Contact your advisor or career specialist wherever you graduated. Get some help with your resume and cover letter. Then, show these docs to professionals whom you know, particularly those who make hiring decisions.

It's not your degree that's the problem; it's how you're marketing yourself.

Please watch this inspirational video. It has an uplifting story about getting your swagger back.

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best of luck to you

It's not exactly that easy. First of all, there are multiple exams, not just 1. I know a number of people who have passed the first and not found employment yet. Hell, I know someone who has passed 3, but didn't find employment, though he has certain mitigating factors working against him. Additionally, while a degree might not be technically required, I've never heard of anyone getting into the field that didn't have one. Plus there are educational requirements called VEE that you do have to take. Myself, I'm taking the 2nd exam this fall and a class that prepares me for the 3rd while concurrently finishing a BS in Math and a certificate in actuarial science program.

I believe there are nine exams in total. Obviously passing the first guarantees nothing but it is a great start since getting into the field doesn't "require" anything more than one of the first preliminary exams.

The overall point is that it is one of those fields that cares more about your skills than earning a degree. They don't make you jump through unnecessary hoops, and for a field that pays well into six figures once established, that is pretty dang good.

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Any field related advice you can dispense?\

Update: Just got a text from the family friend who went to bat for me on the job in SEMO that said the HR manager she's spoken to her passed along a good note, FWIW.

Oops for the bump, but I'm a week away from classes and I'm beginning to think it's not a good idea.. but I'm still in the same spot.

I couldn't find a job in my degree (advertising) in KC at all after 9-11 so after about 5 years of chasing BS jobs I picked option five and moved to California. Got a job almost instantly because the job market here is so much better, especially for hard-working midwesterners with no aspirations to act. Haven't' stopped working since.

So...pack your bags. P.S. no bugs or humidity here. Just sayin.

But there are crazy people out there.

I hear rumors the Missouri State Fair is looking for a new Rodeo Clown.

So.. you're saying...

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I can't do it.

What do you want out of life? Just paying bills and having a house you can get drunk and eat nachos in?

Do you want adventure?

Do you want travel?

Do you want to create something that will affect people or live on in posterity after you're gone?

Do you want to achieve massive financial success? Or help shape public policy? Do you have any ambition whatsoever?

Getting a "job" is about as pointless an existence I can fathom. I despise having jobs. I despise working for someone else, and having the service I offer to "be present" at their place of business.

Start your own business. That's what I'd suggest. Find something you're passionate about and go start your own business. You will never work harder than you do for yourself. Additionally, you're young, you have no mortgage, no kids, no responsibility. You can afford to fail right now more than any other time in your life.

Go for it.

Or ****ing pack up and move to Thailand. Teach english and bang the hottest girls you've ever seen two at a time.

Insurance underwriter? Are you ****ing kidding me?

Youth is wasted on the young.

Interesting congruence in that technical people can't write for crap. Especially writing so non-technical people can understand.

The niece of a co-worker is making big money (don't know exact dollars but she seems happy with it) doing tech writing for Cerner in KC. My sister years back was a big hit at McDonnell-Douglas because she could program and write, too.

If you can read tech and write in English, you might market yourself that way.

Option F: Go back to college and get a real degree like an engineering or finance degree

*law asst

*back to school, get the MA

*work for gov't (more like show up, do nothing, turn a blind eye and get paid)

*start your own company


really just depends what you want from life