2025 Job Hunting Outlook

Job market trends that shape my life
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As we walk into 2025 looking for employment, I noticed it has gotten harder to find remote work, unlike the last couple of years where there were abundant remote positions to choose from at any time, anywhere in the world. This drastic change in job hunting made me look back throughout the last four decades. I realized my life was led by employment trends following those events. What will happen next for us?

Workers are being forced back on-site, and those of us who have legitimate reasons to work remotely are stuck between taking a low-paying remote post or continuing to look for high-paying work-from-home positions that require a bachelor’s degree and higher. I have worked most of my life since I was 17 years old; my first job was working as a calendar clerk in the court houses. Subsequently, I worked on Wall Street, at CitiCorp, and at Morgan Stanley. It was the ‘80s, so it was the financial burst decade of finance jobs.

During the ‘90s, societal behavior began to change. There was more health awareness, and most people I knew started to get on Medicaid. There were no guidelines with the policy of HMO at the time, and EHR wasn’t yet created. Anyone holding a Medicaid card could go to any doctor for the same illness as many times as they wished, and as many identical prescriptions were written. That’s when things got complicated for the city, or rather, the DOH. When EHR was enforced, HIPAA, privacy, and information security guidelines, along with other rules and regulations, were implemented because electronic information could cause breaches. I know this because, from the financial world, I transitioned into the healthcare industry as a medical administrative assistant temp. As a result, remote healthcare workers now have to pass KPI standards because these healthcare companies—excuse me, corporations—want results in numbers and quality.

Then, it was the 2000s. 9/11 had a significant impact on me because I was a lower Manhattan resident with two small children by then. But the aftermath brought many jobs to New York. I was working at Ground Zero, doing meaningful work, and for the first time, I was helping people get their lives back together. I helped those who lost their jobs qualify for one grant, if not another. I saw people helping one another in NYC. Now that is not something you see every day here. It is so wrong to say this, but I seem to get good paying jobs whenever there is a disaster. It was because I was good at what I do: helping people. Just as in the 2010s, I started working in harm reduction. That was when overdose rates hit the suburban areas of our country. I was still helping people; they are just as vulnerable as those during 9/11.

Since the beginning of COVID, I have been working for over seven years in remote healthcare customer service, yet I felt I was still working for those big corporations I once worked for. I do not agree with their improvement strategy, giving their workers 2-3 minutes between calls and solving the client’s issues as quickly as possible. These are patients, elderly people, and people who are simply sick! And we are people, not machines. So, we are in 2025, and I wonder what plans are in store for me. All I wish is to work a good paying job that makes me feel good about myself until I retire in around 15 more years.What is your story?

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