First job in USA

[gigarange999 1]

Admin assistant in a mental health insurance company

Humanists, I am trying to send you a message asking you about your status with your cr1. Did the criminal history ever come up in the interview and did you get approved?

[GandK 168]

I got job as electrical engineer with PG&E in California. Have to say I was really lucky. I just graduated from school last year and it was my first interview in the US.

[Holly2234 66]

Cook at Pizza Hut then Jewelry/apparel/cashier at Walmart. I still do both jobs now.

[TheFantastics09 19]

Bank Teller . Good Luck to everyone starting a job and actively looking for employment!

[markonline1 11]

Very lucky. I landed a job today that was also the first job I applied for. I had a well paid specialist job back in the UK that I was very unlikely to replicate over here, however with airport security and training experience, I landed a security supervisors job at a large beach resort not too far away. I didn't really want a security job, however, the fact this was a supervisory job paying more than what I thought I'd be earning in my first job means ill have a good crack at it and see where it takes me.

[Mariana2012 89]

Sales agent for a cruise line.

Edited June 25, 2013 by Mariana2012

[Da_Ladybug 3]

Thanks for this thread made me wonder what's gonna be my first job when we arrive in US, I'm not picky though, most of my experience are on graphic designs but prefer to work not infront of a computer anymore ...

[violetandrichard 1]

It's finally my turn to post here! I am starting my first job in America on November 1st. I'll be working as a client implementation specialist for a British software company! Very Excited! My best piece of advice to anybody out there still looking for a job would be to find a place that values your international background. That way you won't have to start from scratch I was applying for receptionist positions in the beginning, but was told that I was overqualified (I am about to finish my master degree in communications.

Is that a Masters degree through Denmark or the US? Were you able to work on it whilst waiting for your AOS?

[N-o-l-a 7,168]

My husband got work doing window cleaning and power washing within 24 hours of coming here. It pays reasonably well and he cleaned windows in Denmark for 6+ years and worked in apartment building maintenance more recently, which is not a well paying job in the US.

[Peter_Pan 661]

Bike mechanic! I had no idea I had that skil, but I did enjoy it, especially since it freed my mind and let it think about other stuff. I wish I could do it part time, as I go to graduate school, but I dont think it is possible.

Still waiting for my study papers to be validated for the US.

[London2SFrancisco 5]

1st job as an Accounting Assistant. It was a temp position. Now Jobless.

[Blue Bianchi 77]

Graduate research assistant while still in grad school. (Then a Starbucks barista while looking for jobs after grad school. Then I got hired as science writer for a cool NASA-funded research institute. Now I'm assistant editor. I was a journalist in my home country.)

[Nonchalante 3]

1st job was a telephone interviewer at a university's department of health informatics.

[Elli&Chris 1]

My first job was cashier at McDonald's (early 2009). Previous experience was childcare/retail/customer service, no college. Finding a job back then was super hard!

After McDonald's I worked as a daycare teacher for 1,5 years, then sales associate at Macy's for a little while and then a claims adjuster at an insurance company for 1,5 years. Now I'm back in Finland and go to school full time.

Advice for other people with no education: work hard and keep a positive attitude when looking for jobs or when working at a minimum pay job, but try to find a way to go to school. Life in the US is very hard and challenging without education.

[david'sgirl 134]

My husband's first job here was the same as he had in the UK. He is a CNC lathe Machinist. Luckily for us there is a shortage of this skill in the USA so he has had no trouble getting jobs.