If you are US citizen and no criminal background .... apply at Transport Security Administration ( TSA ) at San Jose Airport or Monterrey Airport. Starting pay is 17 buks per hour and u only work like around 6 hours but get paid for 8 hours. They are currently hiring with paid training and other benefits. Also i actually work there but thinking about moving to California National Guard as because i got student loans and they will pay up to 20000 dollars for my student loans. Currently i Love me job but want to work in the automotive field and if everything goes good then i will maintenance mechanic in National Guard. Good luck finding the job bro.

 

well you said you got your own house sounds which to me is implying you bought one. but anyways goodluck with job hunting

 

did u inherit the house then since u didn't buy it?

 

This is an interesting thread and I'm going to make it more interesting b/c my input will be VERY different than other people's. I quit over a year ago with NO job lined up b/c I didn't want one. Like DetailAddict does now, I used to work at Intel as well and was there for 6 years and it wasn't a very enjoyable at first. It was my first job out of college and the job market was bad so I thought I should stick around and try it out and learn something. Time flew by and 6 years later, after travelling the world, the big corporate schemes got old and the politics just became a waste of my time and I knew that I had the potential to do bigger and better things in life than to work 40 hours a week doing only 5 hours of work and reliving Office Space every day. Pretty much, I felt no sense of accomplishment in life as it just seemed like a rat race for everyone to work to pay their bills, drive fancy cars, pay their mortgages, etc. Yeah I may have made a decent salary (BTW, Intel doesn't pay well compared to other tech companies), but the satisfaction of knowing that you made a difference in the world was missing.

So bottom line:
1) Get a solid education - not that you absolutely need it but it's easier to get your foot in with one than w/o one
2) If you don't have any savings that will last for a while, go and get a job
3) Always be on the lookout for something better
4) Not working is good for the sake of sanity. I can go to Costco when there's no lines, take vacations when I want, pick up any hobbies that I've never had time for and laugh at the people who are stuck in the rat race.
5) Live to work, not work to live.

You can always find a job no matter where in the world you are.

 

You should have picked engineering instead. Actually the pay thing is a misconception... I've spoken to many of my friends outside of Intel (Cisco, Yahoo, Google, Marvell, Sun) Their pay weren't that big of a difference considering their grade and job descriptions

But xqwizit's "bottom line" is true... Good luck buddy...

 

Come to SFO and I'll show you how to really work. 70k PAX load for tomorrow (Friday.)

 

WOW ...... yea but SFO is like the second busiest airport on the West Coast after LAX right? ..... San Jose is fine for me small and chillin job
Good Luck with that 70K Load.

 

I talked to my bro. One of the guys that he's knows is working for one of the ice cream delivery guys... dryers I think. Salery. Shorter shifts. Bigger money. Clearing double what my brother is clearing. Maybe try there too.

Think there's 2 or 3 of em' in watsonville.

 

Not only did I quit my job with nothing lined up (senior software engineer), I did it in the smack middle of the dot-com bust. It turned into an awesome vacation. After 6 months (time flies when you're having fun) the money started to run out I so had to go find another job.

 

Thanks Leo! From what I know from my engineering friends at smaller boutique technology firms (NOT big firms), they make a substantial amount more than Intel pays. So if you're good at what you do and have a proven track record, you may be better off somewhere else. Also, when you compete daily for your job with cheap labor from overseas here on a H1 visa, big companies will continue to underpay it's own employees since they can just send a few more over from China or India. There weren't any in the business groups b/c good communication is a must so I didn't see that pressure. However HR's excuse for underpaying the business employees was that the company was an engineering company so they need to pay the engineers more. In this day and age, their products don't sell themselves anymore, it's the business groups who sell it for them and lately they haven't been doing a good job b/c of all of the lawsuits.

In any case, from my experience, the pay outside for experienced business minded folks is much higher outside (no big company pays well). Also, keep in mind that it may be hard to get hired but it's even harder to get fired so most of the company underperforms and barely meets expectations to keep their job. That's what happens in big companies when there's so many lifers, so much bureaucracy and no ownership. So unless you are going to a pre-IPO company, big companies have their perks like notoriety but in the end you are just a number.

Lastly, it looks like we have a broad range of salary requirements here since we all come from different backgrounds and have different lifestyle needs so sorry if my discussion is way off topic to what the OP was asking for.

Good luck to all of you!

 

skool schmool

 

Woooow inspired!!!! One positive guy!!! Gotta love it!! I like how you think!!!

 

If I had a 4 year degree on top of the experience and skill I have I'd be making 6 figures. that's a fact.

 

yes, then once you hit 6 figures, you'll be like, that's it? 6 figures is overrated in the bay area... bay area is a blood sucking btch!

unfortunately in most cases, companies look at education before skills/experience...

Ray, let me know when/where/how we can meet up...

 

no kidding.

The problem isn't that 100k isn't enough because it is. It's that you spend it. You have it you spend it. That's how the bay works. You commute. Your rent. Etc.

You have to be intelligent about it.

How about next Wed at the Duke?