Here, have the story of my job hunt. It has a happy ending. Hopefully there are lessons to learn in it.
>Go to university.
>Work 3-month contract at nearby small business.
>Their IT department is less than 4 years old.
>The snakeoil salesman in charge of it is like a more sinister version of Michael Scott from The Office that apparently had the entire original IT department resign due to his management style.
>Contract not renewed and I dodged a bullet.(60hr weeks for full-time workers were common, can't actually use PTO, no training, no code reviews, no QA, most projects started outsourced by pajeets to then be made functional there)
>Graduate
The following experiences are in no particular order
>Apply for government job and get to wait 30 minutes in the back of their office because I was 10 minutes early to the interview.
> The panel consisted of a old Asian man, a pajeet, and a woman that pretty much laughed me out of the building after asking "In your last job, how did you deal with X?" ten times and giving me a written technical test written in Engrish.
>Interview for military job 3 months after applying to it.
>Panel consists of pajeet, boomer, and young guy who is apparently prohibited to speak.
>Boomer looks at my resume, cringes heavily.
>They proceed to berate my existing experience in the most professional manner they can.
>Pajeet asks technical questions.
>"Why is diversity important?" "How do you ensure [thread] safety?" along with a couple questions that I could answer off the top of my head.
>Get invited from career fair to attend career day at a large insurance company.
>They rattle on and on about how their company "puts lives back together"(instead of jewing people out of money) and how their company was voted by some magazine to be the best place to work.
>Their CEO is such a radical, fun-loving guy that he no longer requires employees to wear a tie. just a suit and dress shoes.
>They give out $5 chineseum bluetooth speakers that have "excellent sound quality".
>They require a 3.6 GPA or "equivalent demonstrable skills" to apply.
>Decide to get a shitty job to reduce my anxiety about becoming homeless whilst job hunting.
>Retail jobs ignore my applications.
>Temp agency provides job on the spot as soon as I pee in a cup and pass a simple dexterity and visual counting test.
>Factory is segregated between blue shirts and temps.
>Temps work full-time and do the heavy lifting, but through clever jewery receive none of the benefits of a full-time employer.
>Three 10 minute breaks across 8 hour shift, including time it takes to get to/from break room
> Require steel-toed boots that really hurt your feet when standing all day.
>Apparently the scheme is to shuffle temps from factory to factory, preventing you from getting the 6-12 months necessary experience to apply as a full-time employee of any one factory. If they get injured or burnt out, they are discarded.
>Machines do all the assembly, so jobs mostly consist of quality control and
>Work as hard as I can, surprised I'm capable of performing two or three times faster than most of my co-workers.
>Finish the pile of parts I was assigned a day ahead of schedule. Get sent home the next day with two hours of pay because I ran out of work.
>They notice my performance and give me a 3-4 man job to do by myself.
>I quit that day because it fully sunk in that they were just going to use my body until it was crippled and pay me less than 20K/year in exchange.
>There were a bunch of nice people there, but almost every temp either had a visibly low IQ or made some bad life decisions.
>Apply for Android/IOS job with MobileAppsCompany.
> 40K is more than 20K of the factory job, and is far better than going homeless
>Ace both technical interviews, dealing exclusively with pajeets
>Contract entails 4-6 weeks of training in exchange for owing 20K if you quit or are fired with cause within 2 years.
>The rest of the contract is 20 pages of terms and conditions in legalese(likely to give them cause to fire you if things don't go well).
>Google the company and find out it's a scam made to exploit pajeets arriving here from India.
>Job would have entailed lying about my job experience to big companies in order to get contract work from them. If things went well, I'd get 40K/year off one or two 70k contracts. If things went poorly, they'd fire me or deny me pay(through the terms of their contract) until I left and owed them 20K.
>Fix up my resume with the advice of a long lost relative who's apparently a vice president of a company somewhere.
>Jobs start responding to my glass door job applications more frequently.
>A bunch of them reject me for still not having enough experience with their technologies.
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