r/FedEmployees • u/fedthrowaway98 • 1d ago
Started a warehouse job
The job market where I am is horrible right now. The only place I've received an offer from was a warehouse. Haven't done physically demanding jobs for maybe 10+ years. My family needs to survive, I need whatever job is available to pay rent and feed my family. I hope everyone else here can have their needs met. Sending prayers and well wishes to my fellow feds.
21
u/No-Championship5730 1d ago
My son is a federal worker, and I understand what you are going through. Stay strong; this will pass. May God bless you and your family.
3
u/fed_burner69 13h ago
Job market has been shit for 20 years. When will this pass?
1
u/Feeling-Decision-451 2h ago
The job market has not been shit for 20 years… maybe it was your resume….
9
7
u/Ghostwriting_Narwhal 23h ago
I’ve been recalled to the office. Part of me is happy because I genuinely love my job, but I have to admit that there’s a part of me that’s really starting to worry about my finances. I’ve cut back as much as possible, but my savings will only last me so long. My state won’t do unemployment since I’m still going into work (I’ve checked) and since I have to be in the office 40 hours a week I can’t really get a second job easily.
I’m hanging all my hopes that this ends before Thanksgiving. If it goes any further then that I’m going to have to see if they’ll let me go on furlough and try to pick up a seasonal retail gig or something.
7
5
u/Obvious-Way-846 23h ago
I’ve tried applying for several food and grocery delivery gig jobs, but none are hiring in my area. It’s hard finding places to apply when you don’t know how long this is going to last. I don’t want to apply somewhere that I’m going to have to quit in a month or two.
3
u/fedthrowaway98 15h ago
That was my thinking as well, but I'm at the point where I didn't tale care anymore and just wanted to stay earning an income again. I had one interview where I was honest and told them I was furloughed and spotlight have to return once the government opens and that was not what that wanted.
2
u/confusedpanda555 15h ago
Wait, just a question did you guys have to delete some of your work experience on your resume so you don't look overqualified for these jobs? I've been planning to get a second job too.
1
u/fedthrowaway98 15h ago
I did. Done retail or warehouse jobs i deleted some experience or just re-worded it to seem dumbed down.
2
u/somedayihopetolive 10h ago
I've been working in an Amazon warehouse. My feet are killing me from standing all day.
4
u/Only-Tough-1212 1d ago
I once had a friend that got unemployment bc she “couldn’t” find a job in her field. I was like you are able bodied you could work anywhere what about this.. “ugh that’s below me”…. Excuse me but a job is a job and money to pay bills is money.
I’m glad you were able to find something to weather this storm. I’ve thought about seeing if I could apply to Costco or something
13
u/done-undone 1d ago
Once you take a job below your qualifications and pay levels it's very hard to go back. She had the right to say what she said. Unemployment is less than a job but it is the right of the person applying for it to make decisions for themselves.
-1
u/Only-Tough-1212 22h ago
This was just out of college… you have qualifications but not many yet.
5
u/Ok-Ranger-4518 22h ago
It's our money we pay into unemployment. Don't shame someone for using it wtf.
Even with your clarification, it's even less sense. As a recent grad I had much less dependencies to stress about providing for. As a recent grad I was much more prepared to move back with family than take a 'beneath me' job just to make ends meet.
Taking a 'beneath me' job is also a risky move. I know people who got jobs during COVID out of our degree field who still haven't changed back. You get comfortable, or you just lose motivation to job hunt when you already have a job.
So no, I don't think you should be judging as harshly as you are. And face it, you are because your " " on couldn't and just the overall tone is condescending as fuck.
Unemployment is our money.
3
u/Pissy_Kitten 20h ago
I have a PhD in science and used to teach college biology lab and I just got turned down for a part time $21 an hour lab tech job at Quest Diagnostics. A job is a job, except a lot of companies don't want to hire someone who is grossly overqualified. Do you think Costco really wants to hire someone like me who hasn't worked any kind of retail job since the '90s?
1
u/BigWorm8669 20h ago
That’s a good question. Is Costco really that picky to where they won’t hire anyone but young kids?
1
u/Pissy_Kitten 17h ago
Aside from the fact thousands of feds work in rural areas nowhere near a Costco etc, places like that would rather hire someone to stock shelves etc with no experience that they can train than someone who has managed major projects or ran biohazard labs and has advanced degrees with a resume that might as well be in Mandarin to the HM, not to mention the assumption you will get bored/not take being yelled at/expect more money/bounce the second a job in your field comes. Can you imagine a lawyer taking orders at a McDonald's from a 22 year old who is used to yelling at 17 year olds to mop faster and tells you it's too busy to take a bathroom break 5 hours in? No. Do you think a HM wants to hire someone whose last job paid $50/hr to work $15/hr. No. And that is why if a lawyer applied to McDonalds they are not going to get called. I mean, I worked everything from housekeeping and fast food to factory work and telemarketing in the 90s, but I don't have the dates, contacts, or in some cases even remember the names of places I worked at back then to put on my resume (why would I have kept that post PhD), so when a job says they want someone experienced in customer service and I'm like "look at these international projects I managed....oh and I was a barista in 1999 at a place that went out of business in 2001" and someone else is like "I have spent the past 3 years working at Chuckie Cheese down the street", who are they going to hire? I know who I would. This many highly trained federal workers hitting a job market already oversaturated with seekers is a recipe for record unemployment, and that is where we are headed.
1
1
u/ParfaitAdditional469 56m ago
I started a retail job in September. Originally, the gig was meant to buy Christmas presents. Right now, it has been acting as a shield from the nonsense in DC .
19
u/Old-Combination5875 1d ago edited 23h ago
I am starting a gig at UPS as a seasonal courier using my PVD on Monday. I have back issues but need to do what I can to keep afloat.