Even with college degrees, blacks struggle to launch careers
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godkiller
"We are the Fury"
So you're basically broke, desitute and trying to advise other people to do the same. A person doesn't have to be jobless and poor to make a business. It's easier to create a business when you have less stress and more money.
yep greece and spain are
even in canada before you could cake in the oil industry, now that oil plummeted, its back to the starbucks barista lifestyle.
nikkaz don't realize it how it is. I remember my ex worked in hr for a small it company and her boss told her to set up interviews, but to check out their facebook and make sure they weren't black.
godkiller
"We are the Fury"
yep greece and spain are
even in canada before you could cake in the oil industry, now that oil plummeted, its back to the starbucks barista lifestyle.
nikkaz don't realize it how it is. I remember my ex worked in hr for a small it company and her boss told her to set up interviews, but to check out their facebook and make sure they weren't black.
Really? Only black?
So you're basically broke, desitute and trying to advise other people to do the same. A person doesn't have to be jobless and poor to make a business. It's easier to create a business when you have less stress and more money.
Nah,breh
No broke shyt here. I work for the gubment, but I know that I will take off with my own shyt very soon. Working in the private sector is a no-no in terms of working for my worth. Be cool working for IT and let your CAC boss talk shyt to you and make you work for 60+ hours per week.
yep greece and spain are
even in canada before you could cake in the oil industry, now that oil plummeted, its back to the starbucks barista lifestyle.
nikkaz don't realize it how it is. I remember my ex worked in hr for a small it company and her boss told her to set up interviews, but to check out their facebook and make sure they weren't black.
these companies don't understand the concept of karma. I mean, people actually look up on FB to see what race you are? 
does biology count
I kind of see it as this problem
-Poor match between college grad and the job market. There is a ridiculous amount of bureacracy and loop holes to jump through as well as an employer, student gap. Then you add the non-sense with the H-B1 Visas there is a huge amount of animosity by tech workers towards indian H-B1s. Employers say they can't find qualified american workers and applicants call bullshyt and say it's because they don't want to pay for American talent. This isn't even digging into firing people for getting too old or the overqualified myth.
-Networking is still king and generally speaking, black people tend to have much weaker networks. A lot of people got jobs because of their parent's connects or being friends with a few people in the right places. Most black people don't have that luxury so we are between a rock and a hard place. My old roommate's coworker is a bit of an idiot and struggles regularly with the work but when you have connections, anything can happen. You have to be damn near MENSA level to break through if your black or have good connects. I got a good job ONLY because of a referral due to the fact that I was drinking buddies with this white guy and it turned out he was a rich hipster kid and very popular. His name was like a gold stamp pretty much. If I never kicked rocks with him, I would have been SOL despite being really smart, talented and hard working.
-White professors, instructors and business owners feel more comfortable around white people than they do black people. You'll notice this a lot in college and I even confirmed this with non-white students of races other than black like Indians. Unlike Indians, black people don't have many STEM connections. A lot of indians have doctors, engineers and surgeons for relatives so it helps them tremendously. As black people we need to start copying them.
-We are too scattered to be able to form unions and social groups. A lot of highly educated professional blacks tend to marry out of their race a lot more than expected and are usually single much longer than other races. Also finding blacks who are at the top of their field in STEM is rare. Even added onto that because we are in such few numbers at the top, it makes it even harder to break in. A white guy I use to know talked about how they were interviewing for a job and one of the guys got really threatened by a girl with a near perfect GPA, spoke several languages and did a lot of work. He tried to downplay her accomplishments just because she was indian even though she was a better candidate than he was. She got hired because the guy that wasn't an a$$hole fought for her and she ended up blowing that racist dude out of the water at work in terms of quality.
-Poor match between college grad and the job market. There is a ridiculous amount of bureacracy and loop holes to jump through as well as an employer, student gap. Then you add the non-sense with the H-B1 Visas there is a huge amount of animosity by tech workers towards indian H-B1s. Employers say they can't find qualified american workers and applicants call bullshyt and say it's because they don't want to pay for American talent. This isn't even digging into firing people for getting too old or the overqualified myth.
-Networking is still king and generally speaking, black people tend to have much weaker networks. A lot of people got jobs because of their parent's connects or being friends with a few people in the right places. Most black people don't have that luxury so we are between a rock and a hard place. My old roommate's coworker is a bit of an idiot and struggles regularly with the work but when you have connections, anything can happen. You have to be damn near MENSA level to break through if your black or have good connects. I got a good job ONLY because of a referral due to the fact that I was drinking buddies with this white guy and it turned out he was a rich hipster kid and very popular. His name was like a gold stamp pretty much. If I never kicked rocks with him, I would have been SOL despite being really smart, talented and hard working.
-White professors, instructors and business owners feel more comfortable around white people than they do black people. You'll notice this a lot in college and I even confirmed this with non-white students of races other than black like Indians. Unlike Indians, black people don't have many STEM connections. A lot of indians have doctors, engineers and surgeons for relatives so it helps them tremendously. As black people we need to start copying them.
-We are too scattered to be able to form unions and social groups. A lot of highly educated professional blacks tend to marry out of their race a lot more than expected and are usually single much longer than other races. Also finding blacks who are at the top of their field in STEM is rare. Even added onto that because we are in such few numbers at the top, it makes it even harder to break in. A white guy I use to know talked about how they were interviewing for a job and one of the guys got really threatened by a girl with a near perfect GPA, spoke several languages and did a lot of work. He tried to downplay her accomplishments just because she was indian even though she was a better candidate than he was. She got hired because the guy that wasn't an a$$hole fought for her and she ended up blowing that racist dude out of the water at work in terms of quality.
What did I say that was ridiculous? Go out and be an entrepreneur. Hell, you can make money out here off of blogs, off of YouTube videos... if you're a chick you can make money charging dudes $25 to watch you shake your ass for 15 minutes. You don't have to ask the white man for a gig.
It does, but I hope you're seriously thinking about going to the graduate level.does biology count
you could drive sidecar @The Nigerian
We trying man. Its more than an open dirty secret that nikkas with their own companies that make it in the private sector partner with the public sector. The only nikkas making get government contracts in some way and that only really happens in black cities. There's only so much of that that goes around.
Read any book with a black person that made it they had to get shyt from the government and there ain't nothing wrong with that. Its just I read posts on this board and they say black business this black business that. Its way harder than that, we don't have rich ppl from our homeland backing us that's the only reason other races make it here.
It was a really sad realization when I found out I'm going to be the beginning of shyt like I have to break down barriers. I know it must be done but at the same time I'm
I feeeel this. I tried the corporate job thing and "played the game" and once I realized these white people HATED me no matter what, I knew I had to start my own business. shyt is
cause now that I understand that it's rigged I can foresee what my battle and challenges are. It is downright scary. But I have to find a way or imma kill one of these motherfukkas in an office. I just couldn't take feeling like they were literally trying to crush my soul everyday. And I'm a black female so I know I was meeting a quota in that office. There were two other black women and once I got hired they got rid of one
. I saw the storm brewing and it hurt my soul to know I hurt my people for simply wanting to earn a living. Then I saw them slowly dismantle the BEST worker they had who was a BLACK MAN with a degree from Stanford. That is when I learned them degrees mean shyt to these mothafukkas. They purely hate you. He was intelligent and training everyone and putting the managers in their place, respectfully. But they couldn't handle that shyt. It's like they couldn't compute "intelligence" from ANYONE. They literally dismantled this man's job and "disappeared" him one day. shyt is 
when I think too hard about it. And him and the woman they fired were real OGs I could have gained so much game from. The only other black women there was c00ning and
most of the time so I could only take so much of her. I was on an island dying of starvation working there. And since I was gracefully dogging their bullets their hate and vengeance grew for me one day. Eventually they picked me off too but I'm 100% at peace with creating my own job now cause that shyt is not the business.