[Auntie Mame]

The advice about calling all your friends and family and making sure they know you are searching for a job is excellent. I've rarely gotten a job that wasn't through that type of networking.

You'll be led to the perfect job at the perfect time. Please bookmark this thread and post about your success here when it happens and ping me. I want to celebrate with you.

Prayers, of course, are on the way.

And, finally, please don't put down door-to-door sales. You can make a TON of money doing it. It will teach you things you'll never learn any other way. Things like discipline and perserverence. You're not selling vacuum cleaners, you're selling YOU.

[sonsofliberty2000]

The thing about the job is that so far I have been lied to 4 times by various members of management, plus told different salaries and wages and then told that since I didn't sell any to my friends and family who only thought I was practicing on them and that was what I was told as well that I must be doing something wrong. Then since me and another guy done so badly over the weekend with family we were teamed up to split the sale of our first customer. Its just been a bad experience thus far.

[lawgirl]

The advice about calling all your friends and family and making sure they know you are searching for a job is excellent. I've rarely gotten a job that wasn't through that type of networking.

Great advice as well, Nick. This past year my husband was laid off, and spent 6 months looking for work. He had kept in contact with his old boss from a job 2 1/2 years ago and about 3 jobs ago. Mr. lawgirl is a very friendly guy and emailed him just to say hello, what's up, and this established some contact. When his old boss emailed and said "what's up", Brad told him, and the boss said "well we have a job right now that's perfect for you!" and bingo, he got the job of his dreams.

Although it's in Wisconsin and we have to pick up and move! LOL! My point is- email old colleagues as well. And just to tell you those 6 months were really, really rough, but in the end God blessed us all the more for patience and waiting for him to show us what to do.