MUST BE FRIENDLY, GOOD WITH CASH, CREDIT CARDS, CHECKS, HAVE NO ATTITUDE, AND BE NEAT AND TIDY. CAN YOU HANDLE IT?
Ahhhhhhh! The good ole' recession! It has many on the unemployment track thinking that maybe they should take any job, even one that is not in thier field. The receptionist job, the cashier, the waitress...anything to stay above water, because nothing is gauranteed even if you do get that second interview, which I have had two off in the past few weeks. I was hoping to upgrade my current position to a better one, but looks like I may have to work two jobs just to maintain. Wheeewww!
Those on unemployment may have a temporary cushion to break thier fall after losing a job, but that cushion may not be enough to get them thru the expenses they were able to afford before, and may also last alot shorter than you initially planned if you don't watch your ever so ferocious addiction to shopping! Yes, I am speaking to you my fellow fashionista's So the question is, if you've been job hunting as if it is a full time job, are unemployed or underemployed, should you just settle on taking any full time job? If you are desperate, and it provided your children with a roof over thier head, or if the latter, your self with a roof, food, and clothing, would you, could you, stop having the attitude that "you are too good for say, a waitress, a bartender, a cashier, A STRIPPER...lol, just kidding about the last one, unless you think you can handle men ogling at you and trying to grab your bootie, but anyhow, Could you swallow your self-inflicted-over-qualified for-this-job pride, if worse came to worse??
My experience with taking "any job" went something like this, I left my job in 2006 that had been my first major career experience in hopes of getting higher education. I was out to be the boss and in this field, the only one's getting the high positions were those who had degree's. I was merely a lower level supervisor.
I soon started attending college again after two years of taking "a break" and maintaining a pretty good grade point average.
I was loving spending time with my son. I had a financial cushion for about six months and was happy that I could concentrate on getting that degree that would allow me to be that quintessential alpha girl in a sharp sexy business suit looking out a big bay window in a smart and hot marketing firm, nails done, couture hand bags, sexy hot heels, and a lucrative salary and gym membership!
While still in school, I applied for a temp position as an Administrative Secretary. Although the job was a short term job, I looked at it as a way to move forward in obtaining more office experience in a professional field. I worked with a lot of scientists, radiological workers, and geologists.
It was not marketing, writing, or advertising, but they weren't offering internships for those areas in my area of the world. It was all very educational, but I found the job to be somewhat stressful in a way that I had to work with a very "Bipolaresque" woman with a ferocious alcohol habit, and a pension for throwing shoe's at people she was mad at. I'd smell the booze on her breath, and hear all her phone calls about how she was getting some from this guy, and having intimacies with that guy, but he was "the boss" and she weakly admitted that she didn't think it was a great idea to be chasing the boss.
Her switched up and down personality could only mean that there was not one voice but many others telling her that everyone was against her, and that another woman was on her turf. It was all very strange. I really liked the people, bosses, and customers I worked with. She was the one piece of work I wasn't expecting. I tried to do as she asked me to, and get projects finished in a timely manner. I tried to ask her about herself and how she liked her job, but she was perpetually angry, jealous, and having an affair with the boss too.
I left that job but not before I was being offered a field technician position there. I refused it. I just didn't think that this temp position turned permanant was the job I wanted experience in.
After all, I took the job to learn the ins and outs of a professional corporate atmosphere, and to master the task of the inner works of big business, since that was my major in college. I didn't sign up for working out in a field. It was cold. I had allergies. I was too girly. The list of excuses as to why I didn't take the job were endless. Being out in the field taking samples was just not me, especially if it entailed danger in the forest.
To me, LIMITING WHAT I DID OR DIDN'T "SIGN" UP FOR was a mistake in the end, though. I now KNOW you must suck it up, be a professional even when others are not, and work outside in the cold if it helps you to achieve LONG TERM GOALS, and get glowing recommendation letters, and certainly keep your own problems at home.
After leaving said Temp job, I continued to attend college and not work, but the money was getting tight, and I was in a Bachelor program that required me to be working some kind of intern job. I had been an intern for two years at an engineering company and had learned many basics of running an office, being a gofer, making travel arrangements and even going and taking the company vehicles for maintanance. This was me, going backward to what I stopped doing when I became pregnant at twenty two with my son and worked full time to support my new family.
I applied, and got an internship in the summer of 2007. All the paperwork was done, and I was to start in July. This was a paid internship and was a contract for a year. This was an excellent way to get my body and mind readjusted to the way the world worked in business and Administrative work. I was to be hired as a Administrative Secretary II, and I was excited. When going to finish my paperwork, I was told that funding had ceased for the position and the offer was retracted. I was broke, desperate, alone with my son since his father and I had seperated, and thanks to small miracles, I recieved some help from family and friends financially, some help I regret because it required me to be indebted to a man that was not someone who I was too serious about. I then got an intern position paying minimal pay writing for the college paper. When that ended because I felt I had to concentrate on my studies, I then began the tedious work of working in a new doctors office.
Today, I have had three successful interviews with a respectable company, where I have most of my leadership and other wonderful skills from, as well as my customer service skills, but I am playing the waiting game, waiting to upgrade to a full time professional job, going back to finish my degree, and am nowhere near that posh high end, fashionable marketing or publishing job I thought I'd attain by now. I am working two jobs. I am working helping my spouse with his legal documents, and his business, I am a mother,a patient advocate, and a....well, I clench my teeth ever so nervously, punch in some keys, a drawer pops out, and I say, " Ten dollars and seventy two cents is your change, sir. Have a nice day." So the answer is, should you take any job if you are struggling, even if you are overqualified from your years of experience? That's a personal decision and should not be taken lightly. In these difficult times,even educated and experienced people are having it rough.
You should take that less than lucrative job if you need the money. You should if you have children, and a family. I believe that you should try to take a reasonable job. One you are capable of doing. It will boost the economy, you will not starve, and maybe you will not be able to buy those pricey studded black ankle boots you've been eyeing, or the brand new dining room set you've been dreaming about, but you'll get to survive...you'll get to live, and when that job offer comes along that you interviewed for and thought you'd been rejected for is offered to you after months of waiting, you can thank that Never in a million years job for holding your head above water...
Peace and love, my Pretty's...
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