I need a Job!!

[raevyncent]

Hi, fellow creative artists and intellectual beings (and everyone else too ), I just thought i would jot down a post here because frankly, I am desperate.

I have been out of work for over a month. My mortgage company has some options for financial difficulty, but I must have income to invoke them. My girlfriend is bringing in a little workig part-time, but it's not gonna get us outta the hot water.

If anyone know of a job opportunity in the Fort Worth/Burleson (S.FW) area, please let me know, either by post or PM. My background is in sales and customer service, primarily retail (which I REALLY don't want to do again, but may have no choice). ANY position that does not require a college degree or specific training is acceptable, between $12-15/hr because any less will not pay the bills.

Anything will be greatly appreciated and remembered.

Anthony

[Breezy]

I completely feel you on this one and I wish you luck

[raevyncent]

Thanks to those of you who have Pm'd or replied , got a couple of good leads.

[Terrancelee]

ANY position that does not require a college degree or specific training is acceptable, between $12-15/hr because any less will not pay the bills.

I'm not trying to be an ass, but what exactly can you do with no degree or training that will pay this wage range? I mean, I'm a licensed electrician who started out when I moved down here 2 years ago at $15 an hour. Maybe I should have demanded more.

[lscottpht]

Originally Posted by Terrancelee

I'm not trying to be an ass, but what exactly can you do with no degree or training that will pay this wage range? I mean, I'm a licensed electrician who started out when I moved down here 2 years ago at $15 an hour. Maybe I should have demanded more.

Hey, she could be a photographer!

[photosbymorgan2]

If you can do things with computers then you might want to look at Tek Systems. We get a lot of people from tek systems and some go on to be hired full time.

Another service is manpower.

[MC Images]

We are looking for a dispatcher for our tech's.

We do Dish Network installs, home theater, security, and IT

I think they pay is $10-$15 based on exp, or if you know someone......

Call 817-590-4441



BKZ Communications - 3819 Rufe Snow Dr; N Richland Hills, Tx

Mention my name:Chris Conner

[OTRphoto]

Originally Posted by Terrancelee

I'm not trying to be an ass, but what exactly can you do with no degree or training that will pay this wage range? I mean, I'm a licensed electrician who started out when I moved down here 2 years ago at $15 an hour. Maybe I should have demanded more.

It's always funny how those things work...

I was going back for my bachelors at the same time as my older sis was going for her masters...

I graduated with no experience and got a entry level job paying 45k

She graduated with a masters degree in the field she had been working in for 6 years prior.. and got a promotion to 33k

of couse I got a CS for the $$$ she works for Child Protective Services out of love of the job and the kids... (and we both work for the gov... but the pay scales are way off between state and federal)

[Demonic]

Originally Posted by Terrancelee

I'm not trying to be an ass, but what exactly can you do with no degree or training that will pay this wage range? I mean, I'm a licensed electrician who started out when I moved down here 2 years ago at $15 an hour. Maybe I should have demanded more.

Meh- i live in a town where the average pay is pretty low compared to DFW and i make more than that and never even stepped foot in a college. Don't let no college slow you down, go after it and take it!

[Toad]

I don't even have a high school diploma or GED and I'm bringing in around 45K... and I've only been with the company 5 months. It all depends on the person.
Toad

[raevyncent]

"No specific training".... what this means is that, other than being a skilled woodworker (trim carpenter, cabinetmaker,cabinet installer) some 10-12 years ago, the only thing I've done since then falls under sales or customer service. Geico for 2+ years. Sears almost 5 (nearly got a mgmt position, but lost it to the ditzy ofice girl cuz I "knew more about the job" than my manager.) Lowe's almost 2 yrs. Twice tried car sales, twice flopped (need an established pipeline for that ). Want to do photography, but don't have the savings cushion or startup capital (the ole 10D won't cut it).
And yes, there are MANY opportunities to make $15+ without a degree.... with the exception of very specific fields, college is mostly a ripoff. Besides, I have "some college", and could do circles around most college students today in nearly any subject.

Thanks again to all who responded.

[Terrancelee]

Anthony, I wasn't picking at you, was just curious what would pay in that range down here that would be in the unskilled, no training area. Especially since the min is $5.85.

I'm also of the thinking that while a sheepskin is nice, it's not the end all, be all that many like to let on. You certainly can never have enough education, that's for sure, but many of us simply choose to learn it on our own. I am here to tell you though, more and more it's coming to "credentials" rather than skills. I moved down here with 12 years of radio station engineering experience, along with all my other tech/electrical background, and was told I didn't qualify for a basic cable stringing job at UT, because I didn't have a degree. I can keep a radio station on the air, but I'm not qualified to pull RG-6, go figure.

So you do have training then, you are a woodworker. Can you not find any work in that field over around that area? Or has it gone like the "skilled" framers around here, where it goes to the lowest bidder who has no skilled workers on the crew? I shudder looking at the framing job on many, many houses around here.

[HotHolly]

Extra money around this time of year, assuming you have a camera, can be found with all the Halloween/ costume parties with kids at them. You can start contacting churches now (they usually have a fall festival of some sort) and make arrangements to be at several of them. It won't help long term, but it will help cover your butt now. Parents pay a ridiculous amount of money on Halloween costumes, and they will gladly pay you to make their kid look even cuter with a pro photo.

[MikkiStreak]

Originally Posted by Terrancelee

I'm not trying to be an ass, but what exactly can you do with no degree or training that will pay this wage range? I mean, I'm a licensed electrician who started out when I moved down here 2 years ago at $15 an hour. Maybe I should have demanded more.

Yea, gotta say- I think you low-balled yourself on that one. I know apprentices who start at around the $15/hr mark. When they get their license, they usually start around $20-25/hr.

[DoctorWu]

I know you said you're trying to get out of sales but there are a lot of sales jobs around that pay a heck of a lot. I have no degree at all, barely made it through highschool. My "big break" was working as a errand boy for a guy who owned a pager and cell phone company. He taught me everything he knew about sales and business and eventually made me his VP of Sales and Marketing. Unfortunately he didn't want to grow his business and maxed out on what he could pay me after working for him for 15 years so I had to move on. Now I'm making more than double what he paid me selling support for a software company in Plano.

Somehow I'm still struggling to get by though....funny how the more I seem to make, the more I seem to spend, or at least my wife does anyway.

A lot of money to be made in Software and the benefits are outstanding, on the minus side its pretty stressful trying to hit your quota each quater but if you can find the right company and the right territory you can do very well.

Search monster for "inside sales software". Also check out Trend Micro, their inside sales team is in Fort Worth and they're usually looking for people.