A few months back I found a temp job at a distribution facility. The pay was minimum wage and the work was manual labour. I just wanted to make a few bucks over the holidays.
When I was there, I spoke to a lot of the other temps. Many of the younger guys working there had degrees in STEM subjects. I'm talking about CS, IT, Engineering, Chemistry. One of them mentioned that he'd submitted over 600 resumes and this was the only work he could find. These guys had already been out of school for a year. I didn't see any entitlement, I saw disappointment. They'd pulled their socks up, studied a useful subject and they were still pissing away in a manual labour dead end job.
I'm graduating with a math degree in a few months so I'm trying to get a job lined up. I've applied to nearly a hundred entry-level jobs, only receiving two phone interviews.
A lot of my friends are applying to grad school. I wanted to get some work experience before going down that route but I'm beginning to think this was a mistake. Even an entry level position that pays slightly above the minimum wage is highly competitive these days.
When I was there, I spoke to a lot of the other temps. Many of the younger guys working there had degrees in STEM subjects. I'm talking about CS, IT, Engineering, Chemistry. One of them mentioned that he'd submitted over 600 resumes and this was the only work he could find. These guys had already been out of school for a year. I didn't see any entitlement, I saw disappointment. They'd pulled their socks up, studied a useful subject and they were still pissing away in a manual labour dead end job.
I'm graduating with a math degree in a few months so I'm trying to get a job lined up. I've applied to nearly a hundred entry-level jobs, only receiving two phone interviews.
A lot of my friends are applying to grad school. I wanted to get some work experience before going down that route but I'm beginning to think this was a mistake. Even an entry level position that pays slightly above the minimum wage is highly competitive these days.