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In coralville now, looking to move somewhere... I'm still young (24) and looking for anything right now, got a general business degree from UI but I have done a lot of construction, some civil engineering and have a lot of experience in sports management.

the chances of the majority of them having more experience than I are really good. i probably don't hear back from 99.999% of the drafting jobs that i apply for, and there aren't that many to begin with.

we just had a manager transfer to a different department and he is now listed as a systems analyst. he has no IT experience, and while he is going to Iowa, it is not for anything IT related. maybe i just need to start applying for random ish that I am nowhere near qualified for and see if anything sticks. I rarely hear anything on the jobs that i apply for that i am qualified for.

never considered interior design--most positions for that want a degree in interior design. although i know in one of the classes i had, there would always be interior design students who would come in and use the computers to do their projects on AutoCAD.

what i did when I was laid off was structural and miscellaneous steel drafting. for a first job right i had while i was finishing school, it was very hard for me to learn the specifics of structural steel construction, learning software that is very specific to that industry (which i feel like i am behind the 8ball, because my experience isn't with AutoCAD or some other widely used drafting software), and then also getting a few hours of sleep a night because of a newborn, it was just not a good fit at the time.

i know some people in my class who went on to do some electrical and plumbing drafting, some who work just for builders...some who work at an architects office or architectural firm (one girl got an internship at OPN, had the highest GPA in our class...was working there after we got out of school and got laid off from OPN (i think after the flood) she couldn't find a job and ended up joining the Navy.

yeah....i know things are starting to pick up cause I have been seeing job postings more frequently...I submit my resume even though they say they want more years of experience than what i have.

But, i have noticed that with a lot of jobs, that they always want someone with X amount of years of experience or a bachelors degree, even for jobs that any monkey can walk in off the street and be doing after a couple days of training. I am just wondering what would happen in a lot of these jobs if there is a massive population die off that wipes out most of the people with experience, leaving a population with minimal to no experience because nobody wanted to hire them to give them experience.

i remember a time when there once was this thing called On the Job Training.

Drafting and design (AutoCAD operator) for a Blast and Ballistic Resistant Building manufacturer. I also work for the government division of the company doing security upgrades at consulates and embassies around the world.

producer in a creative services advertising agency.

Full time student. My wife his a substitute teacher currently, so I pretty much wipe my arse with $50s. Used to be $100s...damn recession.