Everyone wants to work in a beautiful place preferably a place where there is plenty of beach and sand. one of such places is Myrtle Beach. People look to relocate to Myrtle Beach so that they can lead a perfect life.
While Myrtle Beach is a wonderful place to live, there are some important facts that need to be understood by anyone thinking of moving to Myrtle Beach.
On Yahoo! answers, there was a question about a couple who want to settle down in Myrtle Beach and are having trouble with jobs. The answer they got was very sound and unbiased. A real eye opener!
My fiancee’ & I are wanting to move to the Myrtle Beach, SC area. We are looking for some answers.?
We live in Seattle & we moved there in August of 2009 & had to move back because the economy was so bad & I had to deal with the “Good ol’ boys club” there. I am a Real Estate Appraiser & she works in ER registration. We need to find good jobs because we want to be close to the beach. Murrels Inlet, Surfside, North Myrtle Beach, Pawleys Island. We love the area & would love to raise a family there. I had to fall back on my turf management degree so we could survive while we were down there. No disrespect to anyone that lives in the area, but I felt that we were very over qualified for many of the open positions there & would NEVER receive a call back after submitting a resume’ Any suggestions?
The best answer was very straightforward and insightful.
Considering that 2/3 of the people in the area are employed in the two lowest paying occupational groups in the country – this isn’t the place to live for most people that either don’t want to work in hospitality/food service or don’t have a stable recurring non-job income.
If you move to an area that has 90000 (yes, ninety-thousand) hotel rooms and 1600 places to eat – you’re looking at a high likelihood that those are where the open jobs are. Another huge labor market is retail – the single largest employer in this county is WalMart.
If you can get a real estate management license, there’s money to be had here in that line. We’re not selling enough real estate around here to make appraising a valid occupational group but we rent a lot of it. Turf management is always demand here but there are plenty of people who do it.
As for needing a “good job” – if you mean “pays good” you’re probably not going to find it here. Our median HOUSEHOLD income in Horry County is $42,500http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/… Most jobs in this town pay $10 per hour (plus or minus $2) and especially so if you’re not in a regulated profession (doctor, lawyer, teacher, nurse, etc…)
You may not be as “overqualified” as you think compared to the population. I see resumes for front desk clerks with master’s degrees and office assistants with bachelor’s degrees. The education level of the workforce here far exceeds the required education level for the jobs available. Over 1/3 of the workforce in this county is underemployed. People move here to be close to the beach – and are willing to take jobs they’re overqualified for (and underpaid in) in order to do it. That means employers here have no trouble at all finding qualified workers.
As for which town – if you live here you know how to avoid tourist traffic. There are roads we don’t tell the tourists exist. I can drive from the center of Myrtle Beach to NMB, Pawleys Island, or the far side of Conway in less than 30 minutes most of the time. The average commute around here is 23 minutes. Where you live doesn’t have to define where you work here.
The “good ol boys club” is a cop-out. Why so? Because nobody in Myrtle Beach is from Myrtle Beach – they’re all from somewhere else. Sure, the rest of the state has a lot of that going on but in this town it’s not about that at all. Sure, family owned businesses hire friends and family – that’s normal everywhere. But these corporate houses don’t care “who your daddy know” and it’s the corporate houses doing the hiring. Mom and Pop shops don’t need you.
You comment about “open positions there” – if you’re only applying to positions posted in a help wanted then you’re looking at the worse we have to offer. This is an employer driven labor market. There’s no shortage of workers. Decent jobs never see the light of a help wanted ad and when they do several hundred people apply. In a labor oversupply market you find a good job by applying to places you want to work whether they’re posting open or not. You can’t wait for the job to hit a help wanted because by then it’s been vacant long enough that word has gotten around or someone else happened to stop by yesterday and applied for it.
Reading what you have here – I’d suggest that Myrtle Beach isn’t going to meet your employment needs. Consider one of the more developed beach towns in Florida perhaps.