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I'm not really sure what I am a qualified for, and when I look on job boards like zip recruiter, the only jobs i seem to find are truck driving and sales jobs. the sales jobs are mostly for places like retail and those guys who stand at walmart and push communication and television services on people. I don't want to do that. or Insurance sales...
Im not sure what I should be looking for.
I don't know how to program, I only took an entry level course a few years ago. I was able to write MATLAB code for a class I took a year ago, so if the job requires simple code that gives me time to figure it out as I go. But I doubt I could do a job where software development is the real focus. Unless I can...
I'm just not sure what kind of jobs I should be looking for.
BS in Physics
AAS in Industrial Technology (concentration in PTEC)
entry-level programming skills. (Which I will hire a tutor to help me improve when I can affording it. Which won't be difficult if I can get just a decent paying job. by decent I mean 40k would be enough for me at this point in my life).
Job experience:
1. fast food and retail.
2. I've worked changing tires and batteries.
3. Tutoring
4. With my associate's degree, I did an internship a few years ago at Air Products and Chemicals shadowing the maintenance crew. in the beginning it was the machinists, but then I found that I fit in better with the preventative maintenance crew (I think?). We walked around the plant measuring the temperatures of all the equipment and recorded the data to make sure everything was running within spec. I fixed up their spreadsheets and everything. If the new CEO hadn't taken over and started laying people off, I might have gotten a job there before I even had a bachelor's degree.
5. Car Sales. But I hated that. I don't want to do any sales that requires the kind of tactics/strategy/whatever involved in car sales.
6. Phone/computer sales/technical support
7. Substitute Teaching.
It's not like I need a fortune 500 company position. I wouldn't mind working at a small company for less pay or whatever. I just don't know what kind of jobs I should be applying for. what keywords I should be typing into the search engines that will pull up results. what keywords I should be looking for in the job descriptions that tell me that it is a job I am qualified for.
Like engineering jobs... I don't know if I want to be an engineer, but I am not sure if I am even qualified. I don't know what an engineer truly does on a daily basis and how much of their job is learned... on the job. I'm certain the answer to that question depends on who you work for.
I live in the New Orleans Metro Area by the way, if that helps. the jobs that my associate degree qualified me for, my bachelor's degree has generally overqualified me for. a couple years back I interviewed for an off-shore position with Shell. But the interviewer felt that my going to school for a degree in physics overqualified me.
I also interviewed for my local police department and they suggested that I go apply for the FBI.
I don't want to work for the FBI. my gpa is below a 3.0 anyway and they want a 3.2
My gpa isn't fantastic anyway as I began to run into issues near the end of my school career that caused me to fail a couple courses.
I don't know. I feel like I have a broad range of skills, but they don't really fit anywhere. I don't feel like I am uniquely qualified for anything except sales positions that require broad knowledge and problem solving that don't require me to haggle over prices or find new clients/customers and convince them to buy. Someone needs a product and I figure out/educate them on what it is that they need and they buy it. If that makes sense. I'm a great salesperson in the way of retail. customers come into the store looking for something and I educate them on the different options and help them choose the one they need. And I don't have to negotiate the price or anything.
My uncle was telling me a while back that the company he worked for (no longer employed there) needed someone for sales but it was more along those lines. The job wasn't really about convincing people they need something they don't (like cable/satellite or a new car), it was more about helping the clients get all of the product that they needed.
I'm actually working on trying to be a teacher, but I'm trying to figure out what else I can do if that doesn't work out. I can't afford to go back to school for a Master's Degree unless I am making a decent wage.
tl;dr
I've finally graduated from college with my BS in Physics and I feel no better qualified for anymore jobs than the ones I qualified for when I graduated from High School. what kind of jobs should I be searching for?
I certainly feel like a more well-rounded and better-educated individual than I was when I finished high school, and so I do feel like I got out of university the least that I should have, but beyond that... it wasn't a trade school.
Im not sure what I should be looking for.
I don't know how to program, I only took an entry level course a few years ago. I was able to write MATLAB code for a class I took a year ago, so if the job requires simple code that gives me time to figure it out as I go. But I doubt I could do a job where software development is the real focus. Unless I can...
I'm just not sure what kind of jobs I should be looking for.
BS in Physics
AAS in Industrial Technology (concentration in PTEC)
entry-level programming skills. (Which I will hire a tutor to help me improve when I can affording it. Which won't be difficult if I can get just a decent paying job. by decent I mean 40k would be enough for me at this point in my life).
Job experience:
1. fast food and retail.
2. I've worked changing tires and batteries.
3. Tutoring
4. With my associate's degree, I did an internship a few years ago at Air Products and Chemicals shadowing the maintenance crew. in the beginning it was the machinists, but then I found that I fit in better with the preventative maintenance crew (I think?). We walked around the plant measuring the temperatures of all the equipment and recorded the data to make sure everything was running within spec. I fixed up their spreadsheets and everything. If the new CEO hadn't taken over and started laying people off, I might have gotten a job there before I even had a bachelor's degree.
5. Car Sales. But I hated that. I don't want to do any sales that requires the kind of tactics/strategy/whatever involved in car sales.
6. Phone/computer sales/technical support
7. Substitute Teaching.
It's not like I need a fortune 500 company position. I wouldn't mind working at a small company for less pay or whatever. I just don't know what kind of jobs I should be applying for. what keywords I should be typing into the search engines that will pull up results. what keywords I should be looking for in the job descriptions that tell me that it is a job I am qualified for.
Like engineering jobs... I don't know if I want to be an engineer, but I am not sure if I am even qualified. I don't know what an engineer truly does on a daily basis and how much of their job is learned... on the job. I'm certain the answer to that question depends on who you work for.
I live in the New Orleans Metro Area by the way, if that helps. the jobs that my associate degree qualified me for, my bachelor's degree has generally overqualified me for. a couple years back I interviewed for an off-shore position with Shell. But the interviewer felt that my going to school for a degree in physics overqualified me.
I also interviewed for my local police department and they suggested that I go apply for the FBI.
I don't want to work for the FBI. my gpa is below a 3.0 anyway and they want a 3.2
My gpa isn't fantastic anyway as I began to run into issues near the end of my school career that caused me to fail a couple courses.
I don't know. I feel like I have a broad range of skills, but they don't really fit anywhere. I don't feel like I am uniquely qualified for anything except sales positions that require broad knowledge and problem solving that don't require me to haggle over prices or find new clients/customers and convince them to buy. Someone needs a product and I figure out/educate them on what it is that they need and they buy it. If that makes sense. I'm a great salesperson in the way of retail. customers come into the store looking for something and I educate them on the different options and help them choose the one they need. And I don't have to negotiate the price or anything.
My uncle was telling me a while back that the company he worked for (no longer employed there) needed someone for sales but it was more along those lines. The job wasn't really about convincing people they need something they don't (like cable/satellite or a new car), it was more about helping the clients get all of the product that they needed.
I'm actually working on trying to be a teacher, but I'm trying to figure out what else I can do if that doesn't work out. I can't afford to go back to school for a Master's Degree unless I am making a decent wage.
tl;dr
I've finally graduated from college with my BS in Physics and I feel no better qualified for anymore jobs than the ones I qualified for when I graduated from High School. what kind of jobs should I be searching for?
I certainly feel like a more well-rounded and better-educated individual than I was when I finished high school, and so I do feel like I got out of university the least that I should have, but beyond that... it wasn't a trade school.
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