Recommendations, please?
Jan. 16th, 2009 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
windlion. . . So, I may or may not have dropped off the face of the internet for *cough* awhile. And while that is partly because of work, that is also partly because I am made of fail. Thus! One of my new year's resolutions this year is to stop being afraid to actually post on my bloody livejournal. For something that is supposed to exist as my personal rant space, I have a remarkable amount of stage fright when it comes to actually posting. It has occurred to me that that is Kinda Stupid, so I should just . . . post.
This brings me to my second resolution for the year: I hereby vow to actually make some sort of progress in my life. I need a better job and a living space that is not my family's house. Oh wise people who have actually moved out, doth thou have any recommendations on where a starting-level . . . er, anything, could find a place to share with comrades and also locate plentiful jobs within an hours radius? Where the rent and taxes would not be exorbitant? I am likely to end up either doing science temp jobs or attempting to sell my soul to a zoo in return for any sort of job, so I am not going to be rich, but between two not-rich twentysomethings, we're probably looking at renting a place anywhere between $300-$800 a month.
If anyone has any recommendations on how to get jobs that are not soul-sucking retail, I am also all ears!
This brings me to my second resolution for the year: I hereby vow to actually make some sort of progress in my life. I need a better job and a living space that is not my family's house. Oh wise people who have actually moved out, doth thou have any recommendations on where a starting-level . . . er, anything, could find a place to share with comrades and also locate plentiful jobs within an hours radius? Where the rent and taxes would not be exorbitant? I am likely to end up either doing science temp jobs or attempting to sell my soul to a zoo in return for any sort of job, so I am not going to be rich, but between two not-rich twentysomethings, we're probably looking at renting a place anywhere between $300-$800 a month.
If anyone has any recommendations on how to get jobs that are not soul-sucking retail, I am also all ears!
On where to find a job
Date: 2009-01-24 06:52 pm (UTC)On the job front, I guess the Danbury News Times just isn't cutting it anymore. My advice is go craigslist. You'd be surprised who's looking for what out there. Not-for-profits, though they don't pay spectacularly, are a nice way of gaining some experience (I'm swim coaching at the Fairfield YMCA in order to owe millions, not billions after law school). Check with your career services office at UCONN too, they might be able to help. Above all, don't sell yourself short. Everyone has to start somewhere, and if you think I had any idea what a low income housing tax credit was before I became a business manager at an assisted living (forget whether or not I cared), you'd be mistaken my friend.
As far as rent goes, if you guys are talking $300 to $800 a month combined, you can pretty much forget the Greater Danbury Area, lest you plan on making friends with a few cockroaches and/or drug dealers. Try Craigslist for the apartment hunt too, but be careful of Nigerian scams. I know a typical one bedroom in the nicer sections of Waterbury (see the West End/Bunker Hill Area, Upper Town Plot, and East End) can go for around $700 per month, but remember you may end up stuck with your own utilities, and oil is a killer.
Good luck, and hope all is well otherwise. Let me know how it turns out.
Fran
PS: I have a friend at work who's going on this "Teach English in Korea" program. It pays 2 million wong ($1600 American) a month but includes rent. I can ask him for more info if you guys are interested. . .upside is I don't think you have to know Korean, or he's royally screwed.