Career change offer

[MrColin]

Feeling really down.

Buddy of mine tried to pull some strings, company hired people with experience, which I can not be upset about that.

Started applying at other companies, got two emails saying I was not picked.

I have filled out online applications, emailed applications, mailed and emailed resume, called, updated linkin profile, updated monster.com profile,,,,, I do not know what else to do.

I think the words "union job" were tossed out somewhere in the thread. You could try reaching out to union folks for networking purposes.

There may be some sort of stand-by arrangements in the industry where they need guys that haven't shown up from their 7 days off.

Maybe use social media/networks to stalk down some captains nearby. There are probably plenty of crews that would like you if they met you and would rather train a new guy than spend one more day with fucking Daryl.

 

[holden j caufield]

always greener on the other side. I'd pass, unless you really need the pay jump. Working a desk is soul sucking but working in the elements doing manual will drain you faster.

 

[John Connor]

Nope.

When I was in my late teens and early 20s I used to work 12 hours a day for 4 - 6 weeks at a time doing manual labor in welding shops.

For some reason I never hurt my back, never had a hernia,,,, nothing like that.

Lift with your legs and not with your back. I feel that rule saved me a lot of misery later in life.

Wish I followed that rule. You're one lucky dude. Your back is everything! I was lifting a piece of steel and heard a pop in my back. By the next day or so I had major sciatica. From that point onward for 15 years I had back issues. Now, I have just got a MRI and seen two back surgeons. The MRI shows I have no more disk in my back. But they both tell me I don't need surgery at this time. Right now I just have to lose the weight and I have been trying by going out on walks.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

What desk job do you have now that your "salary" would double to drive a friggin tugboat?

If tugboat people make $200K a year, I'm going to go kill myself wasting 4 years getting an engineering degree.

The USA is fvcked.

 

[brianmanahan]

What desk job do you have now that your "salary" would double to drive a friggin tugboat?

If tugboat people make $200K a year, I'm going to go kill myself wasting 4 years getting an engineering degree.

wait, what, why? maybe there's less demand and more supply for tugboat drivers. maybe it's way harder to work on a tugboat than to write yet-another-web-app at facebook or google or wherever you're at.

software engineering is a good job, but it's not the godmode that so many STEM grads think. and many people in other jobs deserve to make just as much, if not more.

The USA is f****d.

does not compute

 

[ultimatebob]

Holy Necro post, Batman!

Did TexasHiker ever get a new job?

 

[brianmanahan]

Holy Necro post, Batman!

Did TexasHiker ever get a new job?

he just posted about it yesterday: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2466017

looks like you missed the boat :awe: