EDIT: Sorry about the title, meant 'felt' of course up there.
This is just one example (and a potential one at that). I've been barely employed since April 2020 (picked up down the street gas stations jobs as long as I could stand it while COVID allowed us free online courses during lockdown and stuff)
My mother, in her trying to assist, mentioned a hiring fair somewhat distant (easy 45-60 min drive), but everything I could look up about it was $16-22/hr and only two divisions of workers they were looking for, though they don't say that in their flyers. They are looking for workers for a new warehouse, either low-level warehouse or CDLs.
I've worked at a clamazon most of a decade, got upgraded, did over a dozen different jobs depending on the day (from unloading a truck, to loading a line, to putting up inventory, to querying inventory, to fixing problem inventory, etc etc etc)
I started my life as an electronics tech military, then an auditor, then warehouse worker. Then got an online data analyst cert that I did in 7 months that was a 9 month program.Anyways, on to the meat of my message:
If I go to that hiring fair, I'm going to ask about anything except bottom-line workers. If they promise promotion from within, if they offer anything but exactly what I ask, I hope it's an open room/office, because then I will just stand and ridicule them for my experience vs. pay, and that will not even pay my mortgage (thankfully we bought a house before everything skyrocketed) monthly, and how do they expect me to live on that, and just walk out.
And lately, I think that is what I'll keep on doing, even in e-mail correspondence.I'm not looking for much, but I know SQL, Cognos, Python, R, excellent with excel in general (hell, local ICEE admin role, they said I was 2nd in their testings, and the interview went extremely well, then was ghosted), and experience should qualify for more than less than $15 like someone who walks through the door (though they should all get more pay as well), not gonna fall for that.
I'm just so resigned to how things are right now, I'll do all I can to get in the door to a face, then laugh hysterically at that face, and loudly, as I leave.