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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 14 October 2016 10:24 EDT (US) 2426 / 2504

I like the Job-Hunting Helix.

To get a job, you need experience.

To get experience, you need a job.

The employers seek young people with experience.
They turn away old people with lots of experience.

The few young people that do get lucky and get into a new job, invariably leave for a better job (now that they have experience) within 3-5 years, creating an opening once again, that cannot be readily filled.

Return to the bottom of the spiral.

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DominicusUltimus
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posted 14 October 2016 12:21 EDT (US) 2427 / 2504

It's the same scenario where I live in Florida. I have a friend who (if I remember right) has a degree in law and criminal science but can't get a job with the county or anywhere else in the field because she doesn't have experience and she can't get any experience until she works a job relevant to the field. (-_-)

I'm really curious as to how this ridiculous paradox came about. Is it a consequence of the global economy or has it always occurred and we never noticed it until now?

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Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
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posted 14 October 2016 16:16 EDT (US) 2428 / 2504

My guess is that its a combination of the need for specialisation in jobs, combined with an enlarging population, but slowing economies and industries in the western world which leaves less jobs. Oh how the days of full employment must have been good/cool....

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 14 October 2016 20:42 EDT (US) 2429 / 2504

In the law field, it's also a product of ever-increasing numbers of graduates without an equivalent level of growth in job openings. The market is saturated, and employers can pick and choose. This, unfortunately, tends to mean that they exclude lots of people somewhat arbitrarily.

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 15 October 2016 20:54 EDT (US) 2430 / 2504

If it goes a week or more since one's last post, then a subsequent post, even consecutive, does not count as a double. There, decided.

Oh wait, you all should hvae your say as well. I may or may not abide by that, but I can propose to try. All for?

I veto the motion. No double posts ever. It's a matter of principle I say.

... or something.

I will try to think of something to say.

lol'd.

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 16 October 2016 05:16 EDT (US) 2431 / 2504

Principles are fine things, until something dies because of it.

I do not want this thread to die. So if the principle is going to cause its death, I apply my own principle to keep it alive.

Besdies, that keeps the argument going, which in turn keeps the thread alive. Win win.

Also, if you disagree, you must post to say that, and again the thread remains alive.

Ha ha, win win win win.

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Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
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posted 16 October 2016 18:18 EDT (US) 2432 / 2504

Double posts with a week long furlough in between are ok in by book. Terikel has been doing it for a while anyway- and if you cant enforce a ban on it, may as well legalize it (It worked with pot anyway)...

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UrbanEngine
Legionary

posted 17 October 2016 01:28 EDT (US) 2433 / 2504

Finding a job as a young person isn't always difficult, it seems to depend entirely on what field you're in.

My partner is a social worker. She found work within a week of graduating at a disability care company, without any experience of course. She makes very good money too; Demand for people like her is insanely high down under.

Meanwhile I'm working on a physics/pure mathematics double major. I might as well resign myself to life as a NEET now.

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Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
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posted 17 October 2016 05:08 EDT (US) 2434 / 2504

Ah, another fellow Ozzie. Good to have you. Only another couple and we could turn this forum into a dedicated Australian zone..

Yea I think her speciality might be an issue. But still, hard to break into her field...

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Wars not make one great- Yoda

UrbanEngine
Legionary

posted 18 October 2016 08:23 EDT (US) 2435 / 2504

Sounds like a plan.
To be honest I was very surprised to find people still posting here, I assumed that everyone would have moved on at least to another forum if not for good. What keeps you all coming back?

Terikel Grayhair
Imperator
(id: Terikel706)

posted 18 October 2016 12:14 EDT (US) 2436 / 2504

I have a whip and a sword and know where they live.

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DominicusUltimus
Legate

posted 20 October 2016 00:38 EDT (US) 2437 / 2504

I have a whip and a sword and know where they live.

This is true. We live in constant fear of what Terikel will do to us if we attempt to leave...

Honestly though, I have a ton of fond memories of this place and I made many great friends in my time here. Might not be as active as it once was, but I still enjoy stopping by and "patrolling the halls" so to speak

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Terikel Grayhair
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(id: Terikel706)

posted 27 October 2016 10:40 EDT (US) 2438 / 2504

I don't think anybody is as active as we once were.

Growing old sucks the life out of you.

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Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 30 October 2016 08:41 EDT (US) 2439 / 2504

One pops back occasionally to see if any of one's favoured peasants have posted anything interesting recently.

*pops*

Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
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posted 30 October 2016 18:00 EDT (US) 2440 / 2504

Halloween again. Its a growing phenomenon in Australia- although it has almost no meaning here and is just becoming another commercialized enterprise. I blame American tv and culture...

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Wars not make one great- Yoda

General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 31 October 2016 21:03 EDT (US) 2441 / 2504

Are you sure it's not the pagan response to the death of religion?

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Terikel Grayhair
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posted 01 November 2016 11:50 EDT (US) 2442 / 2504

I am quite sure this holiday is driven by millions of children demanding candy or they will be little Vikings and go on a rampage.

So we pay them candy and they go away happy.

Until the Dentist comes.

bru ha ha ha ha.

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Awesome Eagle
Spear of Mars
(id: awesomated88)

posted 04 November 2016 16:13 EDT (US) 2443 / 2504

Are you sure it's not the pagan response to the death of religion?

Pagans- making people angry since time immemorial...

On a side note, i am almost done my under-graduate degree at university. Feels rather anti-climatic.

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History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are- David C. McCullough
Wars not make one great- Yoda

Edorix
High King of Britain

posted 05 November 2016 13:55 EDT (US) 2444 / 2504

Anyone else absolutely terrified by the US election?

Are you sure it's not the pagan response to the death of religion?

This sounds really deep and meaningful but I have no idea what it means. :S

Hannibal the Conqueror
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posted 05 November 2016 17:51 EDT (US) 2445 / 2504

Hey all! I hope everyone's doing well. Its been some time. I always keep tabs on what's happening here but its been months since I posted on the forums. Glad to see there's still some life in this forum.

Anyone else absolutely terrified by the US election?

Eh, a bit. Trump is bad enough but Clinton is even worse. I feel we're all equally screwed no matter who gets in, just in different ways depending on the winner.

About job experience, yes that is very frustrating. The only thing that could give experience are internships in the case of social science graduates but that doesn't help put food on the table.

"I long for Darkness."
- Cormac McCarthy, The Sunset Limited.

"We are a species that ravages, plunders, kills, destroys, rapes and enslaves in the name of progress."

Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 05 November 2016 22:19 EDT (US) 2446 / 2504

Are you sure it's not the pagan response to the death of religion?
This sounds really deep and meaningful but I have no idea what it means. :S

Filling a spiritual void with a costumes and sugar ritual?

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

Terikel Grayhair
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(id: Terikel706)

posted 07 November 2016 12:17 EDT (US) 2447 / 2504

Quoted from Awesome Eagle:
Pagans- making people angry since time immemorial...

Hey! I resemble that remark!

ba dum tish...

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Pitt
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 09 November 2016 05:29 EDT (US) 2448 / 2504

Oh, dear God, America.

"Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty, hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to talk French." - P.G. Wodehouse, The Luck of the Bodkins

Terikel Grayhair
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posted 09 November 2016 12:42 EDT (US) 2449 / 2504

"America the Brave" just took on a whole new meaning.

I am just glad the election is over so other news can come to the fore.

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General Sajaru
Tribunus Laticlavius

posted 09 November 2016 20:48 EDT (US) 2450 / 2504

He's not the first bad president America has had, nor will he be the last. Remember, we elected Richard Nixon not too long ago- twice.

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