Does the United States have a spending problem? Obviously, but I really wanted to talk about how the cost of living crisis is presenting itself in your community. That relates to this article because you can’t squeeze blood from a stone. If all of you have no disposable income, no savings, and a job market that can’t support your current cost of living… What happens if you lose your job? Do you default on loan obligations along with America because we are stretched to the edge. Should we vote in members of congress to pass more tax breaks for private jets?Are mods whack? Let me know in the comments.
I’ve done a lot of 4 part interviews and personality testing, weird competence tests, pretty much anything asked. I’m starting to suspect that the recruiters don’t look at those either. Most of the jobs I see are just sales jobs for robbing rich boomers. I think that’s what bothers me the most. The best jobs are scams, it’s a scam economy. Want to make more than a doctor? Just sell 50,000 siding jobs!
I mean im mostly looking in IT, so competency tests are not untward and usually if I go the distance at least 3 interviews, but it does feel often like they just don’t want to commit. I can say that winter of 24/25 were everything seemed to stall when I did recived replies it was often they are not moving forward whereas I identify stuff moving somewhere after spring 25 because I would get some that they went with someone else. I think this where I really got screwed. Being let go a month and a half before the election is what pushed me to over a year not working and now its a black eye along with my age. That being said the whole field seems to have gotten wierd with ai and purple squirrel type of thing. It reminded me a bit of around 2000 where adverts are asking for a set of requirements that are or virtually are impossible to fullfill. Again I feel its gotten a bit better but kinda anemic. Like they realize they need people but just don’t want to commit funds and are super easy to pull back. So I can say that before companies I worked at were pretty much identifying their budget for the fiscal year and committing to it before the year started. I feel now they are not deciding their budget till the first month of the fiscal year and are now very tentative about everything they do.
I’m looking at sales jobs with proficiency and personality tests. Usually in between multiple interviews. The analyst jobs make sense but a 45 minute test with a pass and no interview is also insane. I’ve had a lot of job offers with unpaid training or paybacks or just about any predatory practice they can imagine.
I tried doing Customer service thinking it would be easy and I swear to god that phone rang every second I was logged in. Endless emails and teams messages from corporate simultaneously. $16 an hour and I got 2 higher ups paid to listen to my calls, and the machine made sure I never had a chance to breathe during 10 hour shifts. Oh and 10-50 hours a week with no say in the schedule. So some weeks I was bringing home $90. Hour long commutes and $17 an hour economy. I moved $300k in merch for them and was paid less than $3k. Between that and the multiple layers of supervision that don’t offer support, I assume they could raise my wage by 25% without cutting into their insane profits. That is my state’s biggest employer $1 billion revenue business.
Anyway I’m broadly moving around multiple industries and it’s all the same practices and it’s all a joke.