im sooooooooooo sad please readddd!!!!!!?

Question

i quit my job and its being 2 months already and now i cant find a job....i though it was going to be easier to find a job but...i dont know whats wrong......any recomendations where to apply...im 20 and i live in new york. i have experience in bookkeeper,sales,retail...and fast food restaurants

Answer 1

First of all, there's no sense beating yourself up over this. You already quit so you have to brush it off to experience and move on with a positive attitude. When you feel desperate and depressed, it shows. Did you leave your last employer on bad terms? If not, go back and reapply. If so, now you know not to do that again. Get out there early and just go from business to business filling out applications, asking for interviews, asking for jobs. Call a fee-paid employment agency. Call a temp agency. Polish your resume. Polish your fingernails. Polish your shoes. There are alot of jobs out there that aren't posted in the paper or signs on the door. You may just walk in at the right time. Christmas is coming so places are hiring for seasonal help... get there before others do. You have good skills. You are intelligent. Flash that smile. Don't think that any job is beneath you if it's going to pay your bills. Remember: it's all about attitude so make yours positive!!!

Answer 2

Have you considered moving?

Second, what does your resume look like? Yes, I'll be glad to look at your resume.

Third, are you working 40-50 hours a week to look for a job? Are you getting out of bed at 6, and knocking on doors by 8 am? Are you sending out 2-3 resumes a day, and keeping a list of those resumes? Are you calling those people that have your resume 1-2 times a week? Have you contacted AccounTemps for accounting work? In other words, are you working 40 hours a week looking for a job?

Heck, Christmas season hiring is starting, and you have retail experiencience. Tax season starts in late December -- do you have your name and resume current at accounting agencies?

Last, if you're good at keeping books, why don't you get a copy of Quickbooks, or Peachtree, or whatever, and get a bunch of tiny businesses to use your at-home accounting services?

Answer 3

#1 rule of job hunting - don't get discouraged. Finding a job is like the lottery. You have to be in the game to win it, but even while you're in the game, a lot of times you lose and it has NOTHING to do with you and everything to do with who you HAPPENED to be competing with at that particular time. You WILL find work. Make sure you give yourself every advantage.

1. Make sure your resume is clean, up to date, accurate, and it is absolutely imperative that it be grammatically perfect and have NO spelling errors.

2. Post your resume (for free) to Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, and any other local job boards you can find.

3. Recognize that most companies only post a few of their openings to those big job boards but any company of any size posts all of their jobs to their own web site. So start researching companies you would want to work for. That means within a certain radius of your house, within a certain industry in which you have experience, etc. etc. Then visit those company's web sites and upload your resume to all of them.

4. On the big job boards AND the company web sites, search for jobs that would be perfect for you and apply to them online. Then, set up "search agents" that will e-mail you if a "perfect" job for you comes along. Timing counts. If 100 people apply, the recruiter will usually start at the beginning, look at resumes, and they will stop looking when they have enough candidates that look good. If you don't find out about the job for 3 weeks, it might be too late.

5. Unfortunately we could all be successful in several different things but employers have a really hard time hiring people who don't know what they want to do. Employers look for people who are pros in their chosen field be that that retail, bookkeeping, sales, fast food, etc. Once you decide what you want to be, think like a recruiter. When you search for a job on Monster, you do so by typing in "keywords". Recruiters do that too in order to find resumes! So think like a recruiter. If you were a recruiter looking for bookkeepers, what keywords would you use in your search? Once you think you know, MAKE SURE those words show up subtley in your resume. That will help your resume get found.

Finally, as I started out, don't let yourself get discouraged. The employment market is the least efficient of all markets. When you think about the millions of people and the millions of jobs, the process of matching them in monumental and chaotic. The inefficiencies of the market do NOT reflect on your value as a person. Its like the lottery - you just have to keep trying and trying until you win.

Good luck!

Answer 4

Go wait tables, your in new york, if you find the right kind of place you could bring home $200 a night for 5 hours of work. Then go to school of something and get a degree to get a "real job" while your waiting tables.Good luck!

Answer 5

Go to monster.com and hit me up yo

Answer 6

lol if ur sooo sad then why is your avatar still smiling? lmao