HawaiianShirts
03-18-2008, 03:52 PM
My wife and I have decided that we want to move to Western Oregon. I like rain; she hates snow. Sounds like a pretty good compromise to me. I need to find a job. I'm going through all the regular channels like WorkForce Services, want-ads, and Monster.com (I might try CareerBuilder, too), but I thought I'd also post here on the off-chance that someone knows something the other places don't.
The job would have to be in one of the larger cities because my wife is blind, doesn't drive, and relies on public transit to get around. We're thinking the Eugene/Springfield area, Corvallis, or Salem. Portland is a possibility, but that's just a little bit too big for our tastes.
Our lease here is up at the end of May, so I'd need to start the job after that point. By then, though, I'll have my bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in English, both the teaching emphasis. I have taken the Teacher Education and Training courses, but due to financial concerns, I didn't go for the teaching license. I would prefer something that would let me use the English portion of my degree, but really I'm just looking for work that pays as much as I make now or more and that I can tolerate for a few years while we get settled into a new area.
I have three years retail sales experience, one year clerical, one year in-bound telemarketing and customer service, three months hotel housekeeping in Yellowstone National Park, and two years pizza production and delivery. I'm good with computers, though by no means a "tech." I also did a lot of high school theater, both on-stage acting and off-stage techie work.
Anybody know of any leads I could look into? (Feel free to use Private Messages if you don't want the whole board to get clues about your secret identity.)
The job would have to be in one of the larger cities because my wife is blind, doesn't drive, and relies on public transit to get around. We're thinking the Eugene/Springfield area, Corvallis, or Salem. Portland is a possibility, but that's just a little bit too big for our tastes.
Our lease here is up at the end of May, so I'd need to start the job after that point. By then, though, I'll have my bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in English, both the teaching emphasis. I have taken the Teacher Education and Training courses, but due to financial concerns, I didn't go for the teaching license. I would prefer something that would let me use the English portion of my degree, but really I'm just looking for work that pays as much as I make now or more and that I can tolerate for a few years while we get settled into a new area.
I have three years retail sales experience, one year clerical, one year in-bound telemarketing and customer service, three months hotel housekeeping in Yellowstone National Park, and two years pizza production and delivery. I'm good with computers, though by no means a "tech." I also did a lot of high school theater, both on-stage acting and off-stage techie work.
Anybody know of any leads I could look into? (Feel free to use Private Messages if you don't want the whole board to get clues about your secret identity.)