I am a retired RN. After my husband died in a car wreck I continued to work for a while but than I decided to quit after I felt the need to take over our firewood business. I felt the need to take over business because good help is hard to find sometimes and its very expensive to run a business when people don't respect your property. Its a great business and I enjoy the work,( no, I don't cut the wood) but I see that things may not continue the way they've always run. If I go back to nursing, a job I've done for 30 years, I would have to go back to school to do the same work. At 61 I don't think this is an option because the rate of tuition is out there and I don't want to retire with that kind of debt. Frankly, I'm burnt out on nursing and nurses don't have the freedom to be with patients like we used to have. Corporate America wants to micro manage everything and its not a glamorous profession like they want you to think. With the media bantering on about how great the job market is it seems all these jobs are minimum wage with no benefits. Good luck to those searching.

Congrats and good luck in your new job. My daughter has been looking for 5 months now. She’s had interviews, sometimes multiple interviews and knows she’s done well. She has the experience and smarts for the positions she’s applied for but no offers. She thinks it’s because of her weight. She is a short little thing and is overweight which does not impact her job performance. If she gets an explanation it’s usually some excuse about deciding to go a different way.

My adult son has been trying to find a job for over six year, and no one will hire him. Unfortunately, he has Aspergers which most employers see as a disadvantage. Even Walmart and the grocery stores pass on him.

At age 27, this in itself makes it more difficult for him to find work as employers want to see a work history by then. It really pisses me off that you need experience to get a good job, however no one wants to take a chance on you to get that experience.

Congrats. That was an excrutiatingly long wait, I'm sure. I'm glad I've been out of the job market for some time now. Things used to be a lot easier. No mine fields of twitter, Facebook or other social media. Newspaper ads or employment agencies were the source of job leads.

I am done with work. Since the newspaper job died i had to work crappy jobs with crapy bosses. After i got sick my leg got worst. I am unhirable so waiting on ssd. I am going to study, music, photography and garden. As i got older harder to find or keep

Congratulations. Job searching is awful. Hope the new job is all that you wanted and more.

In the same boat.
One offer, wanting an immediate approval
Two more interviews, waiting.
Two more with assessments done.
And two more interviews this week.

I remember a job my ex got over 20 years ago. The offer came 2 months after the interview. Crazy. My son has been looking for work for a month and has had one interview and one offer which he declined. I will be on the market soon myself. It's a hard time, good luck.

Wishing you well in your job hunt. It's a jungle out there, that's for sure

From what I've heard that is kinda the way it goes today.
Best wishes

Good for you! That’s less than a month. Awesome! My husband just lost his position of 13 yrs. he is on week two…

Congratulations!

Good luck! If it doesn't workout for you, then try indeed.com for jobs in your area.

I lost my job when Radio Shack went under, and got divorced. Spent six months looking and on one interview it was me and a 22 or 3 year old. I dressed nicely with a tie and he had a t-shirt and jeans. He got fifteen minutes and I got five. Finally went to work under the AARP Foundations Senior Community Service Program and was placed in the Career Source. The Center Manager liked my work ethic and customer service skills and told me to apply for an opening. I got the job and was in it for six months and they changed management companies and the let me go. Center manager called and told me had put my application back in for an open position and got the job, again. Just got cut in hours but still employed. See people every day looking and looking, if the jobs creators are creating I don't see anything but minimum wage jobs that go no where!

as far as you r experience, congratulations! i didn't mean to be completely negative.

i need a new job. i'm in a predicament that doesn't provide for that right now. to make it worse, we were told we were moving offices (an hour and a half commute and not cllose to mass transit as i was using) ... i signed a car note. our office is not moving and we are not getting the differential in pay for the added tolls, gas, etc. i waited until we were a month away from the move to even look at cars. i feel like i'm drowning and may have to get a part time job just to facilitate my full time gig. it's absurd.

Temp agencies can be a really good path to a lasting career. You get your foot in the door, wow them with your skills and attitude (maybe make them laugh too) and lots of times they will take you on for a position. (If you even want it) The reason they need a temp in the first place is because they have an open position.They can interview you while you are working. It worked for me!

Congratulations!
They said on BBC that Trump cutting corporate taxes has created more US jobs, but that cutting taxes is increasing the national debt, putting the US in danger of a future crash worse than that in 2008.

But for now, there are more jobs. Hard to tell what will happen in reaction to the trade war, but so far it's not affected the US as much as the countries opposing the US.

I'm pretty sure I got my job because I made my supervisor laugh first thing in the interview. The first thing she said was "I don't know if you're aware or not but we are a collection agency." I said "I knew that and applied anyway." That was Wednesday and I started on Monday. It'll be 5 years in October.

Congrats!!!

I drive for Doordash and that's all I've been able to do for a while. I count myself fortunate that I have other means of support. My housemate and close friend, however, has been job searching for a few years, now. She went to school to get a biomedical cert only to find there was no work available in that field despite their telling her otherwise. She has an advocate and still no luck. She has no criminal record, no illegal drugs, no bad job history, is throwing apps and resumes into the uncaring void every day. But, well, she's 43, mentally ill, overweight, and not 'conventionally attractive.'. I am just furious at this employment meat market.

Sorry to drag the thread down, but this is my experience.

Sounds like you have accepted that verbal offer. Congrats!

I have worked in state government for the last 10 years so I haven't been in the job market for a while. That said, I HAVE tried to promote within state service and that has been rather frustrating. I already have promoted to a certain level and my next step would be a management job. I meet the state qualifications for it and am on the appropriate hiring list, but I'm finding what I believe to be a perfect storm of age discrimination, gender discrimination, and "good 'ol boy/girl" networks all working against me. As with any "union shop" hiring offices are legally required to jump through certain hoops (advertise publicly, screen applications and schedule & hold interviews), but at the end of the day, they seem to already know who they want before any of that activity takes place. And that sucks! I experienced the same thing when I worked as a bottled water delivery driver for a family owned (but unionized) company while "competing" for route foreman positions.

Nice work! I haven't really looked in a few years except for my partner, and she's in a very specific field, so don't feel like it would be representative. Good question though, I'm also interested to hear others experiences lately.

All I can say is that if you look wishing to find then you will

At my company you apply online and once they get all your info you are called in for an interview. If everything is in order and they need someone you will most likely get the job. In my own experience it was well over a month before I got the phone call to come in and interview.