I hear they’re hiring at the grocery store, Price Chopper. With the connections you’ve made with AP, I’m sure Jon McGraw could find you a job SACKING GROCERIES!!!

Any other job ideas?

To Arrowhead to walk on!

Do you have any opportunities lined up yet?

Let’s compare the stats regarding the growth of AP during the past two years of Chris’ reign with the stats regarding the KC Star circulation the past two years during Jason Whitlost’s employment there. I think comments that spark the firing of JW and the hiring of the Big C are in order. Chris is ten times more influential!

I had just loaned 3 grand from my parents to buy a car becasue I didn’t want to have full coverage insurance. I was driving down the road with my girlfriend and didn’t see a person stopped in the left lane waiting to take a left turn. I ran into the back of them at 45 and totaled the car.

Then T-mobile decided they were going to fire me because I was 10 minuets late b/c I had to wait for a ride. And the best part about it was that I had a 1200 sales bonus scheduled to pay out that they found a way out of paying me.

This was this time last year. With my tax return I finally paid off my parents for my car loan and am saving for another car as we speak.

So it could always be worse.

Oh P.S. Because I lost my job and 3k in the same week I had to move back into my parents house at 21 years old. My dad wouldn’t let me take my dog with me so I decided to take him to the humane society so he could find a new home. On the way there he jumped out of the back window when we were doing 70 on the interstate.

This time last year was pretty rough. Best of luck on finding a new job. If I could, I know you’ll be able get it done.

Dude I’m getting a 22 an hour office job and I’m 18.. So’s I’m pretty stoked

After 3 tragically slow years of navigating the depths of un/under-employmnet, I finally received a job offer just today. All I can say is “good luck” to you Chris, and remember, Tuaca can be your best friend, or your worst enemy….

You’re job isn’t AP?

Is your intention to stay in Austin?

Hmm…employment stories to make you feel better?

Well, I was shaking in my boots when I saw the economy tanking. I’ve been in the army for almost eight years now, and I had planned on getting out at the end of this enlistment to work a contractor job here in the DC area. We found out the wife was pregnant again, due just a month before I had timed my terminal leave to start. And then I received orders to go be a drill sergeant down in Texas, which meant that I had to either accept those orders or sign a document that would mean I couldn’t change my mind about getting out, even if the economy took any contractor jobs off the table. I didn’t want to accept the orders, sell the house, move my very pregnant wife and our kid back to Texas, and start life all over again, so I took a leap of faith. I signed the document turning down the orders, brushed up my resume, and applied to no less than 200 jobs that were relevant to my education and in my desired salary range. I also went to several job expos for my sector of work, dressed to the nines, shaking every hand I could, and generally schmoozed my ass off. I did not want to find myself unemployed with an infant, a toddler, and a wife who didn’t make enough to support the family.

Anyway, I was nervous going into it that (a) I wouldn’t find a job relevant to my career, (b) I’d find one, but it’d require moving, and © I’d find a job that wouldn’t even give me what I make now, let alone my desired salary. But after a lot of fancy internet work, phone calling, networking, etc. I had everyone who was able to look long term (July, when I’m getting out) coming after me, and I ultimately worked the salary to about triple what I make now, and both with excellent employers. One is the most prestigious computer science and tech corporation in the country, and the other is arguably the world’s most prestigious consulting company.

Anyway, nervousness when facing unemployment has to be the most natural thing, but working one’s ass off to get where one wants to go really does work. Hope it goes well for you, Chris.

This company is in desperate need of an English speaking editor.

I moved to Vancouver and spent 5 years working at a major print manufacturer. Got laid off when the plant announced they were closing and it was probably as excited as anyone could be to get laid off. I got out of a boring ass office/warehouse job and spent 8 months on employment insurance. The first four months on the beach getting stoned and reading in the day while my friends were at work and playing beer pong just about every night. My roommates were part-time musicians and always had their transient hippy friends spending time on our coach, so I was always at least moderately entertained.

When the EI ran out, I moved back to my hometown, Halifax, NS. Had to endure the pain of living in my parents basement for 4 months due to utter poorness. (We’ll can this the dark times) Moved out, Spent 6 months working on the assembly line at a micro brewery for shit pay but excellent beer benefits, but finally got a job a few months ago at a Provincial Sport Organization running boxing and judo programs and laughing now.

Moral of the story: Hang in there, enjoy life and don’t move back with your parents. Things will work out, and you’ll find the right fit for you.

Hope you find what you want in a job. We’ll be pulling for you!

I work at McDonald’s. The end.

that moving back in with your parents is even an option for anybody ; ^ )