The Top 10 Reasons

1. For the past 9 months I have been spending a great amount of time trying to find a new job. My previous job with a mortgage company went down the drain when the housing crisis started to show its face. I saw it coming and knew it was just a matter of time before I was going to be shown the door. It was not because of a lack of effort. I had been promoted faster than anybody on my team and was a consistent closer. It was mainly because I could not talk clients into refinancing their already great 30 year fixed rate mortgage into a new loan just because it saved them $70 a month on their bills. I knew it did not make sense to spend another $4k in closing costs so I would tell them that. I would tell

1. I would become the man.

2. I do my best to stay away from the man.

3. Not that many people get fired. Even if you do bad they still keep you at the same pay rank but move you into a less important role.

4. With everybody knowing what you get paid because of rank or level the competition for a promotion can be fierce.

5. Even during a recession the government is hiring which is crazy seeing that the private sector in a whole is not.

6. I am in favor of a much smaller government and for me to take a government job I would have to know that at least 5 other jobs were eliminated to save the tax payers money to pay my salary. This will not happen.

7. I have not found a government job yet that does not have a pension plan. Would be

1. Give me something to do.

2. So I can use a computer for something else than looking at job websites all day.

3. Make it look like to my friends and family that I’m doing something all day. I don’t know how much they believe that looking for a career is a full time job nowadays.

4. Make some money to cover my traveling habit.

5. Learn something new…probably about something old…that’s been done a thousand time before.

6. Max out a 401k plan to take advantage of the crappy stock market. Buy low sell high bitches. Plus its the only way I can keep my taxabale income down when I don’t own a house, am married or have kids.

7. Support the profits of the oil companies by driving to work. Wait, I hate driving and gas that’s why I got a Ford Fusion and requested a 4 cylinder. I made them drive to Ohio to

1. I am stuck in that point in my career where I’m 5 years out of college so I have experience, but not enough to get me a job that will get me hired over the other people twice my age who recently lost their jobs too.

2. I have a business degree like the rest of the world.

3. I did not graduate from college with a 4.0 GPA.  “Looks like you just missed the cutoff, sorry.”

4. The college I went to was a mid-major which was a great school and I have nothing bad to say about it. I have been told that since it was not a Big Ten or major school that my below 4.0 GPA disqualifies me for a job.

5. Every time I apply for a job I get some email back saying the job was closed