The job market sucks…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP.

I was supposed to talk to a recruiter today which was scheduled last week. She canceled at the last minute. It's probably not a job I would be able to get anyway... but everything just sucks.

And yea, I feel bad for everyone going through this. I've been at my firm for 15 years. It has been stable work and I have been promoted every 2-3 years like clockwork. And now I'm looking at jobs paying about the same as when I started. I look overqualified for them (because I am). I can't help feel like the last 15 years have been erased and the only way to get a job at this point is to make my resume look like I'm junior to midlevel instead of senior level.

I’m the PP in the field. I had to take a step down last year, going from a Director to a Program Manager in order to make a transition. I did that for a year. I was recently hired to return to my previous level. Not everyone has to do this, of course. But for me it worked well and it was worth it for the transition I needed to make. So, it may not be great in the moment but it could all work out.

How did you frame being willing to take that step back? I’m a senior VP. I will go to Director if I have to and cut my salary in half if I have to but I fear folks look at my app and go “why is she even applying for this”

Yes, some of my friends are getting this question and they’re having to justify the transition. For me, I went from private sector to academia and I had a story as to why. The sector change helped too. From there, I was able to shift back up.

Hopefully you won’t have to do this. It was financially unfun for a year. But your willingness to be flexible and look at everything on the table is an excellent trait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP.

I was supposed to talk to a recruiter today which was scheduled last week. She canceled at the last minute. It's probably not a job I would be able to get anyway... but everything just sucks.

And yea, I feel bad for everyone going through this. I've been at my firm for 15 years. It has been stable work and I have been promoted every 2-3 years like clockwork. And now I'm looking at jobs paying about the same as when I started. I look overqualified for them (because I am). I can't help feel like the last 15 years have been erased and the only way to get a job at this point is to make my resume look like I'm junior to midlevel instead of senior level.

I’m the PP in the field. I had to take a step down last year, going from a Director to a Program Manager in order to make a transition. I did that for a year. I was recently hired to return to my previous level. Not everyone has to do this, of course. But for me it worked well and it was worth it for the transition I needed to make. So, it may not be great in the moment but it could all work out.

Your original post said it was your dh who was in the field. Now you’re talking in the first person. What’s going on?

[Anonymous]

yeah supported a number of gov contracts, all of them downsized or axed. not many open roles internally, probably have a month or two breathing room before I'm let go. maybe i'll find something or be a stay at home dad lol.

[Anonymous]

Feds are flooding the job market right now. Even those who have not been RIF'd are looking. It's making it harder for everyone else, at least in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

Well that's depressing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There’s nothing out there. I’m going to have to halve my salary to get anything at this point… probably more. I haven’t been laid off yet but it’s coming once the dust settles on the end of the fiscal year (contractor). I feel so defeated.

And the fact that the federal RIFS are now official makes it all the worse.

Sigh.

Blame republicans it’s only going to
Get infinitely worse Great Depression worse

Don’t believe me you have not been paying attention to project 2025 they wrote it done and Trump has told you over and over again

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

I thought they were firing the 80000 armed IRS agents Biden hired to harass citizens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

I thought they were firing the 80000 armed IRS agents Biden hired to harass citizens.

Funny…looks like they just moved them into ICE to also harass citizens.

Of course, the IRS agents would have paid for themselves like 5X over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

I thought they were firing the 80000 armed IRS agents Biden hired to harass citizens.

Funny…looks like they just moved them into ICE to also harass citizens.

Of course, the IRS agents would have paid for themselves like 5X over.

Harassing and ejecting non citizen invaders will help save money for social security and Medicare.

[Anonymous]

+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

There's tons of opportunities just not in DC. Grifters are having it rough and their biggest strength is whining so it sucks as background noise but at least they are too lazy to riot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+10000

This economy SUCKS. Prices everywhere keep going up and up or have remained elevated. Insurance rates for everything up and up and up. Taxes up and up and up. Paychecks? Lolololol. No raises whatsoever. Trying to find a new and higher paying job? Abysmal. The entire process is broken. It sucks living in America. It's squeezing from all sides with no relief in sight.

There's tons of opportunities just not in DC. Grifters are having it rough and their biggest strength is whining so it sucks as background noise but at least they are too lazy to riot.

Reporting from outside DC area and no, this is not true. Not tons. Not even close.

[Anonymous]

The lazy public buying into technology 100 percent screwed themselves.

I was skeptical and critical of the whole mess in the 90s at the very beginning. The vulnerabilities of the systems and devaluation of the individual was obvious from the start. In many ways it made work more time consuming, annoying and nitpicky. Less lucrative in many ways as well. Every innovation and paradym change I made fun of and if anybody who worked for me complained I would say "told you.. technology but you didn't listen" I take great pride in being 100 percent correct in my instincts. Everybody has been disempowered and physically weaker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Business is booming in federal law enforcement, even in non immigration related fields. My husband got an offer for a promotion from another agency in less than a month recently.

I thought they were firing the 80000 armed IRS agents Biden hired to harass citizens.

Funny…looks like they just moved them into ICE to also harass citizens.

Of course, the IRS agents would have paid for themselves like 5X over.

Harassing and ejecting non citizen invaders will help save money for social security and Medicare.

Except many are actual citizens getting detained.

Considering none of the immigrants are eligible for Medicare or social security…not sure how it will save money for those specific programs.

You don’t really understand how the economy or economics work…which is typical.

Of course, somehow you will claim there is no more inflation when it’s everywhere.