This is my understanding of where the job market is presently. There's a big mismatch of supply and demand, but the direction of the mismatch varies considerably by industry, by geography, by demographics. It's going to take years to work itself out to something resembling a rational job market, unfortunately for many people. Your work ethic is admirable and will see you through to the other side, I'm sure.
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Woodenfish
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Having a such a special skill set normally in high demand in large urban areas would have you better employed in your field if maybe if you weren’t located so rural. Have you seriously considered moving?
CloverHillCrawler
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I moved here from Raleigh after my brother passed away right before the pandemic in 2020. He was the last of my family left there. I moved there in 2011 to help my mother out with my disabled brother after my dad passed away and her health was going downhill she passed in 2015.
My wife made a sacrifice and moved down there with me and helped me out so when my brother passed she wanted to move here to be closer to her family. I was offered a job in DC but they only wanted to pay 65,000 which was way below what I was making plus I would have a commute that started at 4 in the morning and end at about 8 PM. If I was in closer to DC it would be no problem.
But I really like only being about 15 -30 minutes away from work even though I make no where near as much now, plus I really enjoy working around the plants and I was just offered a job at another grow close by for more money plus I get my own room of plants to be able to take care of and take pride in.
I wish I could show pictures of some of the plants I have been working with but I am not allowed to do it. They are some beauties!
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You're okay with that? Are you willing to say you might have been wrong about them?
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No I am not wrong about the lights not being rewired properly or the seat strut being marked as fixed when it was not touched. I don't know how to find evidence one way or the other about whether an oil change was performed other than ask them point blank.
JohnRuckus
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Could be multiple things. Based on some of the things you mentioned a few things come to mind. I could be wrong, but with all of the years of experience and military backgroung(thanks for your sevice), I'd guess you're no younger than 40, but likely somewhat older. While it isn't cool, ageism does exists. You mentioned all of the certs as well. You may be submitting resumes to companies that assume they can't afford you for the role they want to fill. On the other side of that, you mentioned getting back into engineering. Current relating experience might be an issue, if you've been away dealing with IT and plants for a long period of time. Lastly, it could simply be something as your resume. I'd recommend getting with 1 of those career folks, I believe most departments of labor have classes/workshops for resume building and things of that nature. Find someone who can help you go over your resume and make any adjustments for the way things are today. Outside of that, I'd also suggest maybe looking into getting that resume into the hands of recruiters or job boards. I don't know if I can post them here and I'm sure you already know a few, but the dept of labor should have a good list of them. You're not far from a lot metropolitan areas and remote work is probably an option. A lot of companies have become a little more open to that since C19 hit the scene.
If all of that fails, go ahead and start the business you mentioned in a different post
CloverHillCrawler
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Could be multiple things. Based on some of the things you mentioned a few things come to mind. I could be wrong, but with all of the years of experience and military backgroung(thanks for your sevice), I'd guess you're no younger than 40, but likely somewhat older. While it isn't cool, ageism does exists. You mentioned all of the certs as well. You may be submitting resumes to companies that assume they can't afford you for the role they want to fill. On the other side of that, you mentioned getting back into engineering. Current relating experience might be an issue, if you've been away dealing with IT and plants for a long period of time. Lastly, it could simply be something as your resume. I'd recommend getting with 1 of those career folks, I believe most departments of labor have classes/workshops for resume building and things of that nature. Find someone who can help you go over your resume and make any adjustments for the way things are today. Outside of that, I'd also suggest maybe looking into getting that resume into the hands of recruiters or job boards. I don't know if I can post them here and I'm sure you already know a few, but the dept of labor should have a good list of them. You're not far from a lot metropolitan areas and remote work is probably an option. A lot of companies have become a little more open to that since C19 hit the scene.
If all of that fails, go ahead and start the business you mentioned in a different post
Don't want to hijack the thread anymore than I have but I am happy with what I am doing now and just saying from what is being portrayed about the job market and what I and other people I know experienced in real life is different. I will leave it at that.
Oh and thanks for being so kind and saying 40 for age I'll be 59 here shortly.:riding:
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