#UnemployedAfterSchooling #CareerRegret #JobMarket #EducationStruggles
Hey everyone 👋 Have you ever found yourself wondering, “All those years of schooling just to end up unemployed”? It’s a frustrating situation that many of us can relate to. But don’t worry, there are always solutions and ways to turn things around! 🌟
Here are some possible solutions to consider:
– Consider volunteering or interning in your desired field to gain valuable experience 🤝
– Upgrade your skills through online courses or workshops 📚
– Reach out to your network for job opportunities and referrals 🤝
– Consider starting your own business or freelancing 💼
Remember, setbacks are just temporary roadblocks on the path to success. Keep pushing forward and exploring new opportunities. Your hard work will pay off eventually! 💪 #KeepGoing #SuccessIsComing
America is the exact same
People spend years trying to get their dream job and find nothing
A lot of people 20-35 in America live with their parents if they can or have roommates to survive.
America is much the same way.
Most of my friends aren’t doing what they studied in school. Some are in completely unrelated fields. My wife, for example, has a bachelors in visual arts, but works in finance. Nothing related to art at all.
Its worse for people in tech these days. I feel very bad for the new grads with CS degrees coming in to this workforce.
Seems like you got a very specific education in a very specific field (where exactly in Toronto is a degree in cybersecurity offered?) and now that field is on the decline (at least for now). If you wanted a very specific field, in Canada you go to community college for that specific skill. If you go to university (degree) it’s supposed to be a more well rounded education that should allow you to pivot into multiple fields or fields within fields (say different types of engineering). On top of that I think that other posters are right that entry level jobs in cybersecurity are rare or non-existent. You might have to spend a few years banging out SQL statements or doing help desk or tech support before you have a chance to do cybersecurity. Besides knowing a lot of math and getting into FAANG, tech is not a field where you can jump into a high paying job especially in Canada. Canada has the most educated workforce in the G7 and a lot of immigrants are very tech heavy. You face fierce competition for any kind of work by incumbents with huge networks and who know how to market and sell themselves and find a job (which is a skill itself).
I think your problem is you got a very specific education and are hoping for a very specific job that might not be possible without a lot of time in the trenches. You have two realistic choices; try to find work now in *any* tech work (help desk, analyst etc it might pay shit only $15 then claw your way up to cybersecurity later after getting certifications like CCNA and the security equivalent) or take a post graduate certificate in another vocation. Don’t feel bad about it because post graduate certificates need a degree. Probably Linux Administration since supposedly that is the jump off point. And again don’t neglect those certifications like “Ethical Hacker” or any of that. Eventually you will amass enough skill to attract a job but until then you will have to take whatever you can get.
You got into a field (networking, security, tech) that is very hands on and experience based and needs a lot of practical work (labs, certifications) and you expected your degree to carry you but it can’t. It’s partly the job market, but partly your misconceptions about how the job market works. Sorry. Good luck.
P.S. Go to every event and conference and start getting involved. And go to your career centre. That should have been your first stop. If your mental model of the job market is “finish degree, apply to jobs, phone calls start coming” that is a wrong model.
# take heart and best wishes OP….. I wish that all of y’all looking for jobs that your choice jobs will find y’all the soonest….
# best wishes to all
You’d rather be where you are and uneducated?!
It’s going to payoff in the long term. When I graduated university I was making a bit less than $30 a year, but 10 years later I have a job that I love making triple that. Education is an investment, it takes patience to get the full benefits
Call up those internships to see if they are hiring?
I’m 30 with a PhD, and I’ve spent the last 5 months unable to find employment. Same story here, the economy everywhere is trash. Try not to let the current garbage market make you feel like your personal life choices were wrong or poor. The current situation was not something that you could have predicted years ago when you decided to pursue further education. Focus on the now, and what you can do to solve your current dilemma, and try not to be angry about what could have been, had you had knowledge you currently have in the past.
You need to be an “educated” consumer. And pay taxes Anything else does not matter.
Glad I never wasted money in college
No. Take a step back and look things like a card player seeing his hand for the 1st time. While not great there are short term jobs that do offer high cash that are quick to get into. People trained to work in IC fabrication are getting real nice pay, but one would have to move and spend a year in specialized training to get this done. Likewise, there are jobs in remote areas, with a level of danger or other issues that lead to high pay. Do something radical in the short term and when the business cycle swings back to normal your academic credentials are still there. This is a need to take a tangential road to your target, not a reason to stop moving.
There was no point. And the cool part is long term unemployment usually means forever unemployment
Ya, your parents should have just sent you to be indentured child labor somewhere so at least you’d have a marketable skill set.
I am starting to see why people get married.
I see a lot of 40k a year jobs requiring a bachelor’s degree
The less people that can do your job the more you can demand to be paid. Adjust incomes for inflation and you can see how the value of your work has been depleted for the decades. It’s all due to the internet (because you can find people to hire literally anywhere instantly) and partially also to immigration. I’m not opposed to immigration but they way over did it. There’s like 1m Indians in Toronto that will do any work for cheap. I mean, how do you even compete with that?
Toronto’s job market is absolutely fucked.
I have a masters degree from one of the top schools in Canada, and a prolific network, it took me 8 months to find a part-time internship in my field last year.
And now I’m back in school again to delay going out into the job market.
Btw, if you’re looking for a foot in the door, the insurance industry is always hiring. Entry level jobs like underwriting assistants don’t require a lot of experience and it’s a pretty decent career, as long as you’re okay with telling people you work in insurance lol.
I’m in the same boat, with a bachelor’s. I’ve come close to getting a job but never landed one, always rejected. I kind of gave up and signed my life away to the military, I’m just waiting for my ship day to come so i can start my new life…