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againstallodds · Newbie Joined: 10 Nov 2007 Posts: 2 Career Advice: +0/-0

Hello everyone, I'm 24 years old and I currently lost my job this week. I have tried to pick myself up off the floor, dust myself and move on. But, I'm afraid that I'm going to have another meltdown. I don't know what else to do at this point.

I'm trying to keep my chin up and look for another job, but Michigan's economy is horrible. The job market is not easy to come by these days. I guess I'm going to have no other choice but to file for unemployment. Also, I want to sit down with a career counselor to discuss my future, but how can I when I don't know myself? I dropped out of high school and I'm working on my GED, but most jobs will frown when they see it. Does anybody have any advice for me?

Pauloz · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:00 am Post subject:

Hi againstallodds

I heard Michigan was getting put through the blender, that's something you might try going around, rather than fighting a local economic slump as well. If the work's outside Michigan, that's the story, really.

Your best options are:

1. Skills are portable, and translate into other work. Whatever you were doing in your last job can be turned into a qualification for something.

2. The things you like doing can also become jobs, it's really a matter of researching how to do that. There might be qualifications, etc, but if it's something you already know, you can breeze through that.

(You might actually be better off with an open slot for more qualifications anyway, because some jobs tend to specialize, and you need the time and space for that.)

3. This is about when you start thinking long term, and then map a way from here to there. Do a bit of lateral thinking, and most professionals will be prepared to give you some clues.

4. Costs do have to be covered, and if you can organize some sort of paying work, online, casual, part time, anything, it looks better and pays for things, and you can use it on the CV. Doesn't have to be a career commitment, but employers can see you've been trying, and have been moving ahead.

Being unemployed is a pain in the butt by definition. It doesn't deserve to be considered as anything else, so don't have a meltdown on the basis of a temporary nuisance.

Just think what a buzz beating it will be.

lexa10881 · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 5:13 am Post subject:

Definitely get your GED. Then consider going on to college. In the meantime you might work at not the best of jobs but it will do until you can officially begin a career later, with the college degree of your choice.

http://www.cvtips.com/deciding_on_a_college_major.html

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