - many applicants for few job openings. Most often, you've gotta know someone to get a job.
There are jobs here. (atleast in my field). But people in power look for negative. I just now had a recruiter tell me it would be hard to place me since I spent last 2 years freelancing. She didnt even bother to note I was also īn school getting new skills.
im thinking about moving back there? i'm talking like a small part time job?
For some or even most its very hard landing a job here in NYC while for others it is easy depending on skill set, college degree, marketable skills, or what jobs are in demand based on your field of study. The problem with NYC job market is that it is very competitive, probably the most competitive job market in the entire USA. For one you have millions of locals who are seeking employment and vast majority of them are not going to land a career but just a menial or regular job that pays a living wage higher or even lower. Than you have immigrants who take up the brunt of the lower income positions, and then you have the careerists Transplants who come from all over the USA to NYC looking for work. Just a few days ago I came across half a dozen Michigan Transplants who all have professional jobs in NYC. With Immigrants and Transplants seeking jobs forces a bunch of native New Yorkers to seek jobs in the public sector which now have a long waiting lists of applicants. Me personally I'm looking for jobs outside of NYC and can now longer compete for jobs here in NYC. Looking for a job here in NYC is just like looking for a relationship.
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Getting a job in NYC
