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How long did it take you to find a job in your field

Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:47 pm
Posted by Bossbailey34
South carolina
Member since Aug 2018
1700 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:47 pm
After you graduated college?
Posted by GreatLakesTiger24
Member since May 2012
61530 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:49 pm to
6 months before I graduated
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:50 pm to
5 months. Niche field.
Posted by eScott
Member since Oct 2008
11376 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:51 pm to
I would start looking before you graduate. My company has a program that guarantees graduates a job at our company. I think we have two engineers in the program now.
Posted by tankyank13
NOLA
Member since Nov 2012
8347 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:51 pm to
Subtle I went to college brag
Posted by Bossbailey34
South carolina
Member since Aug 2018
1700 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:53 pm to
Subtle I went to college brag

Translation didnt go to college. So why comment ? Douchebag
Posted by BROpaneTANK
Mandeville
Member since Apr 2010
3123 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:57 pm to
7 months, could’ve been sooner but waited for the right job, and in the BR market that’s not quite saturated with tech jobs. Especially in 2015.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76148 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:57 pm to
quote:

After you graduated college?
After?

Assume much there?

If you’re on time, you’re late.

The best of us had shite figured out before the rest of the pack.
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161246 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 3:59 pm to
1 month
Posted by Stud Bud
MS But travel all over the country
Member since Sep 2015
6958 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:01 pm to
10 years. That’s partly because the timing never worked out.

Other times I just couldn’t get my foot in the door or bad economy or the dreaded “needed someone with prior experience”

I had to get out of my comfort zone and be willing to travel a little bit to gain experience.
Posted by auzach91
Marietta, GA
Member since Jan 2009
41494 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:05 pm to
Less than a month
Posted by Bossbailey34
South carolina
Member since Aug 2018
1700 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:05 pm to
 dreaded “needed someone with prior experience” 

This hurts a lot of people too. Like why not give people a chance. They have knowledge
Posted by jamiegla1
Member since Aug 2016
7981 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:12 pm to
Found a crappy one immediately. Jobs progressively got better and then at 8 years found a great job. The compensation was always there but I never really loved what I did until I found the good one
Posted by PropofolPapi
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2012
1467 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:12 pm to
3 months before graduation
Posted by Leon Spinks
Texas
Member since Aug 2016
2341 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:16 pm to
2 weeks. Knowing a lot of people really helped me out. Plant baw.
Posted by crazyLSUstudent
391 miles away from Tiger Stadium
Member since Mar 2012
6204 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:29 pm to
You got a lot to learn junior
Posted by djangochained
Gardere
Member since Jul 2013
19183 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:30 pm to
Bout a year before I graduated

Still there 9 years later
Posted by shel311
McKinney, Texas
Member since Aug 2004
112944 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:31 pm to
Never did. It wasn't easy but I also wasn't motivated at all.

Eventually just worked my way up in the field I was in while going to grad school, and that MBA finally comes in handy for the types of positions I can move into nowadays.
Posted by Bullfrog
Running Through the Wet Grass
Member since Jul 2010
61791 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:31 pm to
A few decades.
Posted by alpinetiger
Salt Lake City
Member since Apr 2017
5864 posts
Posted on 8/17/19 at 4:43 pm to
quote:

Translation didnt go to college. So why comment ? Douchebag


You sound as if you're really knocking it out of the park while at collige, based on your question. Keep up the good work! FTR I accepted a job with a tech/IT consulting company six months before I walked, and was in the new-hire training program a couple of weeks thereafter.
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