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How Do You Job-Hunt If You Work Overtime?
Lord_Dweomer asks: "As a recent college grad, I took a job to pay the bills, but soon realized that it would end up sucking the life out of me. I work a lot of overtime in a high-stress, tight deadline job. Once you get into that kind of downward spiral, how do you find another job?"
"All my free time, during the week, is completely non-existent, and the weekends are needed to take care of chores, and preserve my mental health. Are potential employers typically sensitive to the fact that I may not be able to interview during the week or during standard work hours? Also, will having left here after a year seem like a real black mark on my resume? My reasons for leaving, aside from the overtime (I am non-exempt), would be that I've basically been promoted in work load and responsibilities -- and have even taken on another job role, IN ADDITION to my current one. All of this without a raise in pay, or new title.
I'd quit if I had a choice, but I really need the money, yet I'm unable to look for a new job because of lack of time. How am I supposed to job hunt under these circumstances?"
I'd quit if I had a choice, but I really need the money, yet I'm unable to look for a new job because of lack of time. How am I supposed to job hunt under these circumstances?"
Honestly... what the hell does this have to do with technology, science, or anything pertinent to this site? This is the most retarded post I've ever seen on /. (no offense to the poster.) Dude, go talk to your parents about this kind of thing. Slashdotters are losers anyways (me included); why would you want advice from us? More importantly though, how did this question make it to the homepage? One will never know...
Stop whining.... do some real work. The rest of us do... Welcome to the real world after college... It is not all lazing around at the frat house and delivering a few pizzas on the weekend while your parents pay your credit card, cell phone, tuition, etc etc...
A new low. This is the dumbest question I've seen posted to Slashdot yet. I can't believe this shit made it into an article.