Job Hunting - Taking a break

Good Luck, ExB. I failed an honesty test once. The manager told me I was too honest.Take a rest, but don't lose the game. It's closing in on 20 years since my accident and I miss what I did. Will keep some prayers and thoughts for you

Good luck with your job hunting .......the redundancies in those forms are absolutely ridiculous! Take a break and carry on👍👍

I miss working, the traveling....it bites being retired/disabled!!

The Texas Employment Commission has been very helpful in the past for me.

Indeed helped me find my current job, you probably started there so good luck.

I was thinking you were doing a PhD. But still, finding a place can be tough. I was there once after I did my post doctoral research. Universities were wanting me to have had a ton of papers, which I didn't have.

Although, that helped me change career path so I didn't mind, but still... I hope places are lining up to have you.

As do I. I'm told by my dissertation chair and most of the faculty here that I shouldn't have a problem finding a place, simply because I am willing to move pretty much anywhere, and since I am a citizen, no visas or issues where the hiring school has to sponsor. So we'll see. Cheers!

Good luck in your search and the dissertation process. What is your area of interest, if you don’t mind my asking?

Happily self employed with a career doing something I love and not a job, thankfully.

Thanks for the info Exben. It’s fun to switch gears once in a while and try something new!

Now watching a "job interview on TV. I am glad that I am no longer in the market for a job. Good luck.

In interviews I always showed up on time and they didn't.

Every time, without fail, I would be asked to wait for up to an hour in a waiting room for his/her majesty to make an appearance . I always felt this was an underhanded way to tell me I wasn't worth anything. A way to diminish me. See? We can make you wait. Your time isn't worth anything. We are better than you. And we made you wait to show you that you need us - and we don't need you.

Was this intentional? I really don't care. I always noticed it, remembered it and considered it rude and disrespectful. It was one of many, many reasons why I went out on my own. They would never do it to a valued client or a higher up. Yet they will do it to you.


Today, they make the entire hiring experience inordinately difficult and time consuming. I had to go through barrages of tests, multiple interviews to be "judged", lunches and dinners. It was like an equivalent of a CIA background investigation into my resume, education, experience etc. They could decide up until the last interview for any reason whatsoever to say "no" and I would never, ever be compensated for my time invested.


In other words, these sons of bitches .... they wanted to fire a loyal dedicated employee who had been with this company since it was founded, stayed with the company, signed a contract with the original owners that carried through, and after 30+ years they wanted to can him so they could cut off his pension the CFO told the district manager his pension was coming out of his local quarterlies (which affect their commissions) and would thus affect his salary.

I was incensed to hear this. I did not accept the position. These were the same people working with this guy every day in the office. Smiling, saying hello, talking about the weekend, telling jokes, asking about his family etc and here they are in a conference room ... secretly plotting behind his back to can this poor older gentlemen. I wanted to tell him so bad but I signed an NDA and would have risked legal action. That interview really stands out. It was one of many reasons I left the corporate rat race. So I guess I should thank them for helping me along.


People said I was stupid for turning it down. "who cares what happens to him - its not your fault" "Business is business" "they will just find someone else" "It's dog eat dog today get used to it" "you should have taken the position" "you are an idiot" Bla Bla bla. The bottom line is if they did it to him - they would do it to me.

Some of the older people, or baby boomers may never have had to go through any of this back in America's glory days; when people had a code of honor. Consider yourselves fortunate.