What is your salary

[Lucid]

I make about $12,000 a year.

Working two jobs, I'm a Zone Manager at the local Lowes... that pays me about $20 an hour... my shift lasts about 10 hours and I work 4 days a week.

And I'm a welder for the local auto-repair shop, I get about $40 an hour... started off making 10 an hour, only work here weekdays... full-time.

 

[Baal]

I make about $12,000 a year.

Working two jobs, I'm a Zone Manager at the local Lowes... that pays me about $20 an hour... my shift lasts about 10 hours and I work 4 days a week.

And I'm a welder for the local auto-repair shop, I get about $40 an hour... started off making 10 an hour, only work here weekdays... full-time.

Is that supposed to be $120,000 ?

AND ENOUGH ELIPSIS

I can hardly understand you, christ.

 

[Dan]

Welding is really shitty work, but pays well I guess. Make sure you use a ventilator even if the old guys in the shop don't.

 

[NeptuneUK]

0, seeking employment

 

[repiV]

0, seeking employment

Been there, done that. Getting a first job sucks.

What's your situation? What do you want to do?

 

[Dan]

Most jobs that don't require specific qualifications are all about personality. If you can make yourself seem like the person they are looking for then you can usually get it. Make it sound like you would be really happy doing that job and that you are very enthusiastic even if you have to go over the top so it sounds silly to you, to the employer it will sound like you are the perfect candidate.

 

[repiV]

Most jobs that don't require specific qualifications are all about personality. If you can make yourself seem like the person they are looking for then you can usually get it. Make it sound like you would be really happy doing that job and that you are very enthusiastic even if you have to go over the top so it sounds silly to you, to the employer it will sound like you are the perfect candidate.

That's not exactly true.
Hiring an untried and untested candidate is a huge risk, which must be compensated for in terms of potential. It can also be a huge drain on resources, especially in small to medium size companies.
Employers will only hire for potential where there is likely to be a massive payoff and the risk is acceptable or in a very tight market where talent is extremely hard to acquire. The talent pool available is the dominant factor dictating how easy it is to enter any particular profession.
Recruitment is easy to get into because, in general, the only people that want to do it have never done it, and the vast majority of people don't last a year in the industry. Also because the vast majority of recruiters are mediocre, and the ones that are good are given massive incentives by their companies to stay put - which makes them very difficult for other companies to hire.
Public relations is difficult to get into because it's a highly sought after career with a low number of vacancies and a low attrition rate, not because it's harder than recruitment (the fact that it isn't is reflected in the low attrition rate).

 

[Dan]

Most jobs that don't require specific qualifications are all about personality. If you can make yourself seem like the person they are looking for then you can usually get it. Make it sound like you would be really happy doing that job and that you are very enthusiastic even if you have to go over the top so it sounds silly to you, to the employer it will sound like you are the perfect candidate.

I'm talking about the jobs that are available to anybody with the ability to breath.

 

[repiV]

^^^

I'm not talking about jobs that require specific qualifications. Very few jobs do.

 

[NeptuneUK]

I had a job at a call centre for 2 months just to buy a PC about 2 years ago. I need part time work to fund myself! (student)

 

[repiV]

I had a job at a call centre for 2 months just to buy a PC about 2 years ago. I need part time work to fund myself! (student)

Oh right.
Part time work isn't exactly my area of expertise (call centre work is, though). Are you a Londoner? It's very tough to get part time work here...

Re: telephone based work, there's definitely a market for part-timers in market research. The pay is pretty good, too - 17k pro-rata is the going rate.
If you're a Londoner, I might be able to hook you up with something depending on what kind of call centre work you've done and how you sound over the phone.

 

[NeptuneUK]

Not a Londoner, up north. Yorkshire. Any kind of work that requires little qualifications is hard to get it would seem, there arent many highly qualified jobs in this area and it's a chav infested shit hole. Most semi decent jobs are taken here. Theres a hell of a lot of people going to the huge 'Job Centre' in town as well, or so it would seem from walking past there several times.
It's a shitty place for jobs here, I don't think I'll stay once I've been and gone to uni.

 

[repiV]

Not a Londoner, up north. Yorkshire. Any kind of work that requires little qualifications is hard to get it would seem, there arent many highly qualified jobs in this area and it's a chav infested shit hole. Most semi decent jobs are taken here. Theres a hell of a lot of people going to the huge 'Job Centre' in town as well, or so it would seem from walking past there several times.
It's a shitty place for jobs here, I don't think I'll stay once I've been and gone to uni.

You don't live in Bradford, do you?

I remember having to go to the jobcentre in between getting scraps of temp work and trying to find a permanent role...that sucked. They never actually helped you to find a job, only made you jump through hoops to get the money. Started making me apply for jobs through them, despite the fact that a) I spent at least an hour a day cold-calling potential employers and went on at least one interview per week and b) only shit companies I wouldn't touch with a 40 foot bargepole advertise in the freaking jobcentre. And if you worked more than 16 hours a week, you would have to sign off completely and reapply and fill out 20 pages of forms again to start claiming again - which made it completely impractical to take short-term temp work. Whoever was responsible for that policy genius should be shot.
Then, finally, my current company gave me a shot. And one of the companies I interviewed at a few months ago tried to headhunt me last week. Ironic or what?
Hopefully you won't have that experience post-graduation. Working through uni is a good idea in that respect...I never worked until I left college.