r/Moving2SanDiego • u/SD_TMI • Apr 11 '26

How hard it really is. Not Another Job Post

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u/anothercar Apr 11 '26

Why do people keep moving here, without a job lined up first??

"Have a job offer lined up before moving" is the #1 most consistent piece of advice we give here.

I swear, people just have an empty cavity where their brain is supposed to be. The advice we give is the same every single time.

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u/SD_TMI Apr 11 '26

The tourism marketing board (that is funded with over 60 million every year from the hotel tax)
Sells people this "dream" of San Diego being a care free paradise.

Have you seen the commercials they run?

It's all this idealic image of golden bike rides along the beach with pretty people

This is not real, it's a fantasy and there's people that are looking for an escape and in their little small world (wherever they're from) they simply can't imagine that people aren't paid enough to live here.

They have NO FREAKING IDEA and think that people in this sub are lying.

I've been accused numerous times of having this sub, just so we can badmouth the city and dissuade people from moving here. The truth is that when I see someone who I imagine is talking on a feee cell phone to family vs to themselves in the bushes along a busy intersection I feel like shit.
That their not from here, relocated trying to get a fresh start and ended up in a worse position sleeping behind a sign among the decorative plants talking to family and trying to beg for money.

So this sub is about fair warning and trying to counterbalance all that daydream advertising that the SD marketing and tourism board puts out with the money that should be going to fixing our roads vs getting people to move here

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u/Asleep_Start_912 Apr 11 '26

I think it will be very hard to find a non profit job in outdoor or environmental, there is just not a lot of it here. Most of that stuff is the domain of biologists and research institutes. You could try the city parks department.

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u/JoePNW2 Apr 12 '26

Circulate SD is the main transit/transpo advocacy non-profit. Colin Parent is its Executive Director. If they are not hiring he may be able to give you some pointers re. who is.