Desperately need a job

[Lenina Rosenweg]

This is somewhat embarrassing to post but I'm in a situation where I desperately need a job. I have an MA degree and I'm in the US.I've spent a long time teaching English and other things abroad.I've been basically unemployed the past two years. Because of the fact that I have an MA and I've spent a long time overseas makes companies reluctant to hire me.

I've been substitute teaching for most of the past two years but this is very much part time.

At a time when I desperately need a job I find myself frozen out of the job market. No one will hire me, no one.I've been intensely searching all the job hunting sites but to no avail.

I don't have a criminal record and I'm not sure what's happening.

I'm not really a tech person but I have some web development skills and I'm a good researcher. I've taught ESL, history, business English.

If anyone knows of any openings or has advice I'd really appreciate it.I do have some debts so it would have to pay at least $400/week. If possible I would prefer to be in a medium sized or big city.Anywhere in the US would be okay.

I am in a nightmare situation.

Anyway if you know of anything please PM me. Thanks.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Thread moved to Mutual Aid.

[Ocean Seal]

If you want to make money without much work try tutoring kids from wealthy school districts. You can charge up to 50-100/hr so to make a full workweek you need 4-8 hours. Try going for that, advertise at universities, work through a company (making a fraction of that), and then network your way out of that.

[mew]

controversial to post but you can be a webcam model. try myfreecams or imlive.com
you can make 400$ a week doing that if you work hard at it.
obviously it's not a real solution, but can help you until you find a real job.

[o well this is ok I guess]

If you want to make money without much work try tutoring kids from wealthy school districts. You can charge up to 50-100/hr so to make a full workweek you need 4-8 hours. Try going for that, advertise at universities, work through a company (making a fraction of that), and then network your way out of that. Shit, don't just advertise on those university boards. Check them out, too. At mine there's an ad for a babysitter for someones 7 year old. The pay? 16 bucks an hour.

[the Left™]

I make 360 a week where i work, its kinda meh and its manual labor. But its a guaranteed job because they really need people. You can pm me its in western ny.

[leftistman]

controversial to post but you can be a webcam model. try myfreecams or imlive.com
you can make 400$ a week doing that if you work hard at it.
obviously it's not a real solution, but can help you until you find a real job.
Fun fact, Tom Morello worked as an exotic dancer before he made it big with Rage Against the Machine.

[Ostrinski]

controversial to post but you can be a webcam model. try myfreecams or imlive.com
you can make 400$ a week doing that if you work hard at it.
obviously it's not a real solution, but can help you until you find a real job.Have you no social skills?

[fug]

Shit, don't just advertise on those university boards. Check them out, too. At mine there's an ad for a babysitter for someones 7 year old. The pay? 16 bucks an hour. That's how much my cashier gets for a whole day of work, and she is paid better than other cashiers.
Enjoy your First World privilege.

[Prometeo liberado]

I was unemployed for quite some time and had to get two temp jobs. This saved my life!! I am always having to turn away work and it may get me a permanent job. Good luck!

[Quail]

If you want to make money without much work try tutoring kids from wealthy school districts. You can charge up to 50-100/hr so to make a full workweek you need 4-8 hours. Try going for that, advertise at universities, work through a company (making a fraction of that), and then network your way out of that.
This sounds like good advice. I just started tutoring maths and despite only being a student with little previous experience of teaching, people are still responding to my ad. So I'm sure you'd have no problem at all finding kids to tutor.

[citizen of industry]

Come to Japan. Accept any crap overseas eikaiwa offer with the intent to drop it once you get here. Join our union. Once in see about landing a university position, direct hire from the BOE, or if you like teaching kids there are a lot of full time positions that offer unemployment, health insurance, pension, transportation, etc.

[fug]

How often does this happen in Japan?
WAITU PIGGU GO HOME! :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYuYkPgDkk

[citizen of industry]

How often does this happen in Japan?
WAITU PIGGU GO HOME! :laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FYuYkPgDkk

Not often. If you violate a cultural norm the Japanese almost always ignore you, and rightly, because the only people that do it are tourists, people on business trips or assholes. The problem isn't blatant acts of racism. It's when you've lived there for awhile, are fluent in the language (very rare among immigrants) and seen as a "foreigner." Predictably, this attitude is less apparent in the labour movement and almost non-existent in communist parties (other than the JCP there are many Trotskyist parties, similar to the US). The right is very racist, anti-immigrant, imperialist. The extreme right is much weaker than the labour movement, generally detested by the population but visible. Workers from western countries have it a lot better in terms or racism than those in Asian or African countries, though not much better in terms of wages. And wages are quite low among Japanese. Almost half of the workforce is non-permanent (the majority of them women). However, unemployment is much less than in the states (around 5%). And the language industry prefers to hire overseas to make people dependent on the visa so they work at a low wage and are disposable, rather than hire experienced workers with families in the country.

There are a lot of parallels with the states with the union federations and splintered left. But they do have a giant reformist communist party with a presence in parliament and a subordinate union federation, unlike the US.

[Os Cangaceiros]

If you come up to where I live in Alaska, you could definitely get a job at a cannery.

But the town I live in is America's version of eastern Europe, so I wouldn't recommend it. Plus the work is fairly labor intensive/tiring. But on the plus side you'll be "classically exploited" (ie you'll be involved in assembly-line style commodity production for a relatively low wage), so there's no better prole cred than that!

[Veovis]

Hit up a temp agency. Manpower (http://www.manpower.us/en/Job-Seekers.htm) and Randstad (http://us.randstad.com/) are two that I've worked with in the past. The work will often be crappy, but it will at least give you an income so you can work towards something else.

[ellipsis]

If you are interested in tutoring, wyzant.com may be able to connect you with students.

[cyu]

Neither slavery nor revolution:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/smygo/links/Counter_Economics_001186112419/Worker_Owned_and_Controlled_Businesses_00121554994 2/

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/economics/why-valve-or-what-do-we-need-corporations-for-and-how-does-valves-management-structure-fit-into-todays-corporate-world/

...you gotta do what you gotta do... For the more revolutionary, http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-take/ and http://cjyu.wordpress.com/article/if-they-do-not-give-you-work-or-bread-gcybcajus7dp-10/