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[Request] GF Graduated, can't find work. What can I do to help? I know nothing about ChemE.

Right off the top, I'd like to apologize if this is the wrong subreddit for this. If it is, just let me know and I'll repost it in the right place and delete this post.

She recently graduated from NC State at the end of spring. She hasn't really done a good job building a resume. A brief part time job at a local run down hotel is her only job experience, the only project she worked on was her senior design project, and she has nothing else that interesting to note (studied Spanish and spent a summer there during high school, took two semesters of mandarin, minor in Japanese by accident). Knows word/excel/powerpoint. That's about it. Nothing else of note, nothing spectacular or interesting. For the most part, her resume screams "bare minimum" to me and it's been hard doing what I can to help her find work.

Her major is Chemical Enginnering and her senior design project was about bio-diesel. She has no interest in it (rather disliked it, but had no choice as her group was disbanded as her advisor/teacher did nothing to help, did not secure lab equipment and just ignored numerous e-mails, but that's not important for this. He's on tenure and a douchnozzle). So her one big project is in a field she doesn't give a shit about, and she has no real interest in any field/company/etc. All she really cares about is that she'd prefer lab work. That doesn't really help. Please, I need some help finding out how to help her because this is really hurting our relationship and finances.

Posted Jul 10, 2012, 4:59 AM UTC

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