I feel like I’m grasping at thin air.
I’ve applied to countless jobs and I’m not even getting to the interview stage on anything. Even on things I feel I’m beyond qualified for. My background is in desktop support. If no one will hire me I thought of trying to wing it myself and put fliers up offering tech support.
I never finished college. So I don’t have any degree aside from highschool. My prospects are looking and feeling bleak.
What would you do if you were me Lemmy?
I ran outta money before the degree arrived, unlike my bro who got 3 of 'em on sponsorship.
But I never stopped working. Almost 30 years since.
At my shop there’s a ‘24’-level (clued but accessible, no super-niche shit) 75%-remote (1/4 rotation in the package receipt point for FedEx deliveries, and the only job in the company which requires any onsite time) desktop support guy. I think it’s 80k-105k(yr5). It’s in the v8x area, so unfortunately not in America.
You only need to win once. Please keep looking.
I would lie about having a degree and try to land a job that won’t verify it
It’s crossed my mind. I just worry about eventually being caught and the fraud aspect.
It’s been a while since I was in the job market (I’ve been disabled almost 15 years), but the advice I consistently received was ‘call them’. If you apply online or file a resume or even drop one off in person, you’re just one name in a sea of applicants. File the resume, give it 3 days or so, then call them. Talk to the hiring manager if you can. Tell them who you are and what you’re looking for. Find out if they have a timetable on when they’re hiring. If they don’t give you one keep calling them every few days until they hire you or say ‘no thanks’. At that point you go from being one rando among dozens or more to being that one really persistent person who seemed super interested in the job and whose name is now memorable when they get around to looking at your resume.
This suggestion won’t guarantee you anything, but maybe consider the businesses where you’d have an advantage.
- Any place where a current employee gives you a recommendation.
- Any place very close to where you live, because they will assume you are reliable. Especially if you can walk, bike, or roll there.
- A business that uses computers, but doesn’t already have plenty of people with the same background as you. In other words, if you’ve only applied for helpdesk roles with large companies, try applying to work at the paperclip-manufacturing company that’s a five minute walk from your home and that you never knew existed. Your job might be to answer the phone or pay the bills, but if you have computer skills then that might be the reason they hire you.
