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Originally Posted by milano
From your location, it says you live in Northern Cali. That may be wrong, but i'm just being observant. If that's true, we live in the same state.
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Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile
I'm from Northern California. I grew up in the East Bay Area (Berkeley, Oakland, Pinole, Richmond). I went to college in Davis, near Sacramento, and lived in that general area for 3 or 4 years and from there moved up to Oregon just this last November in search of better prospects than California was showing me. Moving back to the Bay Area wasn't really an option (expensive as hell). Staying where I was could have been an option, but moving to Oregon seemed like a better dead: same amount if not more opportunities, cheaper cost of living, no sales tax, higher minimum wage than I was getting paid after 2 years at my job. So I figure: come up here, find any job I can, and at minimum wage in a cheaper, sales tax free environment I'd be saving money. Except I've been up here for like six months and haven't gotten anywhere. Yet. I haven't exhausted all my resources, but it's going a lot worse than I had thought it would.
I really don't want to shave my beard and cut my hair (3 years growth) on the chance that I might increase my odds of finding work, but I'm weighing it over every day just about. I mean, if I shave up, I can get a job at McDonald's (whoo-hoo), the bottom of the food chain, but I'm in a hippy town - Eugene - and I really shouldn't need to do that to find work. I need to exhaust all the coffee shops, all the local hippy kind of places before I go corporate and clean-cut. I just love my beard so much I wouldn't want to kill it and then get a job where I wouldn't have needed to cut it in the first place. But desperation is creeping.