You all have been an encouraging community for me the last couple years, and I appreciate any prayers you can send our way. To give some context, my husband does contract IT work (remote/work from home), and his last contract ended in October. As you probably know, the job market has been tough recently, there's been a ton of layoffs and it's been hard for him to to find work in his field. He's applied to a ton of jobs, had a lot of recruiter phone calls, but nothing has come through yet. Many jobs are STILL requiring the vax (even remote ones!) which my husband will never do, and he's passed up good opportunities because of this. Since a lot of the work is contract based, most of the positions are only hiring for 6, 9, or 12 months. It's hard to find anything long term/permanent in his field anymore. He's thought about switching careers and has even applied to jobs outside his industry, but has a lot of good experience built up and as you know it's hard to switch careers later in life. Just praying for one of these opportunities to work out, and also if this is God leading him to something else, that he will be open to that calling.
Thank you so much, and please let me know if there's anything I can pray for you about as well!
EDIT: Thank you so much for everyone who took the time to respond! I shared all of the encouragement, prayers, advice, and job recommendations to my husband and we are so appreciative of all of you. I tried to reply or DM to each person here, but I apologize if I missed anyone. This community is awesome and I am so grateful to have found it. I hope to update you all soon with good news about a new job/opportunity for both of us! Much love and blessings to you ❤️
In Jesus Name I pray that the right door will open for you, and your needs are met.
Amen! Thank you!
It's a bit of a game to get a job these. Pay attention to the Applicant Tracking System software and only submit in doc or docx. Do not use Times New Roman, colors, columns, indents, lines or different sized fonts. Left justify everything so there are no indents. Keep the cover letter short with bullet points that use the job description. Remove the numbers on your url on your LinkedIn so you'll be seen by recruiters. Do the above and you will increase your chances 10-fold. Good luck! Sending prayers!
This is good advice, thank you! Will share with my husband.
It's unfortunate that getting a job seems to be so much more difficult than it used to be. I remember the days when you could just email your resume and get a response fairly quickly. Now many times the hiring team may not even see your resume because it doesn't have enough keywords, or tick all the boxes in the ATS...
Don't think about "getting a job". That's wrong-think.
Think about earning enough money each day to survive, and then some.
When I was made redundant for the second time I was pissed off with employers. I stopped thinking about "getting a job". I sat down and calculated the minimum daily amount that we needed to survive. Turned out that it was only $100. So I went out and did work for people who paid me. It's good if you can do work that you enjoy. It doesn't need to be something that you are "qualified" to do. Look for a niche.
Great advice
Thanks! Great advice, and we have been thinking of ways to do this during this time (I've been selling off things around the home to make extra cash, and we are looking into starting online businesses). I definitely prefer to work for myself vs someone else, it's both rewarding and challenging.
Any chance you live near sarasota florida?
An online business generally takes a couple of years to get going. I've done it so I know. As you need cash immediately, it's best to look for money-earners locally. Preferably something that requires no big investment in equipment and no special license.
For example: find a company that throws something away. Clean it or break it or repack it and sell it. That could be cardboard boxes to resell or pallets to chop up for firewood. Supermarkets discard lots of stuff including food.
In some areas, people put out broken snow blowers, lawnmowers, strimmers, etc. for free. These can be sold on as "spares or repair". Obviously, if you can fix them, you'll make a bigger profit.
I've never been without work because I have a number of skills: I can weld, solder, do carpentry, clean, paint. More specifically, I can repair electrical equipment, rebuild engines, do electrical wiring. Everyone has skills but sometimes they don't realise it. If not then they can learn from YouTube videos!
I garden for rich elderly ladies who can’t anymore for $30/hour. I get exercise and money and sometimes plants and friends.
Amen to that!
Amen.
We'll give you some exposure for a bit. Just be careful about sharing your information in any PM's that could de-anon you.
Funny you say that. Part of me wishes we frogs could setup a legit fund?
I sincerely love our peeps here (GAW). When one does the math, not hard to see that in reality, there's so few of us (here). Perspective. Perhaps we really are chosen? Either way, hurts my heart when another (vetted) fren is going through the weeds... God knows I've been there, most have?
Go awake, [they] take.
IF only (we) could help, would make my heart sing! WWG1
God Bless you & yours, anon- prayers sent :)
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*so it's gonna have to be real crowdsourced prayer / possible help here at ga.w (re: sticky :)
I get it I do. Still.... instincts
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What is the current rate of prayers to rent?
last i heard the going rate is $0
I heard it cost an only begotten Son.
😁😁😁😁😁 Beautifully said
I honestly hate funds.
Not to be all negative, but does a guy that walks to work for a decade really need $250,000 donated to him?
Think about that. In a decade, you were not able to increase your status to at least having a junk car? So, you want to give that SAME PERSON that obviously cannot handle money, a quarter mil?
I just looked it up... $350,044, for absolute fucks sake. I could change the entire world with $350,000 free and clear. This guy is going to waste it.
Think about that. That's TEN PEOPLE that could have been helped. That's enough for TEN families to live for an entire year. But one loser got it instead.
What happens is, people that have more money than actual interest in helping people, will throw money at a cause when the moon is in the right spot, they have the right amount of estrogen in their blood, etc.
INSTEAD OF HELPING ACTUAL PEOPLE IN NEED.
I mean, sure... a fund is good instead of a family perishing... but for fucks sake, if it's over $100k, stop goddamn donating!
Dude, where do you live that a family could get by on $35,000 a year? I need to move there, STAT!
Western North Carolina.
Greece. Easily live comfortably on less than half that amount.
Texas
On that note, is there a way to see how many members we have here?
Hidden on purpose.
If you're good with math and statistics you can pretty much figure it out.
Ah, makes sense, and no, my math skills suck. I’m more of a right brainer 😬
7 or so I think.
About 100 or less. No more.
Thank you for the reminder!
I pray God will lead him to gainful employment. (Hug)
Thank you! ❤️
Hey fren,
Same boat as you. Got fired for being pure blood about 3 months ago too. I have a family and moneys pretty much run out. The stress in my family is manifesting itself in all sorts of crazy ways.
But we got this. You can do this. You didn't make it this far to lose hope with the finish line in sight. Problems are often times just opportunities in disguise.
Much love fren and best of luck.
Thank you so much! Much love and encouragement to you too! It's been tough, we have burned through what little savings we had and by the grace of God made our mortgage payment for January, but not sure that is going to happen in February without a job. I know a lot of people are struggling right now, but I believe God is going to honor those who stood strong against the medical persecution, not just with vindication of the truth about the shots (we will be proven to have done the right thing in the future, even if it's difficult right now), but God will repay what has been withheld, and in some cases stolen, from us.
To encourage you, I helped make our last mortgage payment just by selling off stuff around our home that we no longer needed, or was in storage. You'd be surprised what you have laying around your home that has value (use FB marketplace, craigslist, or offerup for this). Or depending on your skill set, you can find out if your neighbors need help with things around the house such as landscaping, handyman stuff, etc.
Praying for you, and wishing you and your family the best!
Praying.
Thank you!
I'm praying for you guys. I'm also in the same boat. Also in IT, and also scoring interviews that go nowhere. I've been bleeding out my savings and investments to stay afloat unfortunately.
What about going off on your own? There’s a lot of demand in my local area for IT support. Self-employment is amazing! Scary at first but nothing better once you build a clientele. Nobody to tell you to get a vax, etc.. In any case, all the best to you and OP. Blessings to you.
Thank you! It's a tough job market out there. I think companies have been scaling back their workforce, which started during the scamdemic, but also a lot of jobs are bringing employees back into the office again and we are not looking to relocate at this time. My husband was working remote for years before everything went remote, but now those jobs are so much harder to find because everyone wants them.
I trust that God will provide for both of us, and will be praying for you too! Hang in there!
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This is surprising to hear as I thought there were lots of jobs but so many people who don't want to work. Maybe that is more the service industry than the higher paying jobs like IT. I will most definitely say a prayer for you and your husband and I pray that the perfect job comes his way. God Bless.
Thank you! Yes, that is very much still the case for a lot of service industry jobs (restaurant, retail), but more recently, IT companies have been scaling back their workforce and bringing employees back into the office again. We are not looking to relocate at this time, and my husband was working remote for years before everything went remote, but now those jobs are so much harder to find because everyone wants them.
I think many IT jobs have been outsourced in the last several years by either moving off shore, or with low paid foreigners on visas in the US.
I don’t know, we are short on programmers and only get a couple applicants every time we put out a position.. My sister position we’ve been trying to fill for 5 years now and I could really use the help - I guess not many people want to work with Oracle stuff? I don’t know, maybe all the good ones are taken like women.
The company my brother works for is having a hard time getting people to work. So yeah that's the story for him. No one wants to work.
You are at a point where you have to go get WORK and not a JOB. There are plenty of places looking to hire in Florida, but you are going to have to go outside your comfort zone most likely for a while.
One of the worst things for folks can do is stay at home to look for a job. It makes you depressed. And only happy people get hired.
I recommend looking at the job lost as an opportunity to do something you always wanted to do, that can bring income, but something you didn't have time to do, if anything else just to keep your mind going and your feet active.
For example, I did the interview for my current job in my truck towing a car 500 miles from my house getting $2 a mile via U-SHIP. I did the interview for the job before that on a construction site getting paid $20 an hour.
This. Plus it'll be motivation to work/look harder for those better jobs.
When the money dries up you gotta go WORK. If it's your JOB to find a JOB and you aren't successful, you might want to think about a paycheck instead. If you are a fairly presentable person with some brains you can get a job almost anywhere if you just show up.
My company is currently hiring perm full time tier 1 no vax required remote. Dm me and I'll send the listing. It's probably too low level for you but you never know what could happen. My company gives raises often, and we do have opportunities for higher level work, so you never know....
I'm interested also. Same boat as OP
Dm me
Just sent you a DM. Thank you for taking the time to respond!
$1 hour is better than $0 an hour - my viewpoint lol
Exactly, it may be humbling but have him go get an entry level job at a big box retailer, Costco, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's for minimum wage. At least it would be food on the table money. And all those places are hiring right now. Or tap the kid on the shoulder who is driving the Amazon delivery van and ask him for his employers contact info - because those kids are making $18-20 an hour working for a third party contractor.
Plus, they may "claim" they want vax proof but when it comes down to it don't mention anything and more often than not it's never requested.
Exactly. At the end of the day this guy doesn’t want to do work “that is beneath him” and is fucking lazy. Fuck this prayer shit. Get to work mother fucker
Some people don’t think clearly when they are panicked i give this man the benefit of the doubt
Message me. I'm looking for remote work from home.
Go to local towns or cities and flash his bonefides in front of the IT department. Maybe they might perk their ears up. At worst visit the United States Postal Service and see if he can get hired on as a clerk. Being a clerk isn't all that bad and if he has IT experience it might open a door or two.
I think they are hiring h1b only. All the clerks here have HEAVY Indian accents.
Win win for the cabal. Hopefully they rot in hell
USPS has several IT software development jobs that are full remote - they don't say full remote on the listings though. No vax required. DM me and I can give more info.
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll let him know.
Where are you located?
Florida
DM incoming
Idk if you are in a position to relocate but huntsville,Alabama may have a lot of opportunity for his line of work. Other parts of Florida as well.
Oh okay I was going to say if you were up here I might have something for him but it would have to be on site
Sorry
I will pray for you 🙏❤️
Thank you!
You and your family are in my prayers.
Thank you!
Please keep us posted! I know Amazon is part of the evil cabal, but they offer many kinds of employment. Maybe look there until you find the perfect job!?
Same thing happened to me for three months…not kidding….zero calls, until about a month ago, and business returned. I prayed and still had great faith in God all would be well. It is now at least bearable and my head is out of the water.
Dear lord. Please be with this man. His struggle is real and now. Please bless him with work this week. In Jesus name, Amen.
Amen! Thank you so much!
My brother started and owns Encore Technologies in Cincinnati. My 4 brothers one being an engineer and sister work there as do I. My son graduated in computer engineering in 2017 and works there. We have almost 300 people working there now and growing. Not sure how close you are to the area but we also have a separate group there that does recruiting for companies needing IT type workers. We don't do the hire from other countries for cheap labor shit. Contact me and I can give you more information on the company and who to contact.
Thank you! I will pass this along to him.
Can confirm, I was a hired gun for $150 /hr solving problems others couldn't.
Can you DM on gaw? The company I work for is an IT contracting company and a very large fortune 100 company has their budget renewing next month and will be adding with no vax requirement
Sent you a DM :)
I know of a few companies that are not requiring the vax. They’re IT companies!! Idk how to pm you lol
I'll send you a message (it will show up under notifications at the top right)
Whatever he wants to do, say it out loud and know it will happen. Manifest it. Sounds like crap but there is something to it.
I am in the same boat. Later in career (IT) and am expecting to be laid off. Biden passed that H1B law and all the big companies are outsourcing to India. I am actively looking at setting up side gigs. One won't do it but two or three will. Get creative with what you can produce at home. There is a market there...
That used to be called PRAYER until tiktokkers attached some witchcraft bs to it.
Yes it is prayer in Christianity. In other religions and beliefs it is something else. I don't want to color the message with my personal beliefs. At the end this works, if ones beliefs are good and positive then I believe Jesus is with us.
Yes, thank you so much!! I agree with manifesting and positive affirmations, it certainly works and I've seen it happen in my life many times.
We are exploring some side gigs right now and I'm in the process of setting up an online business. The cool thing is, there are so many new opportunities for working side gigs that were not there previously, such as online shops, affiliate marketing, youtube content creators, blogging, etc. Were looking into several of these to help supplement (or replace) our income.
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Amen!! That is my husband's life verse :)
I feel for ya. I got laid off from a job that I poured so much time into. Beyond the others on staff. New opportunity upcoming. Certainly a humbling experience. Eventually I want to be my own boss. Can’t trust anybody except God.
One thing I would be doing is waving off the vax question. When you hear "vaccinated" just think of it as "immune". It's the same, the intent is the same, so if I were asked "are you vaccinated?" I would write or say "yes" with the justification that they are really asking is "are you safe to be around?". Consider this an allowable "misunderstanding". Asked for proof I would say "Oh it's true I will look into that" and I would never present anything, asked again I would say I haven't got round to asking my doctor, trying to get to begin the work without it, but if not, at least their time is wasted too. The fall back is just sending in a handwritten self-signed declaration of immunity. Declare yourself immune in one sentence without justification. Don't let them filter you out because of vax.
Good idea, and I like where you're going with this, but what is happening is jobs are asking the question on the application if you're vaxed or not, so my husband doesn't want to lie. What happens if they then ask for proof during the interview process and he doesn't have it? Most likely if it's a requirement they wont offer the job without some type of proof.
And when the recruiters call, that is one of the questions they ask. So they are just not submitting his resume for roles, and will gladly pick those who are saying yes to taking it. It's about 50% of jobs he's looking at, so not everyone. I'm just surprised companies are still asking for it with all the negative side effects coming out (even mainstream now).
You got it! Been meeting and praying every evening for months for all of our brothers and sisters around the world since early last year. That whatever their needs might be, they'll be provided. But will pray especially for you and your hubby tonight. That all your needs will be met. Hang in there, sister. I really do think this will end up being an awesome year for all of us. I have this belief that some things that look bad to us are actually what my wife calls "backwards blessings." Things that God will use for our good, like He has been to wake people up. Sometimes it is just God leading us somewhere else. But right now, I think it's about righting wrongs and removing corruption we didn't even realize was there. Things seem to be speeding up. And we're also seeing some supernatural things happen around us, ever since we decided to meet for prayer for an hour every evening. I think from that perspective, we're about to see some really phenomenal changes in a relatively short period of time. I don't think this will take years. Because I do think we're about to see some divine intervention. And may part of that include your husband finding favor with a steady employer that will meet all your needs. Amen.
I agree with you. Sometimes hard times and difficult circumstances end up carving the path toward something better. God will get us through these down times.
Amen!! Thank you so much for your prayers!
Dear heavenly father We just lift up this family to you right now, and we ask for a miracle! This family has been faithful to you, Lord, and faithful to not buying into this world wide psyop. We’re asking that you would honor them for this. That you would lead them in the direction that they need to go, And that you would provide a job quickly. May this job, be bigger, better, stronger, and faster, than any other job that he has ever had! Bigly! May the increase in wages, make up for the lost wages, from not being able to work the last few months. We just asked all of these things in Jesus name! Amen!
Amen!! Thank you so much! ❤️
Amen beautiful prayer sis. God bless u. Keep spreading the light of Christ. Love u
God bless you too. And thank you for fighting the good fight! I’ll be watching your latest YouTube video with the next couple days.
Having people like u in the fight with me, makes it's so motivating to continue. All praise and glory to God. Keep fighting the good flght as well sis. I am literally posting the episode right now. Excited to share this one. Hoping to get these put out every couple weeks or so. I appreciate the support. Maybe in the future God will lead you to coming on yourself. No pressure though. Thanks again for the support.
I have been considering coming on the show, but I’ve been dealing with a bunch of stuff. I’m praying to see if that’s what the Lord wants me to do. I’m headed back to Hawaii in April and May, maybe I’ll do it then? At least I’ll have a nice background when I do it. Lol God’s glory bed.
😁😁😁 let me know, we can definitely work something out. I'm hoping in time more and more people will wanna come on. Having Hawaii as background would be awesome. Yes please keep praying on it. I will pray for u as well. Excited to hear your at least praying on it. All in Gods timing
Sounds exactly like my situation. I lost my work from home IT job in August 2021. I have been completely through unemployment and was just denied a new round as I have yet to find a replacement job. I am down to less than $500 and have 10k in bills still due to the lovely thing called fractional banking. I too could use some thoughts and prayers.
I'm sorry to hear you're going through a similar situation.. I'll pray for you as well! Both my husband and I lost jobs in 2020 at the beginning of covid, and it took us both a while to find the next ones. The job market has been competitive as of late, and there are tons of people vying for the same jobs. I think it's just time to diversify (multiple streams of income), so in addition to the traditional job route, we are looking to start some online businesses to generate passive income. Hope you are able to find something soon!
I know that feeling, and it's hard. I will pray for you, fren. Don't forget to ask your guardian angel for help in times like these.
Anyone who can work from home with a computer, either full or part-time: Check Upwork.com.
There is no end of jobs there of all kinds. Look it over and see if there is anything you could do from home.
Thank! I'll pass this along.
Praying for you
Thank you!
Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love, daily guidance and provision of everything we really need, please hear our prayer as Truth4Freedom and her husband need help, guidance and a wonderful kek-incidence for a new, very well-payed and fulfilling job.
Both have been very patient and pro-active, but without any success, especially due to those dangerous and unfair vaccination mandates, but now they need your support to show the way, to recognize the right offer, to meet the right people or perhaps to follow a totally new and different path to steady and good income with interesting work / service and full use of their talents, skills and knowledge.
You are our Father and you do not leave us alone in trying times, but help us to understand and hear clearly in which direction we should go to find the best place to do the most high for everybody connected and ourselves.
We thank you for your guidance, love and all the wonderful opportunities for well-payed fulfilling work that will show up right now.
Amen! Amen! Thank you so much ❤️
Tell me about those recruiters - are ANY of them based in this country or do they all sound like they're speaking from Asia?
Praying for you and your family. God’s got you!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Honestly, its pretty easy to pretend at this point if you need a role somewhere. Just say yes if you need the job. It takes minutes to make a card.
Ii e been where you are, God will provide. Praying for you.
Thank you!
I'm praying for you. Hang in there a little bit longer. The available work population is shrinking. I'd reapply for those jobs he didn't get and apply for jobs that seem to be out of reach. Why not? Shoot high, as my friend once said. God bless you and your husband. God will not leave you. Have faith.
Thank you!