Not exactly about work ethic. More about how you are reaching out for jobs. In your shoes, for sure see if you can place into office positions through some kind of temp agency. Even if it's outside of legal, your degree will be more valuable in an admin/office setting than at Lowes (where workers are treated as little more than human chattel).Anonymous User wrote:I know. I'm just scared this is what I will be doing for the rest of my life, just minimum wage jobs, and no way to pay back my debt.Anonymous User wrote:So accept your situation, go to work, work hard, and start solving your situation. Feeling like a loser doesn't solve your problems and will only create a negative vibe with people you interact with at work. Use that negative energy instead into putting in good work this weekend.Anonymous User wrote:I feel like a loser.Anonymous User wrote:Why are you looking down at 18 year-olds? Some of them might be harder working than you and might actually do a better job with customers.Anonymous User wrote:My desperation and need for money has progressed so much, that I decided to take a part time customer assistant job at Lowe's. I start this weekend. 30 yo old dude assisting customers alongside 18 year old kids...
Man, there is probably very few people on this planet as pathetic as me right now. I have truly failed at life.
You want to not be "pathetic"? Go to work this weekend, stop being weird, shutup, and do your job like every other real adult in this world (like your 18 year old coworkers) that goes to work for a paycheck.
You're no more special than the 18 year olds you work with. Just because you're older doesn't make you better. There are 18/19 year old interns at tech companies that bring in $70,000 a semester.
Nobody cares about your educational background just like nobody wants to hear about whining coworker Andy and has 2 Master's degrees. Just go into work and work hard.
A previous poster discussed how this approach was able to work... through a legal temp agency. Look into it. Much better than pointlessly shooting resumes out into Indeed cyber space (because there is a rep that the employers will talk to about who you are, i.e., a human connection that works in your favor), and those agencies have all the incentive in the world to get you back into an office environment where your degree actually means something (read: they get a cut, and its an incentive based structure for them to place you).
Work Lowe's for a bit if you need the money, and start reaching out to temp agencies on the side. No shame in that game. I had to work my way back in because I took a job with a friend's company while I was going through all my divorce/custody stuff that was way way way off the beaten path for someone with my degree. But it was good for me since it was mindless (I had enough problems of my own, didn't want to think for work anymore), and I was able to drive ATVs around in the desert as part of the job description.
There is a comeback path if you just start looking for an opening. I was so past caring about what people thought about me that I was shameless by the time I came back, and you know what?! That's been really good for me in the courtroom.