KitchenKitten99
10-31-2013, 01:08 PM
Thanks to Obamacare, any real, decent-paying position in hospitality has pretty much been eliminated or cut in half. this means that I am (or was) looking outside the industry for work. With my husband's contracts (he's an independent corporate consultant) being few and far between this time of year, and this is also slow time of year for store sales, we found it best that I look for work to keep money coming in when he isn't working. This way we don't have to drain the store accounts just to live, which ends up putting the store behind on bills. It makes money, but only just breaks even due to only being 3 years old in a tobacco-hostile state.
Because I haven't worked in my own career field for 2.5 years, I tend to lose out on any kind of management and supervisory positions to those who have been consistently been in them. Nevermind I have been helping build a retail business from the ground up, and I have real world experience that can apply better than most other experiences. However that doesn't seem to matter because I am technically 'self employed' and that seems to be a radioactive word when looking for a job outside of that.
Not only that, many positions that I would be considered for are capped at 30 hours, or the place has cut their staff in half just to afford their salaries and any benefits they are now forced to buy, and while your paycheck is equivalent to a salary for 40 hours, you are a slave for 70+. While I am willing to put in 50-maybe 60 hours, 75 is too much. I might jump on it if I had no family and no other responsibilities or no real life at all.
So, after almost 3 weeks of at least 2 interviews a week and submitting at least 100 applications and resumes in various positions for various companies (anything from administrative assistant positions to sales to even -blech- call center jobs) that I could at least earn enough to cover our household bills...I finally found a job that will pay our bills and as time goes on, will even put us ahead even if DH isn't working.
I was just hired at a local (but big, and growing) dealership for auto sales. The even better part: They're very openly faith-driven, and don't try to hide it. They have a giant LED sign out in front of their lot that pops up with various scripture quotes. They aren't hardcore and go overboard with it, but they make no bones about their faith. To me that shows integrity and not allowing themselves to cave with social pressures of today.
Nice part is their pay plan allows for me as a totally new person to the industry, I get a straight salary while I am learning for the first 90 days and I still make commission on vehicles I sell, and it doesn't count against my salary (known as a draw) for that time.
http://cornerstoneautoresource.com/
Because I haven't worked in my own career field for 2.5 years, I tend to lose out on any kind of management and supervisory positions to those who have been consistently been in them. Nevermind I have been helping build a retail business from the ground up, and I have real world experience that can apply better than most other experiences. However that doesn't seem to matter because I am technically 'self employed' and that seems to be a radioactive word when looking for a job outside of that.
Not only that, many positions that I would be considered for are capped at 30 hours, or the place has cut their staff in half just to afford their salaries and any benefits they are now forced to buy, and while your paycheck is equivalent to a salary for 40 hours, you are a slave for 70+. While I am willing to put in 50-maybe 60 hours, 75 is too much. I might jump on it if I had no family and no other responsibilities or no real life at all.
So, after almost 3 weeks of at least 2 interviews a week and submitting at least 100 applications and resumes in various positions for various companies (anything from administrative assistant positions to sales to even -blech- call center jobs) that I could at least earn enough to cover our household bills...I finally found a job that will pay our bills and as time goes on, will even put us ahead even if DH isn't working.
I was just hired at a local (but big, and growing) dealership for auto sales. The even better part: They're very openly faith-driven, and don't try to hide it. They have a giant LED sign out in front of their lot that pops up with various scripture quotes. They aren't hardcore and go overboard with it, but they make no bones about their faith. To me that shows integrity and not allowing themselves to cave with social pressures of today.
Nice part is their pay plan allows for me as a totally new person to the industry, I get a straight salary while I am learning for the first 90 days and I still make commission on vehicles I sell, and it doesn't count against my salary (known as a draw) for that time.
http://cornerstoneautoresource.com/