I got laid off today!!!!!

OCD_Maniac

OCD_Maniac

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Yup thats right, they laid me off today. I was only at my new job for a month and afterwards, today they cut me off. Sucks, I wanted to start saving money too and now I have to perform the action of job hunting and job hunting sucks.

At 29yrs old I have to ask my parents for cash WHICH I EXTREMELY HATE!!!! Please don't make fun of me, I know relying on my parents for some cash at my age, geessssshhh!!

One of my friends too who is in his 30s recently foreclosed his home and feels devastated. Right now I have craiglist open and currently searching for another profession, darnett.

I live in Los Angeles California and I wish Beemerboy, Charlesw, Clean_Dean, Patrick_Holland, Poorboys, Stephen, and every person who knows how to detail live near me!!!!!

WHY????? So we can all start a huge detailing business and make some money. I already have a company name on my mind "Precision Auto-Detailing". I am tired of being broke and many of my friends too and we are all COLLEGE GRADS!!!!! Many of my friends who is in their 20s are a bit on the financial crisis and some of them have to move back with their parents which totally sucks.

Hey Beemerboy I DEMAND YOU to move to california so we can start a detailing business and rule the automotive detailing industry. CALIFORNIA IS THE STATE WITH THE MOST DRIVERS. There are tons of hot women here hahahaha im rambling sorry.

I wish I mastered card-counting and take my skills to vegas and play hold'em all day.
 
Sorry about your situation.
That said, I don't think anyone would laugh at you.
And 2 other things. Beemerboy does live in Ca. And card counting wont do you any good at holdem, just blackjack

I know it sounds crazy, but the lay off today might just be the thing that makes you more successfull than you know. Good luck.
 
Dude..thanks for thinking of me:D getting laid off is no fun, not one person here will make fun of you for it, nor asking your mom and dad for some help!

Be glad that they can!


You will find something soon just keep that nose to the grind stone!
 
Good luck! Be thankful your parents can and will help you out.Hang in there.:passout:
 
sorry to hear that. i am going thru some bad times also. :wall
i quit my current job to prusue a better offer about 36 miles away. this all went down about a month ago. well, it was one week training,then a final test. well, rolled the dice and lost. i did not pass their test. it something they started about 8 months ago because of a poor retention rate. i never went thru something so stupid. best way i can explain it is if i hired you for a ford assembly plant to put hoods on the ford ranger. in 5 days you had to learn everything that truck touched,what it was made of,and every material that went in that truck! :rofl yea,right. no test in the world is going to tell how a person is going to work on the floor,or if they are going to be reliable. etc...

whatever, that distance would have killed me in the long run.

so, here i am job searching again,in a depressed area.:passout:

i have sent several resume's out and registered with all the job services here.

only solid lead i have is one of the services sent me on a interview to a metal fabracation place right up the street.

i was shocked to see one of my old supervisors !! a good thing. they are full right now, but as soon as someone slips up, or there is a opening, i should get called. i can only hope.

been living off some savings i had put aside.

scary times. hated to rant here....but that's my situation for now. by god, this is america, and the system prevents a person that want's to work, find a decent job. well, here is hoping something surfaces soon!:inspector:
 
OCD, I'm sorry to hear of your news. I've been laid off a couple of times in my life and it does indeed suck. The first time I was laid off I too had get help from my parents. Be thankful they are there and able to help you.

This is a difficult time. Hang in there and focus on getting a job. As my Father told me the first time I was laid off, "your job now is to find a job". While that sounds like an obvious point it is worth stating. You need to focus energy on a job search just like it was your full-time job. Getting on Monster, Hot Jobs, etc is good and should be done, but the best way to find a job is to network.

Also, file for unemployment. Some people are embarrassed to do that, but companies pay taxes to fund it and that is what it is there for. It's not a lot of money but better than nothing!

Patriot, all this goes for you to man. My mantra for you both is NETWORK!

Good luck!
 
rabbi said:
Good luck! Be thankful your parents can and will help you out.Hang in there.:passout:
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How true :rockon


I learned a long time ago that sometimes people are too proud to take a job below what they think they are qualified for... I once was one of them until I worked with a teacher that had been making high six figures on Madison Avenue in advertising, and he took a job as a replacement shop teacher in a Junior High school. He told me his father had been a carpenter and he had learned about carpentry as a child and had a skill to fall back on in hard times. I also know a very skilled body man (auto body) that does janitorial work at nights to pay the bills... you do what you can ... when you can ;)
 
Yeah, nobody is laughing at you. My wife and I even built our new home with an external entrance to the basement, a kitchen and laundry and a second master bedroom. We did this knowing that chances are high one of our three children and perhaps their family might have to drop in for an extended period. I know others in my generation that have taken similar precautions. It is scary looking at today's economy and I really don't know how I expect my kids to achieve the American dream. Good luck in your job hunt.
 
off this afternoon to register at yet another job service.
they have some assembly jobs, but will not tell you anything on the phone. so you have to go out and register with them.

this will make the fifth one....lol

you can never have enough hooks in the water, when you are job searching.

my main experience is in manufacturing and assembly.

OCD...best of luck to you.

problem with this area is...not what you know, who you know.

NEPATISM at its best. guess like a buddy said "hate the game, not the player."

when i was younger, i did put some years in a dealership as a detailer. slave wages. when you do it for a dealership.
 
I know that all of us are in somewhat of a tough situation one way or another. OCD, you are in a crowd with many others. 20 somethings with all the education and nothing to show for. I feel you brother. 3 years ago I graduated near the top of my class at the 6th highest ranked business school in the country. Well here I am on unemployment doing detailing on the side and living paycheck to paycheck. Yes it does suck to borrow money but just be grateful your parents can help.

Reddwarf is right just keep networking. OCD and Patriot this is the best way to find a job when your other leads are being exhausted. Although I have not had a job offer yet networking has got me darn close. Hang in there guys.
 
Poorboy said:
How true :rockon


I learned a long time ago that sometimes people are too proud to take a job below what they think they are qualified for... I once was one of them until I worked with a teacher that had been making high six figures on Madison Avenue in advertising, and he took a job as a replacement shop teacher in a Junior High school. He told me his father had been a carpenter and he had learned about carpentry as a child and had a skill to fall back on in hard times. I also know a very skilled body man (auto body) that does janitorial work at nights to pay the bills... you do what you can ... when you can ;)
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Good God Steve! I imagine you sitting cross-legged on the ground with a long flowing beard and dressed in a Guru's clothes as I am reading your reply...:rofl
 
jlift said:
Good God Steve! I imagine you sitting cross-legged on the ground with a long flowing beard and dressed in a Guru's clothes as I am reading your reply...:rofl
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sit on the ground :eek: what have you been smoking :notme:
beards are too itchy :D
 
I feel for ya, man. Believe me I've been there and done that. I'm 32 and have been laid off three times at one job and twice at two other jobs. I'm a corporate trainer and when things slow down it is usually the trainers who are the first to go. I work for American Express right now and just waiting for the shoe to drop since training is extremely slow right now. Fortunately I lead a team that will likely get cuts from them before I do, but it is still a stressful time for anybody in an expendable position.

My recomendation is to just get a job. Any job. Don't get picky. It is much easier to find a job when you have one. As an employer I can tell you that someone who has been out of work for six months while waiting for the perfect job is much less attractive than someone who has been working whatever he could for the last six months while trying to get back into the business. Focus on an industry that provides a need and not just a want. For example, people need firemen, policemen, mechanics, doctors, etc. Think about the jobs you pretended to be when you were a kid. Those are the needs. Nobody pretended they were an investment banker when they were a kid. Well, not many kids did anyway. ;) Trust me, when you are working in an industry that provides a need, you will feel less stressed about losing that job to technology or economic down turns. Whenever I get laid off the first thing I do is dust off the legal resume and go back to work in firms that are overloaded with work. They can't program a computer to file all that paperwork or do that research, so that is where the people come in. Then when a job in training opens back up again I go back to where my bread and butter skills are. It's always good to have those backup skills just in case stuff like this happens.

Good luck in your search!
 
Sorry to hear of this OCD_Maniac, i had my hrs cut so bad, that i'm getting low on funds and my 401K took a beating last week. Hope things turn around for you soon.
 
Sorry to hear what happened. As many have said noone will make fun of you for asking anyone for help. That is what family is there for to help when times are good and to help even more when the times are not so good. Keep your head up and move forward. As mentioned get your foot in somewhere, work a job that pays the bills as you continue to search for the job you really want.
 
I got laid off a while back when the firm I was with went through some ownership changes, jacked up hourly rates, and lost a lot of clients. IT led me to a job I really did not want for a while, but did give me some unique experience and exposed me to some Japanese culture that I otherwise would not have seen. Just keep your head up and keep looking for something. Something is bound to happen.
 
With the way this countries economy is going I am really glad I have a job that is really secure. I work as a Nuclear Security Supervisor at a power plant and no matter what I am needed to protect this place from the what if's. OCD I don't know where you are from but you may want to check and see if there are any power plants in your area. Pay is great and it is a secure job. just an idea.

Andrew
 
I've had a horrible time trying to find a job in Tahoe, there's NOTHING right now, and NOONE seems to even understand wtf detailing is. To be honest, I didn't want to have to rely on it up here, but there's not much else.

I did get a promising phone call from Heavenly yesterday though, they have their job fair Saturday and I'm going to get there first thing and hopefully get a job in the shop or something :rockon

Good luck with CL, OCD...
 
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