{"id":23598,"date":"2010-12-23T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/unemployed_and_stuck\/"},"modified":"2010-12-23T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T19:00:53","slug":"unemployed_and_stuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23598","title":{"rendered":"Unemployed and Stuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/community\/groups\/index.html?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&#038;plckDiscussionId=Cat:a70e3396-6663-4a8d-ba19-e44939d3c44fForum:f854d23f-aee8-4632-8c48-c0b7695f5df0Discussion:632b3cd1-7d81-48b7-84ab-4e97ef53dc32&#038;hpid=talkbox1\">From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any words of encouragement for those of us who graduated in the last few waves and still haven&#8217;t found a job? I&#8217;ve sent out hundreds of resumes and applications (local, retail, national, government), and rarely get contacted and have never been offered an interview. My impression is that the smaller places don&#8217;t want me because they feel pressured to pay me more than an undergrad, and the bigger places don&#8217;t want me because they are not up for taking a gamble on a new grad. Two days a week I do volunteer interning work related to my field, but there is no chance of hire at that location.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of income has put me back into my parents&#8217; rather toxic presence, which I would love to leave, but without a job, I lose the health insurance (parents would remove me from theirs).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Any words of encouragement for those of us who graduated in the last few waves and still haven&#8217;t found a job? I&#8217;ve sent out hundreds of resumes and applications (local, retail, national, government), and rarely get contacted and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=23598\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}