Can't Find Work? Get a 'Survival Job'

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In Indonesia, some people go to food businesess since years ago.

Andre Budianto S 3:52AM December 27, 2011

Honest candidates are having to get survival jobs while fake resume writers are getting huge raises. An expert in employee relations who manages human resource directors wrote a book I just read that talks about how businesses are getting flooded by fake resumes. The resumes are so well written they cannot be distinguished from the honest candidates nor can they be disproven. She showed how they cover their tracks and lie about their education and get away with it. The book was titled: The Fake Resume Guide. The author shows how they bring in fake W2 forms and fake Paycheck stubs to verify work at a place they never worked! Its unbelievable! It was hard for me to believe it but once I did some research I found out that it is all true. Fake resumes are getting the jobs!

jnoll of CO 4:10PM November 23, 2011

y dont think any of theese jobs can help you if you are unemplooy,to earn some survaival money. y apolagize for my bad englees,y am a romanian cetezen, and y dont speek wery weel your language. maybe theese jobs are satisfaing in america but in other countrys aren"t that earnfull,for example in bucharest,the romanian capital,a job that take's care of a dog is payd with 50 cent an hour,haw do you thing y can survive with thees money if y dont have a stedy joob??????!!!!!!! please send to my mail adress some sugesstions how to survive in this cruel country that y leave in. soo please help me.

cristian chiripuci 7:33AM February 12, 2011

Karen - what do you do then? you seem to be so smug about how perfectly you have managed to find a financially viable career and are balanced but how can we formulate an opinion if we don't know what it is.. Makes one wonder if it is morally or ethically ambiguous....... I agree, this stinks of multi level marketing.

ashley of CA 12:12PM January 06, 2011

Firstly, I'd like to say that I am an online-only student with an accredited university, in my state of residence, and am very happy with that.
Now, I'd like to say that the schools you listed (one of which I had gone to myself and felt the courses were suspiciously too easy to pass) can be found time and again on scam report boards/forums for poor financial aid practices, poorly planned curriculums, etc. The one I attended, as I found out before transferring, was even in the middle of a lawsuit because of these things.
My suggestion is to stick with non-profit schools, because the for-profit schools like these (while also accredited in most cases) are notorious for price-gouging the student in exchange for a ho-hum education and delivering a degree found to be nearly unmarketable in an after-graduation job hunt. In fact, I've heard many stories where the new grad was actually (literally!) laughed out of interviews after a mention of their alma mater.
The nonprofit schools can provide a worthwhile education, online for those who need that flexibility, and also hires teachers to work remotely to provide that education. Win-win.

Ambrosia of OH 10:40AM January 04, 2011

To the person noted that they make 90K at a business that costs less than $500 to start . . . you don't state what the business is. Which makes me think it's MLM. Nothing wrong with that except that a lot of people will put in there $500, not be able to sell, you'll collect on that $500, and they'll quit.
Is this your business? If not, why don't you state what your business is?

Dianne of NV 3:17PM January 03, 2011

I have been a small business owner since 1981. I have had to re-tool my business four times since then. I go "with the economy". By that I mean I search around to see what could be a viable area where money is flowing and I go for it.
After searching for about a year and a half I began working a new market in 2009. It is booming. I am working in this market. People are retiring from my industry faster than people are entering it. I have way more business than I can handle. Is it illegal? No.
My business is a mainstream business and we are everywhere. The cost to enter my business is about $500 maximum. You don't need an office and every day there are 16000 more people who are potential customers for repeat business. I don't have to collect money or checks. I just sign people up for something the taxpayer is paying for. Can you guess what it is?
The point I am making is I follow the economy. To make a living I cannot impose my wishes and desires on the economy. The economy is bigger than the both of us. I gear my focus on what is happening in the economy. Would I rather be doing something else? Quite honestly, I would. What would that be?
It would be something that is in oversupply as far as job applicants and other businesses. Doing things the way I am doing them is allowing me to get a master's degree in something I enjoy more. But my thought is, maybe I am better off this way as studying the "fun" area is not as profitable as the actual "work area" I am in. And yes, I do make about $90,000 with the potential for more as I gear up to hire a part-time marketer and more importantly as I add a high commission product to my mix that is adding about $3000 gross to my monthly income.
I work in a void. I don't have a boss. I work on the road, in the car, at home, and I wasn't all that interested in my work "area" to begin with. But I have developed an appreciation of my area and it is growing. Committment to the work area has given me rewards in return for committment. Would I rather be a professional pianist? Yeah, maybe. But maybe not. I sleep in my own bed every night and don't live out of a suitcase and don't have to record and re-record the same phrase over and over for a recording company.......and I have afforded my beautiful Steinway piano. It's all in the balance, folks.

karen of CA 11:12AM December 31, 2010

If you have teaching experience and a masters degree with 18 grad hours in what you would teach this could be an idea. Full time is hard to get but adjunct positions are around quite a bit.
Try higheredjobs.com
some college suggestions
strayer
devry
colorado tech u
kaplan
u of phoenix
axia college
we moved to ca in 2010 to be near family and I am teaching several places online to make ends meet due to economy here

cs of ca of CA 6:09PM December 29, 2010

I am a former teacher in California. Good luck trying to find any kind of teaching job in CA, as literally tens of thousands of teachers have been let go in the past few years. They are now fighting for substitute teaching jobs. And teach at community college? Good luck there, too. I was laid off in September 2009 from my county government social work job due to state budget cuts. I'm over 50, still on unemployment (thank goodness), and I cannot find a job that pays more than unemployment does. I have three degrees, and I'm back at university studying for my paralegal certificate. California is circling the drain, and is one state that is not bouncing back in this economy. We still have extremely high unemployment here, and even the illegals are leaving because they can't find work.

Barbara H. of CA 1:39PM December 29, 2010