<p>If you know someone at the district office of where you’re interested in working, they sometimes have information about openings. Also, if you strike up a strong friendship with a key person at one of the schools you’re interested in, they can keep you posted. Short of those, yes, you would have to check the schools you’re interested or the department of ed for those schools.</p>
<p>For HS opening, depends on the district. In ours the jobs are posted centrally and most are filled by now. Also geography and major play a huge role. DD-in-law was laid off in her teaching job as middle school history teacher 2 years ago and has only found sub jobs since. Sometimes if you sub in a school you can find out more and get an inside track when there are openings. Other times she is finding that the principal doesn’t know her since there is a separate admin area that manages subs.</p>
<p>My daughter recently graduated with a degree in English and a minor in Japanese. She spent most of her senior year preparing for the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) application, but after the tsunami the program admission was put on hold, so now she’s living back at home.</p>
<p>My wife and I want her to get a job- any job- just to learn the value of work. She’s a good kid and worked really hard in honors college, but now she just stays up all night playing video games and sleeps all day. I wake up for work at 6 every morning and this is driving me nuts!</p>
<p>Lately we’ve been suggesting the idea of an internship, even an unpaid one, but my daughter says that internships are now requiring college credit. This is a problem since she’s already graduated. We live in a small town so there aren’t any publishing houses that I know of (daughter wants to be a writer and work in publishing) but at this point I think any job experience would be great- Publix, Starbucks, local bookstore, whatever. </p>
<p>Are employers really requiring that interns receive credit now? My daughter is so smart with all this technology so you tink she’d be able to google something and I just don’t have the time. Right now I just wish she was motivated to get off the couch and do something.</p>
<p>I think job ,any job experience is worthwile also…that said, has she not worked during summers and semester breaks from college?? If not,motivation might prove difficult,as she has never had to work,or look for work…</p>
<p>Shane’s Dad - I have a son, rising junior, who was offered an internship this summer. It was unpaid and we figured, “Oh well. Better than nothing.” Unfortunately, this turned out to be a nightmare. </p>
<p>The company is a financial company <200 in Forbes, so could clearly afford to pay its interns. Their process of acceptance involved a legal “Holds Harmless” document that needed to be signed by his college. We thought it strange, but that it was just some sort of delay. Turns out, his college refused to sign it since he wasn’t associated with his school during the summer. That is, he wasn’t taking this internship for credit, so why should they be involved? Then the bad news. He got a call where he was told he couldn’t take this internship b/c the school wouldn’t sign and the company required it.</p>
<p>Good news: the fat lady hadn’t sung yet. We scurried around to see if he could take an online internship through his school (even though he obviously missed important meetings in April and the class has started 6 weeks earlier.) It would cost us an unexpected $1,100, but he’s doing it. So much for it being an unpaid internship.</p>
<p>Paid internships do not require college credits while unpaid internships do. This is really due to politics some years back and is off topic here. It is illegal for a company to not pay someone doing work unless it is for some educational benefit for the worker. The only way to prove an internship has educational value is for the intern to get college credit from his/her school. Many companies, especially mom and pap type of small companies, are violating this law without knowing it. Big companies will not want to risk a law suit for this matter.</p>
<p>This is news to me. My political internship was not for credit and unpaid-- though credit was offered and I just decided not to take it, I would have had to take a class with the internship and I was already taking 17 credit hours and didn’t want to do more. Could that be a loophole? The credit was posed to me as an entirely optional thing.</p>
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<p>I think that the government agency where my D is currently interning did not get the memo. Hundreds of applicants for 12 spots and the benefit of working for no $$ or school credit.</p>
<p>The rule about requiring payment or course credit for internships applies to for-profit companies only. Government agencies are non-profit, and hence exempt from that rule.</p>
<p>Just a quick update, probably the last one… I started work today and it was great. I get my own cubicle and everything, which sounds silly to be excited about but I am! My boss took me out for lunch today and we had a good talk, she said the CEO was really enthusiastic about hiring me after we interviewed and said that he could tell I was really smart. It’s just so deeply rewarding to me to be working at a company where everybody, including the people at the tippy top of management for a massive company, firmly believe that I am intelligent-- you know, I’m not used to that. And I’m already making friends-- I can count on one hand the number of friends I’ve made throughout my entire educational career. Being a grown up certainly seems to come with its own set of challenges and stressors, but I think I might be a bit better at it than I was at being a kid. 
It feels like someone flipped a switch on whatever made being autistic such a big deal when i was in school. That sense of awkwardness whenever I met a new person… when they could see something was slightly different but couldn’t figure out what… is gone. If only my whole life had been like this!</p>
<p>It’s only the first day, but that is the sixth time I’ve been at the office so I’ve already gotten to know a lot of people. I think this will be good. :)</p>
<p>And I got to meet the new receptionist, who was hired into the position I’d originally applied for. She’s the kind of girl I would normally have been intimidated by… it’s crazy to think that they picked ME for a better position. They picked ME!!!</p>
<p>I’m just so happy. :)</p>
<p>Hooray for you Ema!
Wishing you continued success!</p>
<p>Ema, Sounds like a good place to work. Congrats on the new job.</p>
<p>Maybe a new thread is order. “Got a job, now what??” </p>
<p>My son is having to get a new wardrobe of “work clothes”, not just the shorts and flip-flops or the couple of interview shirts, etc. I thought finding an apartment was going to be an adventure, but he liked the second one he saw and that was it.</p>
<p>Ema, I’m so glad to hear your good news and that you are surrounded by people that get you.</p>
<p>am also so very happy for you,Ema! Good luck!</p>
<p>shanesdad: I would suggest your D register with the local temp agencies. They may be able to get her some temporary work and get her off your couch!</p>
<p>So happy for ema and HPuck. Ema, you’re a sweetie and I can’t wait to hear about all your adventures.</p>
<p>And HPuck, I am VERY interested in you and your son’s experience. I will be there, hopefully, in a few short years. I’m laughing at the apartment choice. H and S go with their gut, make the decision, where mom here has to think of all possible permutations.<br>
I will be sending you good thoughts as you take your boy on his work clothes shopping trip. Have the martinis chilled in the icebox for when you come home, for both of you, or better yet, a six pack!</p>
<p>Very happy for you, ema. Enjoy the new job & new friends.</p>
<p>Montegut, S was actaully very organized with his apartment search. He spent some time online looking at the web sites for several larger apartment complexes, which he favored because of their larger pools and other amenities. He also limited his choices to a certain distance from where he worked as he didn’t want to spend a lot of time commuting. He had a plan for looking at the apartments; he ranked them (he had about 6 or 7 places on his list) and we started in the middle (in both amenities and price). The first place he looked at he didn’t like and wanted to move up the ladder. The second was good enough (actually quite nice in my view) and he didn’t want to spend more money than that. It was a done deal at that point in his mind, and so it was. </p>
<p>He had spent some time figuring out all the income tax stuff. I had told him he’d have a good cry when he calculates all the numbers. He didn’t cry but was “amazed”. He also was calculating his school loan payments, utilites, insurance and everything else. So, he had a pretty good handle on how much he wanted to spend for an apartment.</p>
<p>PS. Living at home wasn’t an option for him as his job is about 75 miles (one way) from home with a lot of traffic from here to there. At least he can come and visit more often than while in college. His college was about 200 miles away and he was always busy with homework and labs on the weekends.</p>
<p>First time unemployment claims came in around 400K. Previous week was revised upwards to 401K from below 400K. That’s two weeks with numbers that are improved from the 430K level that we had for a while but still too high to indicate net job creation. The ADP private payrolls number wasn’t bad yesterday so it’s likely that public jobs continue to lose ground.</p>
<p>Mass layoffs appear to be picking up steam.</p>
<p>The 99ers will be losing their extended unemployment benefits soon.</p>
<p>The FAA layoffs will probably hit next week’s first-time claims numbers.</p>