Feeling discouraged and hopeless!?

Question

I've been on the job hunt for 5 months now. I have gone on 9 interviews but no such luck. This job market sucks major ***! I'm constantly sending out resumes and pounding the payment so to speak but all my efforts seem pointless and not getting me anywhere! I have over 10 yrs of work experience in administrative, customer service work and know that I am qualified if not over qualified for the positions I've applied for. I've even applied to retail jobs and have been rejected! I'm really losing hope and can't take another godamn rejection. I'm also really scared that my money will run out before I find a job and I will be homeless! Could you please give me some advice? I really need some encouragment. Thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

If you know that you are qualified if not over qualified then you will find a job. I understand that rejection can bring down how you feel about yourself, asking yourself why? And leaving you without an answer. Just have faith in yourself and keep on trying. You could move to an area where there are higher job opportunities?

I hope it all works out for you.

Answer 2

Just keep trying.  You could get a job at say Mc'donalds or something to get by until you find something better.  Working there is better than homeless.

I'm sure you'll find something. Keep positive.

Answer 3

I just wrote out a nice long answer but yahoo ate it.

Don't give up.  Even if you did end up homeless, don't give up.  I've been there and yes it sucks, but it doesn't mean you can't get off the streets.  

Try taking some stuff off your resume so that when you send it out you don't look overqualified.  Resumes are just to get you noticed, interviews are where you win them over.

Honestly though the best thing I suggest to encourage you is to find a hobby.  Find something you enjoy doing and make time to do it.  Looking for a job is a lot work, and you need to take time for yourself.  You don't necessarily do anything that costs a lot of money, or even any money.  Just find time to do something that makes you feel good about yourself.  Another thing you might want to consider is to find a support group in your area (basing this on the fact that this question is the mental health section)

Answer 4

Rejection is addressed in section 9 of my website, at http://www.ezy-build.net.nz/~shaneris and also see financial tips, in section 0, to help you cut your present expenses to the bone. You may possibly be developing exogenous (situational) depression, related to this. View section 2: page R first. Omega 3 fish oil supplements are inexpensive, and a good first line of defence.

SAVINGS: There are ALWAYS many savings you can make: get books on household hints & home economics at the library. Have oatmeal for breakfast, take sandwiches & fruit for lunch, and mostly beans, peas, & vegetables for dinner, with fish 3x weekly, but meat/poultry once, or so, weekly. Wear old clothes at home, and buy from op shops, when needed, saving the best for work, and going out (infrequently). If in the USA, apply for food stamps: call 211.  Make cheap cleaning products from vinegar, salt, borax, ammonia, washing soda, etc. Car pool with nearby neighbours, alternating. ~~~ I think Martha Stewart has a book called, "Good Things," that has lots of useful tips, that would work in the 50's as well as today.

Your mother's book could have been one by Erma Bombeck she wrote cookbooks. However, there were household hints for doing just about anything.

the book was help full hints from Heloise ~~~

was it "helpful hints from heloise"? ~~~ "Hints from Heloise" book.

or household hints from heloise. In Australia: "1001 household hints" was excellent.

  Contact a social worker, through a doctor, free clinic, or the hospital, because they have many suggestions, and contacts. Volunteer, even from home, at first, as shown in sections 38, and 47, at ezy build, below, to keep you in "work mode" and show potential employers your good character, and community spirit, as well as providing occupational therapy, and it may help with your parents, too.

Keep looking for jobs, and don't be too choosy, at first. Look for better ones, later: employer often give preference to those already employed. Try hotels, cleaners, restaurants, car yards (detailers often wanted) local businesses: go in person: leave your details. Try temping, and day labor. Even some of the more lucrative online surveys (refuse to pay out $!).

Don't appear overqualified (or overdressed) for the type of job you are applying for, because they may think that you're just going to be there a short time, when they want someone long term. If asked why, you can say you want a job with less stress. Like the above, my website has eaten some of my weblinks & info on this, so I'll just have to re-post some more questions, and save the answers to 2 seperate locations. Try the business section, too.

Answer 5

Have you tried going through placement agencies? They can have monthly contracts, part time jobs or full time positions to fill. Of course they take a bit of your salary but it beats being homeless...You simply send them your resume, sometimes they'll interview you, you tell them what type of job you want, what kind of contract and what's the minimum salary you want...Try it out before giving up!!

Good luck;)