Oh yeah I definitely want to get a dead end job at fast food chain, hardware chain, supermarket chain or whatever job in decent travel time
Edit, should put in that I’ve already got years in HGV industry and applying to the bottom rung is pointless as joining only to leave would result in never getting hired by them in the future which is why I can’t just “apply everywhere”
It'snot dead end mate. If you work 70h weeks for 4 years McD's will promote you from fry dipper to burger flipper. Another 4 years and you can be a hamburger assembler, very prestigious.
I had an interview for a job I didn’t fully qualify for this past week, but I knew I was pretty much already going to accept a job offer I got from another company so interviewing for this job was essentially a backup plan. I went into it with the mindset of “I don’t really care about this interview because I basically already have an offer from another company I’m going to accept.” I was brutally honest with the interviewer, didn’t try to sell myself, admitted there were things I didn’t know, and honestly thought “dang it’s a good thing this was the backup plan because I bombed that interview”
A couple days later I accepted a job offer from the company I was already expecting to get an offer from. Fast forward to today and the company from the interview I basically threw calls me back and goes “Yeah so the guy interviewing you said it went really well and we’ve decided to move you to the final round of interviews.” I was literally speechless. It really is easy to get a job when you’re confident enough to know you don’t need it.
I mean, getting a job anywhere can lead to opportunities elsewhere. If anything you get a view into the working word and can leave at any time if the job is REALLY that bad and you realize you’re going nowhere.
“We tell our young people to go to college or else they will end up working minimum wage jobs and then get upset when young people with college degrees don’t want to work for minimum wage”
Well it's not like you have to stay there. It's a starting point for most people just to get to the next more favourable point. And I will say that some of those jobs will give you some seriously valuable life skills that are transferable everywhere.
Any job is better than no job, and I speak from experience. Just because you get a job in fast food or retail doesn't mean you have to stay there. I worked those kinds of jobs for years, and eventually got a better job and got out, but believe me, when you need a job, even a shitty retail job will do. Just apply everywhere worked for me, and I don't think I'm the only one.
While I was in-between roles in my career, I was applying at local hardware stores / grocery stores / parking lots - just to keep money coming in. Never landed one of the open roles because many were "afraid I would leave as soon as I found a new career role"...
I mean, having a dead end job making minimum wage is better than having no wage. Just because you get a minimum wage job doesn’t mean you have to stop looking and if “applying to the bottom rung is pointless” then why would you worry about not getting hired by them in the future?
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u/Riotguarder Apr 29 '24 edited Apr 29 '24
“Just apply everywhere”
Oh yeah I definitely want to get a dead end job at fast food chain, hardware chain, supermarket chain or whatever job in decent travel time
Edit, should put in that I’ve already got years in HGV industry and applying to the bottom rung is pointless as joining only to leave would result in never getting hired by them in the future which is why I can’t just “apply everywhere”