Job-seeker commits suicide after 200 rejections

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Where they get this sense of entitlement from I could never explain. The article said " she had been out of work for so long and couldn't take it anymore".. She was only 21..

She was a white girl though entitlement is in they blood lol.

You gotta do what you gotta do in these typa situations. When I graduated college, it was right at the beginning of the recession, I took a couple jobs I didn't like to pay my bills. shyt I worked for the housing authority, a rape crisis center, a hospital, and then I got laid off and applied for over 100 hundred jobs and got turned down each time so I went back to what I did before and traveled the world on someone else's dime and taught English. Not only did that make my resume look good, I saved enough money to live on my own and help pay for my post-grad. Then I went back again two years consecutively. I also think it has to do with upbringing, I was always taught that as a black person (and woman) I'd have to work 10x time harder than anyone else in this country. My mother did the same, she worked odd jobs to put food on the table, she never once expressed the desire to kill herself even though I could tell sometimes that she did feel that way. Anyway, the point is build yourself up to where you can hold the reigns and control your own trajectory is all I'm saying. As black people, we suffer more than anyone else but we don't lay down, never give up and never surrender.
 

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you dont understand unemployment because youve been spoonfed jobs all your life. :camby:
:laff: Spoonfed Jobs :dead:


nikka I'm unemployed myself :pachaha: As a matter of fact I'm 21 and I've never had a real job like that. I live with my parents and go to college while constantly tryin to gain any experience I can in my field by volunteering, networking and etc.


I know what it's like to get rejected time after time after time but I've never thought of killing myself because of that, and why the fukk should it matter what everyone else thinks about me when they're likely a paycheck away from being in my position or worse :rudy:


:camby: Get outta here with that defeatist mindset bruh, where there's a will there's a way and If you got that mindset you might as well crawl into a grave and die because you ain't getting nowhere with it.
 

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:laff: Spoonfed Jobs :dead:


nikka I'm unemployed myself :pachaha: As a matter of fact I'm 21 and I've never had a real job like that. I live with my parents and go to college while constantly tryin to gain any experience I can in my field by volunteering, networking and etc.


I know what it's like to get rejected time after time after time but I've never thought of killing myself because of that, and why the fukk should it matter what everyone else thinks about me when they're likely a paycheck away from being in my position or worse :rudy:


:camby: Get outta here with that defeatist mindset bruh, where there's a will there's a way and If you got that mindset you might as well crawl into a grave and die because you ain't getting nowhere with it.

i dont have a defeatist attitude. i have two job interviews tomorrow. im just saying my country would be a better place without government.
 

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She was a white girl though entitlement is in they blood lol.

You gotta do what you gotta do in these typa situations. When I graduated college, it was right at the beginning of the recession, I took a couple jobs I didn't like to pay my bills. shyt I worked for the housing authority, a rape crisis center, a hospital, and then I got laid off and applied for over 100 hundred jobs and got turned down each time so I went back to what I did before and traveled the world on someone else's dime and taught English. Not only did that make my resume look good, I saved enough money to live on my own and help pay for my post-grad. Then I went back again two years consecutively. I also think it has to do with upbringing, I was always taught that as a black person (and woman) I'd have to work 10x time harder than anyone else in this country. My mother did the same, she worked odd jobs to put food on the table, she never once expressed the desire to kill herself even though I could tell sometimes that she did feel that way. Anyway, the point is build yourself up to where you can hold the reigns and control your own trajectory is all I'm saying. As black people, we suffer more than anyone else but we don't lay down, never give up and never surrender.

this post is fukking hilarious. :laff:

this poor white girl was applying for jobs se didnt like and couldnt even get them. so stop thinking you are better than this white girl because you "worked jobs you didnt like".

thiswhite girl invested in the system. she worked hard in school. got good grades. so she rightfully thought she should be able to find a job.

so no black people commit suicide right? fukk outta here with that bullshyt.
 

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She was a white girl though entitlement is in they blood lol.

You gotta do what you gotta do in these typa situations. When I graduated college, it was right at the beginning of the recession, I took a couple jobs I didn't like to pay my bills. shyt I worked for the housing authority, a rape crisis center, a hospital, and then I got laid off and applied for over 100 hundred jobs and got turned down each time so I went back to what I did before and traveled the world on someone else's dime and taught English. Not only did that make my resume look good, I saved enough money to live on my own and help pay for my post-grad. Then I went back again two years consecutively. I also think it has to do with upbringing, I was always taught that as a black person (and woman) I'd have to work 10x time harder than anyone else in this country. My mother did the same, she worked odd jobs to put food on the table, she never once expressed the desire to kill herself even though I could tell sometimes that she did feel that way. Anyway, the point is build yourself up to where you can hold the reigns and control your own trajectory is all I'm saying. As black people, we suffer more than anyone else but we don't lay down, never give up and never surrender.

Alot of our people have seen rock bottom so it can only get better. That perseverance and tenacity we got is something that cant be taught or bought , you gotta be born with it. I did work-study in college and washed dishes just to have money to buy my books--only left me with enough money to pay my cell phone bill in the end. But like you said , you gotta do what you gotta.

this post is fukking hilarious. :laff:

this poor white girl was applying for jobs se didnt like and couldnt even get them. so stop thinking you are better than this white girl because you "worked jobs you didnt like".

thiswhite girl invested in the system. she worked hard in school. got good grades. so she rightfully thought she should be able to find a job.

so no black people commit suicide right? fukk outta here with that bullshyt.

She dropped out of University.
 

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Alot of our people have seen rock bottom so it can only get better. That perseverance and tenacity we got is something that cant be taught or bought , you gotta be born with it. I did work-study in college and washed dishes just to have money to buy my books--only left me with enough money to pay my cell phone bill in the end. But like you said , you gotta do what you gotta.

stop with this you gotta do what you gotta do shyt. here in the uk we have over 100 people applying for a dish washing job. you seem to just assume that you can up and get a job because you "gotta do what you gotta do".

you from the states so you dont have half an idea about the unemployment problem in the uk.
 

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this post is fukking hilarious. :laff:

this poor white girl was applying for jobs se didnt like and couldnt even get them. so stop thinking you are better than this white girl because you "worked jobs you didnt like".

thiswhite girl invested in the system. she worked hard in school. got good grades. so she rightfully thought she should be able to find a job.

so no black people commit suicide right? fukk outta here with that bullshyt.
I feel you homie but playing devils advocate you could say that this is a perfect example of:

"If white folks had it even SLIGHTLY as hard as Blacks they'd commit that."

This girl couldn't even deal with slight rejection at 21. TWO YEARS. Imagine just being rejected flat out, for damn near everything from almost birth.
 

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Alot of our people have seen rock bottom so it can only get better. That perseverance and tenacity we got is something that cant be taught or bought , you gotta be born with it. I did work-study in college and washed dishes just to have money to buy my books--only left me with enough money to pay my cell phone bill in the end. But like you said , you gotta do what you gotta.

I was lucky enough to get a full ride though. But even so realizing that a lot of our ancestors died so that we would have opportunities to work and go to school only gave me that much more drive. I can't speak for every black person in this country, but it's pictures and shyt that my pops used to show me as a kid to remind me of how difficult it was. So I always reminded myself of that. And even if I couldn't afford a lot of the things most people could as a broke college student, it didn't compare to what my moms and pops went through just to raise me and keep a roof over my head. I put myself out there, I would practically harass potential employers, but it worked. And when it didn't, I went to seminars and conferences and shyt just to get they business cards and give my resume. So I'm sorry I don't empathize with a 21 year old white girl who didn't get hired for a job. :stopitslime:
 

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I feel you homie but playing devils advocate you could say that this is a perfect example of:

"If white folks had it even SLIGHTLY as hard as Blacks they'd commit that."

This girl couldn't even deal with slight rejection at 21. TWO YEARS. Imagine just being rejected flat out, for damn near everything from almost birth.

im a mullato. ive been rejected by everybody since birth. what you know about this mulatto life.
 
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