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post #1 of 51
8/25/10 at 1:54am
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Well this sucks....
I've recently graduated university, and am in the midst of job searching. Despite having an amazing resume/cv (and humble too!), the search isn't going great.(Social science degree, not a hot commodity) So I'm doing what alot of new grads do, move back home, get some local work, and send out resumes.

Which would be ok.... except for one thing:

I live in the bloody country. For most people, the 'country' is a small town of 5k or something. For me it's:

More cows than people.
The closest Wal-Mart being 90k away. (Though the closest movie theatre is only 45 now!)
Living outside a village of 400 people.

Now, there's not much work in my home area these days. Silver mine has closed, the lumber mills are dead, and what not.

At least I can find some work on the farm.(Nothing like 6-18 hour shifts) But my whole problem is the lack of resume experience. With absolutely no professional opportunities in the area, there's nothing to help my career.

Basically this is simply a rant, coupled with asking for any advice on the situation.


(Did I mention how boring the area is?)
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post #2 of 51
8/25/10 at 2:04am
you could always start doing drugs
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post #3 of 51
8/25/10 at 2:09am
Do a lot of reading. Try a little farming too. Can't see the harm in that.
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post #4 of 51
8/25/10 at 2:09am
Goddamn that sounds awesome. I would walk so much.
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post #5 of 51
8/25/10 at 2:45am
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Walking, skiing, biking, and 4-wheeling are pretty much all there is to do.

Our area tore up the train tracks about 20 years ago. There are now over 8000k of maintained snowmobile/4-wheeler trails, not counting the hundreds of kilometres of farm roads. Basically, New Brunswick is that capital of that.

As for reading, I basically live on novels. I don't get cable internet out where I live, so it's slow as hell for gaming/streaming movies.

Anyone my age(22) in the area is either married or with child. It's an area I know for a fact I'll retire too, and if my career permits it, raise kids in. But right now it's a long, tedious nightmare.
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post #6 of 51
8/25/10 at 2:51am
Since you live in a farming community... Are things there really cheap?

Why not learn how to cook?
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post #7 of 51
8/25/10 at 5:21am
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Originally Posted by L.R. View Post
It's an area I know for a fact I'll retire too, and if my career permits it, raise kids in.

Why?
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post #8 of 51
8/25/10 at 5:29am
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Originally Posted by L.R. View Post

Now, there's not much work in my home area these days. Silver mine has closed, the lumber mills are dead, and what not.


Hey isn't this an old Billy Joel song?
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post #9 of 51
8/25/10 at 6:17am
^ no, that was "allentown"
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post #10 of 51
8/25/10 at 10:02am
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Originally Posted by JoelF View Post
Hey isn't this an old Billy Joel song?

I lolled.

OP, why don't you just move? Get a part time job in a city to cover rent while looking for jobs?
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post #11 of 51
8/25/10 at 10:07am
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I lolled.

OP, why don't you just move? Get a part time job in a city to cover rent while looking for jobs?

Yeah, that's the traditional solution to your problem. Move to the big city, get a cheap ass apartment, work in a restaurant to cover the rent and go from there.

No reason to be stuck in a tiny backwater with nothing for the rest of your life if that's not really what you want (and it sounds like it sure as hell isn't).
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post #12 of 51
8/25/10 at 10:07am
Dude you have to get out of that place. Trust me. I am from a very similar situation, and it is easy to think that that is your only option. But Metro is right. You need to be in the city. Fuck, get a job at Barnes and Noble if you have to. Do something. Get out of your shithole little town and do something before you end up like all the kids we went to high school with---- three kids, already on a second marriage, and a DUI by 22.
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post #13 of 51
8/25/10 at 10:41am
You don't need to move home. Move to a larger town, get a job that atleast pays for rent and food, and start from there.
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post #14 of 51
8/25/10 at 10:59am
I also ended up in a similar situation, basically, my parents moved us around a lot growing up andthen they moved to the country for their enjoyment, later on - but moving home wasn't an option, because there were no employment opportunities in that town. I did go home for a year a few years ago due to some health problems, and I basically didn't even bother looking for work, because there was nothing legitimate. It wasn't as small as 400 people, my parents town is more like 80K and there's amenities, but really, nothing to do and no place to work for more than minimum wage, so I just didn't work. You, though, you sound like the archetype for teaching ESL in South Korea. I wouldn't normally recommend the job to anyone, and I hated it for the 2 years I did it, but others enjoy it and you may too. You have a degree, you're from Canada and you're white I'm assuming, you could make some decent money and it's not hard work.
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post #15 of 51
8/25/10 at 11:29am
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Originally Posted by JoelF View Post
Hey isn't this an old Billy Joel song?

I was thinking "My Hometown" by Springsteen
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