How long did it take to get your first job? I mean a job to start your career, not a part time job over the summer or anything like that.
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My first job I helped my dad at his shop for the summer break. My 2nd job was in the career field I wanted to do. And that was during summer break in highschool. I kept part time hours during the school year.
04/05/2011
I never really made a conscious decision to start a career, but I do tend to keep jobs for a long time. When I was 17, my dad helped me get my first job after I had spent a year looking and nobody would hire me. I still have that job, and it's been 6 years. I've had a few other jobs in the mean time, working 2 at one time since I was about 19. I'd still be at my second job, except they went out of business. Same with my third. My last job was the only one I've ever quit.
04/05/2011
I started my career right after I graduated from HS. I knew what I wanted to do and my options were to go to college OR start at the bottom and work my way up, so I did that. Essentially both paths would've put me in the same place at the same time and I don't regret it at all. I stayed at that company for about six months, took that experience elsewhere, stayed about a year, took that experience to a better position, did that a couple more times, and have now been at the same company for 7 years this Oct (I'm 28) and am a department coordinator.
04/05/2011
My first radio job was just a walk-in application at an opportune time (on-air talent/production). The experience there led me to my next in-career job (radio sales), which burned me on the whole field.
04/05/2011
I volunteered working with autistic children, while I was in college, working on my Pre Med work. I then was hired to do it for pay. As time went I and I graduated (and didn't have the money or the time for Med School) I realized that I was burning out on working with this population, especially when I started having my own kids. I spent many years at home raising my babies, and I became a Lactation Consultant almost by default, by what I was doing in the meantime in medicine.
The market for home business is so bad, I haven't made a profit in 3 years. People say, "Do what you love and the money will follow." I'd like to know where the fuck all this money is because I haven't seen any. I am about to close a business that I LOVED and honestly have no freaking idea what I am going to do. It sucks, badly.
Sorry. The economy is really getting me down, yanno, the being broke part. My Man and I did every thing right, we went to college, got our degrees, stated our careers and we are worse off than we were 10 years ago.
I honestly am not the one to give you advice.
The market for home business is so bad, I haven't made a profit in 3 years. People say, "Do what you love and the money will follow." I'd like to know where the fuck all this money is because I haven't seen any. I am about to close a business that I LOVED and honestly have no freaking idea what I am going to do. It sucks, badly.
Sorry. The economy is really getting me down, yanno, the being broke part. My Man and I did every thing right, we went to college, got our degrees, stated our careers and we are worse off than we were 10 years ago.
I honestly am not the one to give you advice.
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