My name is Chris Haltiner, 34 years old, With 10+ years combined retail, shipping/receiving, manufacturing and production, circuit board -surface Finish – immersion gold operator, hotel and night auditor with bookkeeping experience and everything else associated in conjunction with those jobs including instructor/trainer and supervisory duties under my belt.
I graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree focusing on criminal justice and social programs of society meant to help people: knowing full well the atrocities of those who fall through the crack of society through no fault of their own. Graduated Magnum Cum Laude, GPA 3.89, Honored on the dean's list 5 semesters consecutively.
Despite all that I have worked for and strive to achieve: I have no job, I have no real home of my own, I have no prospects of being financial independent, still burdened with school loans that may never get paid off. And of what jobs i have tried to get i have been turned down as being insufficient or not qualified.
It is a lie that if you do “X” that “Y” will come: that if you work hard you will succeed. There are so many besides myself that fell for the lie and tried to make themselves more valuable in work and knowledge and now we are all trapped in poverty scraping by with no escape.
More than 150+ applications in the last year and NONE of them and panned out with a job to afford a single home and pay bills where i live. My education has not helped me once to secure any meaningful employment to be financially independent. From supervisor down to basic shift lead positions i have been turned down so many times. And of the few lead positions that were offered in the valley I live in the wages would consume 60% + of the take home pay just to afford the housing of the area without including utilities or anything else.
To make it worse: of what few manufacturing jobs around where I live that would pay a barely livable wage they all require harsh demanding physical labor, 12 hour rotating shifts, with no consideration of the stress and workload of the jobs which has resulted in some of these companies having the reputation of high turnover and bad working conditions.
So the Irony is that if i would have taken one of “those” Manufacturing jobs when I was 21 and worked for 13 straight years, despite the mental and physical toll it would have taken on my body, I would literally be better off financially then had I done all the other jobs and gotten my education.
Life should not be this hard. No one who is willing to contribute into society “work” in some degree, whatever it may be, should feel this trapped, feel so worthless, to be without a home and ability of taking care of ones self and be independent