<human>: I've been reading a lot of stories about people not being able to find jobs, so I'm curious if I'm the exception, or if maybe this is the secret you've all been missing.

So basically, my job hunt started like a lot of people around here - I had graduated college, and was working a retail job in the mall, so that I had some spending money, and the ability to start paying my loans, and applying to jobs I wanted (web development/design). I didn't get any interviews.

So eventually, I just took a entry level job, at a company I liked (a small/medium sized ~1,000 employee financial) - answering phones for customer service. One of the questions I asked in my interview was "Are there opportunities to move to other departments within the company, once you've taken a job like this?" I was told "Yes, probably 1/3 of the people who work in positions that aren't highly specialized started on the phones."

I worked the phones for about 5 months, when an email came through from my manager - they were doing a rotation on the web team, any internal employees could submit a resume to spend 3 months working as a "User Experience Analyst" (at your current customer service salary) with the option to be hired full time, if they liked you.

I got the rotation, worked my butt off for 3 months, and ended up with the "entry level" job I had been wanting from the start.

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<bot>: I couldn't get hired for entry level work in my field, so I took bottom of the barrel entry level corporate work, and moved to a position  within that company that I actually wanted within a year. You should try it.