{"id":10801,"date":"2023-08-03T20:35:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=10801"},"modified":"2023-08-03T20:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T00:35:59","slug":"job-alternatives-for-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/08\/job-alternatives-for-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Job alternatives for ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Usually I ignore whatever employment advice LinkedIn sends me in their periodic emails. They usually notify me of religion jobs for which I&#8217;m wholly unqualified: pastor at an evangelical Christian church, priest at a Roman Catholic church, etc. I guess their job-matching algorithm can&#8217;t figure out what a Unitarian Universalist is. But today, I saw that one of their emails offering me some good job advice&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"508\" height=\"317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-11.54.05-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot from a LinkeIn email; text of the email given below.\" class=\"wp-image-10802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-11.54.05-AM.png 508w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screen-Shot-2023-08-02-at-11.54.05-AM-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 508px) 85vw, 508px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot: detail of LinkedIn email<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hiring trends for Minister roles,&#8221; the email begins. &#8220;Personalized insights powered by industry and recruiting data from LinkedIn. 16% drop in the United States job market in the past week, but new jobs are still available. People with similar roles applied to these jobs: CDL Class A Driver, Scott Hesford Landscaping, Inc&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmm. I know that the job market for ministers is declining. Given <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/06\/reading-list-search\/\">the ageism that exists in ministerial search committees<\/a>, if I lost my current job I&#8217;d likely be hard-pressed to find another position. So yeah. Getting a Commercial Drivers License as a back-up plan might be a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Usually I ignore whatever employment advice LinkedIn sends me in their periodic emails. They usually notify me of religion jobs for which I&#8217;m wholly unqualified: pastor at an evangelical Christian church, priest at a Roman Catholic church, etc. I guess their job-matching algorithm can&#8217;t figure out what a Unitarian Universalist is. But today, I saw &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2023\/08\/job-alternatives-for-ministers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Job alternatives for ministers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[573],"class_list":["post-10801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-miscellany","tag-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10803,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10801\/revisions\/10803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}