Well, they (the rw), were wrong yet again (what I heard today) [View All]

[The Straight Story]

I am going through enough shit right now - and one of the things I just want to do is get a job.

Been on some great interviews lasting almost 2 hours, was told I was way above the caliber of person they were looking for. And said I don't care, I will start at the bottom and work hard for them.

Months and months have went by with nothing here locally (though in San Fran and LA I could get something - but that would defeat the purpose of why I came here, and with no car now....).

Today I heard back from a local recruiter. The reason people won't hire me?

They are scared I would leave for something better as I have a ton more experience than anyone else here.

I ran 3 data centers for the #2 bank in the country - really hi-tech stuff, managed over 20 people, and did a darned good job.

The rw tells me I should be able to get a job easily. Yet experience has shown me something else.

I have excelled at every job I ever had, from manufacturing, to security, to police work, to computers. Always worked my butt off no matter how 'menial' the job was (and I hate that word, menial, because even simple manufacturing jobs are important and the people doing them are skilled in their own ways).

Now I hear I am too skilled in too many things. I spent years studying and working hard, to make myself more valuable. Only to come to find out I should have just stayed basic and not have spent so many sleepless nights working hard and studying.

I can't erase my past and all my work, and now I find myself unable to find a job and support a family because I have done too much. Add to that having no car and such, and I am pretty damned down.

Work hard the rw said, and I did. And what has it gotten me but being unemployed and too experienced for most jobs here?

Maybe I should just lie on my resume and lie to the people I interview with, but I just don't think that is right.

Being honest and having a good work ethic used to mean something in this country. Now it doesn't.

bush and crew have so fucked up the mentality of people (and yeah, I live in a red county here in ca - Bakersfield) that instead of hiring someone who can do more than you need, folks want to hire someone who can do less.

Under qualified for some jobs, over qualified for others. All I want to do is work and make my employer some money and insure they don't regret hiring me. I have a good track record for that, and I guess that counts for nothing.

I am switching careers now. Called an office temp service and told them I could do general office work, I meet with em next week (thankfully they are on the busline here). I even called a general labor place (yard work, manufacturing, etc) - and was told they are not even taking apps until March 6th.

Even F'ing taco bell won't hire me - because they think I would jump ship and have had a career. Hell, I can make fucking tacos for crying out loud.

Damn - when did it become so fucking hard to just find a job, any job here in America?

You like Obama? You like Hillary? Fine with me - because I would take satan himself right now over the people we have in power.

Something has to change, America has to change. And if you truly want change we need to come together this next election, put this petty shit behind us I see all the time on GDP, and get someone new in the white house.

We need to be able to have hope again, and I for one am damned willing to vote for either of our dem candidates to get at least some change going.

I used to believe in the American dream, now all I believe in is this American nightmare I am living now.

Shame on me for where I was wrong and did the wrong thing - I can change me and my actions. But shame on the people we have in DC for not doing their jobs, the ones we pay them for, and for selling us down the river.

You want change? Vote these assholes out next election.