28th of June: This week so far, I've been moved to a new project on my current jobs because I'm not doing very well at selling lottery tickets, so hopefully the new challenge will be more positive and successful for me. In regards to the job hunt. Well I'm still looking, I did get an interview for a tech support job, but it was national minimum wage again... I was also unable to attend this interview because my current job decided to swap my shifts so that I could do training, so I couldn't reject the shift swap.
The search continues....
Thursday, 28 June 2012
Friday, 22 June 2012
Well it's been about one week since I filled in over 100 job applications, and what return have I had? Well I've had 3 "Sorry you're not good enough" replies via email, and 2 job agencies call me to say oh we have a job you may be great at, but unfortunately you have a CCJ which is 4 years old, so you're not eligible for the job. (5 replies from over 100 job applications).
My fear is coming true though, my opinion of how well I'd do at this new job is quite accurate, I have so far had 1 sale in an entire week, which is the lowest in the department and I fear that I don't have much longer in this job unless I can turn that around.
What I've done though throughout this week is continue you applying for jobs that I've seen come up, and I've not ate anything at lunch everyday this week, but rather I've hiked to the job centre and spent 25 minutes in there looking for new jobs to apply for. This has resulted in some good potential finds, but realistically I've applied and I've no idea how many I'll really be considered for.
How do I feel about all of this? At the moment the feeling that's kicking in, seems to be depression, I feel like even though I've done more than the average person with life experiences, traveling and education, that it's all been for nothing, when a 40 year old who's sat on his/her arse for their entire life doing a single job because they're too lazy, whilst living with their parents has a better chance at finding work than myself.
All I'm looking for is a break, a chance to move forward and build a career, is that really supposed to be this hard?
My fear is coming true though, my opinion of how well I'd do at this new job is quite accurate, I have so far had 1 sale in an entire week, which is the lowest in the department and I fear that I don't have much longer in this job unless I can turn that around.
What I've done though throughout this week is continue you applying for jobs that I've seen come up, and I've not ate anything at lunch everyday this week, but rather I've hiked to the job centre and spent 25 minutes in there looking for new jobs to apply for. This has resulted in some good potential finds, but realistically I've applied and I've no idea how many I'll really be considered for.
How do I feel about all of this? At the moment the feeling that's kicking in, seems to be depression, I feel like even though I've done more than the average person with life experiences, traveling and education, that it's all been for nothing, when a 40 year old who's sat on his/her arse for their entire life doing a single job because they're too lazy, whilst living with their parents has a better chance at finding work than myself.
All I'm looking for is a break, a chance to move forward and build a career, is that really supposed to be this hard?
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Hi all,
This blog has been started to follow my pursuit on how to develop a career within this horrible economic crisis that is allow for very few people to acquire work, and hindering those who have little experience and even those who do have good qualifications.
The reality is, I moved back to the UK in 2012 with my wire in the hope of being able to provide a positive future for us due to my double degree, and my wife's trilingual skills. Unfortunately we've been here for 6 months and I'm starting to fear that the best opportunities may be the ones we left behind whilst living in Canada.
Anyway our choices have been made, and now we're here. What lies before us is a struggle that we're quickly becoming more and more aware of. Now we do have skills, and some limited experience, albeit in industries that not many people would be proud of.. however we're left to think, how do those who have none of this actually survive? I feel deeply sorry for those.
At present, my wife is working as a house keeper, cleaning hotel rooms on a part time basis, and I'm cold calling people trying to sell what I genuinely consider shit. I feel like I'm actually stealing peoples money on a legal basis, if I'm capable of tricking them into giving me their card information. This is not what I imagined when I was studying two degrees, and acquired a 2:1 on my final honours degree. I'm actually insulted by how low we've had to drop. My wife has a masters, and speaks 3 languages, yet she's cleaning toilets, so we're going to follow this progress of how we're going to better ourselves. It will be hard, but we're definitely going to try, as this is our future.
My name's going to stay anonymous to avoid any conflicts with those at work, but hopefully our progression and damned determination will end in something positive, instead of the negative depression which I feel I'm suffering from every day at the moment.
Weekend one: 16/17th of June 2012
I've applied and entered over 100 applications for new jobs. Lets see if anyone gets back to me. I tailored every single application as well.. which is incredibly time consuming.
This blog has been started to follow my pursuit on how to develop a career within this horrible economic crisis that is allow for very few people to acquire work, and hindering those who have little experience and even those who do have good qualifications.
The reality is, I moved back to the UK in 2012 with my wire in the hope of being able to provide a positive future for us due to my double degree, and my wife's trilingual skills. Unfortunately we've been here for 6 months and I'm starting to fear that the best opportunities may be the ones we left behind whilst living in Canada.
Anyway our choices have been made, and now we're here. What lies before us is a struggle that we're quickly becoming more and more aware of. Now we do have skills, and some limited experience, albeit in industries that not many people would be proud of.. however we're left to think, how do those who have none of this actually survive? I feel deeply sorry for those.
At present, my wife is working as a house keeper, cleaning hotel rooms on a part time basis, and I'm cold calling people trying to sell what I genuinely consider shit. I feel like I'm actually stealing peoples money on a legal basis, if I'm capable of tricking them into giving me their card information. This is not what I imagined when I was studying two degrees, and acquired a 2:1 on my final honours degree. I'm actually insulted by how low we've had to drop. My wife has a masters, and speaks 3 languages, yet she's cleaning toilets, so we're going to follow this progress of how we're going to better ourselves. It will be hard, but we're definitely going to try, as this is our future.
My name's going to stay anonymous to avoid any conflicts with those at work, but hopefully our progression and damned determination will end in something positive, instead of the negative depression which I feel I'm suffering from every day at the moment.
Weekend one: 16/17th of June 2012
I've applied and entered over 100 applications for new jobs. Lets see if anyone gets back to me. I tailored every single application as well.. which is incredibly time consuming.
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