the recession is over - I got a job in my trade.

[KG]

[HopeHoops]

1. There are still trades?

[KG]

2. not so many as before.

[HopeHoops]

5. Mine's still alive, but experience is the negative factor - it means money.

It used to be that experience meant an easy in to a job. Now it means the trash barrel. The country is fucked in every way possible.

[redwitch]

3. Glad to hear it.

[lunatica]

4. Congratulations!

[KG]

6. kinda bizarre and serendipitous. I walked into a temp agency to follow up on a lead about a crappy

assembly job and started out by telling the person that my basic skill is as a AutoCAD drafter. she'd been looking for a CAD person for a couple of days...

[EastTennesseeDem]

9. Ha.

I just graduated from college about a month and a half ago, and decided that I should start applying to service/manual/whatever stuff while applying to grad schools (which I just assumed I needed in this climate). I had to post my resume on Career Builder for a part time warehouse gig and got a call from an environmental consulting agency (I majored in Environmental Science) about going into the field and writing environmental site assessments. Ended up interviewing with them. I hear back in about a week. That was a stroke of (potential) luck.

[femmocrat]

7. Congratulations, KG!

That is encouraging! Hope they are paying you big bucks!

[Kaleva]

8. Congratualtions!