I am a Bio-medical Engineer specializing in tissue engineering and medical devices with a SECOND MAJOR In Chemistry with American Chemical Society certification. I can’t find anything in my discipline and when I apply for a job like an exterminator, for example, they treat me like I’m a common criminal and they will either expect me to work under probationary pay for a year and eventually retire with them or otherwise I’m “not a good fit for the company” and I’m a “big loss to the company if they were to hire me.”
“I know it’s hard for you to understand, but when a big company like us hires an inexperienced employee like you, it costs us twice the salary to train you and get you up to speed.”
When you mention that you want to go to grad school one day and possibly better yourself, they ask you why you even bothered applying. I’m living in poverty. I can’t afford the food that keeps my body from dying and low life dead end jobs are saying I’m not qualified and I’m a liability. Some of these people didn’t even finish high school.
Edit: I started my own CORPORATION that was exterminating mosquitoes in my local area and when I go to interviews they tell me that “we like to see that you have worked for other people” like what the fuck. These people don’t want to hire. They have to be milking some system that gives them money when they mess with you like that. Like why did you even call me back? Oh and don’t ever mention that you are a “free spirit” they don’t want to hear that you use your saved pay to go on vacations during holidays. That is an automatic no hire. This should be illegal. All job applications should have to run through a federally mandated queue and you have to hire for at least two years. If you have the degree. They are required to hire. No say in the matter.
So right now I’m living in my parents house mining Bitcoin contributing to global warming and feeding my tax dollars into a right wing Christian economy that, in time, will literally destroy the world. All because I did EXACTLY as I was told. And now I am berated for doing just such. My prayers to all of you. I know I’m not the only one.